July 11, 2019

PRESIDENT’S BOARD REPORT

July

4– Holiday, Campus Closed

19 and 26– Fridays, Campus Closed

10– Alumni & