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Common Read – Meet the Author
Thursday – February 22, 2018
AUTHOR PRESENTATION – 1:00 pm
The Academic Arts Building Theatre
Saru Jayaraman, Author of Behind the Kitchen Door
Husband of Longtime Board Member Passes
It is with great sadness and heavy hearts that we share with you the passing of Joseph Helmrich, husband of longtime board member Anita Helmrich. Joe passed away peacefully at their home on Wednesday, December 27, 2017. With Anita, his wife of 71 years, Joe was an active and dedicated supporter of Westchester Community College. For many years he volunteered as a conversation partner at WCC and his students truly adored him, as did we.
We will miss his cheerful presence.
Longtime Board Member Honored
November 21, 2017
VALHALLA RESIDENT AND LONGTIME BOARD MEMBER HONORED BY WESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Joseph P. McLaughlin of Valhalla, New York was honored for his twelve-year service on the Westchester Community College Board of Trustees. In a special proclamation issued by the board at its meeting last week, Wednesday, November 15, 2017 was deemed Joseph P. McLaughlin Day.
McLaughlin’s contributions to the Board of Trustees included service on the Board of Trustees Program and Planning Committee. He served as a local educator for more than forty years in Harrison. The proclamation for the special day included an acknowledgement of his committed service in the education field and his advocacy for students.
Scholarship Ceremony 2017
Hundreds of students received scholarships at our annual event in 2017. See images here:
Scholarship Ceremony Images Table by Table and Additional Images
Sharing Best Practices
Westchester Community College presented at the COMBASE 2017 Community Colleges: Building the Future to Economic Prosperity conference hosted by Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY. COMBASE, (abbreviation for COMMUNITY BASED), is a consortium of many leading community and technical colleges dedicated to sharing innovative solutions to meet the challenges of our nation’s rapidly changing economy. Westchester Community College, a leading college of innovation in the lower Hudson Valley, is a member of COMBASE.
Dr. Belinda Miles, President; Dr. Vanessa Morest, Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs; Teresita B. Wisell, Vice President and Dean, Workforce and Community Education; Dr. Carmen L. Martinez-Lopez, Dean, School of Business and Professional Careers; and Dr. Laurie Miller McNeill, Director, Institutional Advancement, presented Building Capacity of Students and Colleges to Meet 21st Century Opportunities.
The interactive presentation allowed panelists to share insights on how to retool and build capacity to serve students and support economic growth in the 21st century. To shape the discussion, panelists asked participants to reflect on their own institutional practice:
- What kind of activities most effectively connect your institution to the business community?
- What institutional changes do you need to transform the student experience?
- What leadership and cultural attributes are needed to help your institutions to adapt to these changes?
Senior leadership from national and local community colleges, including presidents and chancellors, engaged in this important and timely discussion. “Transforming how we serve students takes collaborative effort and a shared mission. To facilitate student success there has to be a strategic alignment of resources with institutional goals and an investment in the people who serve our students,” stated President Miles.
For additional information contact Patrick Hennessey, Director of College Relations at Patrick.hennessey@sunywcc.edu.
Course Evaluations
Please take a few minutes to complete your anonymous survey(s). Your feedback is important to your professors!
FIRST, ACCESS THE <mycourseval LINK: http://www.sunywcc.edu/courseval
THEN –
1. Log into <mycourseval by entering your WCC user ID and password
2. You will see your list of available surveys. Then click on Take Survey
3. The survey will open and you’ll see all the available questions. Submit when finished
4. If more than one of your courses has been selected, you may continue on with the next survey or return to the <mycourseval link later.
HELP is available at: MyWCCHelpdesk@sunywcc.edu or call 914 606-5600.
President’s Forum
The President’s Forum panel, which included a former presidential spokesperson, addressed the future of the nation at Westchester Community College. The event was covered by local journalists including those at News 12. Some of the nation’s leading names in journalism, politics and government assessed the new national leadership during a special current events forum on Sunday, November 12.
United or Divided, One Year Later
SUNDAY AFTERNOON NOVEMBER 12, 2017
Forum 2:30 TO 4:30 PM
RECEPTION 4:30 TO 5:30 PM
A year has now passed since the 2016 presidential election. Our distinguished panel of journalists will examine the new administration and Congress— what has been or has not been accomplished. Do we have more unity or more division? What can we expect in the years ahead? There will be opportunity for questions from the audience.
MAX BOOT
Military historian and foreign-policy analyst. The Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow in National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, Boot is also a contributing editor to the Weekly Standard and the Los Angeles Times, a member of USA Today’s Board of Contributors, a columnist for Foreign Policy, and a regular contributor to the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Commentary, and other publications.
ARI FLEISCHER
Former White House Press Secretary & Spokesperson for President George W. Bush, Fox News Contributor, and President of Ari Fleischer Communications. He is the bestselling author of Taking Heat.
RUTH MARCUS
Editorial Board and op-ed columnist for The Washington Post, specializing in American politics and domestic policy. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.
DAVID SANGER
Senior Writer and National Security Correspondent for The New York Times. Bestselling author of Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power, and The Inheritance. He has been a member of two teams that won the Pulitzer Prize.
Moderator
LESTER M. CRYSTAL
Long time Executive Producer of the PBS NewsHour and former President of MacNeil/Lehrer Productions.
October Public Forum in Mount Vernon
WESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE MOUNT VERNON COMMUNITY FORUM ENVISIONS FUTURE ROLE OF EXTENSION CENTERS IN EDUCATION AND JOBS LOCALLY
Dr. Belinda S. Miles, President of Westchester Community College, invites Mount Vernon leaders and stakeholders to a community conversation about The Future of Education and the Workforce to help reimagine the role of the college’s extension centers in supporting local business, civic, education and nonprofit organizations. Westchester Community College has five extension centers located throughout the county that provide access to the college’s affordable and high quality programs to over 10,000 individuals every year. The community conversation will introduce Dr. Vanessa Morest, the new college Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs. Dr. Morest is a noted researcher in community college reform and an accomplished practitioner who previously held senior leadership positions in research, planning, and academic affairs at Norwalk Community College in Connecticut. Administrative leaders from the college’s Workforce Development and Community Education division are hosting and facilitating the community conversation.
WHO:
College Administration
Local Community Leaders and Stakeholders
WHERE:
Westchester Community College Mount Vernon Extension Center
17 South Fifth Avenue
Mount Vernon, NY
WHAT:
Community Conversation on the Future of Education and the Workforce Extension Center (Tour and Panel Discussion)
WHEN:
Wednesday, October 18, 10-11:45 a.m.
The event is free and open to the public. Advance registration is requested by contacting 914-606-7201. Representatives from news media are welcome and should contact Patrick Hennessey at 914-606-6638. Light refreshments will be provided. For more information on the college, visit www.sunywcc.edu.
Port Chester Evening Classes
Evening classes are back at the Port Chester Extension Site at Port Chester Middle School. They had been relocated to Port Chester High School. They are now back at the Middle School.
September Public Forum in Peekskill
WESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE PEEKSKILL COMMUNITY FORUM ENVISIONS FUTURE ROLE OF EXTENSION CENTERS IN EDUCATION AND JOBS LOCALLY; FORUM FOLLOWED BY BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEETING
In a groundbreaking partnership between Westchester County, Westchester Community College and local stakeholders, the institution’s first extension location opened at 27 North Division Street in Peekskill in 1994. Since then, four more centers have opened countywide to make the college’s affordable and high quality programs more accessible to the county’s residents. The college serves more than 10,000 individuals at extension locations every year. Westchester Community College President Belinda S. Miles invites local community leaders to reimagine the role of these extensions in supporting local business, civic, education, and nonprofit organizations. The community conversations will introduce Vanessa Morest, the college’s new provost and vice president for academic affairs. Morest is a noted researcher in community college reform and an accomplished practitioner who previously held senior leadership positions research, planning, and academic affairs at Norwalk Community College in Connecticut. Administrative leaders from the college’s Workforce Development and Community Education division are hosting and facilitating the community conversation.
WHO:
College Administration
Local Community Leaders
WHERE:
Westchester Community College Peekskill Extension Center
27 North Division Street
Peekskill NY 10566
WHAT:
Community Conversation on the Future of Education and the Workforce Extension Center Tour and Panel Discussion
WHEN:
Wednesday, September 20, 2017, 10-11:45 a.m.
The event is free and open to the public. Advance registration is requested by contacting 914-606-7301. Representatives from news media are welcome and should contact Patrick Hennessey at 914-606-6638. Light refreshments will be provided. For more information on the college, visit www.sunywcc.edu.