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Wednesday, May 2, 2012
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From the President's Desk |
 CTL
(Contextual Teaching & Learning) |
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QEP Quips |
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Did You Know? Archive |
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Employee Birthdays |
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Faculty/Staff Profiles |
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Scholarships |
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Academic Calendar |
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Board Briefs |
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MCC Inclement Weather Policy |
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Campus
Copier Key Operator List |
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Archive |
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Mitchell International Festival |
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Scholarship
Luncheon |
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Firefighter
Training |
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Meet
and Greet With Dr. Brewer |
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Community
Reception for Dr. Eason |
Sharon
Rouse/Douglas Eason Piano Recital
(Includes Video) |
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Campus-Wide
Reception for Dr. Eason |
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May 3
through 9
No full-time employee birthdays this week
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Deadline for article submissions to
Mitchell Columns is every Tuesday at
9 a.m. E-mail articles to
printgraph@mitchellcc.edu |
Career/Job Fair
May 3
9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
CEC Gymnasium
5K Run/Walk
May 5
8 a.m.—Registration
9 a.m.—5K Run/Walk
Main Campus
Alumni Reunion
May 5
10 a.m.—Registration and Tours
11 a.m.—Program
Noon—Lunch/Business Meeting
Main Campus
Basket Raffle and Silent Auction for Employees
May 15
Noon
Old Gym
Mitchell Band Memorial Day Concert
May 28
6 p.m.
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A small scrap or
leaving of food after a meal is completed. Often used in the plural.
- A scrap, a piece of trash that is left
over from any job, as cleaning up the orts on a construction site.
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Did you know that
colleges that foster diversity improve their students’ learning and critical
thinking skills? Further, Paul Umbach and George Kuh (2006) also find that
"[e]xperience with diversity also appears to be positively associated with
retention rates and degree aspirations" as well as "overall satisfaction
with the college experience and perceptions of the campus climate." In
addition, cognitive development and social psychologists Patricia Gurin and
her colleagues (2002), and Tony Bledsoe (2009) demonstrate that students who
are immersed in diversity courses and diverse campus environments will be
more likely to recognize inequality and act on resolving it; live and work
in racially and ethnically diverse communities after they graduate; and be
better prepared for life in an increasingly complex and diverse society. For
more information, visit
http://www.diversityweb.org/digest/
sp99/benefits.html and
http://www.aacu.org/inclusive_
excellence/documents/Milem_
et_al.pdf
—Submitted by Diversity Task Force (02.29.12)
Focus on Diversity
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The
International Club
Advisor, Sydia Gayle-Fenner, (704.878.4372,
sgaylefenner@mitchellcc.edu)
The International Club explores a
variety of cultural backgrounds for those who are interested in learning
more about other cultures. Advisor, Sydia Gayle-Fenner, worked with her
student team, and they hosted a panel discussion with a student from India,
discussed weddings in different cultures with China as the main focus, and
talked about customs and practices in different cultures. The International
Club also co-sponsored the International Festival in April.
Mitchell
Community College Christian Community
Advisor, David Moss, (704.878.3317,
dmoss@mitchellcc.edu)
Mitchell Community College Christian
Community allows Christian students on campus to get together for worship,
Bible study, outreach, and fellowship. This club just started in Spring of
2011, and the Student Leadership Team worked with advisor, David Moss, to
kick start an incredible program.—Submitted
by Anita McGill (08.17.11)
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Tips
for Greener Trash Practices
According to the Seventh Generation company, if every household
in America replaced just 20 tall kitchen drawstring trash bags made with
virgin plastic with 20 bags made with 65 percent recycled content, we would
save 39,000 barrels of oil, enough to heat and cool 2,200 US homes for a
year. We would also save landfill space and reduce air pollution needed to
produce the plastic. Here are some ways to be greener with trash disposal:
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Reduce waste. Buy products with less packaging
or packaging that can be recycled. Recycle everything you possibly
can—paper, plastics, glass, cardboard, and metal—and compost plant-based
food scraps to make a great soil conditioner for your garden.
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Reuse plastic grocery and shopping bags. They
make great liners for small wastebaskets.
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Empty smaller wastebaskets into a larger trash
can. That way you don’t have to throw away the bag used to line the
smaller basket.
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Choose the right size bag. Using bags that are
larger than you need is simply a waste of resources and money.
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Compact your trash by hand. Reduce the volume of
bulky items such as milk cartons by pressing or stepping on them.
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Consider investing in a trash compactor. It will
reduce the volume of trash and the number and size of bags you use.
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Buy greener trash bags. Purchase bags made with
recycled materials, degradable plastic, or biodegradable plastic.
Source: "Easy Green Living" by Renee Loux (2008)
—Submitted by the Recycling and Conservation Club (05.18.11)
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Coming
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SGA Spotlight
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Take
a Break from Work
If you begin working early in the morning and don’t
quit until bedtime, there will be no room in your life to focus on anything
but your job. So, make sure you take some time for non-work activities
everyday or at least several times a week. Here’s how you can spend some of
your time away from work:
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Read a good book (non-work
related, of course)
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Keep up with world news, pop
culture and politics
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Travel for pleasure
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Volunteer your time
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Talk to people with whom you
don’t work
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Enjoy a hobby
—Submitted by the MCC Wellness
Committee (04.28.10)
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| From the
President's Desk |
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Dealing with "change" is a really hot topic on
the professional development circuit. Almost every conference program I see
emphasizes that the topic of "change" will be on the agenda. As someone who
is facing a significant "change" in the near future after fifty years in the
education business, I have given this topic considerable thought. I have
come to the conclusion that change is not an event but a constant state.
Obviously, the fact that change is occurring within and around us on a
continual basis does not obviate the fact that change events are occurring
every day. Take for example that the price of postage went up this past
Sunday (January 22). First class letters will now be 45 cents as opposed to
44 cents; postcards will go from 28 cents to 32 cents; and letters abroad
will go from 70 cents to $1.05. While the increase in price is of some
significance, the real story of change is that email and texting and voice
mail have pretty much put "snail mail" on the endangered species list. The
same can be said of newspapers. I read three newspapers every morning before
I come to work: the local paper here in Statesville and the Charlotte paper,
both in the old format of newsprint. I rather like holding those big pages
up while I read the articles and look at the photos. I see this as part of
my morning exercise. The third paper I read (or at least scan) each morning
is The New York Times. Unlike the other papers, I read the Times on my new
Nook. It is much easier to hold due to its small size but I do miss seeing
those big full-page, color ads that were in the newsprint version of the
Times. My guess is that newspapers as we know them have a limited future as
physical, newsprint items. All of this is to say that change is a part of
the flow of life. Learning to accept and live creatively and fully with
change is one of the skills we should learn and practice and pass on to our
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