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Century College BulletinThe Official Medium for Announcing College Matters

January 11, 2011

Century Offers Adult 1-2 Students a “First-Year Experience” Opportunity

Century College Hosts 2-3 Naomi Tutu Jan. 26

Century Spotlight 4

2010-2011 Outstanding 5 Educator Awardees

Grade School Children 5 Visit Century

Century Student Has 6 Baby Born 1-1-11

Century College to Host 6 Jazz Festival

Wanted: MnSCU Leader, 7-8 Vision

Century Instructor 9-10 Wins National Honor

High School Students 11 Convene at Century

Healthy Recipes & Tips 12 from The Wellness Committee

Author Meg Blaine Corrigan 13 Speaks at Century Jan. 20

What’s Up with Facilities? 14-15

Jazz Festival 15 Volunteers Needed

Jazz Festival Poster 16

CTL News:Getting Off To 17-18 A Great Start

Staff Development Classes 19

Speed Mentoring 20-21

January’s Menu at 22 The Fresh Stop Cafe

Bulletin Deadlines 23

Century Offers Adult Students a “First-Year Experience” Opportunity Nancy Livingston

Adult students who attend Century College have the option of attending a 10-week “First-Year Experience” workshop series to help them build the skills and relationships that lead to success in college. The workshop sessions are 50 minutes long and are free for enrolled students.

Adult students who attended last semester’s workshops said the meetings on topics such as study skills, time management, learning styles, goal setting, stress reduction, money matters, diversity, wellness and academic planning were valuable. Some even used the terms “life saver” and “safe haven.”

“When I first came here, I was terrified of failure,” said student Jim Walgren. “I had been out of school for 37 years. But I was really motivated to further my education. Going after a college degree has always been a goal of mine. Now I am not just making it in college, I am excelling. It is gratifying to do that well. Attending the workshop meetings really helped.”

Ann Bell, who graduated from high school in 1972, said she had never used a computer before she enrolled at Century. After a series of life-changing losses, she decided to go to college to expand her opportunities in the job market. She found the

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Adult students in First-Year Experience workshop. Left to right, Betsy Desmond, Holly Vang, Harmony Peterson, Ann Bell, Jim Walgren, Chelsie Moore, Scott Eggerth

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technology not as hard as she expected, and now she is enjoying how technological tools can expand your world.

“I am writing papers on my computer and using email, chat rooms and drop boxes,” said Bell. “I am amazed at how far I have come.”

Scott Eggerth, who plans to go into law enforcement, said the First-Year Experience workshops help students “cut through the red tape.” Students who attend the weekly meetings learn strategies that help them navigate college successfully. They also make friends and support one another.

“Adult students need reassurance that college can be confusing, even chaotic, at first, but it gets better,” said Eggerth. “They need to know that it’s OK to talk to professors, because they want you to succeed.”

Century College Hosts Naomi Tutu Jan. 26 Nancy Livingston

The Century College Martin Luther King Day Lecture Series will host a talk by Naomi Tutu on Wednesday, Jan. 26 at 7 p.m. on the East Campus Lincoln Mall. The public is invited to attend this free event.

Tutu, the third daughter of South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu and his wife Nomalizo, founded and was the chairperson of the Tutu Foundation, which assists South African refugees. The belief that there is still much to do to eradicate the legacy of centuries of racial oppression is what spurs Tutu to continue to speak out about the situations in South Africa.

The topic of Tutu’s talk is “Striving for Justice: Searching for Common Ground.” Tutu is currently writing her doctoral dissertation with the London School of Economics while teaching in the School of Education at the University of Connecticut. She is currently the program coordinator for the Race Relations Institute at Fisk University.

The growth of black and female apartheid in South Africa has led Tutu to her present role as an activ-ist for human rights. Her experi-ences have taught her how much we all lose when any of us is judged purely on physical attributes. In her speeches, Tutu blends the passion for human dignity with humor and personal stories.

For more information, please contact Theresa Glass at 651-779-5531 or [email protected]./

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Martin Luther King Jr. Day Lecture Series presents

“Striving for Justice: Searching for Common Ground”

Wednesday, January 26, 2011 – 7 pmEast Campus Lincoln Mall

The belief that there is still much to do to eradicate the legacy of three centuries of racial oppression is what spurs Naomi Tutu to continue to speak out about the situations in South Africa. Tutu, third daughter of South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu and his wife Nomalizo, founded and was the chairperson of the Tutu Foundation, from 1985 until 1990, which helped South African refugees in African countries.

Tutu is currently writing her doctoral dissertation with the London School of Economics while teaching in the School of Education at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. Tutu has taught courses on development issues and education in Africa at the University of Hartford, CT and Brevard College, NC and has also worked at the University of Cape Town, where she was a program coordinator at the African Gender Institute. Presently, Tutu is program coordinator for the Race Relations Institute at Fisk University.

