Chancellor's Message

Happy New Year and welcome back! I hope everyone had a happy, healthy and safe holiday with friends and family.

In 2007, the Coast Community College District will undergo many exciting changes. We will have online student registration to look forward to. Mock registration is currently underway at the campuses.  

The new District-site building will be under construction throughout the year with completion anticipated in March 2008. And, most importantly the students will pay reduced unit fees and utilize a new online registration feature. We are pleased with the Governor's proposed budget and will report more in February's D-mail.

I look forward to another exciting year at the Coast District!

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Jerry Patterson Elected President of Board of Trustees

Jerry Patterson has been elected to serve as the president of the Board of Trustees for 2007. Patterson was unanimously elected board president by his fellow trustees at the organizational meeting on December 13. Trustee Armando Ruiz was elected vice president for 2007.

First elected to the District board in 1996 , Patterson was re-elected in November 2004 to serve a fourth four-year term.

"It is an honor to be elected by my colleagues to serve as president in the coming year," Patterson said. "This board will face some important challenges this year. I am confident that we can work together to meet these challenges and continue to effectively serve our students and our community."

Patterson resides in the Coast District's Trustee Area 2, which includes portions of Westminster, Garden Grove and Fountain Valley.  

Patterson served in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing California's 38th District from 1975 to 1985. As a senior member of the House of Representatives' Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs, he worked on virtually every piece of urban affairs legislation for 10 years and authored many amendments.   He was also a senior member of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, where he worked on environmental legislation and served on the Water and Power Subcommittee.

Prior to his election to federal office, Patterson served as a city attorney in Placentia, Garden Grove, Cypress, Dana Point, Lake Forest, Mission Viejo, Temecula and Chino Hills. He was an elected representative on the Santa Ana City Council from 1969 to 1974 and served as mayor of the city in 1973 and 1974.  

He is a graduate of the UCLA School of Law and has taught as part-time faculty at the Graduate Center for Public Policy and Administration at California State University, Long Beach. Patterson is a member of the State Bar of California, the American Bar Association, and the Los Angeles and Orange County bar associations.

Vice President Armando Ruiz has served on the Board since 1983.

During his distinguished career on the Board, Ruiz has served on the board of the Association of Community College Trustees and has held the post of president of the California Community College Trustees and the Association of Latino Community College Trustees.  

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Coming and Going--HR News

The District would like to welcome these new employees to their positions:

Busser, Liza J. , GWC, Library Assistant
Deniken, Joan L. , GWC, Lab Instructional Assistant-Nursing
Hashitsume, Michael N. , GWC, Systems/Network Analyst II
McLaughlin, Jane D. , OCC, Allied Health Program Assistant
Menchaca, Jennifer L. , OCC, Instructional Food Service Cafeteria Steward
Perdue, Brenda A. , CCC, Secretary Administrative
Salcedo, Rosio R. , OCC, Secretary Senior

Congratulations and best wishes on your retirement to the following employees:

Horn, Lynn B. , DIS, Information Systems Technician II

Lynn Horn joined the District Office staff in October 1988 as an hourly employee, Typist Clerk Senior, for the Telecommunications department.   During the next three years, she worked in various departments and in different capacities. Lynn was called upon numerous times to work on special projects for the Board of Trustee Office.   She also assisted in the offices of the Vice Chancellor of Administrative Services, the Director of Fiscal Services as well as the Director of District Information Services.   In 1991, Lynn became full-time Secretary Senior for the District's newly implemented Internal Audit department.   During the next nine years, Lynn was promoted to Staff Aide and her duties grew to writing cash-handling procedures, designing and publishing "California Community College of Internal Auditor's Newsletter" and participating in audits.   In 1999, Lynn was promoted to her current department, District Information Services as an Information Systems Tech II where she has enjoyed the last seven, memorable years helping District staff with their computer related issues.   Over the years, Lynn served on various committees, including the following: Classified Professional Development Committee as Clerical Support, Wellness Committee (enjoyed writing the "Wellness Newsletter"), Safety Committee, Classified Professional Development Committee and the District's Reclassification Committee.   Of all the committees Lynn served on, her favorite is the District's Emergency Response Team Committee.   Lynn and her husband, Jim, will be retiring to the countryside of San Diego County to enjoy the quieter life. They plan to spend many hours working in their woodshop, traveling, enjoying their six grandchildren and pursuing Lynn's passion for genealogy.

