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OCC Reduces Campus Smoking Areas
College cites problems with smoke entering air vents from outside
September 24, 2003--In a memo to OCC faculty this week, Joseph Rufo, the college's chief financial officer, notified the campus of a change in the permitted smoking areas.
In the memo, Rufo said that several areas have been restricted because the smoke has gotten into air vents. The smoke then travels through the vents and into nearby offices and classrooms. "This situation has resulted in a number of health-related concerns," wrote Rufo.
Faculty members were asked to announce the changes to their classes.
The new non-smoking zones will go into effect immediately.
New Non-Smoking Zones
Academic One: North and South entrances.
Coulter Library: East entrances (loading dock and within alcove).
Gordon Student Center: North and East entrances.
The areas within 75 feet of these entrances will be designated as non-smoking
Hispanic Heritage Month Proclamation Read, Celebrated at OCC
September 16, 2003--Members of the OCC community gathered today in the Founder's Room for a reading of Onondaga County Executive Nick Pirro's proclamation of Hispanic Heritage Month. OCC's Director of Multicultural Resources, Vivian Moore, read Piiro's proclamation, in which he designated the period from September 15, 2003 to October 15, 2003 to be dedicated to the celebration of Hispanic Heritage. This is the thirteenth year in a row that a month has been dedicated to Hispanic Heritage.
According to Professor Engracia Schuster, the chair of OCC's Modern Languages Department, Hispanics include anyone from Spain and Latin America.
After the reading of Pirro's proclamation, Professor Trino Prados spoke about the closeness of Latin America and the United States. America has three components, he said, "European, Indiginous, and African." He pointed out that decendants from these three groups have played a role in every North or South American country, not just the United States.
In addition, English Professor Paul Aviles, whose father is from Mexico and his mother is from New England, read several Mexican-themed poems. The first poem, which he composed, was called "My Mexico," and talked about what he thought of when he thought of Mexico. The next poem he read was by Chicano writer Sandra Ciseiros, called "You Bring Out the Mexican in Me." Aviles responsed to this poem with another he wrote, which he titled, "You Bring Out the Gringo in Me."
Aviles also read a poem he wrote about the prominent Mexican holiday, The Day of the Dead. "El Dia de los Muertos," is, according to Aviles, meant to pay homage to those who have died. Aviles dedicated his poem to his grandmother.
College Gathers to Remember September 11, 2001
September 10, 2003--Roughly 35 OCC faculty and students gathered in the Coulter Library today to mark the anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks and to take a look at the journalistic and humanistic response to those events.
The session consisted of more than a dozen readings from various stories and poems about the attacks, with songs by Enya ("Only Time"), Neil Young ("Let's Roll"), and Bruce Springsteen ("Into the Fire") played in between.
OCC Journalism Professor Laurel Saiz (pronounced SIGH-TH) helped organize the event. In her opening speech, she quoted former Washington Post Publisher Phillip Graha: "Journalism is the first rough draft of history." Saiz also spoke about the bravery of the journalists and photographers who ran to the crash sites when everyone else was running away.
Yvonne Fish-Kalland, an OCC english professor, also helped coordinate the event. She noted that many of the poems that were written about September 11 were written anonymously, and only sought to "make sense of the situation."
A year ago on September 11, Saiz helped organize "Portraits of Grief" readings in the library to mark the attacks' one-year anniversary, in which students read short biographies of some of the people who died in the attacks.
UMass Professor to Speak on What Drives Teachers
September 10, 2003--University of Massachusetts Professor of Education Sonia Nieto will visit OCC on Wednesday, September 24 to take an engaging look at the topic, "What keeps teachers going in spite of everything?" Lessons from veteran educators who continue to teach and remain excited about education will form the basis for the discussion. Nieto's lecture will be held in the newly-renovated Storer Auditorium at 11am.
Neito is a professor of language, literacy, and culture at UMass's School of Education. She has been a teacher for more than 35 years, and has taught students at all levels. Her research focuses on multi-cultural and linguistic backgrounds.
A published and renowned author, she has received many awards for her advocacy and activism, including the 1989 Human and Civil Rights Award from the Massachusetts Teachers Association, the 1996 Teacher of the Year Award from the Hispanic Educators of Massachusetts, and the 1997 Multicultural Educator of the Year Award from the National Association for Multicultural Education.
She was an Annenberg Institute Senior Fellow (1998-2000), and she received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Lesley College in Cambridge, Massachusetts in May of 1999.
"As part of our observances in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, and as educators in a diverse socety, we are very pleased to have been able to secure the time and talents of Sonia Nieto," said Engracia-Maria Schuster, Spanish professor and chair of the modern languages department, which helped coordinate the event. "This is a topic of great interest, not only to educators and school administrators, but to parents and students, and we hope that many people will take advantage of professor Nieto's lecture."
Some information courtesy of OCC's Marketing Department
Thompson Elected President of OCC's Interim Student Government
May 12, 2003--Senator-at-large Tommy Thompson, running against Parliamentarian Courtenay Laxton, won the only contested position, the presidency, in elections for OCC's interim student government for the 2003-2004 academic year.
The results were announced at the May 9 Student Senate meeting. During the meeting's open floor discussion, Thompson acknowledged Laxton's conduct throughout the race. "This wasn't a war," he said,"it was an election. Thank you for your grace."
Thompson, who is in his first semester at OCC, told the rest of the attendees, "let's move forward and get our campus on a better track."
"I know our student government will need as much help as it can," said a teary-eyed Laxton, who says she will continue to work with the student government in the future.
According to current President Hillary Robinson-Lovell, the election drew 140 voters.
Vice President of Student Services Dr. Evon Walters said that the fact that only one of six student-elected positions was contested pointed to the "apathy" amongst OCC students. Incumbent Veronica Gray was elected by the senate to be next year's Chair of Senate. She was also unopposed.
2003-2004 OCC Student Government Officers
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Tommy Thompson - President
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Chris Stewart - Vice President
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Irene Awuah - Treasurer
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Kediah G. A. Patterson - Secretary
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Kiondra Carter - Director of Entertainment & Programming
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Pete Curinga III - Student Trustee
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Veronica Gray - Chair of Senate (elected by senate)
Note: The Presidency was the only contested position. Thompson was opposed by Courtenay Laxton.
OCC Reduces Tuition Increase
Increase drops from 26 to 18 percent; college spending also will increase
At the recommendation of Onondaga Community College President Dr. Debbie Sydow, the college's board of trustees passed a resolution on May 20 to reduce the amount of the tuition increase it had approved for the 2003-2004 academic year.
"We are grateful to the state legislature for restoring base aid funding to community colleges, which enabled us to ease some of the financial burden on our students," said Sydow.
At their April meeting the board passed a resolution for a $650 increase to full-time students who are county residents, which translated to a 26 percent tuition hike. Because the state legislature restored some of the fuding for higher education that Governor George Pataki had cut in his proposed budget, the colleg was able to reduce the amount of the tuition increase to 18 percent, or $450 per academic year. It is the first tuition increase at OCC since 1997, despite rising expenses.
In addition, according to a May 21 Syracuse Post-Standard story, OCC will also be looking into restoring funding for programs that had been cut to cover the initial $6.9 million budget gap Gov. Pataki's budget would have created.
For more information on OCC's budget challenges this year, visit the archive page.
Top OSSA Officers a No-Show at Forum on OCC Student Government
College assures OSSA that it will not be taking over resources
March 26, 2003--Fewer than 20 students attended the OCC Talks Forum on Student Governance, a discussion on Tuesday, March 15 devoted to the future of the Onondaga Student Services Association Inc. About half of the students attending were OSSA officers or others involved in the student government, while the other half were members of the Computer Club. OSSA Executive Director Kevin Althouse, President Hillary Robinson-Lovell and Vice President Chris Stewart did not attend the forum.
The meeting was convened by Dr. Evon Walters, vice president of student services, and Lysa Simmons, director of student life. Several faculty members, who have served as club advisers to JAMAA, the Computer Club and the Overview, attended, as did James Sunser, OCC's director of financial services.
The college is committed to "a more effective and efficiently-operated" student government, Walters said, adding that a task force will engage in meetings and planning "smoothly through the summer and fall semesters." The OCC Board of Trustees voted at its February meeting not to renew its contact with OSSA, an independently-incorporated entity that since 1974 has administered money generated by the student fee, which was $65 the past semester. This decision effectively shut down OSSA as OCC's student government.
The handful of people attending the forum were asked to fill out a sheet detailing what they liked about OSSA, their recommendations about OSSA and their suggestions about increasing student participation.
