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2011/2012Accomplishments

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irvine valley college vision, mission and goals

college visionIrvine Valley College is an institution of higher learning that seeks to deliver innovative instruction and student services programs, provide opportunities for student success and enter into dynamic community partnerships. The college maintains high educational standards as measured by student learning outcomes including skills and knowledge gained.

college missionIrvine Valley College is committed to serving members of the community who seek to transfer, obtain degrees and certificates, acquire career and basic skills, and pursue lifelong learning. The college also provides student support services, opportunities for cultural experiences, and activities promoting partnerships with the community.

The college is dedicated to successful and measurable student learning through the commitment of exemplary faculty and staff who offer a variety of traditional and innovative teaching methods, and provide access to state-of-the-art technologies and facilities.

The college is guided by a strategic plan based on data regarding changing student needs, evolving community diversity, and a rapidly changing economy.

collegewide goals To meet the current and future learning needs of our diverse community.

To foster a college environment that is dedicated to attracting and supporting excellent faculty, staff, and students.

To develop and implement curricula that enable students to transfer, obtain degrees and certificates, improve basic skills, and pursue lifelong learning and community education.

To provide exemplary support services focused on student success and retention.

To provide programs and activities that promote economic development and partnerships with the community.

To focus college processes on providing programs and services that educate students to think critically and prepare them for making career and academic choices.

To provide leading edge technologies and facilities to support student success.

To promote IVC as an institution of higher education dedicated to student access and success.

To ensure institutional effectiveness through systematic assessment, intentional dialogue, and continuous improvement.

To leverage resources to implement the initiatives identified in the colleges strategic plan.

To incorporate green technologies in college planning and procedures.

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institutional student educational goals and learning outcomes: 20112012

institutional educational goals student learning outcomes

Because individual IVC courses contribute* to one or more areas of the five institutional goals, students completing an associate degree at Irvine Valley College will be able to:

Communication Skills Communicate effectively when speaking, writing, and presenting to a variety of audiences and with a variety of purposes.

Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, Engage in critical and creative thinking to solve problems, and Information Access and Analysis explore alternatives, and make decisions. Develop comprehensive, rational arguments for ethical positions

and describe the implications for the individual and the larger society.

Apply mathematical approaches and computational techniques to solve problems; to manipulate and interpret data; and to disseminate the data, methodology, analysis, and results.

Apply the fundamentals of scientific inquiry to real-life and hypothetical situations.

Use a variety of media, including computer resources, to access, organize, evaluate, synthesize, cite, and communicate that information.

Global Awareness Demonstrate and observe sensitive and respectful treatment of

diverse groups and perspectives in a variety of settings. Demonstrate an awareness of historical and contemporary

global issues and events. Demonstrate intercultural competence by engaging effec-

tivelye.g., listening, speaking, writing, signingwith others whose language, ethnicity, religion, culture, country of origin, or economic or social background is different than their own.

Aesthetic Awareness Make use of a variety of critical methods to analyze, interpret, and evaluate works of literary, visual, and performing art.

Identify and recognize opportunities to participate in the creative arts as an artist, performer, observer, or technician.

Recognize the historic and cultural role of the creative arts in forming human experience.

Personal, Professional Identify and recognize opportunities to address civic andand Civic Responsibilities environmental needs. Promote physical and mental well-being, self-management,

maturity, and ethical decision-making.


A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

It gives me great pleasure to acknowledge the accomplishments of so many who epitomize the hard work, contributions, and achievements of Irvine Valley College. I would like to express my appreciation for your commitment and dedication to our students. By working together, we continue to ensure the future success of IVC.

I commend you for all of your hard work in 2011-2012.

Heres to another successful year!

Respectfully yours,

Glenn R. Roquemore, PhD


OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENTPresident Roquemore

TOP ACHIEvEMENTS OF THE YEAR

President Roquemore brought together a working group to develop an IVC statement on freedom of expression, civility, and mutual respect, as well as an IVC action plan beginning in 2012-2013 in support of freedom of expression, civility, and mutual respect.

Irvine Valley College has now been designated as Military Friendly School, one of a prestigious list of 1,000 colleges, universities and trade schools nationwide. IVC received this distinction for being among the elite schools in the nation to offer military members, veterans, and military spouses the best education, value, and welcoming atmo-sphere. IVC is now listed in the Military Friendly Schools Guide and website, which helps veterans and military service members narrow their field and select the college that best meets their unique needs. In addition, IVC will have the ability to use the Military Friendly logo in its recruitment efforts. Veterans and service members value this identification, as it indicates that a designated school appreciates military experience. Veterans and service members have more than 7,000 schools nationwide to select from for an education; currently, only 1,000 schools have the Military Friendly endorsement.

President Roquemore was elected to the Irvine Chamber Board of Directors for 2012-2013.

ADDITIONAl ACCOMPlISHMENTS

Concordia University Commencement Speaker: On Saturday, May 5, President Glenn Roquemore gave the commence-ment address at two separate commencement ceremonies for Concordia University, Irvine. Both ceremonies were held at the Bren Events Center at the University of Californias Irvine campus to accommodate the maximum number of family members and friends at each graduation celebration. The undergraduate Bachelor of Arts ceremony began at 1:00 p.m. and included an audience of approximately 4,500 and a class of 450 graduates, and the Masters Ceremony began at 4:30 p.m. and included an audience of approximately 3,500 and a class of 465 graduates. President Roquemore had the honor of leading the procession/recession with Concordia President Kurt Krueger and a regent.

Accreditation Team visit to Modesto: From October 24-28, President Glenn Roquemore was chair of chairs for an ACCJC accreditation team visit to Modesto Junior College. ACCJC is the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC) of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC), an institutional accrediting body recognized by the Commission on Recognition of Postsecondary Accreditation and the U.S. Department of Education. President Roquemore led an 11-member team from California and Hawaii community colleges. Sandy Jefferies, executive assistant to President Roquemore at Irvine Valley College was the team assistant. Prior to the visit, IVCs technology department created a unique Sharepoint site that was recognized by ACCJC as a possible new standard for sharing documents and secure information. The Sharepoint site developed and hosted by Irvine Valley College allowed team members to share drafts and findings in a secure environment. For the visit, President Roquemores team was tasked with evaluating Modesto Junior Colleges 2011 Self-Study Report.


tedx: On February 29, IVC hosted a simulcast of TEDx. Irvine Valley College was pleased to offer the community, students, faculty, and staff this wonderful opportunity to experience exciting ideas and discussion through the TED-exchange. The College was recognized world-wide for host-ing TEDxIVC Live. Over 275 IVC students, faculty, staff, and administrators, along with the Irvine community, were in attendance to marvel over timely and topical presentations. IVCs Roopa Mathur, PhD, professor of Business Sciences, co-hosted with Susan Petrella, MBA, creative director, Creative Orange County, a think tank @ the intersection of culture, commerce and community.

On Wednesday, January 11, to support and defend IVCs accreditation follow-up report, and ultimately its accreditation status, President Glenn Roquemore provided testimony in front of the 25-member ACCJC. President Roquemores testi-mony focused on the continued advances being made in the areas of district-wide strategic planning, budget allocation process and communication. These are the three recommendations that received a partially met or substantially met designation by the visiting team. It was his goal to emphasize the positive.

On Thursday, January 12, President Glenn Roquemore attended the ACCCA board meeting which also included a meet-ing with the ACBO (Association of Chief Business Officers) board. His role in this meeting included that of board member and member of the Commission on Finance and Legislative Advocacy. The meeting included reviewing and updating cur-riculum and presenters for the primary professional development programs, ADMIN 101 and ADMIN 201. There was also significant discussion regarding pension reform.

On Tuesday, January 17, President Glenn Roquemore attended the OC Business Council Roundtable. The guest speaker was Senator Dianne Feinstein. Her primary message was how the failure of compromise and consensus in Congress has blocked our ability to find solutions to the economic crisis. President Roquemore was seated at the UC Irvine table and had some very productive conversations with their representatives on CalTeach. This grant is intended to build a new program that offers a bachelors degree in a STEM area combined with a teaching credential. UCI is interested in including IVC in the grant.

On Thursday, January 19, President Glenn Roquemore attended the UCI Paul Merage School of Business Outlook event. His attendance was spon-sored by ATT. Speakers were Andrew Policano, dean of the school, and Jennifer Granholm, former governor of Michigan and expert on economic recovery. Governor Granholm is a strong advocate of using community colleges and public/private partnerships as a means of turning around a failing economy.

On November 15, Irvine Valley College joined some 30 other prominent organizations from throughout Orange County to attend and participate in the award for Outstanding Philanthropist in Orange County. This annual community event, in its 26th year, recognizes the charitable and nonprofit organizations throughout Orange County. The event recognized over 100 individuals, support groups and businesses for their work in the community.

