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A word from the Regional Coordinator,
Hello all and happy Friday!
I hope you will engage with all of the material we compiled this month. I am so glad to be part of this community and look forward to all of the resources, job openings, or events you would like to share. Please contact me at
aspire.calrc@gmail.com
with anything you would like me to include in the future!
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The California Regional Collaborative welcomes
Dr. Diana Azurdia of UCLA to the NSF INCLUDES Aspire Alliance Advisory Board!
Dr. Diana Azurdia
recently joined the Aspire Alliance Advisory Board.
Erin Sanders O'Leary and Jess Gregg
of UCLA' Center for Education Innovation and Learning in the Sciences (CEILS) are currently the PI and Co-PI on a grant for the Aspire California Regional Collaborative to create partnerships with 2- and 4-year institutions and prepare future faculty interested in teaching at community colleges (see press announcement from 2018
here
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Visit
our website
to learn more about the California Regional Collaborative and Aspire Internships.
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Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning Webinar Series:
Exploring Careers in Teaching at a Community College
Thursday, March 19, 2020
I
10:00 - 11:00 am
*If this is your first CIRTL event, create a free account and select
"California Regional Collaborative" as your Institution.
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Project MATCH Internship Program
invites future faculty from all disciplines to apply
Applications are due
March 6,2020
The Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD), comprised of nine area community colleges, offers Project MATCH as a program to prepare and recruit a diverse community college faculty who are sensitive to the needs of the students and community it serves. The goals of the program are to (1) improve the diversity of the faculty pool in the District, (2) mentor participants to serve as role models reflecting that diversity within the District, and (3) better reflect the diversity of the communities within the largest community college district in the nation.
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Engage Further With The Aspire Alliance at Both the Regional and National Levels
The Aspire initiative has both regional and national goals and projects underway. Check out the following opportunities to learn how you can engage with us further in our work to promote student success in STEM!
Facilitating Entering Mentoring Training
April 20-21st, 2020 I Madison, Wisconsin
The Aspire National Change team invites you to join them at this two-day “train-the-trainer” workshop.
For more information
visit the website
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Become a Leader in Institutional Change by Joining the Next Aspire IChange Cohort
The Institutional Change Initiative (IChange) seeks to cultivate institutions where STEM faculty from underrepresented groups (URGs) are widely recruited, hired, and retained, and all STEM faculty employ inclusive teaching, advising, and research mentoring practices.
For more information
visit the website
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Dreaming of a community in which real institutional change is possible? You are invited to apply for 3CSN’s 12th Annual Bsili Leadership Institute
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June 14 -19, 2020
UCLA Conference Center, Lake Arrowhead
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BSILI provides the time, space, and resources for teams to engage in design, inquiry, and building community together, laying the foundation for curricular and institutional transformation. Bring your initiative, plan, program, or idea to the mountain and we will all work together to strengthen essential leadership capacities rooted in equity-mindedness, design and systems thinking, integrated planning, powerful professional learning, metacognitive conversation, and building communities and networks within and across colleges which will assist your college in increasing student access, success, equity, and completion.
After participating in the summer institute, BSILI colleges will receive year-long, wrap-around support consisting of inclusion in a year-long leadership and facilitation community of practice as well as on-site training, ongoing coaching and technical assistance, faculty innovation scholarships, and other resources that will help your college increase student completion and success.
Send a college, district, or regional team of 3-4 people with all lodging, meals, and tuition covered by the California Community College Success Network (3CSN)!
Ready to put your dream into action? Send a brief email requesting an application to Deborah Harrington, 3CSN Executive Director, at Deborah@3csn.org.
Requests must be received by April 3, 2020
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BUILDING COLLEGE PARTNERSHIPS
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In addition to the California Regional Collaborative, there are other exciting ways to build partnerships between 2- and 4-year institutions across the country!
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The Biology Education Intersegmental Collaborative (BEIC)
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BEIC is an NSF-funded research coordination network to facilitate the formation of faculty learning communities (FLCs) consisting of 2-year and 4-year partners.