Professor Jim Martin, long-time adviser to JAMAA, said that in the 34 years he has been at OCC, he had seen OSSA change. Once it "brought in activities like national speakers and entertainers," he said. "More recently, I haven't seen any inclusiveness or diversity," he said. "If you're paying the money, there should be some return on the money."
Vincent Lumia, who last semester attempted to start the Ongoing Relations for a Good Year (ORGY) Club, said he thought OSSA was "a good tool for us to interact," adding that he always felt "comfortable bringing students to events." He added, however, that the problems with the student government, such as the state of the budget and other issues, had caused "concern about diminishing return to the student."
Lumia specifically cited the recent tension between OSSA and the Overview and moves by OSSA officers to quash coverage of several different controversies around Casey Sutfliff, former parliamentarian, and Jen Sutliff, former treasurer.
"I'm not sure how the new government would address the school paper and would that be a paper that Id want to read," Lumia said.
Courtenay Laxton, who was recently appointed Parliamentarian by the senate after there was nobody to run against her, said she felt the OSSA officers had worked very hard at such activities as the non-prejudice campaign, but said the workload was intense. "It should not be put all on the student government officers," she said. Peter Curinga, OSSA representative to the OCC Board of Trustees, said the officers work hard, whether or not the majority of the student body is involved.
"The legislator is doing his job, whether people write him letters or not," Curinga said. In the May 2002 OSSA election, 73 students out of more than 8,000 full and part-time students voted.
Laxton cited other colleges, such as Binghamton where only 500 of 15,000 students voted, Albany where 300 students voted and Oswego, where only 150 students voted, and said this puts OCC into perspective.
"Seventy-three isn't a good number, but at least you had some participation. You could have had zero," Laxton said. She recommended that the number of paid officers be increased, saying that eight were not enough to do the necessary work.
Laxton also brought up the OSSA officers' concerns that OCC is, through the trustees' recent move, taking the resources and funds of the students that were generated by the student fee. Students will thus lose autonomy and accountability of these resources, funds and equipment, she alleged. She wondered what would happen to the desks, computers and other items currently owned by OSSA.
Sunser said that the move was not done by the college for any ulterior motive to take over student resources, but was done because "you didn't have the level of sophistication in your books and in your daily ledgers." The current computers and other items in the OSSA office will "stay in trust for the new government," Sunsor said, adding that it would be "silly to liquidate it."
He also added that on a daily basis he oversees a college budget of more than $55 million with a capital budget of $10 to $15 million and that there really is no danger that the college would turn to such a small part of it in the OSSA office to try to generate revenue. In fact, Sunser added that the college has been giving OSSA in-kind services for many years that would probably total at least $100,000 of the $530,000 generated by the student fee.
The college has never asked OSSA for reimbursement of these in-kind costs. Just the accounting and bookkeeping costs associated with the billing, collection of the student fee, follow up to students who don't pay their bills, and answering myriad phone questions about the student fee probably would total "$50,000 to $60,000," he said. He said the majority of students who call the bursar's office about the fee do so to complain, saying they don't want to pay it because they are not interested in getting involved with student government or activities.
Following the meeting, Walters said the task force designed to revamp the student government will be made up of nine members: himself, Simmons, the colleges financial officer, the current OSSA president and student trustee, one faculty member and several other students.
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Positions in OCC's Interim Student Government Might be Eliminated
May 5, 2003--At the May 2, 2003 student senate meeting, current student government President Hilary Robinson-Lovell said that the position of executive director has been cut "during the interim phase." Robinson went on to say that the duties of the executive director were going to be assigned to the student government's office manager and bookkeeper.
Adjunct professor Kevin Althouse is currently the student government executive director, in addition to being the advisor for OCC's student newspaper, The Overview. Althouse took the position at The Overview after OCC Journalism Professor Laurel Saiz resigned along with the editorial staff in protest of the student government controlling the newspaper.
In addition, current Parliamentarian Courtenay Laxton, who was elected by the senate when there was nobody to run against her, said at the April 18 senate meeting that the positions of parliamentarian and senate representative to the board of trustees were going to be changed, and claimed that Vice President of Student Services Dr. Evon Walters, who is heading the task force that oversees the interim student government, did not want the two positions on the ballot but wanted them to instead be combined. The parliamentarian, senate to the BOD, and chair of senate have in the past been senate-elected positions.