For more information contact Theresa Glass, 651.779.5531, or [email protected].

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CENTurY SpOTLigHT

Name: Pam Engebretson

position: Director of Financial Aid

Length of time at Century: 6 whole weeks already.

Last position held: Worked 20+ years at the U of M, Morris in financial aid and most recently spent three years as an Account Executive with Student Loan Finance Corporation.

Favorite thing about your job: Helping students; making a difference for them to be able to afford a college education.

Something that people do not always know about your job: The incredible amount of paperwork, phone calls, emails and student questions our department handles in a day, week, month and year.

How your job fits into the mission, vision and values of Century: Our department provides the financial resources that allow students to engage in the Century learning community.

What Century committees are you a part of? None yet, but I’m sure that will change.

Favorite vacation spot: I enjoy Lake Superior and its North Shore.

Last book read: Wondering if I’ll ever have time to read a book anytime soon. Last book was The Help.

Hobby: I love to read and I help organize club volleyball in West Central Minnesota.

Best advice anyone ever gave you: Never burn your bridges.

The world would be a better place if... Minnesota winters were shorter.

What makes you get up in the morning? The alarm clock. Ok there is other stuff as well.

What are you most passionate about? I am passionate about making college happen for students and how I/we can help them do so.

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2010-2011 Century College Outstanding Educator Awardees Dear Colleagues,

Thanks to those of you who took the time to nominate a faculty member for the Board of Trustees Excellence in Teaching award for 2010-2011. Based on your recommenda-tions and subsequent review by the awards committee, I am pleased to announce the following three Century College Outstanding Educator awardees for 2010-2011:

Cheryl gfrerer, English

John gingrich, Mathematics

Scott Simenson, Information & Telecommunications

This honor is awarded to faculty within the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system to “acknowledge and reward exceptional individual professional accomplish-ment, and to encourage ongoing excellence, in teaching.” In particular, these individ-uals were selected to receive this award because of their demonstrated excellence in the following areas:

• Teaching strategies and materials

• Content expertise

• Professional growth

• Service to students, profession, institution and system

• Standards for assessment of student learning and performance

Each awardee will develop and submit a teaching portfolio to the Office of the Chancellor in February, as Century’s nominees for the system’s Educator of the Year awards. In addition, they will be publicly honored at a system-wide ceremony next spring.

please join me in congratulating our 2010-2011 award winners!

Ron Anderson, PhD Vice President and Chief Academic Officer

grade School Children Visit CenturyChildren in grades 5 to 8 who participate in a program through the Northwest Youth and Family Services organization visited Century on Jan. 6 for a “college knowledge” talk and a tour. Seeds were planted. “This college is really cool,” said one young man. “Do you have any more bridges?”

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Century Student Has Baby Born 1-1-11 Nancy Livingston

Century College student Xiong Vue of Cottage Grove gave birth to one of the first babies of the year at St. John’s Hospital in Maplewood. Baby Bruce Vue was born on 1-1-11. He joins his brothers Theodore and Matthew. Xiong is in the dental assisting program at Century. Pictured with Xiong are two members of the North St. Paul-Maplewood-Oakdale Rotary Club, Jean Strait, left, and Sonia Czerepak, right, who presented the new mom with the gift of the classic children’s book Good Night Moon. To promote early literacy, the Rotary Club plans to give a book to every baby born at St. John’s in 2011.

According to the National Reading Foundation, a child who is read to at least 20 minutes a day from birth to kindergarten is likely to acquire the pre-literacy skills essential for learn-ing to read. Children who are read to also learn to love books and want to become good readers.

Century College to Host Jazz Festival at the end of the Month Nancy Livingston

Century College is hosting its 21st Annual Jazz Festival at the end of the month.

The Jazz Festival will feature trombonist Tom “Bones” Malone, who is part of the house band for The Late Show with David Letterman.

The Jazz Festival takes place on January 29-30.

Tickets are $20 for general admission. Student ticket prices are $10. Proceeds from the event will help support student scholarships through the Century College Founda-tion.

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Wanted: MnSCu Leader, Vision Jenna ross, Star Tribune

The successor to James McCormick, who is retiring after a decade at the post, will face budget pressures in an evolving, sprawling system. Minnesotans might think that the state’s biggest college system has picked its next leader. Not so fast.

By many measures, that is the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities. And it’s still looking. Come next year, the stabilizing force of Chancellor James McCormick will be gone from the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU). His replacement will confront falling state funding, maxed-out tuition, and a growing number of stu-dents seeking retraining at a bargain price.

“We need a transformational leader” who will nab new money while taking a tough look MnSCU’s structure, said Scott Thiss, board chair. “I think all options are on the table.”