President Roquemore is working on a leadership development project with the Community College League of California (CCLC). To support this effort, IVC is assisting in the coordination and production of training videos for community college trustees.

The Presidents Office sponsored the 2011 IVC holiday party that raised over $600 through the IVC employee raffle with additional funding from PRO IVC.


President Roquemore served as a co-chair for the ACCCA community college administration management development commission to develop freshman class curriculum for new college presidents.

President Roquemore also

> Awarded the 2012 presidential scholarship for $1,000 to IVC student Erik Bieznieks.

> Hosted a campuswide BBQ, courtesy Mike Boquet, in May 2012.

> Awarded three $300 scholarships to continuing students for the Fall 2012 semester.

> Hosted an ACCCA BBQ for ADMIN 101 2012 class in the new Live Oak Terraces July 2012.

President Roquemore serves on the following committees and community involvement:

> ACE, American Council on Education, Mentor> Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges> American Association of Community Colleges: Commissioner, Workforce Development> American Council on Education, Mentor> Association of California Community College Administrators: Board Member (2011-14) and Commissioner, Finance and

Legislative Advocacy, and Mentor> Brandman University Ed.D, Advisory Board> Community College League of California: Past Chair, Advisory Committee on Education Services> Council on Extended Education, organized with UCI, IUSD, and City of Irvine> Exchange Club of Irvine, Member> Irvine Chamber of Commerce, Board Member> Irvine Sister Cities Foundation Association, Member> Orange County Business Council, Member> Sigma XI Research Society of America, Member> Southern California Community College Chief Executive Officers Association, Past President> Tustin Chamber of Commerce, Member> U.S. Army Advisory Council, Founding Member


OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENTFacilities and maintenance


The college signage project was completed this past February. This has been a long-needed project that will assist students locate classes and makes the campus a more user-friendly space.

We now have a new space on campus, the Live Oak Terraces, which was completed in time to be used for the spring commence-ment ceremonies. This newly created outdoor space provides the campus an events and performance space for our future.

New spaces were created for the Academic Senate and the veterans in the library. The Academic Senate now has a space where collegial interchanges may take place, and the Veterans have a temporary but much improved space to support their return to college.


The EOPS office has been moved to a new location after an extensive renovation of the space they moved into. New furnishings and the change of location should help serve our students in a more efficient way.

The library received additional work in the form of a new law library area to support the paralegal program. New carpeting and furnishings dressed up the area for the program, thus enhancing student support.

In B300, the languages lab finally became a reality with mainte-nance support.

As a part of the long-term strategic plan to upgrade furniture throughout the campus, the Public Information directors suite was refurnished in an ergonomic manner.

In A-100, the presidents suite was rebuilt and refurnished this past year. This project, along with an expansion of the conference room, completes the construction upgrades needed to support the administrative functions of the college.

A great deal of effort has gone into the construction of the new Life Sciences Building. An additional capital project that we have spent a great deal of time finalizing is the Barranca entrance. The project will be started in the fall of 2012 but has required a great deal of effort to get ready to build.

The facilities team continues to work on infrastructure projects, having completed a new gas line between Power House 1 (PH 1) and the Student Services Center. Another leg of that infrastructure upgrade was to run new service between PH 1 and PH 2, serving the B Quad area of the campus.

At ATEP demolition continues with all structures now removed and a project being planned for this next year to finish the demolition by taking out roadways and removing old building slabs. Along the way we have retained raptor habitat and are in general trying to be good stewards of the area that has been entrusted to us to maintain.


OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENTDepartment of Fiscal Services


The Office of Fiscal Services successfully led another budget development cycle assessing nearly 40 major strategic proposals for a total of $1.0 million including basic skills, disabled student assistance, counseling and athletics. In addition, the office facilitated strategies in the area of information technology for a total of nearly $2.5 million.

Worked through the Basic Aid Allocation Recommendation Committee to develop recommendations that would allocate $74.3 million in basic aid funds in 2012-13. Contingent on approval by the Board of Trustees, these recommendations would allocate funding for the following major areas:

> $16.8 million for campus capital outlay projects> $10.2 million for district-wide technology initiatives> $637,507 for ATEP operations

Secured $553,000 in additional ongoing funds based on the college reaching the FTES threshold for mid-size colleges (9,236 FTES) through the District Resources Allocation Council.

The Bursars Office processed $3.7 million in monetary transactions including over 18,000 payments and refunds for students. The office sold over 2,200 ASB stickers and invoiced various foreign embassies for nearly $432,000 in interna-tional student payments. The office accepted and processed deposits for the following areas:

> Community Education ($830,000)> Foundation ($640,000)> Campus Police ($619,000)> ASIVC ($457,000)> A&R/International Students Center ($315,000) > Child Development Center ($292,000) > ATEP ($202,000)> Financial Aid/Veterans Office ($117,000) > Performing Arts Center ($110,000)> Facilities Management ($102,000)


OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENTIrvine valley College Foundation

The Irvine Valley College Foundation reached a milestone with the second consecutive year of over one million in revenue, at $1,006,686. This was in spite of a challenging year without a director for three months, and a new director, Richard Morley, getting up to speed with the IVC donor base, our campus and the greater Irvine community. The chart at the right shows the distribution of the revenue in expenses including scholarships, PRO IVC project funding and other programs that the foundation funds back to Irvine Valley College. Fundraising expenses were below the nonprofit sector average at 13%, as were general overhead and operating costs at 16%.

The IVC Foundation launched the second quarter with a Board of Governors retreat that resulted in a comprehensive strategic plan with goals and measurable objectives for growth and renewal. The overall goals of the Foundation are to:

> Create a culture of philanthropy on campus and in our greater community.> Develop sound and efficient foundation infrastructure.> Develop a dynamic fundraising Board of Governors.> Increase revenue to support campus projects that enhance learning and student scholarships.

The Foundations strategic plan is designed to integrate and support the overall Irvine Valley College Strategic Plan.

Scholarships: A record number of 650 IVC students submitted applications for scholarships. The return to the college includes the funding of $171,00 in scholarships awarded to 221 students.

PRO IvC Campaign: The IVC 2012 PRO IVC campaign has exceeded our goal, receiving $351,150 in pledges. This includes 14 new accounts and an outstanding track record of philanthropic support by our IVC faculty, staff and administration, as well as our community supporters. The IVC Foundation Board of Governors is truly grateful for the participation of IVC employees, friends and community partners states Julie Davis, IVC Foundation Board Chair. The Foundation has committed $75,000 in matching funds for 2012, and we hope to increase that each year with our new Foundation lead-ership. Foundation Director Richard Morley adds, IVCs PRO IVC is a shining star across the 112 California Community College Foundations. IVC is among an elite few campuses where the faculty, staff and administration are so involved in supporting Foundation efforts to this degree.

Foundation Golf Tournament. The golf tourney at Oak Creek had a full field of players on a perfect day, October 20, 2011. With lunch provided by Wahoos Fish Taco and gift bags with upscale gifts such as Oakley sunglasses and Volcom sports-wear, the golfers had a great day, and the event produced revenue of $31,195. A special thanks goes to Carol Tagayun, AT&T, Foundation Board of Governors member, who chaired the tourney and, with her committee, did an excellent job.

Astounding Inventions. The 25th Anniversary Astounding Inventions saw a record attendance of over 2,600 people, with 465 astounding inventions created by K-8 Tustin Unified and Irvine Public School Districts on display at the Hart Gymnasium on Saturday, January 28, 2012. A special thanks goes out to all of the IVC faculty and departments who supported the Science Fair area. The field of judges this year included several new faces, executives, entrepreneurs, scientists and engineers from top local corporations such as Raytheon, Edwards Lifesciences, Boeing, SRS Labs, and The Capital Group. Astounding Inventions contributed $23,900 in revenue to the IVC Foundation.

A $10,000 anonymous gift was received for student scholarships and for projects that enhance teaching and learning. Six Learning Excellence scholarships were awarded, and a competition designed and carried out by writing, math, and physics professors, in conjunction with the Foundation, will award the Teaching Excellence projects in the fall of 2012.

The Foundation closed the year with a committed new slate of officers and several people expressing interest in joining the foundation Board of Governors. The IVC Foundation is a 501(c)3 charitable organization, IRS tax ID number 77-0239916.

$731,866 to College$161,801 Overhead$129,802 Fundraising

Expenses 2012


OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENTCampus Police Department


Mark Zandonella was awarded the Anna L. McFarlin Sport-for-All Service Award for parking services support of athletics programs.

Received a Department of Justice Bullet Proof Vest grant.

Selected as one of two Orange County locations as regional Commodity Points of Distribution where basic sustenance would be distributed following a major disaster.