BEIC is looking for collaborative teams of 2-year and 4-years educators. We encourage participation of educators from Primarily Undergraduate Institutions (PUIs) and Minority Serving Institutions. Educators are primarily faculty but can also include graduate students, post-docs, and instructors. Teams consist of 4-6 educators from at least two neighboring institutions (at least one 2-year and one 4-year).
BEIC is now recruiting both mentors and teams of participants!
For more information visit the
website
or email
beic-rcn@uci.edu
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Funding Opportunities
Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM)
The S-STEM program addresses the need for the increased success of low-income students who are pursuing associate, baccalaureate, or graduate degrees in STEM.
The program particularly encourages proposals from
2-year institutions
, Minority Serving Institutions, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic Serving Institutions, tribal colleges, and more.
For more information click
here
!
Proposals due March 25th, 2020
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3CSN provides Professional Learning opportunities across the state for those interesting in improving their approach to education, equity, and community. Join the
upcoming Spring events
including:
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Be Engaged:
Spring Regional Summits
A workshop to engage in community and praxis as an approach to increasing student engagement and success.
Dates: March 6th and 13th (depending on location)
Be Supported:
NorCal
and
SoCal
Tutor Expo
Find out what peer educators, learning assistants, and embedded tutors are doing across the state at this two-day conference.
Dates:
Late March, dates and locations vary by region.
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Be Sustained:
Equity 101
An online course to provide a deeper dive into equity and equitable classroom practices.
Dates:
February 3-March 22, 2020.
Be Empowered
:
LINKS Leadership Conference
Learn about what multiple teams of institutional leaders have produced towards improving education and professional development across the state!
Dates:
April 24-25th, Ventura CA.
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3CSN events are open to all full- and part-time faculty, classified staff, administrators, students, and anyone else wanting to be in community with colleges across California!
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CSU Symposium on Teaching and Learning
IDEAS: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility and Student Success
March 13-14th, 2020
The CSU Symposium champions the advancement of educator and student success. The Symposium at CSU Fullerton facilitates the discussion of innovative ideas and the exploration of the best learning practices. This year's theme provides an opportunity for participants to explore topics crucial to the success of higher education. The purpose of the symposium is to challenge our biases, affirm our commitment to current best practices in inclusive pedagogy, acknowledge the achievements of our peers, encourage one another, and recharge ourselves as educators.
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Reading Apprenticeship and Equity: Making it Real, Making it Work
May 1-2, 2020
Sheraton Grand Hotel, Sacramento
This year’s Reading Apprenticeship Conference will re-center equity as the core purpose of education and our change efforts. We must reimagine our classrooms into equitable ecosystems and open our disciplines to all students. Participants will spend the first day exploring particular aspects of equitable practices and the second day synthesizing those practices within disciplinary groups.
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SoCAL PKAL Regional Network Meeting:
Cultivating Diverse Leadership in STEM
March 28, 2020 I University of LaVerne, CA
This event will focus on cultivating diverse leadership in STEM. To ensure diverse leadership. We have three goals for attendees of this conference: 1) take home at least one new skill, activity, or classroom tool to enhance inclusive excellence on their campus, 2) connect with participants from other institutions to problem-solve and promote collaboration, and 3) reflect on policies and processes that help or hinder broader participation in leadership in STEM.
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Teaching Tomorrow’s Scientists:
An American Society for Cell Biology Regional Meeting
May 30, 2020 I Soka University of America, Aliso Viejo, CA
Please join us at Teaching Tomorrow’s Scientists: An ASCB Regional Meeting for an exciting mix of science, education, and networking. This day-long meeting is designed for a teaching-intensive audience of life scientists. The meeting will include education research plenaries, a poster session, a networking lunch, afternoon workshops, and an end-of-day networking dinner and mixer. Abstracts are invited for 75-minute workshop sessions appropriate for undergraduate biology educators (deadline is March 4). Abstracts are also invited for posters presenting educational innovations, education research, and biological research (deadline is April 20). There is no submission fee for either type of abstract. The deadline for meeting registration is May 24.