A committee is sorting through candidates netted in a four-month national search and is expected to forward semifinalists to the system’s board of trustees in January. From there, the board will publicly interview final-ists and name a successor to McCormick, who is retiring after a decade at the post.

The sprawling system was born in 1995 with the grafting together of the three public systems controlling the state’s community colleges, technical colleges and four-year universities. Today, MnSCU educates more than half the state’s undergraduates.

“Now a more fully developed and mature system,” the posting for the job notes, “the question of where to take the system, its

future direction, is perhaps even more timely.”

Cuts to state support have raised questions about whether the system can survive at its current size and scope. MnSCU receives less state support than it did in 2002 but educates more students. Meanwhile, tuition ranks among the highest in the nation.

“Minnesota’s higher education system will look dramatically different in 10 years,” said Justin Klander, executive director of the Minnesota State College Student As-sociation. “It has to.”

Better, this time

The next chancellor will take hold of MnSCU just as national attention has turned to the role of public, two-year schools. At the first-ever White House Community College Summit in October, President Obama applauded community colleges as “the unsung heroes of America’s education system.”

MnSCU comprises seven state universities and 26 community and technical colleges on 54 campuses. Because of that size and diversity, “there’s nothing really compa-rable to it,” said Jan Greenwood, a Washington, D.C.-based search consultant and president and partner of Greenwood/Asher and Associates.


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Greenwood conducted the search that led to McCormick’s selection as chancellor in 2000. “It was, quite frankly, a very difficult search,” she said. “The system was having the typical start-up challenges. It had gone through two or three short-term chancel-lors before Jim.”

But McCormick’s longevity has “left the system in such a better place,” she said. De-spite economic challenges and “the many complications in searches today,” MnSCU is in “a very good position to get an outstanding leader.”

Looking outside

In an open letter to David Olson -- former trustee, current president of the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and chair of MnSCU’s search advisory committee -- business-man Vance Opperman encouraged him to skip candidates from within MnSCU and instead “look long and hard outside the system.”

That recommendation is based on recent memory, Opperman said by phone. Chair-ing the search committee in 2000, Opperman witnessed deep divisions between the just-combined systems. McCormick quietly fixed that, bringing together groups that weren’t talking to each other, Opperman said. “People should laud him to the skies.”

But the system is still new, and Opperman worries that promoting a MnSCU president “would reignite all those long-ago turf fights.”

“You need a chancellor that really does have a system-wide view and is seen by oth-ers to have that view,” he said. “That’s much easier for someone who comes from the outside.”

Insiders believe that MnSCU is more likely than the University of Minnesota to look beyond the academic community and into the business world for its leader. Thiss said that’s a possibility.

“We have put no limitations on types of candidates,” he said, stressing that “obvi-ously, experience or exposure to higher education is important.”

MnSCU’s new chancellor will start at about the same time as the University of Minne-sota’s new president. Eric Kaler will take hold of the U in July, when Robert Bruininks, president since 2002, returns to the faculty. Kaler, who was selected in November, also will lead an institution grappling with sliding state aid and demands to hold down tuition.

Weighing tuition

MnSCU’s state funding -- measured per full-time student -- dropped 16 percent be-tween fiscal years 2000 and 2010. Adjusted for inflation, the drop grows to 37 percent. That lagging state funding is part of what has led to tuition increases.

Last year’s average tuition and fees at MnSCU’s community colleges ranked third-highest in the nation, compared to similar institutions, according to an annual report by the Higher Education Coordinating Board in Washington. “Tuition increases are not an option anymore,” Klander said.

Under McCormick, new policies have given students more input in setting tuition, Klander said, and he hopes the next chancellor has a similar focus.

Now, college and university presidents must consult with students about tuition in-creases. Each campus’ student senate president then describes that consultation in a letter read by the trustees. “It’s in a president’s best interest to have a great letter,” Klander said, and if one doesn’t, McCormick follows up.

“Every candidate is going to say they’re student-focused,” he said. “The chancellor really, truly stuck to that.”

“ We need a

transformational leader who

will nab new money while

taking a tough look MnSCU’s

structure.”Scott Thiss, MnSCU board chair

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Century College instructor Wins National Honor Nancy Livingston for White Bear press

Century College instructor Edward Haddon will receive the Outstanding Educator award at the American Academy of Orthotists and Prosthetists’ annual meeting in March.

Haddon has devoted his life to the Orthotics and Prosthetics program at Century, the only college in the country that offers training in both orthotics and prosthetics from the technician to the practitioner level. Haddon has worked at the college for 35 years.

“I have been really, really fortunate,” said Haddon, a longtime Vadnais Heights resi-dent. “I am associated with a profession that transforms people’s lives. At the end of every day when I go home, I feel God’s pleasure. And I think that’s true of most people in O and P.”