Ono, Jo Ann, GWC, Criminal Justice Academies Coordinator

Jo Ann Ono, Academy Coordinator, GWC Criminal Justice Training Center is retiring effective December 30, 2006.   She has served the Coast Community College District for 26 years, the last sixteen years at GWC and the past eight years in her present position as Police Academy Coordinator.  Jo Ann enjoys an excellent reputation as a dedicated employee with a strong work ethic and pleasant personality.  She maintains a positive relationship with local law enforcement agencies and academy directors and coordinators throughout the State.   Upon her retirement she plans to help her husband with his shooting glove business, take a trip in the spring to visit her daughter who is teaching in Japan, get her garden in shape, and toast many beautiful sunsets with her husband of 38 years.  

Windisch, Darlene M. , GWC, Athletic Equipment Manager

Darlene Windisch began working at Golden West College on August 31, 1981.  Twenty-five years later she plans to retire.  In her first years at GWC, Darlene served as a part-time Athletic Equipment Assistant in the Health, PE, and Athletic Department.  In July 1989, she was promoted to Athletic Equipment Manager and has held this position until her upcoming retirement. 

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Project Voyager Update
by Jeff Arthur

Project Voyager continues to move ahead at warp speed. Human Resources went live on December 4, 2006 and came up very smoothly. Congratulations to Human Resources Team Leads Geri Wile and Vicki Wilder, and the Human Resources team. A special thanks to Paul Krikorian and his team for converting the legacy data from PNI for both Banner Finance and Human Resources.

Clean Address and AppWorx 3rd party software enhancements also went live. Congratulations to Technical Team Leads Don Cock, Richard Patterson and their technical teams.

On January 2, 2007, Self-Service for Finance and Self Service for Human Resources went live. You can now do budget transfers in Self-Service for Finance and Banner will check your budget to ensure that you have enough funds to make purchases.

In February 2007, the Payroll team will be acceptance testing our custom Payroll Interface from Banner to the Orange County Department of Education (OCDE).

Coast is one of the few colleges selected to participate in the Luminis IV Beta program. Glen Profeta and his team are working jointly with SunGard Higher Education and other colleges to test and fine-tune the final development of Luminis IV. The Beta IV program will be completed by February 2007 and Luminis IV will be released by SunGard Higher Education on March 31, 2007. Coast will first go live with Banner Self-Service for students and faculty. Then Coast will integrate Luminis into Banner Self-Service for students and faculty. Concurrently, the Luminis team is working with SunGard Higher Education and Blackboard to integrate Banner and Vista (formerly known as WebCT).

The Student and Financial Aid teams, led by Kristin Clark, Ann Hickey and Melissa Moser, are in the midst of the first Mock Registration Test which began on January 8. Over the holiday break, Richard Patterson's team converted DSK Student and Financial Aid data, and Don Cock installed SunGard's California Community College modification, CALB .

Coast is leading the state and is the first district in California to install CALB. Coast is also the first district to implement Virtual Private Database (VPD) for Student and Financial Aid. VPD allows each college to protect the privacy of certain information such as financial aid, but at the same time, allows colleges to share information such as student registrations. The Student and Financial Aid teams will be completing the VPD acceptance testing in January so that VPD can be installed for the second Mock Registration Test on February 19.

Student End User Training is in full swing. Jennifer Ortberg and her team are working with SunGard Higher Education and CCCD trainers Cece Hunt, Eric Wilson, and Joan Cordova to develop end user training materials. The CCCD trainers taught the first session, Basic Navigation on January 3. Please be sure to check the Voyager website for upcoming training: http://www.cccd.edu/voyager/training/training.aspx .