Walters said in a May 5 interview that the task force has not made a decision regarding what positions in the student government will be cut.
"We have a $6.9 million problem"
Two students show at second of three budget forums
April 10, 2003--Onondaga Community College's Chief Financial Officer, Joseph Rufo, who notified the campus in the middle of March that he was scheduling three forums on the problems surrounding the school's potential budget crisis, held the second forum during the April 4 Student Senate meeting in Academic room 345.
The forum was originally scheduled to be in A245 at 11:15, but after two students and several administrators were present at that time, Rufo decided to move the meeting so that the senators could participate as well.
"On April 22 we're [the administration] going to formally be proposing a tuition increase," Rufo said, adding that he was there to tell the students "why we're doing it." All decisions will be made according to OCC's Strategic Plan, A Framework for Success, says Rufo.
According to Rufo, OCC receives its funding from three main sources: the state, the county, and tuition. State law says that state financial aid for community colleges shall be one-third of the amount of operating costs. This law however, has been loosely enforced. Currently, 47.3 percent of OCC's funding comes from tuition and fees, 27.7 percent comes from the state, and 18.4 percent comes from the county.
Should both the state and school budgets pass, then 50.3 percent of OCC's funding will be coming from tuition and fees, 26.1 percent from the state, and 17.3 percent from the county. These figures do not include funding for capital projects.
The college gets $2,300 annually from the state for each full-time equivalent student. According to Governor Pataki's proposed budget, this would be reduced by 15 percent to $1,955.
Onondaga county, however, has agreed to keep its funding at the current level, says Rufo.
In addition, costs for the schools are going up. One such area is in contractual obligations to faculty members, where the school is facing a mandatory increase in benefits under their collective bargaining agreement. In addition, due to increased enrollment, the college has had to employ more adjunct faculty members and spend more on student service programs. Also, according to Rufo, insurance costs have risen "by the double digits" since September 11, 2001.
Thus, says Rufo, "while revenue is going down...our costs are going up."
This translates into a $6.9 million budget gap for OCC, which is required by law to balance its budget.
Part of the college's plan, then, is to increase revenue through a tuition hike of roughly 26 percent ($650) for full-time students, and for part time students a change from $98 per credit hour to $125.
In addition, the college is looking to create new fees for programs that have in the past been paid for by the entire student body but were only used by select students. These fees will be a Cisco certification fee of $50, and a web-based distance-learning fee. Currently, SUNY charges OCC $8 per credit hour for web-based learning.
These changes will account for $3.3 million of the gap. OCC plans to make up the other $3.6 million by cutting costs.
Rufo said that the Content Tutoring Center's funding would not be cut, but that increases that were earlier proposed for the CTC have been withdrawn.
OCC is considered to be one of the most cost-efficient SUNY colleges based on the percent change in budget over roughly the past two decades. OCCs budget has changed 10.6 percent in this time, whereas the SUNY average is 24.0 percent.
One student voiced concerns that many students will now be persuaded to attend a private school. In response, Rufo said that the missions of OCC and private schools are different.
Rufo said he hopes to bring academic vice presidents to the next meeting.
OCC Student Receives State Farm Agents Emergency Services Award
Richard Mercer of Central Square, a fire protection technology student at Onondaga Community College (OCC), has been named the 2002-2003 recipient of the State Farm Agents Emergency Services Award. The award was established in 1990 by local State Farm Insurance agents because of a critical need for volunteer firefighters and emergency medical technicians. To be eligible for the award, a student must be a volunteer firefighter or emergency services worker and must serve in a volunteer fire department or ambulance corps for three years after graduating from OCC.
Mercer is a member of the Hastings Fire Department and has served on the fire department's board of directors for the past six years. He was presented with his award by State Farm agent Bill Meyer and OCC President Debbie L. Sydow, Ph.D.
Information provided by OCC's Office of Marketing and Communications
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OCC CFO Announces Open Forums to Discuss College's 2003-04 Budget
In an online memo to OCC faculty this week, OCC Chief Financial Officer Joseph Rufo announced the scheduling of three open forums regarding the challenges surrounding the development of the colleges 2003-04 budget.
"As you know, these are certainly challenging times," Rufo wrote. "However, despite the fiscal challenges we face I have no doubt we will continue to work together, remaining focused on fulfilling the core mission of OCC and the goals established in the College's strategic plan."