Conducted four functional Emergency Operations Center training exercises, including two statewide exercises, the Great California ShakeOut Drill and 2012 Golden Guardian Earthquake Exercise.

Conducted more than a dozen Building Marshal training classes.

Added technology enhancements to the Emergency Operations Cen-ter to include videoconferencing.

Initiated active shooter protocol training for campus administra-tive staff.

Initiated training of all police officers in tactical use of rifles for active shooter situations.

Added several tactical radio frequencies for special police operations and interagency communications.

Continued to conduct emergency preparedness and crime prevention presentations for offices, classes and staff to enhance campus safety.


OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENTPublic Information/Marketing Office


Successful launch of redesigned IVC website in February 2012.

IVC college Facebook viewership continues to grow exponentially from approxi-mately 3,500 viewers a few months after we launched our new social media sites in May 2011, to a high of over 23,500 viewers during the week of commence-ment 2012. Even over summer session 2012, average viewership has been be-tween 12,000 and 13,500. We are now reaching an audience similar to that of a small, local newspaper.

The IVC-TV Department has created over 80 hours of completed video program-ming. Video projects include the recording and airing of special events, and edu-cational and promotional videos for broadcast television, cable, and web.


IVC Marketing/Publications Department was recognized by its peers at the District Six NCMPR (National Council for Marketing and Public Relations) medallion awards ceremony in San Francisco. IVC won a gold for its catalog design, a bronze for the student handbook, and a bronze for the Open Door e-newsletter for President Roquemore. Judges made specific comments on our creative argyle design.

The department created/designed a record number of programs, brochures, flyers, posters, certificates, resolutions, ads, logos, and promotional materials for the college in general and for programs and events campuswide.

A positive process and relationship continues between the Marketing and Foundation offices. These efforts included support of the annual golf tournament, PRO IVC, Astounding Inventions, updated Foundation website, advertising and marketing materials, the printed scholarship program, and signage for various events.

During spring semester 2012, we initiated a new social media internship program, which has helped to boost both our viewership and interactivity with our 18-24 year-old student demographic. At the same time it is providing our interns with deadline-driven real world experience that they can take out into the marketplace after they graduate. It has proven to be a win-win for both the PIO and our student interns.

The Presidents Open Door monthly e-newsletter consistently achieves a 27.8% open rate, much higher than the industry (higher education) average of 18%.

Successfully videotaped the 26th annual commencement ceremony at the new Live Oak Terraces.

Set up a photo server computer to enable Publications staff to share access to the current photo archive and developed a photo management protocol.

Designed an online job request form for publications, photography, design, social media, and web projects.

Developed a prototype for new college collateral and presented initial designs to all governance groups.


OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENTResearch, Planning and Accreditation

Administered the implementation of TracDat software for tracking Student Learning Outcomes as well as planning activities.

Participated in the NPSAS (National Postsecondary Student Aid Study) conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics.

Assisted users with entering/evaluating SLOs, SSOs, and AUOs (TracDat).

Continued efforts to implement an annual program and administrative review process.

Assisted with district accreditation committees in response to Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC) recommendations.

Continued support for the matriculation process through the evaluation of assessment instruments (ESL & Math).

Provided ongoing guidance and review of the research methodology for IVCs Institutional Effectiveness Annual Report (IEAR).

Commenced External Scan for next planning cycle.

Continued refining the strategic planning and budget development process by reintroducing outcome measurements and data elements into the 2006-2012 Strategic Plan.

Assisted CONNECT with data for program development.

Conducted the 2011 Employee Satisfaction Survey and commenced with analysis of results.

Continued collaboration, development, and user training of the inFORM Data Warehouse with District IT/Research.

Assisted with data/information for the Great California ShakeOut.

Completed mandatory reporting to state and federal agencies, including data reporting for IPEDS, the ACCJC annual report.

Provided research assistance for various basic skills projects.

Provided research data on students in the EOPS program.

Continued to review state MIS data elements to improve data quality and required state reporting.

Continued assisting the English Department with ongoing diagnostic as well as other surveys in support of the CTEP validation.

In May, IVC welcomed new Director of Research, Planning and Accreditation, Dr. Craig Hayward.


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Six new degree programs were developed and approved in compliance with the Student Transfer Achievement Reform Act: Associate in Arts in Communication Studies for Transfer, Associate in Arts in Kinesiology for Transfer, Associate in Arts in Psychology for Transfer, Associate in Arts in Sociology for Transfer, Associate in Arts in Theatre Arts for Transfer, and Associate in Science in Mathematics for Transfer.

IVC faculty and students received several awards from Psi Beta, a national honor society in psychology for students who are interested in the field of psychology: the Chapter Excellence Award to advisor Kari Tucker; all three gold-level awards to Tammie K. Foliaki, Danielle L. Brown, and Elizabeth A. Shabazian; silver-level awards to Anna M. Sakzlyan and Alexander H. Bower; and honorable mention Sarah Savino.

On September 22, Irvine Valley College hosted the first of a series of public events for The Reactor Institute. Focused on energy and transportation, Super Cars, Super Trains, and Super Planes featured guest speakers Steve Trindade of Automotive Technology Group, Doug Malewicki of SkyTran.Net, and Ira Munn of Ike Aerospace. Students, faculty, and business partners were provided with demonstrations, panel discussions, and opportunities to experience hands-on educational exhibits featuring experimental aircraft, vehicles from the Energy Invitational, the latest in 3D modeling, and much more!

IVC Forensics took national honors at the 2012 National Parliamentary Debate Association National Championships winning two national titles: 1st Season Sweepstakes Community Colleges, and 1st Tournament National Champions Community Colleges.

In response to the task force recommendations, Professor Brenda Borron, in collaboration with Jonathan Alexander, professor of English at UCI, coordi-nated a mini-conference on articulation in May. The title of the conference was The Art of Articulation: Using the Common Core Standards for Language Arts, Academic Literacy: A Statement of Competencies Expected of Students Entering Californias Public Colleges and Universities, and the WPA/NWP Framework for Postsecondary Writing to Create a Context for Writing Instruction in High Schools, Colleges, and Universities.



At its January 2012 meeting, the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges took action to reaffirm IVCs accreditation. A follow-up report to be submitted in October will address implementation and evaluation of three district recommendations made following our assessment in 2010.

Under the coordination of the Office of Instruction, IVC implemented the new CurrSIS Curriculum program, successfully inputting 352 course actions into the system for Fall 2012.

Basic Skills Initiative projects funded for 2011-2012 included Project Start, support services for English language learners; College Success Program, a summer program for students assessing into basic skills math and English; Vets to College; Math Success Center; Summer Bridge Program, a summer learning community; Summer Learning Disability Assessment and Basic Skills Outreach; and English language learning software. Each project funded provided the results of its project to the college Institutional Effectiveness Committee.

Tustin High School celebrated its first cohort of Early College Program graduates along with Beckman High School this year. In sum, 25 students completed their associate degree at IVC and were recognized at a breakfast in their honor.

Reorganized the resources supporting the Computer Learning Center, which is now a part of the Student Success Center in BSTIC 110 (formerly known as the MRC). Brooke Choo transferred from English to become the coordinator of the Student Success Center, which is a highly accessible open tutoring environment. The capacity for tutoring students has more than quadrupled since moving from the smaller library tutoring center.

The faculty-initiated CAF (Center for the Advancement of Faculty Excellence) became operational in the library to give faculty the oppor-tunity to meet and have a variety of discussions and training sessions throughout the year.

Craig Justice was elected to serve as the treasurer for the California Community College Chief Instructional Officers organization. He is a member of the executive board of the organization and organized a panel discussion (jointly with the Academic Senate of the California Community Colleges) on enrollment management strategies in implementing student success task force recommendations.


oFFice oF instructionSchool of Business Sciences

GENERAl ACCOMPlISHMENTS

Bob Urell, ChairDixie Massaro Real Estate, CIMRoopa Mathur: CIMDon Bradshaw: AccountingDan Scott: ManagementJune McLaughlin: Paralegal

School of Business Sciences Awards Ceremony (May 2012)170 awards in the following:

> Associate in Arts Degrees Business Administration Business, Computer Information and Applied Technology University Studies> Associate in Science Degrees Accounting Business Management CIM: Digital Media Technologies CIM: Administrative Assistant/Word Processing Real Estate> Certificates of Achievement Accounting Business Management CIM: Web Authoring Retail Management> Certificates of Proficiency Computerized Accounting Digital Graphics Applications Digital Publishing Financial Accounting Financial and Managerial Accounting Income Tax Payroll Spreadsheets Taxation Web Page Authoring> CTEC Certificates Certified Tax Preparers


ACCOUNTING PROGRAM

IVC accounting students participated in an IRS-sponsored VITA program locally out of the One-Stop Center in Irvine. More IVC students participated this tax season than students from any other college.