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Business and Communications Instructor Named Part-Time Faculty Member Member of the Year

Recognition Kudos - Bob's Bucks

Business and Communications Instructor Named Part-Time Faculty Member Member of the Year

Jennifer Peters

Orange Coast College business and communications instructor, Jennifer Peters, has been named the college's Part-Time Faculty Member of the Year for 2006-07 by a vote of the faculty and staff.

OCC's Staff Development Office and Academic Senate sponsor the Part-Time Faculty Member of the Year Award.

Peters, 44, a Santa Ana resident, has been teaching at OCC since 1998. Her roots go further back than that, however. Her first assignment was to teach a mass communications class that had previously been taught by her stepfather, Tom Murphine. Murphine died of cancer in November of 1997.

"Bob Dees, who is now the college's president, was dean of the Literature and Languages Division at the time," Peters recalls. "He hired me to take over Tom's class for the spring semester."

Peters had never taught before. She'd owned her own public relations agency with her mother - Joan Murphine - for a number of years.

"I worked at the PR agency during the days and taught my OCC class at night," Peters says. "I had no intention of becoming a teacher, and I told Bob Dees during my interview that I would teach Tom's class until he found someone else."

A former newspaper editor, Peters' stepfather taught at OCC for a dozen years after retiring from the newsroom. Murphine was advisor to the student newspaper, and taught news writing and communications classes. He was one of the most popular professors on campus.

"Tom loved teaching and he loved Orange Coast College. Though he wasn't my birth father, we were very close and very much alike. He passed on to me an appreciation for this school. This was his home, and it's becoming my home as well."

Raised in Huntington Beach, Peters graduated from Edison High School. She earned a B.A. degree in communications, with a minor in marketing, from California State University, Fullerton. She completed an M.B.A. at National University.

After college she worked in hotel management, and then began the PR agency with her mother, Joan Murphine, who'd been a highly successful Orange County public relations professional for three decades.

Peters says her goal is to someday become a full-time faculty member at OCC. She's teaching three courses on the campus this fall: one mass communications class and two business writing sections. She'll take a temporary full-time teaching post at the college next spring, replacing a professor on sabbatical leave.

"I'll stay at Coast until they ask me to leave," she says with a laugh. "My dream is to one day be a member of the full-time faculty. There's no place I'd rather be. I wanna be here!"

Peters was thrilled when she was told that she'd been voted the college's Part-Time Faculty Member of the Year. She was nominated by a Nicholas Broder, a former student in her mass communications class.

"I was ecstatic, overwhelmed, and very flattered. There are so many great part-time instructors here at Coast, and they're such a valuable asset to the campus community. I feel proud to represent them with this award."

The OCC instructor will be recognized on Wednesday, March 21, 2007, at 3 p.m. during a special ceremony in OCC's Student Center Lounge. She'll be honored alongside OCC's Full-Time Faculty Member of the Year, and Staff Member of the Year.

Peters lives in Santa Ana with her husband, Jon, purchasing manager for CSI Electric. She's an avid reader, and loves everything that has to do with the beach.

Other nominees for OCC's 2006-07 Part-Time Faculty Member of the Year Award included: Aristi Contos of OCC's Literature and Languages Division; Denis Jana of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Division; Maya Kelley of the Counseling Services Division; Aleksandra Khizhnyak of the Mathematics and Sciences Division; Tina Reinemann of the Consumer and Health Sciences Division; and Jody Wills of the Literature and Languages Division.

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Recognition Kudos - Bob's Bucks

This is a new, recognition program where faculty/staff are recognized. There are different levels of recognition and the people that go over and above their job duties will be given a $5 Bob's Bucs that can be redeemed at the Portside, Cafeteria, and Bookstore. Here is a list of people that have received Kudos certificates in 2006-2007. 


