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^Local leaders celebrated with members of Central Pennsylvania’s vibrant Latino community at the Estamos Unidos de Pennsylvania Gala on Saturday, Sept. 13, 2014. Here I am joined by HACC alumnus Rep. Scott Perry, Dr. Sybil Knight-Burney, superintendent of the Harrisburg School District, and Maria Diaz, HACC Spanish instructor.

September 30, 2014

Kaabo araa (Yoruba for Greetings, colleagues!)

In my 41st Ski Gram, there is much to celebrate, including:

Students Can Now Become Certified Personal Trainers® at HACC

New Scholarship for Midtown Center Students

Expanded Collegewide Wireless Access

HACC Foundation Allocations Committee Awards Over $225,000

President’s Award Honors Employee Achievements

YOUR Monthly Brand Update

mtvU Comes to HACC

Phone Call Campaign Welcomes Each New Student

What’s Happening in October for the 50th

Anniversary? HACC continues to celebrate its anniversary with

events in October. Come enjoy an evening of

entertainment or an afternoon lecture. Please visit

hacc.edu/50 to learn more and RSVP. Tommy Tune Performance of Taps, Tunes and Tall

Tales Date: Friday, Oct. 17, 2014

Time: 8 p.m. HACC and the Women’s Movement: From the Cusp

of Change to a Transformed Society Lecturer: Dr. Carol Nechemias, associate professor

emerita of public policy and political science, Penn

State University

Date: Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2014

Time: 12:30 p.m.

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Michelle Oreo’s design, at top right, was selected

as the winner. Other entries, clockwise from

bottom right, are by Vandon Tricamo, Margaret

Lee and Cambrea Roy.

Golden Anniversary Gala Date: Saturday, Oct. 25, 2014

Time: 5:30-10 p.m.

Students Can Now Become Certified Personal Trainers® at HACC!

Students can be on their way to becoming a certified personal trainer in 15 weeks with

HACC’s new Certified Personal Trainer (CPT)® program.

The new program:

Is a 15-week, 150-hour program with one four-hour class and six hours online,

per week

Provides the preparation and opportunity to earn a nationally accredited personal

trainer certification, such as the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM)

Certified Personal Trainer®

Offers an optional six-week internship

The program will begin the week of Oct. 27, 2014.

Actively YOURS!

Students Show What They Love About HACC

As part of the 50

th anniversary, the

Communications, Community Outreach

and Marketing subcommittee wanted to

highlight HACC’s students in a creative

way. Margaret Brandt, faculty

member in the visual arts, asked art

students to submit a design for a thank-

you card to the committee. Interested

students had to answer the question,

“What do you love about HACC?”

through their final art submission.

Following the submissions, the

subcommittee voted to choose the

thank-you card that will be used by

employees for the remainder of the

anniversary year. Michelle Oreo’s thank-you card, shown

at top right, was chosen.

Congratulations, Michelle! Please take a moment to view all of the thank-you card

submissions. It was a job well done by all students!

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< Amy Withrow, executive director for

advancement and outreach for Virtual

Learning, installs the last of more than

200 wireless access points that HACC

technical staff added to College

buildings in preparation for the start of

the fall term.

HACC Students in the Midtown

Center

New Scholarship for Midtown Center Students

The HACC Foundation received a significant

contribution to create a new scholarship for students

enrolled at HACC’s Midtown Center. The Edward R.

Norford Craftsman Scholarship Endowment will be

available for part-time and full-time students enrolled in

the following programs at the Midtown Center:

Electrical technology

Home and building remodeling

Technologies studies

Welding

Clery Act Report Is Issued

HACC, Central Pennsylvania’s Community College, is required by the Jeanne Clery

Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (20 USC §

1092(f)) to publish an annual security report by Oct. 1 of each calendar year. This report

contains three years of campus crime statistics for incidents that occurred on a campus, in

unobstructed public areas immediately adjacent to or running through a campus and at

certain non-campus facilities owned or controlled by HACC. Also included in the report

are policy and procedure disclosures for emergency response, the reporting of crime,

response to rape and sexual assault and drug and alcohol control, among others. This

report is now available on HACC’s website. Free paper copies are available upon request

at any campus Security Office or Welcome Center.