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April 1-3rd, 2020, San Francisco
The seventh annual Carnegie Foundation Summit on Improvement in Education will be held on April 1–3, 2020. This three-day event brings together a diverse and vibrant community of educators, researchers, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, and policymakers dedicated to accelerating improvement in education.
Visit the
website
for more info. Registration is now open!
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Call for Proposals:
2020 Strengthening Student Success Conference
The Strengthening Student Success Conference provides a unique opportunity for a wide cross-section of California Community College professionals — including faculty, deans, program directors, student services staff, professional development and SLO leadership, researchers and planners — to engage each other about strategies for building institutional effectiveness, supporting student learning, and increasing equitable outcomes.
Save the Date:
The Strengthening Student Success Conference will be held in Garden Grove, CA
October 7-9th, 2020
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Save the Date:
Summer Institute on Scientific Teaching
UC San Diego, June 17-21st, 2020
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Free online course:
Teaching & Learning in the Diverse Classroom
Through real stories, reflection, and research, learn how to create and sustain inclusive, student-centered learning environments. This five-week, instructor-paced course offers an inclusive teaching framework with time for reflection and exploration of the research on learning and diversity. Explore strategies for inclusive course design, student-centered pedagogy, facilitating learning across difference, and change efforts that support student engagement, achievement, and belongingness.
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Free online course:
Inclusive Teaching: Supporting All Students in the College Classroom
Inclusive teaching is an issue that has received increased attention on college campuses around the country and around the world. Understanding how course climate impacts students and their learning is increasingly important to faculty and administrators alike across a wide range of educational contexts. Yet creating equitable learning environments that support all students’ learning can be a challenge, especially when one considers that course climate consists of a variety of factors (e.g., student-student interactions, faculty-student interactions, course content and policies). Despite the fact that creating an inclusive teaching environment is beneficial for all students’ learning, issues around inclusion and disinclusion are rarely discussed in practical terms.
Starts February 27th
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Upcoming Webinar:
The Next Dimension for Online Education:
Teaching Diversity and Difference
Wednesday March 4th, 2020 11:00 am- 12:00pm
The potential of online courses continues to grow as college leaders identify new ways to expand access to higher education for students. As universities develop their online-education capacity to prepare students for professions like teaching, nursing, and public policy, could they -- and should they -- also use this medium to impart teaching on topics such as religious diversity in the workplace or the value of cultural appreciation? How might institutions use online- and hybrid-education models to effectively teach about intercultural differences and other topics that don’t fit neatly into disciplines but represent vital knowledge for living and working in a 21st-century society?
Register now for this free, hour-long webinar
featuring a university president who oversees one of the nation’s largest distance-education programs and an award-winning and internationally known designer of online-learning experiences.
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How to Help a Student in a Mental-Health Crisis
As
faculty members, because we see our students on a regular basis, we often can tell if they are struggling emotionally. Yet we’re not mental-health professionals. Most of us don’t have the training to know how to offer support and guidance to students who are suffering with mental-health issues. So how should we help?
Anxiety, in particular, seems to be on the rise among undergraduates. The most recent data from the American College Health Association suggest a mental-health crisis on American college campuses.
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Want to Close Achievement Gaps? Focus on Part-Time Students
If community colleges want to shrink stubborn achievement gaps between white and minority students, they should focus more attention on the nearly two-thirds of their students who attend part time, a study released Monday concludes.
The report, "Reframing the Question of Equity," is among the topics of discussion at the annual meeting here of the American Association of Community Colleges. It was prepared by EAB, a major player in the enrollment-services industry, and based on data analysis and interviews with more than 100 community-college leaders.
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Can a Huge Online College Solve California’s Work-Force Problems?
The call went out to reporters early on a recent Monday morning: The governor would attend that day’s meeting of the California Community Colleges Board of Governors. A few minutes after 11, tieless and relaxed, Brown slid into a seat on the dais. He was just in time — and not coincidentally — for a discussion of the state’s newest, and wholly online, community college.