BUSINESS MANAGEMENT PROGRAM

The SIFE team was established on the campus and worked on several community projects during the semester. One such project was to collect food as part of a county-wide food drive initiative. The SIFE team will be working on numerous projects during the summer and fall semester to enhance community awareness of the business program at IVC.

CIM PROGRAM

The School of Business Sciences developed a new Fast Track Certificate Program (FTCP) as part of our administrative assistant program for students who are interested in earning their administrative assistant certificate. The program (FTCP) will be instituted for the first time this fall. Students will be enrolled into the program as a cohort and will be en-couraged to complete the entire program as a cohort in just 16 weeks.

> Students will be expected to commit to being on campus from 8:30 am to 3:30 p.m. each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. On Friday, students will need to be on campus from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m.

> A computer lab will be open for enrolled students from 8:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. The lab will have tutors available to help students complete homework assignments and enable students to practice skills required to earn the certificate. Classes will be offered from 11:00 a.m. 12:30 p.m.

> Students will be required to take some classes in an online setting.

PARAlEGAl PROGRAM

One of our paralegal students, Udara Abeysekera, obtained her first-ever job in the legal field a few months ago. She applied for and was admitted to the IVC Honors Program. In addition, she interned this summer in the OC District Attorneys DNA unit.

Another of our Paralegal students, Aduardo Nick Muzzi, will also be interning with the OC District Attorneys DNA unit. Several other students have interned at Legal Aid of Orange County. Additionally, the IVC paralegal program worked with the Legal Aid Wine Festival fundraiser held on May 6.

The paralegal program is in the process of developing a community law library that will be open to local law firms in the South County as well as our paralegal students. We are working to bring local law firms onto the IVC campus for more interaction and job opportunities with our students.


oFFice oF instructionSchool of Fine Arts

vISUAl ARTS DEPARTMENT

PROGRAM

The Art Department student body continued to increase, adding new majors in studio art, digital media art, photography and art history.

Faculty member and School of Fine Arts SLO Liaison Julie Kirk led the art faculty in the continued development of student learning outcomes for all department courses, and supervised TracDat implementation.

The following new department courses were approved and added to program two-year cycles beginning Fall 2012:

> ARTH 32: History of World Architecture> ARTH 120: Curatorial Practice> ARTH 125: Visitor Services and Museum Education> ARTH 130: Museum Technologies> ARTH 135: Art Handling and Preparator Studies> ARTH 140: Museum Publicity and Marketing> ARTH 145: Museum Fundraising and Development> CWE 168: Applied Museum Studies (Gallery/Museum Internship)

The digital media arts program and courses in multimedia were identified as the digital technology core for instructional expansion at ATEP.

Two certificates of proficiencyin Curatorial Studies and Museum Education and Visitor Serviceswere approved for the 2012-2013 academic year.

IVC painting instructors and their students collaborated to present the departments annual Chalk Art Project. The cam-pus community was treated to sidewalk representations of famous works from the Renaissance to the 20th century.

Two photography students had their work selected for inclusion in Photography Forums Best inCollegePhotography2011, a national publication that highlights the best photography in public and private colleges and universities.

Faculty

Studio Art Professor Julie Kirk participated in national and international street painting competitions in Florida, Italy, Eng-land and Mexico; and completed commissions in Bah-rain, Holland and Israel. She currently is working on ad campaigns for Coors and Verizon. Julies successful text, SidewalkCanvas:ChalkPavementArtatYourFeet, expe-rienced a second printing for European distribution.

Digital Media Professor Terry Chatkupt remained professionally active, exhibiting one of his recent short films during the 2011 ArtPrize event in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Over the summer he began post-production on his newest film. In March 2012, Terry became the newest tenured professor in the department.


Photography Professor Jerry McGrath continued his work on large-scale photographic meteorological images. Jerry secured half-time faculty status Spring 2013 to expand his professional investigations and prepare for future exhibitions.

Museum Studies Professor Amy Grimm completed multiple local community presentations highlighting area museums, career opportunities and departmental offerings. Amy also completed the first two courses in the new applied museum studies (AMS) certificates of proficiency and hosted the second AMS advisory meeting.

Art History Professor Lisa Davis Allen continued to act as academic chair, and in Spring 2012 accepted the position of distance education coordinator. Lisa also completed her third and final year (2011-2012) as Academic Senate president. As accreditation co-chair, she worked with the Office of Instruction and District Services to develop the colleges ACCJC Response Report, and presented on the topic with Vice Chancellor David Bugay at the Spring 2012 ACCCA Conference.

Sabbaticals were approved for department faculty Julie Kirk (Fall-Spring 2012-2013) and Lisa Davis Allen (Spring 2013).

Two new full-time tenure-track faculty members were hired: Patricia Beckman Wells in multimedia and Joseph Gerges in drawing and prints.

Joseph Gerges, as a 2011-2012 adjunct instructor in drawing, received the IVC Part-time Instructor of the Year Award.

Adjunct digital media arts instructor and Laguna artist Bill Atkins was chosen to co-design the new whale tail license plate for the state of California.

Our Art Department family has expanded! Adjunct art history instructor Lauren Francis gave birth to her first child, Genevieve Pearl, Summer 2011; Professor Terry Chatkupt and his wife are expecting their first child late summer 2012; newly-hired Assistant Professor Joe Gerges and his wife had their second child, Simone Magdalene, May 2012; and Painting Professor Julie Kirk became a grandmother, welcoming Kodie in fall 2011.

art gallery

Fall 2011, the IVC Art Gallery hosted the paintings of South African-born artist Daniel du Plessis in Cosmic Seduction. Mr. du Plessiss artwork explores the relationship between the cosmic and the earthbound.

Spring 2012, the IVC Art Gallery presented Material Matters by artist Edith Abeyta. The woven installation was created with clothing donated by the campus community and redistributed at the exhibits closing. Ms Abeytas collaborative work was meant to bring attention to the needs of others.

The IVC Art Gallery presented the work of our own artist-colleagues in the Fall 2012 Faculty Show. The exhibition showcased the extensive talents of both our full-time and part-time faculty.

The Annual Juried Student Show exhibited April through May 2012. This year the show was curated by the full-time studio faculty and highlighted works from students across the curriculum. Southern California sculptors Esmoreit Kotsier and Jon Seeman juried the show. First place was awarded to IVC student Sydney Wyma for her drawing Family Portrait.



DANCE DEPARTMENT

French dance exchange

New Choreographic Landscape is a cultural and educational exchange project. It stems from the aspiration of two schools of dance to promote their programs and develop unique opportunities for intellectual and personal enrichment. It allows teachers and students alike to broaden their horizons and discover new potentials specific to the choreographic culture of each country, by:

> Placing approximately 15 like-minded dance students, intermediate to advanced, ages 18 to 25, into an educational and staging (show) environment;

> Discovering a specific and unique approach to dance in each country, resulting in educational enrichment for each school;

> Promoting the exchange of choreographic repertoire specific to each school, and widening the artistic investigative field of both students and instructors;

> Generating encounters between dancers, teachers and choreographers in each country;> Visiting cultural highlights as they relate to the choreographic culture of each country.

Our first exchange took place June 9 through June 25, 2012 with IVC students dancing in Paris. We rehearsed at the Paris Opera School; saw Luc Pettons dancers move with live swans; did an improvisational performance with clowns; saw the Eiffel tower; checked out Philippe Descoufls repertoire; danced; performed twice; and walked, walked, walked. And, yes: we did some shopping too.

Our French counterparts have just arrived, and we hope to give them the time of their lives!

vendetta matthea, guest artist

In the spring of 2011, IVC Dance invited the Vendetta Mathea Dance Company to our campus. The two-week residency included many master classes with Vendetta and her dancers and intensive rehearsals for the creation of a new dance, Water Soul. The resulting intense piece was premiered during the first half of our April 20 PERSPECTIVES concert. The company then performed Vendettas seminal work, HOMME/ANIMAL, for which it received a 10-minute standing ovation from our enthusiastic audience.

student standouts

Kelsie Koziol has been with the Performing Dance Ensemble for about two years and has grown tremendously in that time. She started to work as a professional dancer while finishing her studies and was recently asked to join Motion Tribe dance company in the spring of 2012, where she was featured in Marie de la Palmes Sacred Ritual duet with Ben Sayles, another alumni who has gone on to a career in the professional dance world. Kelsie met Vendetta Matheas dance company during a residency at IVC this last spring and was so taken with the work that she traveled to France in August for a two-week workshop at Vendettas school, La Manufacture in Aurillac, France.