Open Forums Schedule
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Dave Parker to Speak on Invention Prototyping
The Innovators Resource Network of Central New York will have a meeting on April 15th at 7PM in the Onondaga Community College in the Whitney Applied Technology Center in room 101. The Guest Speaker will be Dave Parker, Director of Lean Manufacturing and Work force Development at OCC. He will cover several topics relative to invention prototyping such as working with plastics, adhesives, sheet metal and mold making.
Meetings are every third Tuesday of the month.
High School Students Sample OCC Music Department
More than 140 music students from 22 area high schools visited Onondaga Community College on March 14 for the music department's annual Student for a Day event. The students, accompanied by their high school music teachers, were treated to a sampling of life as a music student at OCC.
During the morning session, the students were divided into groups and attended classes on music theory, keyboard and computers, and music history. A performance by OCC's Jazz Ensemble capped the morning's activities.
Students spent the afternoon in mini master classes focusing on specific instruments and voice, according to Selma Moore, chairperson of OCC's music department.
"This has been our biggest turnout yet for this event, which we've been holding for at least six years," says Moore. "The response to the Student for a Day has been great--we had to find a bigger space to hold the large number of students who registered. The students and teachers were enthusiastic in their response to the event and had high praise for the quality of our music department at OCC."
Information and photo courtesy of OCC Marketing & Communications Department
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Five of Six OCC Student-Elected Positions Uncontested in Elections
May 5, 2003--In the upcoming elections for OCC's interim student government, five of the six student-elected positions have only one candidate. Those candidates are: Chris Stewart (vice president), Kediah G. A. Patterson (secretary), Irene Awuah (treasurer), Kiondra Carter (director of entertainment and programming), and Pete Curinga III (student trustee).
Tommy Thompson and Courtenay Laxton are running against each other for the office of president.
Laxton is the current OCC student government parliamentarian; she was elected by the student senate this semester when there was nobody to run against her.
Thompson is in his first semester at OCC and wants to focus on getting more non-club member involvement on campus. He is a 10-year Navy veteran and a former recruiter, and has had presidential experience in the Navy.
The interim student government task force has not looked at what it will pay the officers with the new increase in tuition. This past year, all officers received full tuition reimbursement ($2,500), but, according to Vice President of Student Affairs Dr. Evon Walters, who is heading the task force, the status remains unclear if the $650 increase will be factored in to the officer's paychecks.
Winning ticket for the trip to Mardi Gras:
#314995
Tickets were handed out at the spring Party on the Quad.
Student Housing Project Update
Editor's Note: The following is a reprint of a March 26, 2003 All-Users memo sent by OCC Assistant to the President Larry Reader.
May 4, 2003--The Student Housing project continues to move forward. Our goal is to make residence halls available to students by the Fall of 2005.
The College Board of Trustees at their meeting last night voted to approve the formation and incorporation of a not for profit corporation, the "Onondaga Community College Housing Corporation". The Housing Corporation will have responsibility for obtaining financing, designing, building and operating the residence halls. The initial Board of the Housing Corporation will include College, Board of Trustees and County representatives. Over the next seven months the Housing Corporation will be working to refine and value the finances and cost of the housing project. We will release a " Request for Proposals" to developers within the next 3-4 weeks. The proposals that we receive back will allow us to ascertain project design and construction costs.
The primary site for the residence halls is an 8 acre parcel across the road from the Whitney ATC, to the west of the Rt. 175 entrance to the College. The site is bounded by the gorge to the west, the entrance road to the east, Brinson Marine to the south and the ring road to the north. As recommended in the housing feasibility study provided by Anderson Strickler, the RFP requires developers to design and construct residence halls containing 300 beds arranged in 75 four bedroom, four student suites that include living, multiple bathrooms and kitchen space. Multiple or single structures are allowed, with a maximum 3 story height. An apartment for a Director of Residence Life and efficiency apartments for Resident Assistants are included in the RFP requirements.
The College has committed to a residence hall design philosophy that incorporates "green" technology. We hope to make this a signature project highlighting the advantages of these types of designs.
Based on the proposals received, the Housing Corporation will develop a financing package. We expect the package to rely on Onondaga County Industrial Development Agency tax exempt bonds to pay 100% of the cost of the design and construction of the resident halls. Neither the College nor the County will be responsible for repayment of the bonds. The Housing Corporation, using funds received from renting residence hall rooms to students, will have that responsibility.