HACC Expands and Upgrades Collegewide Wireless Access

HACC students are now enjoying greatly expanded wireless overage on all campuses,

thanks to a Collegewide effort to install more than 200 new wireless access points in time

for the start of our fall 2014 term. As of Monday, Aug. 11, 2014, we met our goal of

providing 90% internal coverage of every floor of every building

at every campus.

This accomplishment required coordination and collaboration

among multiple areas of the College: Office of Information

Services and Technologies

(OIST) staff, Virtual

Learning staff, Finance staff,

the Virtual Learning Student

Advisory Committee,

Executive Council of the

Student Government

Association and faculty. It also required the installation of more than four miles of cable.

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According to Gary Barb, director of network infrastructure and systems services, the

project was developed in response to a September 2013 survey that identified information

technology needs. Once the project was approved, Dave Shaffer, manager of network

and data center operations, spearheaded the technical portion.

This project could not have been accomplished without the help of several OIST teams:

Gettysburg Campus — Scott Decker, campus director of technology support, and

Doug Docimo, user support technician

Harrisburg Campus — Rick Dullebawn, systems administrator, user support

specialists Travis Mast and Evelin Schwartz and student workers Gagandeep

Birdi, Jeff Heagy, Michael Lewis and Dan Martin

Lancaster Campus — Joshua Appleby, campus director of technical support

Lebanon Campus — user support technicians Shawn Dumez, Tom Haney and

Derek Hollinger

York Campus — user support technicians Eric Huotari and David Kerstetter,

systems service staff member Joel Petit and Patrick Schild, campus director of

technical support

OIST staff were also fortunate to work with Amy Withrow, executive director for

advancement and outreach for Virtual Learning, who helped to “wire-up” and install the

final Harrisburg Campus access point, located in the Evans Physical Education Center.

Facebook pages for HACC Virtual Learning and physical campuses have begun to post

messages announcing that HACC has expanded its wireless access.

HACC Foundation Allocations Committee Awards Over $225,000

In August 2014, the HACC Foundation Allocations Committee approved seven projects

totaling $229,295 for various facilities and program projects at the College. The projects

include purchasing portable flammable liquid and gas firefighting props, thermal imaging

cameras and portable generators to be used at the Sen. John J. Shumaker Public Safety

Center (PSC). The purchase of a van was also approved to provide student athletes and

other students with transportation to athletic and special events.

HACC Honors Outstanding Employee Achievements With President’s Award

Please join me in congratulating the winners of the 2014 HACC President’s Award,

Camelia Maianu, assistant professor of psychology at the Harrisburg Campus, Robin

Sanders, enrollment services specialist at the York Campus and Cynthia Schanke,

instructional technology analyst for Virtual Learning and the Lebanon Campus. It was

my privilege to announce their awards at our 50th

Anniversary Convocation ceremony on

Friday, Sept. 19, 2014.

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Cami was recognized for efforts that enhanced HACC’s reputation. She spearheaded

projects that included networking with local school districts and organizations to bring

Project Impact, an internationally acclaimed service learning curriculum, to the

Harrisburg area. Cami will travel to Romania this fall to become a certified Project

Impact trainer to allow HACC to continue building the spirit of giving back for local

youth.

Robin was chosen for efforts

that increased efficiency

with Collegewide

implication. She has

developed materials for the

financial literacy education

of students and materials for

Foundational Studies 100

classes. In addition to

developing the materials,

Robin has presented interactive lessons in several FS100 sessions that walk students

through the realities of a limited income. As a further service to these students, Robin

posted all of the materials in an online resources shell within Desire2Learn, now

Brightspace.

Cindy was chosen for demonstrating creativity and innovation in implementing a project.

She took the lead role in co-authoring HACC’s first iBooks textbook, a 137-page

interactive textbook used in the eVolution Academy. She also led the creation of HACC’s

six-week blended training using the Brightspace blended training shell.

This year’s awards represented a difficult choice, as the President’s Cabinet reviewed one

of the largest fields of nominees in recent years. Other nominees were: Ernest

Doerschuk, instructional programs technician at the Lancaster Campus; Matthew

Harris, assessment chair in Central Administration; Holly King, administrative office

specialist at the Lancaster Campus; Jerry Ozog, adjunct instructor at the PSC; Randy

Padfield, interim director of fire/Emergency Medical Services at the PSC; Perry

Pierich, fire training coordinator at the PSC; Rebecca Shoener, associate professor of

radiological technology at the Lancaster Campus; Hetal Thaker, English instructor at the

Lancaster Campus; and QiQuan Wang, coordinator of the Mobile Learning/Instruction

Center at the Harrisburg Campus.

I thank them all for their good work!

Cooper Student Center Update

Consulting firm the Armistead Group has recently completed a fundraising feasibility

study for HACC, recommending that the College and the HACC Foundation plan a

private sector, major gift campaign to include $8 million for Cooper Student Center.

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Based on the Armistead Group’s report, the Board of Trustees will discuss the following

recommendations at its February meeting:

Engage students in the discussion about what is needed in the renewed or new

student center

Consider ALL possibilities

Explore the PSECU site and conduct a feasibility study for this building and real

estate

Provide a clear vision of why additional physical space may be necessary with the

increased emphasis on virtual learning

Investigate opportunities that the expiration of the Midtown 2 lease in 2022 may

present

Incorporate recent enrollment decline and debt service ratios

Budget Director Transition With the recent retirement of Kathy Green as the director of budgeting, Brenda Krebs,

senior fiscal analyst, has stepped in during the interim to assist with the upcoming fiscal

year 2015-16 budget process. Job descriptions and task lists are currently being

restructured within the Finance area, and the position will be posted following review by

the Office of Human Resources. YOUR Monthly Brand Update The Focus for Spring 2015 Marketing – The Integrated Marketing Communications

Department is hard at work building upon the new brand and the tactics used to

communicate to the College’s target

audiences. As the brand continues to build, the

department is responding to feedback and

changing the brand slightly to start with a

call to action. An example of a call to

action is: Attend HACC’s Open House or

Complete YOUR Degree at HACC. It tells the reader or recipient of the ad what to do. The

department also has expanded the color scheme on materials. By expanding the color base

to incorporate what is used on the HACC website, the College is providing consistency

among its communications and avoids having everything look the same. Additionally, the department has developed a robust spring 2015 marketing plan that

encompasses the goals, strategies, target audiences and tactics. The goals are to:

Increase awareness of HACC’s programs, initiatives and services

Educate prospective students of the value, outcomes and benefits of HACC

Improve communication to current students to increase enrollment

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Using the input of the campus leaders, provost, associate provost and members of the Office

of Student Affairs and Enrollment Management, the department will focus on

communicating key messages to junior and senior high school students, parents of current

students, current students, non-traditional students (age 25-34) and veterans for spring 2015.

Finally, as you continue to see more communications across the campuses and in the

communities, you will see students, alumni and employees highlighted in the

communications. It is important to tell HACC’s stories and show prospective students

what our current students and alumni are accomplishing. If you have not already done so,

please contribute to the story bank about your experience and tell students, alumni and

others to complete the story bank form.

Correct Use of Unit Names at the Public Safety Center

The public safety offerings of HACC, Central Pennsylvania’s Community College, are

housed within the Sen. John J. Shumaker Public Safety Center (PSC), a 12-acre complex

on the Harrisburg Campus. More than 30,000 of the region’s first responders and

healthcare workers are trained annually at the PSC. In 2012, the PSC added the Sen.