Passionate, smart and focused, Stephanie Lin just completed the AA degree in dance at IVC. She was one of the lucky Performing Dance Ensemble students who went to France this summer. Just before that, she auditioned for Backhausdance company and got an apprentices contract starting in the fall. Stephanie had already worked with Jennifer Backhaus in the spring of 2011, dancing the lead in her piece Vous. She has worked consistently to improve her skills and it has paid off. We are very proud of Stephanie and wish her all the best with Jenny Backhaus!



MUSIC DEPARTMENT

DEPARTMENT

On May 8, 2012, on the PAC Main Stage, select members of the IVC Master Chorale, Orchestra and Wind Symphony completed the world premiere recording of the The Silver and The Blue, alma mater for Irvine Valley College (music by Bradley Ellingboe, text by Elaine Rubenstein, band and orchestra arrangements by Dale Leaman). Dr. Matthew Tresler con-ducted the recording made by Williams Recording. Stages I and II of three on the alma mater project are now completed.

The Grant Geissman Quintet was the featured guest artist for the 9th annual IVC Jazz Picnic on May 12, 2012.

Full-time Faculty

Dr. Susan Boettger, Piano

Gave birth to beautiful third daughter, Lily.

Organized and directed the Junior Chamber Music educational tour to the Mo-zarteum in Salzburg, Austria.

Formed an alliance with the Junior Chamber Music program with USC through famed violinist Midori.

Piano students have been awarded top prizes in international competitions, such as the Virginia Waring International Piano Competition, Minnesota International e-Competition, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Spotlight Award.

Piano students were accepted to Stanford University and UCLA.

Dr. Daniel luzko, Music Theory and Composition

Excerpts from BalletMadameLynch were performed in Asuncion, Paraguay, on March 1, 2012.

Served as music director for the Second Paraguayan Music and Dance Festival on May 26 at the Colden Auditorium of Queens College, New York, with 1,600 people in attendance. Performing artists included musicians and dancers from the United States and Paraguay.

Received the world premiere performance of his Violin Concerto on May 4, 2012, on the IVC PAC Main Stage with soloist and IVC violin instructor Iman Khosrowpour and the IVC Orchestra conducted by Dr. Stephen Rochford.

Collaborated with the IVC Dance Department (choreography by Marie de la Palme, poetry by David Bugay) to compose an electronic piece, Turtle Dances, which premiered November 2011.


Dr. Stephen Rochford, Instrumental Music

Elected president, Southern Section, Music Association of California Com-munity Colleges, in charge of the fall conference in November in San Diego.

Conductor, Wildwood Music Camp Senior High School Band (9th year in this position).

Completed three years on the Academic Senate Cabinet, chair, Academic Affairs Committee.

Served on the State Faculty Disciplines Review Group for the Music AA-T.

Member of the College Band Directors National Association Task Force on Small Colleges and Community Colleges.

Dr. Matthew Tresler, Choral and vocal Music

Clinician, Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School, Red Deer, Alberta, Canada.

Clinician, Mission Viejo High School, Mission Viejo.

Performances with Spire Ensemble, Kansas City.

Performances with Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Santa Fe.

Performances with Bach Collegium San Diego, San Diego.

Performances with Seraphic Fire, Miami.

Performance at Southern Division of the American Choral Directors Association in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, with Seraphic Fire.

Performances with Conspirare, Austin.

Performances this summer with Santa Fe Opera, Santa Fe.

Tenor soloist for the Mass in C by Beethoven, Northwood High School.

Soloist in MasterWorks series at Concordia University, Irvine.

Recording with ConspirareChoral Works of Samuel Barber for Harmonia Mundi International.

Recordings with Seraphic Fire, including Grammy-nominated recording of the Brahms Eine Deutches Requiem.

Conducted premiere recording of the The Silver and the Blue, alma mater of IVC, May 8, 2012, IVC PAC Main Stage.


PART-TIME FACUlTY

Christine Azzoni-Dow, Piano

Artistic director for the Irvine Classical Music Series.

Solo organist for the Mission Basilica, San Juan Capistrano.

Performances with the Azzoni Duo: Christine Azzoni Dow, piano, and Sandra Azzoni Wood, violin

Performances for the Family Concert Series at the Nixon Presi-dential Library.

Music at Noon Concert Series at Pasadena Presbyterian Church.

Music at 4:00 Series at St. Gregorys Episcopal Church, Long Beach

Will perform in Accueil Musical in lglise Saint-Merry in Paris, France, in July 2013.

Dr. Stan Breckenridge, History of Rock

Selected as a distinguished chair Fulbright scholar for 2012-2013 to serve at the University of Marie Curie Sklodowskiej, Lulin, Poland.

Publications and Recognitions > PopularMusicinAmerica:ForgingtheAmericanSpirit. 2nd edition, Iowa: Kendall-Hunt Publications> MusicTasteorWaste:CriticalListeningSkillsforStudents,TeachersandParents. Iowa: Kendall-Hunt Publications> Awarded a grant for his proposal that contributes to the Washington D.C. Scholar/Internship Program attended by stu-

dents of Cal State Fullerton. Dr. Breckenridge will present two lecture-performances that further students knowledge of the significance of music to the African American community.

Composer, Performer and Producer> BuildingtheDream,DVD.A documentary that chronicles the building of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in

Washington, D.C.. Composed the original score for the documentary at Explorer Studios.> Stan Breckenridge and Ensemble with Special Guests. 2nd Annual Benefit Concert for IVC music scholarships.> Stan Breckenridge and Orchestra. Orange County Black Chamber of Commerce Education Fund Banquet at The City

National Grove of Anaheim. Included the world premiere performance of Awake My Dream.> EllenRevealed, CD. Stan Breckenridge Music, Tustin, CA.> SelenaJoy:WhoIAm, CD. Stan Breckenridge Music and Selena Joy Music.

Lecture and Presentations> Breckenridge, Stan and Ki Johnson. Californias role in Civil War and Civil Rights history. Teaching America Summer In-

stitute. Featuring special guest the Honorable John Lewis, Civil Rights leader. Sponsored by HS&S, and held at Cal State Fullerton Arboretum.

> From Slavery to Civil Rights: Resilience and Perseverance, Past and Present, of African American Culture, Musicological Inquiries Through Song and Performance Practices. IVC2IVC Faculty Lecture Series.

> A History of Gospel Music: Melodic, Harmonic and Rhythmic Propensities. Disneyland Entertainment and Disney Celebrates Gospel.


Iman Khosrowpour, Music Appreciation, violin and viola

In August 2012 Iman Khosrowpour joined Irvine Valley College, first as an instructor of music appreciation in the Early College Program at Beckman High School and then as adjunct instructor of violin and viola. In the fall he conducted the IVC Orchestra in an arrangement of Led Zeppelins All of My Love, and in the final orchestra concert of the season performed two concertos with the orchestra: Spring from TheFourSeasons by Antonio Vivaldi, and the world premiere of the Violin Concerto by IVCs own Dr. Daniel Luzko, professor of composition. The concert was a great success, with possible performances of the concerto in Dr. Luzkos native Paraguay in the coming seasons.

Outside of his accomplishments at IVC, Mr. Khosrowpour also joined the faculty of Junior Chamber Music, which featured one of his students and chamber music groups in a concert at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, this past April. An avid teacher, Mr. Khosrowpours private students attend Orange County High School of the Arts and are prizewinners in local competitions such as the Musical Arts Club of Orange County. This summer his student will attend the prestigious Mon-tecito Music Festival in Montecito, CA, where he has been invited to teach for the summer 2013 program. In addition to his membership in the Music Teachers Association of California and American String Teachers Association memberships, he has recently joined the Carnegie Hall Royal Conservatory Achievement Program, a rigorous training platform for young developing musicians.

Performances in the 2012-2013 season include solo appearances with the IVC Orchestra as well with the Czech Virtuosi in Brno, Czech Republic, and recitals in Tokyo, Japan.

Tim Hall, Applied Trumpet

Performs with Orange Countys Pacific Symphony, Pacific Symphony Brass Quintet, Los Angeles Opera, Long Beach Opera, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Long Beach Municipal Band, Orange County Performing Arts Center shows, Los Angeles Master Chorale, and Pasadena Symphony. Trumpet teacher for the Idyllwild Music Camp.

Dr. Fang Fan Inouye, Piano

Solo performance at the Family Arts Festival, Cerritos Center of the Performing Arts.

Performance at the Faculty Gala, Cerritos College.

Performed in the Norman Krieger and the Next Generation recital at IVC.

Winner of the USC Thornton School of Music Concerto Competition. Will perform with the USC Orchestra and Guest Conductor Carl St. Clair during the 2012-2013 Season.

Invited to become a member of Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honor Society.


John Marr, World Music

Performed a two faculty piano recitals with Dr. Norman Weston at Saddleback College, works by Border, Prt, Adams, Weston, Westlake, and Marr.

