Meeting Minutes
Arts & Humanities
Division Meetings
January 18, 2008
Show-and-Tell
Rick Lorig read his newly published children’s
book, Such a Silly Baby, to a rapt audience, including Taka (Tarisa
Matsumoto-Maxfield’s son) and Laura Manning, who sat on the floor in the
front. The book is available from Amazon now and will be in bookstores
soon.
Emergency Planning
Lauri Spivey gave an overview of the college’s
emergency planning process. She and Allison Green showed clips from
“Academic Aftershocks,” a video about the effect of the 1994 Northridge
earthquake on the California State University, Northridge, campus
(available at
http://www.son.washington.edu/safety/earthquake.asp). The clips
focused on damage to faculty offices and loss of files, equipment and
research from destroyed computers and labs.
Faculty brainstormed suggestions for
backing up our computers, and Allison said she would consult with Tim
Wrye about the best options and bring that information back to the
division.
Monica Gartmann brought up the “The
Great Blackboard Crash of 2008.” Carel Neffenger said he had backed up
his BB site and didn’t have any problems. Matt Schwisow offered to make
a Camtasia video showing how to do it.
Angi Caster expressed concerns about
IT’s changes to the software in the computer lab, which were made
without notifying or consulting faculty.
Lauri gave suggestions for faculty
review of their offices and whether books or filing cabinets might get
in the way of doors in an earthquake. She noted that sliding glass doors
will be hard to open during the earthquake, as they may not move
smoothly in their tracks, and, of course, the glass might break. Lonny
Kaneko mentioned the importance of getting new buildings that are more
seismically stable.
Announcements
Tarisa announced that the SOCC needs a new
representative from the A&H Division. Angi agreed to do it.
Baby Shower
The division celebrated Tarisa’s and Ellen’s
impending births. Ellen and her husband haven’t chosen a name yet,
although Shannon Proctor is suggesting “Shannon.” Taka thinks his little
brother should be called “Frankenstein.”
September 20, 2007
Allison’s Announcements:
- Jim Gardiner and Larry Blades have retired.
Neither wanted a campus party, so we are passing around cards and
collecting money for gifts.
- Gratitude to Lauri Spivey and our student
workers Tanya, Laurie and Jerrod (who works with Rick Lorig), who
painted Jim Gardiner’s office when Facilities didn’t have the time
to do it.
- Welcome to our Chinese exchange faculty Lisa
He and our new Writing Instructor Monica LeMoine.
- Sharon Hashimoto will be awarded the
Washington Community and Technical College Humanities Association
Exemplary Status Award on Friday, October 19, 2007, in Port Angeles.
See
www.wctcha.org to register to attend.
- Changes: Tony Sittner is now coordinating the
Printing Program, which is now called the Graphics Production
Program. Shannon Proctor is back from a year working in industry;
she’ll be coordinating the Speech Department now.
- Comings and goings: Susan Rich is back from
professional leave. Laura Manning is back from China. Susan Landgraf
is going to China in the spring. Rosemary Adang is on professional
leave this fall. Lisa Bernhagen and Hara Brook are back from
maternity leaves.
- We now have a division web site:
http://flightline.highline.edu/ah/. Please send Allison ideas
for things to include.
Lauri’s Announcements
Emily Wilcken is our new 1,000-hour employee
in Building 5. If she looks familiar, it’s because she was our student
worker from 2003-2005. Returning student workers in 5 are Tatyana
(Tanya) Selyuk and Laurie Berajas. Lauri and her staff have
made calendars for the division; if you didn’t get one, ask.
Other Announcements:
Laura Manning:
Encourages faculty to make Lisa He feel welcomed, just as the faculty in
China made Laura feel welcomed.
Aryana Bates:
Information Literacy Faculty Toolkit is at
http://flightline.highline.edu/il/SampleAssignmentsandSyllabi.htm.
If you have an assignment to contribute to the site, email Aryana.
Lisa He: Brings
greetings from Shenying Wang, last year’s exchange faculty from China.
She hopes we all have the chance to come to China for a visit.
Barbara Clinton:
Fall term of 2007 we begin with about 140 active Honors program
participants and we’ll end spring term with over 200. The 47 Honors
Program students who reported in on their plans at graduation in ’07,
reported themselves to be taking with them scholarships and financial
aid worth over $1.2 million. For the first time in the history of
the program, private “elite” colleges are coming to us, offering
opportunities to our students. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK
Matt Schwisow:
Check out the Highline Reads book, The Good, The Bad and the
Difference. Use it in your classes. It’s a good read.
Angi Caster and Arline
García:
Mentors are needed for developmental math students in the Achieving the
Dream project. Contact either of them for more information.
Christiana Taylor
hopes faculty will direct students to go to Drama Dept. plays, possibly
by offering extra credit.
Division Dreams:
Small groups reviewed the events and programs
brainstormed at last year’s fall division meeting. The following
activities received the most points:
- A workshop/discussion on teaching ESL students
- A workshop on how to have difficult
conversations and respectful civic discussion (such as on issues of
race, class, religion, political issues)
- A Highline Reads symposium on the book chosen
for this year
- A group discussion/workshop on literacy
instruction across the curriculum
- A show-and-tell event in which faculty share
their interests outside of teaching
Allison will draft volunteers to work on making
these events happen this year.
Last updated:
January 22, 2008
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