Century’s Orthotics program prepares students to care for patients with disabling conditions of the limbs and spine. The Prosthetic program prepares students to provide prostheses for those individuals who need limbs due to trauma, disease or congenital conditions.

The technician courses teach the fabrication skills needed to successfully complete a functional orthotic or prosthetic device. The practitioner programs provide the students with the patient management skills needed to work closely with physicians to prescribe and fit patients with various orthotic and prosthetic devices.

Students typically start in technician programs but some choose to advance to the practitioner level. To enter the practitioner programs, students must first earn their bachelor’s degree.

Ed Haddon, left, and a student in the Century College Orthotics and

Prosthetics laboratory


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Haddon, the first graduate of the now-closed University of Minnesota Orthotics and Prosthetics Program, also earned a degree from Northwestern University’s O and P program in Chicago. Haddon later was one of the first hires when the former 916 Vo-cational Technical Institute (a forerunner of Century College) started the first techni-cian program in 1975.

In the early days of the program, Haddon and his peers were busy writing curriculum, purchasing equipment and organizing their laboratory on the third floor of what is now East Campus. The program reorganized and moved to the first floor two years ago, making access easier for patients who regularly visit the program.

“Student interest in the program was there from the beginning,” said Haddon. Or-thotics and Prosthetics attracts students who have mechanical as well as creative abilities, and students are most successful when they have a strong motivation to help others. About 12 percent of students in the program have a physical disability themselves.

Haddon is known for his cheerful smile, his ready laugh, his willingness to help raise money for student scholarships and his sincere interest in other people. He serves on the Vadnais Heights Planning Commission and has many outside interests, including flying his small plane around the country, and spending summers on a remote island on Rainy Lake in Canada.

His island retreat has no television and spotty cell phone service. “You get back to the basics up there,” he said. In 1999, Haddon fell out of a tree on the island and broke his back. A friend who was with him put him in a wagon, pulled him to his boat and transported him to a hospital in International Falls.

Eight days later, Haddon was back in his cabin recovering from compression fractures and vertebrae and soft tissue damage. He returned to Century in the fall.

Haddon and his wife have no children of their own, but over the years they have become very close to many of the O and P students. Haddon has attended students’ weddings, baby showers, birthdays, picnics and funerals. He has been around long enough to teach the sons and daughters of some of his early students.

One of the students Haddon got to know well is Melissa Stockwell, the first female American solider to lose a leg in the Iraq war.

In 2007, Melissa was named the Century College Exemplary Student and she deliv-ered the college commencement address. Many audience members were moved by Melissa’s complete lack of self pity and her outright joy at having found a profession that allows her to help others.

Having competed as a swimmer in the 2008 Para Olympics, she is currently working as a prosthetist in Chicago.

Haddon said O and P is a “real people profession,” and it often becomes a family af-fair when patients bring their extended family members to appointments and fittings. The employment rate of O and P professionals is excellent (in the 90 percent range and up) and few leave the field, he said. The wounds associated with the current nine-year war in Iraq and Afghanistan have added to the de-mand for O and P professionals.

“Our O and P graduates have built the industry in Minnesota,” said Haddon. “We can all be very proud of that.”

— Submitted by Century College Director of Advancement Nancy Livingston

“ Our O and P graduates

have built the industry in

Minnesota…We can all be

very proud of that.”Edward Haddon

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High School Students Convene at CenturyNancy Livingston

More than 230 students from 10 area high schools held the annual Business Profes-sions of America workplace skills competition at Century on Friday, Jan. 7. Students spent the day preparing for the competition, making presentations and receiving awards. Vice President Ron Anderson formally welcomed the students in the morn-ing. The day went very smoothly, and students dressed and conducted themselves very professionally.

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H E A L T H Y r E C i p E S A N d T i p S

F r O M T H E W E L L N E S S C O M M i T T E E

Mustard Glazed Carrots

If you have a healthy recipe that you would like to see featured, please send it to:Sue pelzer, dArS/Transfer Student Services, [email protected]

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1 tbsp brown sugar

2 tbsp Dijon mustard

¾ tsp salt

2/3 c blanched slivered almonds

2 tbsp butter, divided

1 tbsp vegetable or canola oil

1 lb carrots, thinly sliced

2 celery, thinly sliced

2 garlic cloves, minced

1 tbsp chopped fresh parsley (dried works well also)

d i r E C T i O N S

Combine first 2 ingredients-set aside.

Sauté almonds in 1 tbsp butter until golden (can do this in microwave but don’t use butter/oil) – set aside.

Melt butter & oil, add carrots. Sauté carrots over med heat until tender. Add celery and garlic, cook about 2 minutes.

Stir in mustard mixture and continue cooking, stirring constantly until carrots are glazed (about 1 minute).

Stir in almonds and parsley.