Performs Latin/African percussion and keyboards weekly for Trinity United Presbyterian Church of Santa Ana under the direction of Dr. Hanan Yaqub.

Panel presentation on the music of Japan with IVC Professor Emiko Kyochi at Anime Conji, in San Diego.

Currently completing a trumpet concerto and soon will begin work on an opera based upon his daughters favorite plush toy, The Adventures of Wispy, the Bad Little Fox.

Suzanne Wong

Suzanne Wong is a director on the State Board for Music Teachers Association of California. She is a member of the 2012 State Convention planning committee and will be in charge of all programming for the 2013 convention. The 2012 State Convention in San Diego June 29 to July 3 featured such pianists as Dang Thai Son, Byron Janis, Frederic Chiu, Jane Bastien, Edna Golandsky, Marvin Blickenstaff, and John Bayless and instrumentalists Sarah Jackson (flute), Bongshin Ko (cello), Linda Wang (violin), Sheryl Renk (clarinet). The convention typically has over 2000 teachers and students in attendance.

students

IVC piano students were selected to perform at State MTAC Convention in San Diego on June 30 in the 2012 Adult Performance, South Division.

> Winner: Robert Gateley, student of Dr. Janice Park (IVC), performed the first movement of Beethovens Piano Sonata in D Minor, Op. 31, No. 2.

> 2nd Alternate: Joann Oh, student of Dr. Anna Gliadkovskaya (IVC)

November 16-18, 2011: Music majors Jonathan Gerrard and Jordan Pettit were selected for the Music Association of California Community Colleges Composition Seminar at the State Conference in San Francisco. They studied with Dr. Morten Lauridsen from USC. Ms. Pettit is now a voice performance major at CSULB, and Mr. Gerrard is a guitar and composition major at UCI.

March 14-17, 2012 Wind Symphony members Dominick Maldonado (euphonium), Chase Preacher (trumpet), Cameron Reeves (trumpet), and Conrad Zimmer (tuba) were selected for the College Band Directors National Association West/Northwest Regional Intercollegiate Band. Mr. Reeves was appointed assistant principal trumpet, ahead of several university students. All four are music majors at IVC.

The Master Chorale, Jazz Ensemble, Orchestra and Wind Symphony read over 30 compositions and arrangements by IVC music students in applied laboratory settings in December 2011 and March 2012, continuing our tradition of extensive student composition.

Music major Jonathan Gerrard had his two compositions, Fierce Wind for Wind Symphony and The Green Fog for Orchestra receive their world premiere performances by the IVC Wind Symphony on May 3, 2012, and the IVC Orchestra on May 4, 2012.


Music Major Randy Meneses had the world premiere performance of his composition El Bordo de La Campaa by the IVC Wind Symphony on May 3, 2012.

Music Majors Transfers

> Jordan Pettit, CSULB, Voice Performance> Robert Gateley, CSULB in Piano Performance (received scholarships to both CSUF and CSULB)> Jonathan Gerrard, UCI in Guitar and Composition> Sarah Mahoney, violinist in the Orchestra, UC Berkeley in Ethnomusicology> Fernando Valdez, UCI in Guitar Performance and Composition> Ashley Wu, UC Berkeley in Piano Performance and Music Education

Music Student Transfers

> Jessica Anderson, violin in the Orchestra and member of the Model UN Team, UC Berkeley Peace and Conflict Studies> Casey Astorino, piano and composition, USC in Music Composition*> Jake Dierking, trombone in the Wind Symphony, Orchestra and Jazz Ensemble, CSUF in Mechanical Engineering> Elizabeth Giering, flute in the Wind Symphony, UCSD in Neuroscience> Dennis Kim, alto saxophone in the Wind Symphony, Touro University in Pharmacology> Austin Liang, bassoon in the Wind Symphony, Chinese Cultural University, Taipei, in Music Education> Shannon ONeill, bassoon in Wind Symphony, CSULB in Music Education*> Dylan Richardson, violin in the Orchestra, UCI in Psychology

*PlayedatIVCthispastyearwhilestillhighschoolseniors.



SPEECH/FORENSICS DEPARTMENT


72 forensics students received awards during the 2011-2012 forensics season.

IVC Forensics took national honors at the 2012 National Parliamentary Debate Association National Championships winning two national titles: 1st Season Sweepstakes Community Colleges, and 1st Tournament National Champions Community Colleges.

IVC Forensics won double gold at the 2012 Phi Rho Pi National Tournament in Debate Sweepstakes and Overall Sweepstakes.


14 forensics students were recognized as members of the 2012 Pacific Southwest Collegiate Forensics Association All-Academic Conference Team.

18 forensics students received scholarships at the 2012 IVC Scholarship Ceremony.

IVC adjunct instructor, forensics coach, and IVC alumni, April Griffin earned a full-time position as the director of Forensics at Cerritos College.

The Speech Department is changing its name to Communication Studies starting Fall 2012.

On April 15, the Irvine Valley College Speech and Debate Team won two Gold Medal sweepstakes awards at the 2012 Phi Rho Pi National Tournament. The team earned a gold medal in Debate Sweepstakes and as well as Overall Sweepstakes in the Wheeler Division. Phi Rho Pi, the national community college forensics league, held its yearly tournament in Schaumburg, Illinois, a suburb outside of Chicago. There were a total of 65 community colleges attending nationwide with over 650 participants.

> Outside of the teams sweepstakes awards, the squad earned a total of 98 points in debate events alone. Such a total was the highest amount earned by one school regardless of divisions. IVC beat Moorpark College with 66 points and El Camino College with 62.5 points for the most points earned by one school.

> According to co-director of Forensics, Edwin Tiongson, This team is an amazing group of individuals. Our students have spent all year long setting and meeting team and individual goals. The work ethic and maturation is impeccable. We, the coaches, are so proud of what they have all accomplished.

> This years Phi Rho Pi squad achieved back-to-back gold medal sweepstakes awards in Debate and in Overall Sweepstakes. Last year the team earned the same accolades in the Hindman Division, smallest one-third of the field. This year the squad earned their awards in the Wheeler Division, middle one-third of the field. Next year, IVC plans to take a large squad in the Wyman Division, largest one-third of the field at the 2013 Phi Rho Pi National Tournament in Woodland Hills, California.

> This collective showing caps off the 2012 championships tournaments with four national titles in forensics: NPDA Community College Tournament Champions, NPDA Season Sweepstakes National Champions, Phi Rho Pi Gold Medal Debate Sweepstakes, and Phi Rho Pi Gold Medal Overall Sweepstakes.


> Aside from team awards, IVC students took home several awards. They include the following:

Gold Medal Chris Danks and Zahara Alamire: Parliamentary Debate

Silver Medal Udara Abeysakaraz: Extemporaneous Speaking Zahara Alamire: NFA Lincoln-Douglas Debate Jake Glendenning: NFA Lincoln-Douglas Debate Robert Seany: NFA Lincoln-Douglas Debate Ray Craig and Nicole Minkina: Parliamentary Debate Jake Glendenning and Robert Seany: Parliamentary Debate

Bronze Medal Chris Danks, NFA Lincoln-Douglas Debate Nicole Minkina, NFA Lincoln-Douglas Debate Ray Craig, Impromptu Speaking Zahara Alamire, Impromptu Speaking Robert Seany, Impromptu Speaking



THEATRE DEPARTMENT

Fall 2011: The Department of Theatre opened its season with a delightful pro-duction of AnythingGoes. Directed and choreographed by Jay Williamson and conducted by Randall Woltz, AnythingGoes was a visual explosion of color, cos-tumes, and sets. Set designer Mike Collins created a three-level ship that the play was staged upon. Costumer Nancy Bracken fitted the sailors and seagoers with a wide array of colorful costumes. Jim Rynning was the lighting designer and Scott Grabau skillfully rendered the sound design for the piece. The audi-ences were thrilled by the light-hearted dancing and singing.

Early October: Professor Scott Grabau worked with IVC technical theatre stu-dents to create a miniature lighting lab. This small-scale lighting lab is housed in the Department of Theatres Computer Design Lab and gives more students ready access to the creative process of lighting a stage set. This allows faculty and student lighting designers the opportunity of experimenting on lighting designs on a small-scale set. If they like what they have created, they then may translate their work to their Main Stage projects.

December: Audiences viewed a student production of Neil Simons Rumors. Directed by student director Megan Weaver and designed by student designer Scott Johnson, Rumors played to sold-out audiences. This production was staged in the studio theatre and produced by IVC students who manned the deck in all areas of this production. Bravo, Brava to this wonderful student production team!