Once the design, construction and financial costs are finalized, the College Board of Trustees will review and approve the entire project package prior to any final commitment to proceed.
The College is very aware that the construction of residence halls will have important social, structural and operational campus impacts. We have completed a study to try to anticipate and estimate the extent of those impacts. Eighteen different impact areas were identified, areas such as the Library, IT, Student Life, Health Services, Safety and Security, OSSSN, etc. The Director of each impact area was interviewed and asked to "brainstorm" all the possible effects of residence halls on their operation. Each Director was then asked to consider how best to respond to the anticipated impacts. Their responses, along with input from our sister community colleges who have already constructed residence halls, form the basis of the study. Our conclusion, based on all the information gathered, is that the impacts are certainly manageable and that the overall impact of residence halls will be very positive.
PTK Ceremony Celebrates Spring 2003 Inductees
April 4, 2003--Alpha Sigma Theta, Onondaga Community Colleges chapter of Phi Theta Kappa, the national honor society for two-year colleges, held its induction ceremony for its Spring 2003 inductees on Wednesday, March 26.
Hospice and Palliative Care Associates CEO Peter Sarver delivered the keynote address, opening it by holding a piece of wood that was cut into a threshold. "Everyday we cross thresholds," said Sarver, adding that we often dont realize it.
Also during the ceremony, AST president Alisa Wareham presented Chapter Awards to Jerri Murray for scholastic achievement and Shannon Cook for leadership.
In addition to Wareham, the AST officers are: Frank Skurpski (vice president), Margaret Devers (treasurer), and Katrina Dickinson (secretary). To become a member of PTK, a student must have a 3.5 GPA or better and take at least 15 credit hours.
The new inductees were given a note card to write a brief profile of themselves to be read as they crossed the stage. Former Great White drummer Gary Holland, one of the inductees, wrote that he was "an ambassador to all weary metal drummers." Jeniffer Biribwamugumu, who recently moved to the United States from her native country of Africa, ended her introduction with, "God bless America."
Spring of 2003 Inductee List
Syracuse Math Students Get New Look on Carousel Mall
Imagine the Carousel Center mall as four math problems, and to solve them, students must use trigonometry to find the length of the escalator; compare successive percentage rates for discounted sale items; conduct a scavenger hunt for mathematical shapes; and compute the volume of space that the carousel displaces.
A trip to the Carousel Center to find the answers to these problems will be the culmination of March Math Madness, a math camp for Syracuse City School students conducted by Onondaga Community College in collaboration with the Syracuse City School District and Syracuse University's Gear-Up Initiative.
Over 200 high school students are spending Saturday mornings in March on the OCC campus honing their math skills. The concepts being taught will prepare students to successfully master the New York state Math A Regents exam.
"The trip to the mall will give students the opportunity to use their math skills in real-life situations," says Monty R. Flynn, director of admissions at OCC, who has helped organize the camp.
Faculty from OCC and the SCSD jointly developed the curriculum and teach the classes. The classes are small and students are afforded one-to-one instruction with the help of teacher assistants and college mentors.
All students are issued TI 83+ graphing calculators and clinometers as they work through the weekly lessons. "The lessons were designed to include hands-on activities with opportunities for students to work in teams and to be actively engaged in math concepts," Flynn says.
Students who successfully complete the program will be awarded the graphing calculators, valued at approximately $100 each. Part of the Gear-Up grant funding was used to purchase the calculators.
Information and courtesy of OCC Marketing & Communications department
OCC Names New Staff Members in Information Tech, Marketing Departments
Onondaga Community College has named Lafayette resident Sarah Robinson as network operations manager in the information technologies department and Paula Meseroll as public relations coordinator in the Office of Marketing and Communications.
Robinson, who holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Niagara University, will focus on maintaining network and server availability at OCC. She most recently served as operations manager of the Information Technologies Systems and Operations Division at Cornell University.
Meseroll will be responsible for managing public relations for OCC and promoting the college's programs, services and events. A Camillus resident, Meseroll holds a bachelor's degree in communication arts/public relations from Marywood College. She most recently served as an editor/writer for ProLiteracy America.
Information and photos courtesy of OCC Marketing & Communications department
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