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Community and Economic Development - GREENRichland hosted Richland students, faculty, and staff January 30-31 in participating with 1,000 colleges and universities in the nationwide observance of Focus the Nation, a landmark event for all American higher education, designed to engage students, educators, and community leaders in meaningful, action-oriented teaching/learning/community-building dialogue on global climate change. Richland activities included a student referendum, Choose Your Future, on priorities for action; faculty-led panel discussions with business and community leaders on the issues of economic, faith, social justice, and governmental/political implications in the global warming issue; and The Focus the Nation webcast, The 2% Solution.
Student Success - The Richland African American Latino Student Alliance and Student Programs and Resources office will host their annual leadership workshop, Get a Grip!, on Saturday, featuring award-winning speaker, educator, and author Joe Martin. Professor Martin will address Characteristics of Leadership; Growing as a Leader; Crisis Management; and Performance of a Leader. The Alliance Leadership workshop is conducted each year to provide an opportunity for leadership conversations between students, faculty and staff and to inspire leadership in Richland students.
Employee Success - Congratulations to two long-time, founding members of the Richland faculty on recent honors they have received. Richland Theatre Professor Chuck Sheffield was named Featured Designer of the Year by the Texas Educational Theatre Association at its annual conference in Dallas this past weekend. Chuck was also honored recently by the Southwest Theatre and Film Association with its Distinguished Service Award. Physical Education Professor Bill Neal was honored January 26 with the 1st Annual Bill Neal Classic Wrestling Tournament held at Kimball High School. More than 80 boys and 60 girls competed in the inaugural event at which Bill conducted a wrestling clinic for eight local high schools. Richland’s wrestling program spanned 1972 to 1984, during which time, Richland won seven state championships.
Institutional Effectiveness - Richland’s Institutional Effectiveness leadership team recently received the results of the biennial Campus Quality Survey administered to all employees in fall 2007. Survey respondents rated 59 items on How It Is Now and How It Should Be, and the team is examining differences between the two ratings for gaps in performance and opportunities to improve. The results reveal that 82.07% of all employees indicated satisfaction with employment at Richland, a slight improvement over the 2005 rating of 81.75%. Additional results indicate that 90% of all survey items had performance gaps below 1.00, indicating good agreement between How It Should Be and How It Is Now. Six survey items had performance gaps of 1.00 or greater, indicating a lack of agreement. The team is triangulating these results with the Modern Think Survey results and the spring 2008 ThunderValues Survey for greater insight into common themes of success and opportunity.
Richland Collegiate High School (RCHS) - Representatives from Brookhaven, Cedar Valley, Eastfield, Mountain View, North Lake, Richland, District Office, University of North Texas, Early College High School at Mountain View College, RCHS, and Cedar Hill ISD met at the Bill J. Priest Institute Wednesday to discuss common issues related to Early College High Schools and RCHS. Among the issues the group addressed were: providing “highly qualified teachers;” documenting college courses on high school transcripts; “seat time” rules to earn funding from the Texas Education Agency (TEA); the disruption of students schedules for TAKS testing; the cost of providing college textbooks for students; handling registration blocks imposed by the colleges’ business offices; meeting TEA rules regarding nutrition and college food services and vending machines; smoking on campus regulations; and graduation ceremonies for graduates of both the high schools and the colleges. The productive meeting will lead to further cooperative discussions of these issues to develop a united approach to the TEA.
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