Annual Unit Planning

What’s New, Why Do We Do It, and How Do You Get It Done

The data sets are designed to promote equity and inform departmental dialogue, planning, decision making, and resource allocation. Recent updates include (1) better integration with ARC’s Data on Demand system to provide users with more sophisticated and nuanced ways of exploring their unit’s data and (2) greater emphasis and access to disproportionate impact data (how student achievement outcomes vary by gender, race/ethnicity, veteran, foster youth, disability, and income/poverty level status) to enable users to engage in more advanced student-centered and equity-centered analysis, reflection, and planning. We will also discuss how Annual UnitPlanning (AUP) can help us reach our equity goals, the reasons for AUP, and the AUP process, including timeline and support resources. In addition, you will have a chance to review sample planning objectives and brainstorm with your colleagues while you consider your data, objectives, and strategies. This activity meets State PD Guideline B; ARC Strategic Goals 3, 4; ARC Competency: Organizational Adeptness.    

Friday, September 22

9:00 to 11:00 am

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Facilitators: Brian Knirk, Hospitality Management; Veronica Lopez, Nutrition; Yuj Shimizu, Psychology and Faculty Research Coordinator

Flex credit: 2.0 hours

This training is focused for a faculty audience. In this training, you will learn about new data sets available in the Integrated Planning Portal.

Friday, September 22

1:00 to 3:00 pm

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Facilitators: Jennifer Laflam, Dean of Institutional Effectiveness & Innovation; Yuj Shimizu, Psychology and Faculty Research Coordinator

Flex credit: 2.0 hours

This training is focused for units led by administrators and Student Services Classified Professionals. 

LibreTexts Workshop for Faculty

The LibreTexts team is happy to announce an upcoming, in-person workshop, Friday, October 6, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm at CRC to showcase LibreTexts’ open homework and assessment platform, ADAPT.

Join LibreTexts founder and Executive Director, Dr. Delmar Larsen, as he demonstrates how instructors can use ADAPT to augment existing and newly constructed OER textbooks with summative exercises and embed them in LMSs, LibreTexts textbooks, in a standalone application, and in-class clickers.

Discussions will demonstrate how the ADAPT homework system empowers faculty to build and use existing questions in multiple modalities. Participants will learn how to build auto-graded questions based on four technologies – H5P, WebWork, IMathAS, and native (QTI) – that can be used interchangeably to allow for maximal impact.

Dr. Larsen will also introduce the LibreStudio platform for construction, storage and distribution of H5P assessments. Participants will be able to join LibreStudio to create and share H5P assessments, review the H5P of other authors, and build/join a community within Studio.

We will conclude with an overview of the analytics infrastructure to provide real-time learning analytics to instructors on student progress with pre-defined learning objectives.

Thanks to a generous grant from the California Education Learning Lab (CELL), ADAPT is available at no cost for all California instructors and students for the next four years.

CRC will host this full-day workshop for faculty from across Northern California in the Winn Center, Room 150. A light breakfast and lunch will be provided. Space is limited. Registration is required.

(Note: The registration link requires you to create an account with LibreTexts before you can register for the workshop. Your active LibreTexts account will be needed to access the necessary platforms on the day of the event.)

Latinx Heritage Month

The Latinx Success Center will be hosting a series of activity-filled events for Latinx Heritage Month in the UNITE Center. These events feature collaboration with people and programs from across campus, and even from out in the community! Events are Wednesdays starting at Noon.

Visit the calendar for a full list of events and join us in the UNITE Center!

Championing Equity: AB 540 Regional Training

All faculty, staff, student services personnel, as well as students, are invited to a free training on AB 540 on Friday, September 29, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at Sacramento City College. Build community with practitioners supporting undocumented students, learn strategies to integrate the AB 540 FAQ on your campus or in your organization, and help to ensure that students receive the same information about AB 540 at any college or university in California.

New Health and Wellness Webpage

Check out the new employee information webpage for Student Health and Wellness Services. Here you will find more information on available services, the Student Mental Health Referral Form, a link to the Canvas page, and upcoming trainings and events.

Wellness Writing for Stress Relief

Join us for a "Write Your Way to Wellness" workshop on Thursday, September 21 from 12:00 to 1:00 pm via Zoom. Learn about the therapeutic power of wellness writing and journaling, which can help you decompress when life's many demands start to overwhelm you. All Los Rios students and employees are welcome to participate! Hosted by Folsom Lake College’s Reading & Writing Center.

Youth Symposium on Community Wellness

Encourage students to join the “Youth Uniting to Build Community Wellness,” on Saturday, September 30, from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, at Sacramento City College. Presented by NAMI California, this Northern Region Affiliates’ Youth Symposium is a free event, featuring interactive presentations and panels from youth leaders across the Capital region along with lunch and networking opportunities for attendees.

Community Sign-Up for Los Rios Emergency Alerts

Please spread the word that members of the community – such as vendors, neighboring schools and businesses, and parents – can sign up to receive Los Rios Emergency Alerts. To receive regular, ongoing alerts, folks just need to text LOSRIOS to 67283 from their mobile phone.  

Campus visitors can also sign up to receive temporary alerts. This can include people who are attending athletics or arts events on our campuses. To sign up for temporary alerts, they need to text LREVENT to 67283 from their mobile phone. People will be automatically unsubscribed after 48 hours.

Los Rios Transfer Days

Don’t miss Los Rios Transfer Days, September 27 through October 5. Check out the various events at each of the four Los Rios colleges, featuring more than 50 different universities. Learn More

Work Experience Workshops

Don’t miss these upcoming Work Experience (WEXP) events this month open to all Los Rios students!



• Networking for People Who Hate Networking, Friday, September 15
• Introduction to Work Experience and Internship Program, Tuesday, September 19
• California State Employer Panel, Tuesday, September 19

Arts HomeBase Button Making

Bring your art to life on a custom button! Come to the Arts HomeBase (Arts and Science, Rm. 102) on Monday, Sept. 18 and Tuesday, Sept. 19 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. Students may each make up to three buttons.

Generous Spirit

Generous Spirit: Ollas y Pinturas Works by Stan Padilla and Ray Gonzales will be in the Kaneko Gallery from September 18 to October 11.

Stan is a mixed-media artist and a member of the highly regarded Royal Chicano Airforce, an artists’ collective honoring social justice and the civil rights movement. Stan has completed murals at Southside Park, the Macy’s downtown parking lot, and the California State Health Services Offices. His collaborative mural “Flight”, honoring the RCAF is in the Golden 1 Center. He currently lives and works on twenty acres in the Colfax/Weimar area where he is developing an artists’ sanctuary and spiritual cultural center.

Ray is a long-time advocate of the Arts and was a founding board member of several non-profit Arts organizations. As a board member of Lincoln Arts, Ray conceived of, developed and was chairman of, "Feats of Clay," an international, ceramic art competition that had a 24-year run and included artists from all 50 states as well as from numerous countries around the world.

A reception for the artists will be held at Kaneko Gallery at noon on Tuesday, September 26! Both artists will be present to give an artist talk.

The Parrot

Squawk! Squawk! What is special about Issue #173 of The Parrot ESL Newsletter? EVERYTHING! It’s a special issue all about Afghanistan! Find out what our students from Afghanistan have to share about Afghanistan!

In this issue:

• Meet Mozhdah Afghanzoi: ARC Student and Employee
• Sheer Pira! Jalebi! Khajor! Oh, My! Desserts of Afghanistan
• Hasina Jalal: Social Justice Is in Her Blood
• Afghan, Afghani, Afghanistani: Which One?
• A “FNUnny” Story: A Bureaucratic Bungle
• Herat to Kandahar: Video Tour of Beautiful Places
• What is the Afghanistan National Flower?
• The Gand Afghani to the Tanban Shirt: Traditional Clothing
• Restaurant Review: Aria Afghan (Just around the corner!)
• A Flight from Kabul–August 2021
• Poetry in Dari and Pashto
• and much, much more . . .

Your Voice Matters – Register to Vote!

National Voter Registration Day is celebrated every year on a Tuesday in September, and this year, it’s Tuesday, September 19. First organized in 2012, it is the nation’s largest, nonpartisan civic holiday dedicated to celebrating our democracy by registering as many eligible Americans to vote as possible through the collective efforts of thousands of volunteers, nonprofit organizations, businesses, schools, libraries, and election officials. The next California election will be the 2023 County Elections, followed by the Presidential Primary Election on March 5, 2024.