 
Some have also received Bob's Bucks:
· Mette Segerblom, Sailing Center
· Renza Bricca, Division/Area Office Coordinator - Library
· John Clark, Information Systems Technology - Fine Arts
· Sandi Swaid, Staff - Health Center
· Cathe Hutchison - Admissions and Records
· Barbara Cortes - Child Development
· Mary Roda - Publications

Kudos application forms are available at the switchboard, Staff Development office, in the racks across from the ladies restroom in the Admin building. 

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Coastline hosts Emeritus Tea

Coastline hosts Emeritus Tea

Juanita Woodburn, one of Coastline's oldest students at age 101, befriends one of the college's youngest students, Chelsea Svir (18), at the Coastline Emeritus Tea.

Juanita Woodburn graduated from LA's Jefferson High School in 1923, but her time in school was far from over. Since 1989, she has been a student in Coastline Community College's Emeritus Program. Today, at 101 years old, Juanita is still enjoying classes that provide mental and physical stimulation as well as many lasting friendships.

"Twenty years ago next Tuesday, I moved to Huntington Landmark," Juanita remembered. "The first thing I did was go down and enroll in their exercise program, put on by Coastline Community College, and I've been in it ever since," said the centurion who noted that, even at 101, she uses e-mail to communicate with friends and family.

On Friday, December 08, 2006, more than 90 Emeritus students of all ages attended a special Emeritus Tea hosted by Coastline Community College at the Coastline Le-Jao Center in Westminster. Coastline's Emeritus Program, open to those over the age of 55, is unique in that more than 50% of the students in the program are over the age of 70. Many who attended the event were well into their 80s and 90s, including Inez Howald, 92, from Corona del Mar. Inez is the mother of Coast Community College District Trustee, Walt Howald.

Debbie Secord, a faculty member at Coastline Community College and co-chair of the Emeritus program, remarked on how seniors value the program for three main reasons. "They come to this program for mental and physical stimulation, for support and friendship from other seniors and from their instructors, and to get away from their every-day environment to experience something new," she said.

Speaking at the event was Westminster pioneer Miriam Warne, who is 86 years old. In her address, she stressed the value of life-long learning. "Every day you learn something," she said. "It may not be earth-shaking, but every day you learn something new." She continued, "I'm very proud of all of you. Keep on, you're doing great!"

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Scholarship forms available now

Each year, Coastline Community College awards deserving students with nearly $50,000 in scholarships. In 2006, the College awarded 131 scholarships totaling $48,372. These scholarships were made possible by the Coastline Community College Foundation and its supporters.

You can get your share of nearly $50,000 in scholarships to be handed out at the next Scholarship Night by APPLYING NOW! Pick up your scholarship application today from the registration office at College Center (11460 Warner Avenue in Fountain Valley). The deadline to turn in your completed scholarship form is Monday, March 12, 2007.

This year's Scholarship Night event will be Thursday evening, April 26, at the Costa Mesa Community Center. For more information, call Coastline at (714) 546-7600.

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GWC Public Safety Officers and students have developed a bike patrol pilot program which will provide our faculty, staff, and students with additional campus security. The purchase of two Smith and Wesson police bike packages, funded through the Foundation's Wish List program, will ensure that the entire campus community will benefit from this service.

The Smith and Wesson police bike packages include two 24 speed police force mountain bikes with helmets, dual strobe lights, trunk bags, Modular Nite-Rider sirens, and rear lights. The GWC Public Safety department will staff the program with student Campus Safety Assistants (CSAs). The CSAs will then be provided training similar to that of law enforcement bike patrol units across the state. The Public Safety Officers that volunteer for the program will also be given the opportunity to train along with the CSAs in order to supplement the ranks of the program and team with a student to provide additional training and total quality service.

"The program is not only a boost in the level and depth of public safety services we are able to provide the campus community, but also a great opportunity for students seeking on-campus employment to provide a real service to the campus and our surrounding community," said Mike Duffy, director of public safety.