Spring 2012: January found IVC theatre students auditioning for Cabaret and TheImportanceofBeingEarnest. Both shows had record turnouts for auditions, and when the dust settled, Cabaret had double cast its lead female role with two of IVCs up-and-coming stars, Ashley Nelson and Elizabeth Rodriguez. Cabaret opened in March and broke box office records. Earnest thrilled patrons with its edgy Avenue Q concept of adding large Muppet-like puppets to the first act of the play.

summer 2012: During the summer semester, the Department of Theatre mounted a small musical revue in the new outdoor venue, the Live Oak Terraces. IVC Follies Under the Stars revue opened July 25, 2012.


oFFice oF instructionSchool of Humanities and languages

ENGlISH DEPARTMENT

In November, English Professor and Honors Program Director Dr. Kay Ryals was awarded the Orange County Department of Educations Community College Teacher of the Year during a celebration at the Disney Hotel.

Under the leadership of Professor Summer Serpas and the contri-butions of Professors Kurt Meyer, Carrie Goulding, and Ayesha Zia, the application to participate in the California Acceleration Projects Community of Practice has been accepted for the 2012-2013 school year. IVC will be one of 20 California community colleges participating in the project. As a part of this project, the English Department will be running two sections per semester of an experimental accelerated course that combines the two courses in the basic skills sequence (WR 301 and WR 201) into a one-semester five-unit course and a half-unit Writing Center corequisite. For more information on the California Acceleration Project, please see their website (cap.3csn.org).

Professor Lisa Alvarez essay Parker Center was mentioned during coverage of the 20th anniversary of the Rodney King riots on the Madeline Brand Show on National Public Radio and in an essay by D.J. Waldie published in the LosAngelesReviewofBooks.

Professor Lisa Alvarez story A Pretty Penny appeared in spring 2012 issue of Faultline, the UC Irvine annual journal of art and literature.

Professor Lisa Alvarez story The Mayor and the Folksinger has been accepted at Slake, a quarterly reader published in Los Angeles.

In September 2012, Professor Lisa Alvarez will appear on a panel about contemporary Latino literature held at Autry National Center of the American West.

In October 2012, Professor Lisa Alvarez will travel to Saint Marys College in Moraga, California, to serve as visiting editor in the MFA program in creative rriting. She will visit classes, meet with students and give a guest lecture.

In response to the task force recommendations, Professor Brenda Borron, in collaboration with Jonathan Alexander, professor of English at UCI, coordinated a mini-conference on articulation in May. The title of the conference was The Art of Articulation: Using the Common Core Standards for Language Arts, Academic Literacy: A Statement of Competencies Expected of Students Entering Californias Public Colleges and Universities, and the WPA/NWP Framework for Postsecondary Writing to Create a Context for Writing Instruction in High Schools, Colleges, and Universities.

Professor Brenda Borron co-authored The Art of Secondary and Post-secondary Articulation: Aligning Expectations by Creating Community, featured in iJournal Winter Issue #29, Pathways to Success and Higher Graduation Rates for Community College Students.


The Irvine Valley College Chapter of Psi Beta, the national honor society in psychology, has named Professor Brenda Borron as the recipient of its 4th annual Most Inspiring Professor award.

Professor Brenda Borron was named by IVC-to-UCI transfer students Jessica Holland and Cesseley Hoang as having the most significant impact on their academic performance and successful transfer to the university. Brendas name will be added to UCIs web wall of fame.

Dr. Daniel de Roulet attended the Hawaii Internal Conference on Higher Education, where he led a workshop (Student Care and Student Success), presented a paper (Rebuilding the Bridge: Understanding a Students View of Todays Educational Landscape), and also presented a poster session on student care and student success.

Since August 2011, Dr. Daniel deRoulet has been working with a colleague to produce bi-weekly podcasts on student caring and effective teaching.

HUMANITIES DEPARTMENT

The IVC Film Club has been resurrected this year! The club elected officers, held many meetings, and also organized three campus screenings (Memento, PulpFiction, and RearWindow).

lANGUAGES DEPARTMENT

The Chinese Language Teachers Association of Southern Californian (CLTA-SC) board has unanimously selected IVC Professor Joanne Chen as the recipient of the 2012 CLERC (Chinese Language Education and Research Center) Award for Outstanding Chinese Teaching for her great contributions to CLTA-SC by offering her expertise in using technology for Chinese education. This award includes a two-week visit to China with an all expenses trip paid by CLERC.

Professor Joanne Chen brought a group of IVC Chinese class students to help at the Irvine Chinese School Annual carnival (March 2012).

Professor Joanne Chen provided Chinese teacher training sessions in the Yulin Chinese School in Fountain Valley (October 2011 and May 2012).

Professor Joanne Chen attended the Chinese Language Teacher Association Conference and workshop (October 2011 and May 2012)

Professor Joanne Chen attended the SCCCS Chinese teacher workshop (February 2012).

Professor Joanne Chen coordinated several Blackboard training workshops with IVC Tech.


Professor Chen gave the following presentations:

> Poster in the Cloud, using Golgster in the language class (October 2011): www.slideshare.net/sulaoshi/poster-in-the-cloud-use-glogster-in-language-class

> Communicative Approach in the Chinese language course (August 2011): www.slideshare.net/sulaoshi/812-part-2-communicative-approach-classactivities

> Teaching Chinese with iPad and lesson plans (February 2012): www.slideshare.net/sulaoshi/teach-chinese-with-ipad-and-ipad-apps-lesson-plan

> From PPT to Youtube (May 2012): www.slideshare.net/sulaoshi/from-ppt-to-youtube

ESL Professor Susan Stern was invited by the Orange County Chapter of CATESOL to present an all-day professional development workshop at its Spring 2012 Conference held on March 3, 2012 at California State University, Fullerton. More than 120 teachers and teachers-in-trainingESL professionals from throughout Southern Californiawere treated to a daylong discovery of the potential of literature in various formsplays, novels, and poetryto develop the gamut of language skills and promote critical thinking. The title of Dr. Sterns presentation was A Dramatic Approach to Literature in ESL. She shared her approach to the teaching of literature in ESL, making it come alive for ESL students, with a special focus on the use of dramatic activities to enhance language learning.

After many years of planning, the Language and ESL faculty held a successful open house in September that marked the official opening of the Language Acquisition Center.

Emeritus faculty member Dr. Daniel Rivas has been named as external evaluator for a three-year project (2012-2015) funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and conducted by California State University, Long Beach. This project brings together faculty from high schools, colleges, universities, and community colleges in the Southern California area to discuss and apply the methods of intercomprehension and plurilingualism in the language acquisition process, particularly as it relates to the teaching of French and Italian to Spanish speakers.

Through IVC Foundation, the Japanese program set up the IVC Nadeshiko scholarship fund for the first time this year and gave out three scholarships in the amount of $500 each to students who have over 3.25 GPA and have taken Japanese courses at IVC. The selection committee of Yoko Monsen, Yoshie Sonoyama and Fumiko Ishii chose the three award recipients: Beomseok Kim, Anne Lee and Bryan Sam.

The IVC Japanese program was awarded by the Orange Country Japanese American Association for outstanding contribution to the victims of 3-11-11 Earthquake Disaster. The award ceremony was held on March 3.


Professor Fumiko Ishii and the volunteers of the Japanese program joined the efforts of the Orange County Japanese volunteers and held various charity events in March 2012. They raised $20,118.11 and donated the money to support the education of the orphans of the earthquake victims.

Professor Fumiko Ishii has been writing for the SweetOrange, a Japanese free monthly newspaper with a readership of 25,000, since January 2012. She is in charge of one page of the tabloid and publi-cizing events and program of IVC. This page has become a good venue to publish student arts and/or activities.

Professor Emiko Kiyoshi was an academic guest of honor at Anime Conji 2012 (attendance of over 2,000 visitors) in San Diego. She gave three presentations on Japanese cultural literacy in geography, music and the school system to fans of Japanese pop culture.

Professor Emiko Kiyoshi was just accepted as a PhD student in a new hybrid program in educational psychology and technology at Michigan State University. The program was created for working professionals and will be provided over the Internet, except for two weeks of intensive study on campus in summer. Her focus will be on learner engagement and technology use in differentiation and integration of underserved learner subgroups.

The Spanish Department has led two field trips this year, one to the Museum of Latin American Art and one to the Bilingual Foundation of the Arts to see the play PedroInfanteylaSuegraTriunfante.

Professors Jeanne Egasse and Andrade Magdalena are co-authoring with other others a Spanish textbook titled Tumundo, expected to be published in March 2013.


oFFice oF instructionSchool of Kinesiology, Health and Athletics

TOP ACHIEvEMENTS

IVC Athletics created the first womens sport championship in the California Community Colleges in more than 20 years with womens sand volleyball. The brainchild of IVC instructor and head coach Tom Pestolesi, this major step in creating greater opportunity for women, gender equity, and Title IX compliance has changed the face of the entire states athletic programs. IVC is among only a handful of colleges nationwide that are in compliance with federal law on this subject.