Serves Six

Submitted by Tom Curtis Century College - Admissions department

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Phone: 555-555-5555 Fax: 555-555-5555 E-mail: [email protected]

National Folic Acid Awareness Week National Council On Folic Acid Folicacidinfor.org January 2-8 Healthy Weight Week Healthy Weight Network www.healthyweightnetwork.com January 16-22 Martin Luther King Day January 17

Century College

Tip for the month: Are you trying to start a diet or exercise program. Start small and work your way up to your goals.

Wellness Committee

January 2011Tip for the month: Are you trying to start a diet or exercise program. Start small and work your way up to your goals.

National Folic Acid Awareness Week National Council On Folic Acid Folicacidinfor.org January 2-8

Healthy Weight Week Healthy Weight Network www.healthyweightnetwork.com January 16-22

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National Folic Acid Awareness Week National Council On Folic Acid Folicacidinfor.org January 2-8 Healthy Weight Week Healthy Weight Network www.healthyweightnetwork.com January 16-22 Martin Luther King Day January 17

Century College

Tip for the month: Are you trying to start a diet or exercise program. Start small and work your way up to your goals.

Wellness Committee

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Century College presents

Meg Blaine Corriganretired Century College counselor and author of

Author Meg Corrigan shares her precarious journey of parental neglect, alcoholism, sexual assault at gunpoint, disastrous first marriage, and then finding her place in God’s world. Her words will encourage others to know and understand that no matter what happened in your past, it does not have to determine your present and future.

I felt honored to read this wonderful narrative…This author has an important story to tell. ~ Robert H. Albers, PhD, United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, New Brighton

January 20, 2011 • 11am–12 noonCentury College, West Campus Theatre

Book signing in Theatre lobby following presentation.

3300 Century Avenue North For more information contact Theresa Glass,White Bear Lake, Minnesota 651.779.5531 or [email protected] FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC


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What’s up with Facilities?Nancy Livingston

Busy, BusyContractors, subcontractors and all kinds of workers were busy putting the finishing touches on six badly-needed new classrooms on East Campus so that they could be ready for Monday’s spring semester start. The classrooms were created out of thin air – sort of. Many years ago, a two-story “high bay” area housed several technical pro-grams. This space has gone through several alterations and the latest gives the college six spiffy new classrooms, a conference room, a unisex restroom, and 18 new faculty and administrative offices that are all built on a mezzanine floor installed several years ago when the Orthotics and Prosthetics renovation was done.

This $1.8 million renovation, which is over 12,000 square feet, includes one 40-person classroom, one 72-person classroom and four 30-person classrooms. The classrooms will be used by the nursing program, the HVAC program, the Continuing Education/Customized Training division and other career programs. The rooms have been wired, painted, carpeted and furnished with new tables and chairs.

Air Quality and Temperature Control

An HVAC improvement project, currently in progress on East Campus, will improve the air quality and temperature control in ESOL classroom and faculty offices, Human Resources, public safety offices, several faculty offices, a break room and the corridor space around the Breuning Room. When complete, the improvements will be invisible to the casual observer, but will provide much needed comfort and health-related improvements.

Sidewalk to Horticulture

The deteriorated, uneven sidewalk from East Cam-pus to the Horticulture building has been replaced so that it is wider, more level and drains properly. Potential trip hazards and ice pockets have been eliminated.

Cosmetology in Hot Water

The old, rusty iron pipes that brought hot water from the first-floor hot water heater to the third-floor cosmetology program have been replaced with copper pipes. The new pipes mean that water temperature is much easier to control. Now clients will not have to put up with water that was either too cold or too hot.

The college is happy to have on staff a licensed, certified plumber who can handle these kinds of jobs. His name is Bill Naatz.

New Student Center

The first student center that the college has ever had will open at the end of January. It will include space for studying, socializing and gaming. There also will be a coffee shop, a performance stage and offices for the Veteran’s Center, the student newspaper, the Multi-Cultural Center, GPS Lifeplan staff and other student services.

The student center is on the first floor next to the bookstore. It has glass walls that face the nature area in the back of West Campus. It is filled with light and is bound to be a popular area for student interaction. Construction is scheduled to be complete in late January with occupancy to be soon thereafter. A grand opening is planned for spring, possibly in conjunction with Wood Duck Days in May.


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Meditation room

A small room for meditation, reflection and prayer has been provided for students, faculty and staff on the West Campus. It is located on the third floor across from the computer lab.

New Air Handler

A giant new air handler weighing over 13,400 pounds has been installed on the first floor of West Campus. It is 28 feet long and 8 feet high. This quiet, efficient piece of equipment replaces the noisy air handler on third floor and two additional aging air handlers on first floor. The new air handler will improve the college’s Facilities Condition Index, a calculation that MnSCU uses to estimate the level of deferred maintenance needed on its campuses.

Former Student Senate Offices renovated

The Student Senate offices have been renovated into a much-needed 35-person classroom on the first floor of West Campus. The Senate is temporarily housed in the West Cafeteria Conference Room until their new quarters in the Student Center are completed.

Jazz Festival Volunteers NeededIt’s that time of year already! Do you like Jazz? How would you like to attend the Jazz concert for FREE??? We need volunteers to help at the Jazz Festival (all pro-ceeds go to student scholarships.) Here are the dates and times;

Saturday, January 29

Day/Time Assignment Volunteers Needed

6:30pm-8:30pm Ticket Sales 2

6:30pm-8:30pm Will Call Tickets 3

6:30pm-8:00pm Wine Servers 2

6:30pm-8:00pm Cheese & Crackers 1

6:30pm-8:00pm Coffee & Punch 2


Sunday, January 30

1:30pm-3:30pm Will Call Tickets 1


1:30pm-3:00pm Cheese & Crackers 1

1:30pm-3:00pm Coffee & Punch 2


3:45pm-4:45pm Cake Server 1

If you’d like to volunteer, please contact Sue Klecker 651-773-1792 or [email protected]

Thank you! Sue Klecker

Featuring Guest Artist

Tom “Bones”Maloneand the Century Jazz EnsembleOne hour prior to concert:

Pooche’s Playhouse


JazzF estival JazzF estival

Century College is proud to present the 22nd ANNUAL

West Campus TheatreSaturday, Jan. 29, 8 pm • Sunday, Jan. 30, 3 pm

For tickets call 651.779.5531: adults $20, students $103300 Century Avenue N., White Bear Lake, MN • century.edu

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Featuring Guest Artist

Tom “Bones”Maloneand the Century Jazz EnsembleOne hour prior to concert:

Pooche’s Playhouse


JazzF estival JazzF estival

Century College is proud to present the 22nd ANNUAL

West Campus TheatreSaturday, Jan. 29, 8 pm • Sunday, Jan. 30, 3 pm

For tickets call 651.779.5531: adults $20, students $103300 Century Avenue N., White Bear Lake, MN • century.edu

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CTL NEWS

getting Off To A great StartResearch about college retention tells us that the level of connection students feel in their classes has a tremen-dous impact on how successful they are. How can we encourage that sense of connection in our classes? Angela Provitera McGlynn, in her book, Successful Beginnings for College Teaching, provides tips to pro-mote rapport and connect with students from the first day of class. Here are some of her suggestions:

• Greet the class as a whole or greet students indi-vidually from Day 1. It’s a simple way to create a warm atmosphere and set the tone for the class each day.

• Tell students what you prefer to be called, and ask them what they prefer to be called. Then learn their names—students will feel more positive about the class and participate more when they are not “anonymous.”

• Take roll every day—it encourages attendance, tells students you value their pres-ence, and helps you learn their names. It will also help them learn each others’ names.

• Talk to students before and after class—on satisfaction surveys, students rank inter-action with their instructors as a high priority, and students report that they appreci-ate having instructors who are approachable.

• Involve students with each other—from the first day of class. Use an ice-breaker to have students get to know at least a few other students, and if you can address course content with it as well, it establishes an interactive climate that promotes class discussion.

• Seating arrangements make a difference. Where possible, have students sit in a circle, or facing each other. It encourages student interaction and class discussion.

• Use study groups to engage students with each other and the course content. Form groups of 3-4 students at the start of class and have them spend the first few minutes discussing a study question, the reading assignment, or some on-going project.

For more suggestions on getting off to a successful start for the semester, take a look at McGlynn’s book, or Wilbert J. McKeachie’s Teaching Tips. Both books are avail-able in the Center for Teaching and Learning Library on the East Campus. Or check out this page on the “Teaching Tips” web site from Honolulu Community College: http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/teachtip.htm#firstday. There is a wealth of information here to help you and your students get off to a great start!

“gETTiNg rESuLTS” TEACHiNg CirCLE

Century’s Center for Teaching and Learning will be offering a special Teaching Circle opportunity for all faculty this spring. The Teaching Circle is called “Getting Results”


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and it consists of a series of workshops that our CTL Leaders have been offering for new Century faculty for several years. The workshops are based on a sequence of online modules, which were funded by the National Science Foundation’s Advanced Technology Education (ATE) Program, and produced by WGBH-TV in association with the League for Innovation in the Community College. The “Getting Results” online modules draw on research about best practices in adult learning. Go to www.league.org for more information and to see the free online modules.