Jeffrey E. Piccola Law Enforcement Complex. This 48,000-square-foot law enforcement

complex boasts a 25-lane indoor firing range, classrooms, a running track, weight room,

tactical building and driving pad. The complex currently hosts and caters to law

enforcement agencies across the commonwealth and beyond.

When referring to either of the two facilities, the following naming conventions should be

used:

The Sen. John J. Shumaker Public Safety Center (PSC) on first use, though “the”

is not capitalized if it does not start a sentence. On subsequent uses within the

same document, it can be shortened to “the PSC” or “the Public Safety Center.”

The Sen. Jeffrey E. Piccola Law Enforcement Complex on first use, though “the”

is not capitalized if it does not start a sentence. On subsequent uses within the

same document, it can be shortened to “the Law Enforcement Complex.”

Please use the correct names in your materials about the PSC. You can also check

HACC’s Style Guide on myHACC, under Office of College Advancement and The

HACC Foundation.

Update on Administrative Procedure (AP) 131: Public Information Releases and

News Media Contacts

A recent issue of the Ski Gram included a reminder about AP 131: Public Information

Releases and News Media Contacts. Please note that this AP is not new. The document is

available on myHACC, and the dates at the bottom indicate that the AP was developed

and/or modified on Thursday, Oct. 18, 2001, and Thursday, May 20, 2010. I cannot take

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HACC’s Culinary Arts department was well represented at Harrisburg’s Kipona festival. Trustee Pete Wambach and I joined students and an instructor helping to showcase our outstanding program, from left, Abbigale Linn, Kevin Gagne, Estelle Mosley, Rita Marshall, John Williamson, Kimberly Germany, Chef Instructor David Mills and, kneeling in front, Terry Conrad.

credit (or the blame) for this policy, because it

was created before I was hired as president at

HACC.

There was some concern about how this policy

may adversely impact our student reporters and

newspapers. Because of this helpful feedback,

Linnie Carter (our vice president of college

advancement) recently met with two student

reporters, an advisor and a student affairs dean.

During the meeting, the five of them discussed the

policy, agreed to a process that will work for all

parties and committed to working together to

modify the policy.

If you have any questions or need additional

information, please contact Linnie at

lscarter@hacc.edu. Thank you.

Office of College Advancement Integrated Marketing Communications Department

Assistance

The first step to receiving assistance from the Integrated Marketing Communications

(IMC) Department of the Office of College Advancement is to complete the online

request form (http://apps.hacc.edu/imcform/IMC1.cfm).

However, there may be times when you need assistance and counsel beyond the online

form:

1. Colleagues who are contacted by the media should make IMC aware of media

inquiries by emailing newsroom@hacc.edu.

2. Colleagues requesting assistance and advice about advertisements should email

newsroom@hacc.edu.

3. Colleagues with questions about the online request form should email

newsroom@hacc.edu.

In these situations, emailing newsroom@hacc.edu is the most effective way to ensure a

timely response from the IMC Department. Thank you.

OCA 101 Sessions

The OCA 101 sessions are returning in the fall! In October, members of the Office of

College Advancement (OCA) team will visit all five campuses to conduct the sessions,

including an additional Adobe Connect presentation.

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Members of the Office of College Advancement team work with all five campuses and all College departments.

The purposes of the sessions are to:

Meet you

Reaffirm OCA’s commitment to you

Demonstrate how the OCA team

can help you

The sessions will last no longer than one

hour and give you the opportunity to learn,

share ideas, ask questions and have fun.

During the sessions, you are welcome to ask team members questions about any of the

Collegewide functions OCA performs:

Alumni relations

Database management

Financial analysis and reporting

Fundraising

Grants

Graphic design

Integrated marketing communications (advertising, branding, marketing and

public relations)

Photography

Prospect research

Scholarships

Special events

Sponsorships

Videography

Web design and development

Please register online at http://www.hacc.edu/FacultyandStaffDevelopment/Events/Office-of-

College-Advancement-Events.cfm. The OCA team looks forward to seeing you. Thank you!

mtvU Comes to HACC

MTV’s 24-hour college network, mtvU, is now broadcasting at HACC’s Harrisburg

Campus in Cooper Student Center and the Book Store, where students can view the

network on dedicated mtvU TVs. Music by emerging artists is the heart of mtvU. The

network also broadcasts high-quality student-produced content, original short-form

series, pro-social initiatives and features on many aspects of campus life.