A record number 88 student athletes were named IVC Scholar-Athletes in 2011-12. By implementing methods recommended by the states Student Success Task Force, Athletics has increased team GPAs and scholar-athletes for five consecutive years. The student-athletes were honored at a luncheon in May.

IVC Kinesiology created a statewide partnership among the California Community Colleges and the CSU chairs on transfers, degree completion, Transfer Model Curriculum, and an annual meeting to combine resources, information and advocacy for the discipline.


IVC School of Kinesiology, Health and Athletics led the state in the examination, recommendation, and potential adoption of new state education code on repeatability of courses in these areas of study. IVC led the effort of the California Com-munity College Physical Educators association (CCCPE) to write the proposals eventually adopted by the State Faculty Senates Fall Plenary, and likely the state Chancellors Office. It is important to note the role of IVC Music Professor Steve Rochford in this attempt, as his communication and work on this topic on behalf of music and the arts was of tre-mendous importance.

Kevin Ringuette (Tesoro High School) of mens volleyball and Melanie Kasanchi (Northwood High School) of womens basketball were named the Orange Empire Conferences Char-acter Champion award winners for 2011-12. Since the award was created in 2010-11 at least one of IVC student-athletes has been recognized every year for their academic, athletic and community work, as well as their sportsmanship and personal character in competition among all nine colleges of the OEC. The two were also named IVCs scholar-athletes of the year.

IVC Counseling and Athletics hosted the second NCAA eligibil-ity and compliance seminar for high school and community college counselors. Created and hosted by first-year Coun-selor Rebecca Groff, this series is the only one of its kind in California, and supplements other counseling events sponsored by the Counseling Department.

The Fitness Professional Certificate was entirely revamped, creating an 18-unit program in which all courses are both CSU transferable and applicable to the IVC AA in Kinesiology.


IVC Athletics has supported the community through a variety of service programs and awards. These include:

> Exchange Club of Irvine Scholar-Athlete award: 1999 Present> IVC Athletics Anna L. McFarlin award: 2006 Present> IVC Athletics Community Ambassador award: 2007 Present> Irvine Badminton Club Youth programBadminton: 2008 Present> Dig Pink Womens and Mens Volleyball (in support of Breast Cancer Awareness): 2009 Present> Southern California Special Olympics Fall GamesMens Soccer: 2009 Present> Golf Channel Youth Drive, Chip and PuttMens and Womens Golf: 2009 Present> IVC HomecomingMens and Womens Basketball and other sports: 2009 Present> Coaches vs. CancerMens and Womens Basketball: 2010 Present> IVC Athletics Alumnus of the Year award: 2010 Present> IVC Tennis Harperforkids.org youth clinics: 2011 Present

Six Irvine Valley athletic teams ended up in the final state rankings for 2011-12. Womens golf and mens volleyball were each ranked No. 4, womens volleyball was No. 14, mens tennis was No. 18, mens basketball was No. 20, and mens soccer ended up No. 26.

After a slow start to the 2012 season, the Irvine Valley mens volleyball team qualified for the playoffs and advanced to the state tournament for the seventh straight season. Irvine Valley lost to eventual state champion Long Beach City in the semifinals. IVC sophomore libero Garrett Komisarek was named to the all-state team.

Irvine Valley mens soccer player Fredy Razo was named to the National Soccer Coaches Association of America West Regional team for the second straight season. He was picked second team all-West Region as a freshman in 2010, but was chosen first team all-West Region this past season in 2011. Although he was a marked man this past year, Razo paced the Orange Empire Conference in scoring with 18 goals and five assists. The sophomore striker was named first team all-conference and his point total of 41 ranked ninth in the state. Razo finished his IVC career with 44 goals, which is also a career school record.

The Irvine Valley womens golf team won its second straight Orange Empire Conference title in 2011. Coach Ben Burnett was named coach of the year and freshman Sally Kim was named player of the year for the conference. Kim also placed 10th individually at the state tournament.

Irvine Valleys womens volleyball team had the most players named to the all-Orange Empire Conference team. The squad, which finished 15-6 overall in the fall of 2011, had Sarah Mendoza, Emily Mount, Allison Cook, Hannah Unruh, Sofia Furlong and Annie Kim make the all-conference team. Furlong, a standout freshman setter, also recently signed to play at the University of Albany next season.


oFFice oF instructionSchool of library Services

Published the IVC librarys newsletterBook Bytes, Fall 2011, no. 5 & Spring 2012, no. 6.

Introduced an online library class guide system, LibGuides (Library Guides), in Spring 2012 to enhance library instruction for many subject areas and individual IVC courses. Over 2,000 users accessed LibGuides during the Spring 2012 semester.

Implemented the use of LibCal (Library Calendar), an online library study room reservation system, to provide students greater access to book group study rooms via the Web or their smart phone.

Reconfigured the reference area by relocating the reference desk to the second floor of the library and integrating most of the ready reference collection into the reference stacks.

Expanded the library computer commons to encompass the entire first floor of the library. Fifty new computers and workstations were added during the summer break and include new computer tables and power-up stations for laptop use.

Hosted a half-day workshop on the U.S. Census & American FactFinder for IVC and Saddleback Colleges with Jerry Wong from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Celebrated the 200th anniversary of the publication of Jane Austens Sense and Sensibility. The celebration included a display of works inspired by Jane Austen and her books, an afternoon tea, and an essay contest for IVC students.

Created online library instruction tools using MediaSite, Blackboard, Camptasia and LibAnswers to help students with research and how to use library materials after hours.

Incorporated almost 3,000 books from the EOPS book loan program into the librarys cataloging system and worked with EOPS to get more than 2,000 books checked out to EOPS students starting October 2011 and continuing through spring 2012. The program is expected to continue to grow greatly in the coming years.

Installed a new Law Library on the second floor of the library, providing library-use-only access to the 962 law books currently in the collection. More law books are expected to be added in the next year.

Material Collection:

> Completed the Weeding Project, a yearlong project geared toward updating our print collection to the most current and frequently used material and shifted the entire print collection from the first floor to the second floor.

> New books received: 1,996> New E-books added: 2,501> Moved music CDs and DVDs to the library stacks and extended the checkout

period for all CDs and DVDs not on reserve to three weeks. Spring 2012 CD/DVD checkouts increased 100% from Spring 2011.

Added seven new college-level article databases to the librarys collection of electronic databases: Student Research Center, Business Searching Interface, EBSCOhost Mobile, History Reference Center, Auto Repair Reference Center, Book Index With Reviews, and Consumer Health Complete.


Librarian Tony Lin is the chair of the American Library Association, Program Planning Committee for the 2012 American Library Association Conference in Anaheim. This is a four-hour program featuring four speakers from the U.S. Census, ESRI Corporation, RAND Statistics, and Princeton University focusing on business reference data sources.

Librarian Tony Lin co-authored a paper titled Research Life Cycle: Exploring Cred-ibility of Metrics and Value in a New Era of eScholarship that Supports Grey Litera-ture. He will co-present the paper in Italy at the Fourteenth International Confer-ence on Grey Literature.

library Usage Statistics:

> Gate Count: 313,589 students, faculty, staff and community members visited the library> Books/Bones/DVD/CDs/Calculator Circulation: 78,831 items checked out> Computer Usage: 116,375 patrons accessed email, Blackboard, the library catalog, databases and Libguides (library

subject and course guides)> Study rooms: 15,275 students accommodated> Interlibrary Loans: 16 students and faculty requested books from Saddleback College and other libraries

Future Emerging library Technologies:

> Use of virtual chat reference to connect students to the reference librarians via the Internet.

> Expansion of library subject guides to meet the needs of the various programs at IVC.

> Incorporate social media, such as Twitter or blogs, to help keep students informed.

> Create online workshops using Blackboard that can be completed by students off campus but will still contain much of the same information as the on campus workshops.

> Add SMS text messaging reference service for students and faculty.

student success center

In November, the Learning Center and Computer Center moved from the library into BSTIC 110 and was re-named the Student Success Center (SSC). In January, Dr. Brooke Choo came aboard as the new coordinator for the SSC. The SSC of-fers basic skills tutoring in writing, reading, ESL, and math, as well as content tutoring for student veterans and students enrolled in EOPS or DSPS. Additionally, the SSC offers computer lab access for students enrolled in classes that involve particular software programs or online courses.

The new Student Success Center has been a tremendous success in its first semester, Spring 2012. We have served a record number of students and have expanded our staff to a total of 35 tutors, computer lab technicians, volunteers, and work study student help. We conducted numerous outreach presentations to basic skills classes at the start of the semester that

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