The “Getting Results” Teaching Circle at Century, like the online modules, provides faculty strategies for deepening teaching and learning. The advantage of the teach-ing circle is that it is a face-to-face interactive workshop format that models active learning techniques and presents ample opportunity for participant discussion. The session topics are:

• Creating a Community of Learners

• Planning for Outcomes

• Active Teaching and Learning

• Moving Beyond the Classroom

• Teaching with Technology

• Assessing Teaching and Learning

Scheduled meeting times for the “Getting Results” teaching circle are the following Fridays from 2:15-4:15 p.m. in Room W2010: January 21, February 11, March 4, April 1 and April 22.

To participate in the “Getting Results” Teaching Circle, you must commit to partici-pating in all sessions and completing the traditional teaching circle requirements, including attending the Teaching Circle Celebration on Friday, May 13 from 3:30-5:00 p.m. Faculty who complete all teaching circle requirements are eligible to earn a stipend for their participation. Space is limited, but any faculty member-- full-time or part-time, new or veteran—is invited to sign up by contacting one of the CTL Campus Leaders Michele Neaton or Connie Poferl by Friday, January 14.

FACuLTY prOFESSiONAL dEVELOpMENT FuNdS

Information about Faculty Professional Development funding and reimbursement procedures is available on the Century College CTL website. To access the CTL web-site, go to the Century College home page. Click on “Employees” at the bottom, and then use the Quick Link for “Center for Teaching and Learning.” In the left column of the CTL website, you’ll see “Professional Development.” Click on that, and then “Forms.” You will find the PD procedures, PD request form, SEMA4, etc. – all there in one place.

The Faculty Professional Development Committee meets monthly throughout the aca-demic year, with the next meeting on Thursday, February 3. For funding requests to be considered, they must be submitted PRIOR to the professional development event or purchase. Send the PD Request form by NOON the day before the meeting to one of the co-chairs listed below.

Co-chairs: Connie poferl (779-5770) Office: 1745 (Kopp Technology Center) East CampusMichele Neaton (779-3245) Office: 1111 West Campus

CTL CAMpuS LEAdErS

Michele Neaton [email protected] or ext. 3245

Connie poferl [email protected] or ext. 5770

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STAFF dEVELOpMENT CLASSES

iNTrOduCTiON TO HMONg CuLTurE

Learn about:

• The journey of Hmong from China to Southeast Asia to the United States• Why many Hmong were placed in refugee camps in Laos and Thailand after the end

of the Vietnam War• The 18 Hmong tribes• Shamanism in the Hmong culture and how many Hmong have adapted Christianity• Traditional Hmong marriages and funerals• Attitudes and beliefs about charities, volunteering and philanthropyPresenter:

Kalue Her is Annual Funds Manager at Neighborhood House and a graduate of the College of Saint Benedict. Her parents immigrated to the United States in the early 1980s. They struggled to integrate into a new culture and social system and found help through the support of social service agencies and the tight-knit Hmong com-munities

Friday, January 28, 2011 at 9:00 AM until Friday, January 28, 2011 at 11:00 AM Location: East Campus room 2313

iNTrOduCTiON TO SOMALi CuLTurE

Somali-specific topics:

• The civil war that forced many Somalis to leave their country• Why Somalis settled in Minnesota• Islam and its role in Somali society• Ways to interact with members of the opposite sex• Islam and bankingPresenter:

garat ibrahim joined the Center for New Community in 2008 as the Minnesota Orga-nizer for the Midwest Immigrant Health Project. He works with Somali refugees and Hispanic immigrants on health and safety issues at their workplaces and in their com-munities, primarily in Willmar, Minnesota.

Friday, February 11, 2011 at 9:00 AM until Friday, February 11, 2011 at 11:00 AM Location: East Campus room 2313

Cpr

The Heartsaver AED Course teaches adult and child CPR, AED use and relief of chok-ing.

Friday, February 11, 2011 at 12:00 pM until Friday, February 11, 2011 at 3:00 pM Location: E1221

Instructor(s) denise Howard

To register for these classes go to STARS online registration at: https://secure.mnsu.edu/mnscupd/login/default.asp?campusid=0304 .

If you need help with registration contact Marianne Wygant at 779-3905 or [email protected]

Staff: Contact your supervisor before registering. Once registered send a copy of your email confirmation to your supervisor.

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Speed MentoringJeremy Olson, Star Tribune

After talking about his wood supply business -- about the 120 species of wood and their uses -- Conrad Solberg started to offer young Nathanael Anderson a key to career success.

“It’s important,” he said, “in whatever you do that you. ... “

Ding!!!!!!

A chime told the mentor and mentee that their five minutes were up. It was time for Anderson, 18, to slide to the next seat and meet the next business leader down the line.

“Nice to meet you,” Solberg said with a smile. “Good luck!”

Speed dating events have been popular on the singles scene, so the White Bear Lake Rotary Club figured it might be an effective way to introduce teens to business leaders and careers. Surveys have found that many teens -- even seniors on the cusp of graduation -- don’t have well-developed career plans, said Janet Newberg, an at-torney who organized Wednesday’s event.