Through programs like its partnership with Youth Venture to provide “mtvU Grants,” the

network promotes opportunities for students to make a positive impact in their

community and worldwide. One Emmy Award-winning mtvU program, “Half of Us,”

produced in partnership with The Jed Foundation, works to reduce the student suicide

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The Kipona festival provided a

great opportunity to meet members

of our Harrisburg area community.

Staff members from Student

Affairs and Health Careers

welcomed Trustee Pete Wambach

and me--as well as many

prospective students--to HACC’s

booth. With us are, from left, Rose

Miller, Karla Gurian, Michael

Turi, Tim Zerbe and Natalie Smith.

rate by fighting the stigma surrounding mental health issues and providing resources

students can use to overcome depression. MtvU also won an Emmy for a program that

increased awareness of genocide taking place in the Darfur region of Sudan.

Broadcasting to more than 700 college campuses across the country, mtvU is the largest,

most comprehensive television network just for college students. Its best known

programs include the “mtvU Woodie Awards,”

honoring musicians, and “The Freshmen,” whose fans

choose which performer among five emerging artists

will be added to mtvU’s on-air rotation.

In the Emmy-nominated “Stand In,” internationally

known figures including Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel,

Madonna, Sting, Bill Gates, Rawandan President Paul

Kagame, Cameron Diaz and Kanye West, among

others, surprise students by visiting their classrooms to

teach for a day. The “mtvU ROTC Challenge,” a

competition among students at different schools,

emphasizes strength, leadership and mental challenges.

Phone Call Campaign Welcomes Each New Student

at Gettysburg Campus

The Gettysburg Campus started the fall semester with

the theme “All Students Matter” and, through a new

initiative, has been sharing that message with each new

student. The theme is rooted in research indicating that

the most powerful predictor of a student’s success is “mattering”: Students’ belief that

they each matter to the College and those they engage with at the College. One way the

campus is demonstrating to students how much they matter is with a “welcome” phone

call to every new student.

During the first two weeks of the semester, 31 staff, faculty, administrators and alumni

called 422 of the campus’s 648 new students. Most students reacted with surprise – many

could not believe that the call was simply to welcome them and check in – or gratitude, as

callers were able to answer questions and provide referrals. In return, many students shared

positive feedback related to individual faculty members and classes, and staff members

who had provided excellent service. One student even indicated that she was sending her

brother to HACC to take placement tests for the spring semester.

Serve Yourself at Avenue C in Lancaster

HACC’s Lancaster Campus has introduced a new food service concept in a self-serve

kiosk – Avenue C. The kiosk is located in the East Building lobby and is available to

students and employees anytime the building is open. A wide selection of meals, snacks

and beverages includes cold soft drinks, hot coffee, sandwiches, pizza, salads, fresh fruit

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and Philly soft pretzels. The kiosk accepts payment by credit/debit card and cash for

purchasers who set up an account. Microwaves are provided to heat the food.

Gettysburg Grape Stomp Benefits the Helen Hauser Memorial Scholarship

Shannon Harvey, Gettysburg Campus vice president, went

toe-to-toe with Gettysburg College President Janet Morgan

Riggs in a battle of the juice during the Celebrity Grape

Stomp at the Gettysburg Wine and Music Festival on Sunday,

Sept. 7, 2014. Gettysburg College’s team won, filling about

half of its five-gallon bottle with juice to HACC’s one-third

bottle. The real winners, though, were HACC’s students.

Event proceeds benefit the Helen Hauser Memorial

Scholarship Endowment, which provides scholarships to

students enrolled in our viticulture/enology program.