The virtual college, the 115th institution in California’s two-year system, is Brown’s baby, its approval in June the capstone to his sunset year in office. The college is meant to serve a population too often left behind by higher education: under- or unemployed adults who need new skills to land a job, secure a raise, nab a promotion, just to maintain a toehold in a swiftly changing workplace. An online institution, its advocates say, will allow so-called stranded workers — there are 2.5 million Californians without a postsecondary degree or credential between the ages of 25 and 34 alone — to take short-term courses whenever, wherever.
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Bringing Guided Pathways Reforms to Life Through the "Voices of Pathways" Film Series
A new film series showcasing community colleges implementing guided pathways highlights why and how educators are undertaking these whole-college reforms and offers a refreshing way to learn from practitioners and leaders in the field.
The films, Voices of Pathways: A Series About Community Colleges and Transformational Change, humanize and contextualize what it means to work and study at community colleges. They simultaneously illustrate the challenges and successes the colleges encounter as they work to transform their students’ experiences. The five-part series features stories from faculty, staff, and students at Milwaukee Area Technical College in Wisconsin, Austin Community College in Texas, Linn-Benton Community College in Oregon, Prince George’s Community College in Maryland, and Volunteer State Community College in Tennessee.
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Online Peer-to-Peer Assessment Applications
Last month's Scientific Teaching in Practice webinar speaker, Jennifer Knight, discussed practical assessment strategies and tools for use in active classrooms. Here are some recommended resources for online peer-to-peer assessment and review applications:
- CATME- a system of secure, web-based tools that enable instructors to implement best practices in managing student teams.
- TEAMMATES: designed by a team of teachers and students, for teachers and students. It aims to provide a powerful peer feedback and peer evaluations mechanism with flexibility.
- iPeer: an open source web application that allows instructors to develop and deliver rubric-based peer evaluations, to review and release student comments, to build progress report forms online, and to analyze evaluation results.
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REGIONAL JOB OPPORTUNITIES
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Academic Coordinator Biological Sciences
UC San Diego
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Assistant Professor in Biology Education Research
Arizona State University
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Tenure-Track Position in Fire Ecology
San José State University
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Tenure-Track Instructor in Biology
Utah Valley College
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Summer Associate Academic Director or Mentor
Summer Science Program (SSP) in Biochemistry
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Adjunct Faculty Position - Mathematics
Vanguard University
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Adjunct Pool for Professor of Geography
Mt. San Antonio College
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Adjunct and Part-Time Positions (many disciplines)
LACCD
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Instructor in Physics
Oregon State University
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To have your openings posted in our newsletter, please send job announcements to
aspire.calrc@gmail.com
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Looking for more jobs at local Community Colleges?
This web site provides a number of services for individuals seeking employment as a faculty, support staff or manager at a California Community College.
The California Community Colleges is the largest higher education system in the nation. It is comprised of 72 districts, 112 colleges and enrolls more than 2.6 million students. Community colleges provide basic skills education, workforce training and courses that prepare students for transfer to four-year universities. The colleges also offer opportunities for personal enrichment and lifelong learning.
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CONNECT WITH THE CALIFORNIA REGIONAL COLLABORATIVE
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If your organization is a regional partner please send all inquires and announcements to
aspire.calrc@gmail.com.
If you wish to be added to the California Regional Collaborative mailing list for future newsletters and special announcements, please send your request to
aspire.calrc@gmail.com
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LEARN MORE ABOUT WHAT WE DO
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The California Regional Collaborative
is a regional network of 2- and 4- year institutions, working together towards improving overall outcomes in STEM higher education, and in particular for students and faculty from underrepresented groups.
We work with graduate students and other potential “future faculty” from groups that are underrepresented in academia to address the need to increase diversity in our regional colleges to better reflect the diversity of our students. These trainees will support teaching efforts, education research initiatives, and curriculum development needs in collaboration with their 2- year internship site. In addition, regional programming such as webinars, symposiums, conferences, panels, and other events supports both current faculty along with future faculty. This will be coupled with an assessment plan to understand regional needs and assess the impact of our work.
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The
California Regional Collaborative
is part of a network of collaboratives, national organizations, and initiatives participating in the NSF INCLUDES Aspire Alliance
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