Triton College Needs Your Support!

The College will be hosting several events this week including-

• The Completion Agenda Kick-Off
• Wednesday, October 26th 1:00pm-3:00pm in the Student Center.  Participation is STRONGLY encouraged!  We need to demonstrate our commitment to Student Success and Completion!
• The Completion Agenda Webinar
• Wednesday, October 26th 3:00pm-4:00pm in Parachutes (Student Center).  Come learn all about the Completion Agenda and how it can help support student success.
• “I Am” Movie Event
• The theme of the movie coincides with the theme of the book. The movie is an engaging documentary that poses two practical and provocative questions: what's wrong with our world, and what can we do to make it better? Run time is 77 minutes with discussion to follow.  Visit http://iamthedoc.com for preview information. Movie will be shown in the Robert Collins Theater.
• Show times:
• Thursday 11/3 @ 1:00pm - 3:00pm;
• Sunday 11/13 @ 2:00pm - 4:00pm;
• Monday 11/28 @ 2:00pm – 4:00pm
• President's Reception
• The Annual President's Reception will be held on Wednesday, Nov. 2nd.  For more information click the link http://online2.triton.edu/docs/2011PresRecepinvite.pdf

Have a GREAT week!

Debbie

New Week - New Followers!

Good Afternoon!

As promised, I have taken the names of the blog's 7 "followers" and selected one person to receive a small token of appreciation for supporting the Dean's Blog.  The winner is...

BriAnne Nichols

BriAnne is the Director for SSS and is one of seven staff that has supported the new blog by becoming a follower.  I appreciate BriAnne's efforts and those of the other six followers (Cynthia Romanowski, Blanca Gutierrez, Reginia Hughes, Claire Basile, Maggie Duran, Daisy Dujua).  I am somewhat disappointed in the level of response that the blog is getting so I have decided to "up the ante".  The department within the Division of Academic Success that can get the highest percentage of staff to "follow" the blog will get a special afternoon treat.  The deadline to "follow" is November 30th at noon.

Debbie

Holiday / Winter Break / Intercession Hours

Area Supervisors should be working with staff to post signage regarding the following special, holiday,

and intercession hours for the Division of Academic Success. 

Thanksgiving Break

             Wednesday 11/23 - 8am - 5pm

              Thursday 11/24 - Closed

              Friday 11/25 - Closed 

              Saturday 11/26 - Closed

              Sunday 11/27 - Closed

     *Monday 11/28 resume regular hours 

Finals Week 12/12-12/15 

              REGULAR HOURS

Winter Intercession 

              Begins Friday 12/16 through Thursday 1/19

                    Monday - Thursday 8am-5pm

                    Friday 8am-4pm

                    Sat/Sun Closed

College Closed 12/23 – 1/2

     **Full-Time employees report back to work on Tuesday 1/3**

New Employee Spotlight - Maggie Duran

Maggie Duran is the newest addition to the Triton TRiO Student Support Services team. She has been a student at Triton for two years. Within that time, she has been a part of the Latin American Student Organization and Program Board along with volunteering her time in the Student Life Office. Maggie is working on her Associates in Arts degree with a concentration in Community studies. She will then transfer to North Park University into their Non-Profit Management Program. Maggie was in the inaugural cohort of our TRiO program last year and is excited to bring those experiences as a Mentor in the program.

**Remember - if you would like to recognize a staff member within the Division of Academic Success please contact me.**

Are you a Follower???

Good Morning!

In an effort to encourage all Division of Academic Success to engage in this blog, I am hosting a raffle for all of my "followers".  Any staff member that signs up to follow this blog by October 24th at noon will be eligible to win a small token of my appreciation.  If this works, I may continue to randomly select winners each month.  Stay tuned!

Debbie

***IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT***

Please be advised that on

MONDAY, OCTOBER 17th


Triton College will be hosting a luncheon for our State Legislative Leaders on campus.  The luncheon will conclude with a tour between 12:15pm - 2:00pm of all areas within the Division of Academic Success.

PLEASE make sure that your areas are clean, and that you are representing yourself, your area and the Division in a manner that exceeds expectations.

Thank you for your cooperation and continued dedication to student success.

Debbie

Training Opportunity!

Please see the message below about this unique training opportunity- This message is from Bill Justice.

I will be conducting free incident command classes here at Triton.  The primary audience is the police department and river grove select command personnel.  This class is required for those individuals to function in there capacity, and to ensure they can continue to receive federal funds.

This class is also applicable and highly suggested for public school officials to have, that would be in any command or authority position during a crisis or emergency.  With my dealings and knowledge of how we as a school would respond to an emergency, below are the administrators and personnel, I would recommend or encourage to do this training.  These dates are for October only, I will try to set up 1-2 more classes in November.   If anyone wants to do the training but cannot make the dates please have them

contact me.  I can probably work something out, so they get the training.  Also please have all that are going to attend to let me know which dates they will be in attendance.

It is a 2 class program, 300 (expanding incident management) & 400 (advanced incident command and operation)

President

Vice Presidents

AVP (that would have any dealings with a crisis at minimum to include finance, marketing, and facilities) Dean's (that serve in the capacity of the evening administrator) 

Crisis team

10/12-300 class   9 am

10/19- 400 class   9 am

10/24- 300 class   9 am

10/27- 400 class   9 am

Class should last 3-5 hours, if an attendee needs to leave prior to the end   that is okay.

Bill

Mid-Terms Are Coming!

Good Afternoon!

I hope that you are enjoying the warmer weather and the beautiful sunshine that we are having!  I know that I am trying to get as much of it in as possible before the weather gets colder.  As we start moving toward mid-terms, there are several things that I want to make you aware of-

Dean's Office
The Completion Agenda, a national initiative to double the number of students completing degrees and certificates as community colleges by 2020, has come to Triton College.  Please join TCSA at The Completion Agenda Kick-Off event on October 26th from 1-3pm in the Student Center.

Want to know more about The Completion Agenda?  Join VP Olson at a webinar in the Student Center on October 26th from 3-4pm.  Check out the link below for details.
http://online2.triton.edu/docs/CompletionWebinar.pdf

Library
The Library is please to welcome our newest full-time faculty librarian, Larissa Garcia!  Larissa will be starting at Triton College on Monday, October 17th - please help us make her feel welcome.

Join us in celebrating the marriage of Mr. & Mrs. Craig Boddy (Laurie Schuetter).  Laurie, our newest part-time librarian was married over the weekend - Congratulations!

The Annual Library Book Sale is coming up - please help promote and prepare for this event.  More details can be found at the links below.
http://online2.triton.edu/docs/donatebooks2011.pdf

http://online2.triton.edu/docs/BookDonationsAnnualBookSale.pdf

ETRC
We would like to recognize the hard work of Angela Williams, Tiguidanke Bah, and Jean Thelemaque for their work within the ETRC.  These three employees have moved to the new Testing Center effective October 1st.  Good Luck & Thank You!!!

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Finally, please remember to be extra kind and supportive of our students these next few weeks.  Mid-terms are coming and the stress level is rising!  Let's do our best to make this time as worry-free as possible!

Have a wonderful week and don't forget to send me announcements, comments, or inclusions for this blog.  I am also happy to highlight employees that you feel deserve special recognition.

Debbie