New Lebanon Bookstore Hours

After careful review and assessment of Lebanon Campus bookstore sales, we have reduced

operating hours and eliminated the need for a full time bookstore manager at this location.

Effective Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2014, the new hours will be:

Monday – 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

Tuesday – 9 a.m.-6 p.m.

Thursday – 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

The bookstore will be closed Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Jayne Walsh, bookstore manager, will oversee the daily operation for both the Lebanon

and Lancaster bookstores.

Kudos

To Tim Sanden, educational specialist in Workforce Development’s

Transportation and Logistics Unit, for providing excellent customer service under

an ongoing training contract with ABF Freight of Carlisle. An ABF representative

recently praised Tim’s and his team’s work: “ABF Carlisle would not be in the

position we are in reaching our road driver hiring target goals without this

partnership. You have successfully worked through equipment, student ability,

and staff issues to meet our demand and I appreciate everything you have done

and look forward to keeping this successful partnership moving forward. The

communication between your team and our team has been a key element in

making this work.”

<Shannon Harvey and team mates State Representative Dan

Moul, left, and Gettysburg Borough Council member Scot

Pitzer.

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To our Alpha Nu Omega Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) for raising

$10,276.06 in the 2013-14 Relay for Life to support research to help eradicate

cancer. Teams from the Gettysburg, Harrisburg, Lancaster and York campuses,

along with a HACC alumni team, walked hundreds of miles at various Relay

events. HACC’s PTK chapter was the fourth highest fundraiser among all

community college Relay teams in 2013 and received an award from Phi Theta

Kappa and Relay for Life at PTK’s annual convention in Orlando, Fla., in April.

To Dawn Clifford, dental assisting instructor, for her work in supporting the

Dental Assisting Program’s successful application to the Commission on Dental

Accreditation.

To all Facilities Maintenance staff members who worked to prepare the Public

Safety Center for the 9/11 memorial ceremony and Law Enforcement Complex

dedication held on Thursday, Sept. 11, 2014. Special thanks to Deb

Eichenberger, Todd Gilbert and Ray Wiersma for preparing the landscaping

for the entire Public Safety Center.

To Pauline Chow, senior professor of mathematics, on being named to the

Pennsylvania Council of Teachers of Mathematics (PCTM) Hall of Fame. The

Hall of Fame recognizes the Pennsylvania mathematics educator who is regarded

by peers as having made the greatest impact on mathematics students and having

continually exemplified excellence as a mathematics educator. Pauline will

officially receive the award at the PCTM Conference on Thursday, Nov. 6, 2014. HACC is Going Back to Our Roots No one knows HACC better than you. You have experienced first-hand the impact that the College and its students make on our community. That is why we are reaching out to you to help us increase student enrollment through the “Back to Our Roots” Student Recruitment Campaign. The purpose of this campaign is to increase student recruitment activities through daily interactions, both professional and personal, in your social, religious, cultural and educational circles. Are you ready to make a difference in our College and community by joining the HACC student recruitment effort? To get started, please review www.hacc.edu/backtoourroots and complete and submit the online form. Thank you! The good news about HACC!

Sharing your good news just got easier! When you have positive information to share

about happenings, initiatives and programs at HACC, please simply fill out the IMC

online request form at http://www.hacc.edu/imcform. We suggest you complete the

enewsletters, news release and Ski Gram sections of the online request form. The form

also can be found on myHACC under the Office of College Advancement & HACC

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Foundation portal. The previous link – http://www.hacc.edu/OCA/GoodNews/ – has been

deactivated.

Do you have news for the next Ski Gram?

If you would like me to share your news in an upcoming issue of the Ski Gram, you may

submit it anytime directly from the following link on hacc.edu: http://www.hacc.edu/AboutUs/Administration/Ski-Gram-Request-Form.cfm

Books I am currently reading or have read:

Remaking the Concept of Aptitude: Extending the Legacy of Richard E. Snow,

(Educational Psychology Series)

Hunger of Memory, Richard Rodriguez

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please contact me. Thank you!