“These kids can have a short exposure to a whole bunch of careers” at this event, she said. “Maybe it will get them thinking more concretely about what they want to do with their lives.”

Over the lunch hour at White Bear Lake High School’s library, 25 stu-dents met in five-minute bursts with local business leaders. At one long table were 11 leaders in math and science. At the other were nine em-ployed in business, social services, education and law.

Anderson knew the table for him. He has long wanted to study law. It’s an interest born of family trag-edy -- the disappearance and pre-sumed kidnapping of a brother 21 years ago that brought his parents very close to the legal system.

“Ever since I was old enough to learn about it, my dad has been teaching me it,” he said.

Next down the line of professionals was Andrea Raths, who runs an adult day center for the Salvation Army. Raths started training in college to be a police officer, but realized she could never fire a gun at someone.

It made Anderson think. Raths wanted to help people, and still found a way to do it when she realized she couldn’t be a cop. What would he end up doing with a law degree?

Newberg said it is important to help teens form career goals, because they can build their résumés with internships, classes and work experience that match those goals.


Students sat opposite their momen-tary mentors in five-minute sessions that might be just enough to whet a young person’s appetite to learn more about a particular career. Mentors came from all sorts of fields – from the wood supply business, to law, to education, to police work and more.

photo: david Joles, Star Tribune

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The speed dating event was part of the Rotary’s STRIVE program, which provides ca-reer guidance and mentoring to students who don’t have top grades but are commit-ted to their educations. The program, which began in White Bear Lake but has spread nationally, also awards scholarships.

Anderson envisions a year at Century College to acclimate to life after high school, followed by a transfer to the University of Minnesota. Then he hopes to pursue law school.

Two seats down from Raths was Heidi Murphy, the school police officer. Minnesota requires a two-year degree to become a police officer, she said, but many departments weed out applicants who lack four-year degrees.

“It’s a much more competitive field now,” she said.

A chime halted their talk.

“Now you know where to find me,” Murphy said, pointing to her office, “since I’ve never had to call you down here.”

CHOOSiNg CArEEr pATHS

Anderson then met Kenneth Galloway, a chef turned manager of Dellwood Hills Golf Course, and Eric Hendrickson, who owns two liquor stores.

Coming from a small Iron Range town, Hendrickson understood Anderson’s desire to move gradually into college. He also understood the challenges of finding work in a tough economy.

Hendrickson said he was just glad years ago to find work as a wine distributor -- even though he didn’t drink wine. By age 28, his credit was solid enough to obtain financing to buy his bosses’ store.

“The thing I’ve been telling people is to build their credit,” he told Anderson, just ahead of the five-minute bell.

Anderson’s last visit was much anticipated. Newberg, the organizer, was a criminal prosecutor before switching to the defense side. Did prosecuting criminals teach her how to defend them? Did she take special training for the bar exam? Anderson rattled off questions and Newberg answered until the final bell.

With that, the students stood, thanked their visitors and tucked stacks of business cards into their backpacks. Lunch hour was over. It was time, again, to move quickly to the next thing.

Newberg said she enjoyed the speed mentoring event, now in its third year. Unlike career fairs -- where they are often sucked into the booths of FBI agents or other glamour jobs -- the event gives students a broad outlook.

“They do find out -- not a whole bunch -- but a little bit,” she said, “of what people in their communities are doing for a living.”

Nathanael Anderson


Lots of business cards



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January’s Menu at The Fresh Stop Cafe

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grille Special Chicken parmesan sandwich $5.49

Chef’s Special Build your own pasta $5.49

grille Special Teriyaki chicken sandwich $5.49

Chef’s Special Build your own pasta $5.49

grille Special Taco Tuesday $3.00

Chef’s Special Beef barbacoa burrito $5.59


Chef’s Special Firecracker chicken salad $5.59


Chef’s Special Steak quesadilla $5.59

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Closed for Martin Luther King Jr. day

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grille Special Cowboy burger $5.49

Chef’s Special Carved turkey breast $5.59

grille Special Grilled cheese/tomato soup $5.49

Chef’s Special Carved pork loin $5.59

grille Special Steak quesadilla $5.49

Chef’s Special Fried chicken $5.59

grille Special Gyros $5.49

Chef’s Special BBQ beef brisket $5.59

grille Special Mushroom swiss burger $5.49

Chef’s Special Parmesan chicken $5.59

grille Special Triple cheese grilled cheese $5.49

Chef’s Special Tortellini alfredo $5.59

grille Special Rachel $5.49

Chef’s Special Italian pasta bake $5.59

grille Special Chicken cordon bleu $5.49

Chef’s Special Shrimp scampi $5.59

grille Special fFrisco burger $5.49

Chef’s Special Sweet & sour chicken $5.59

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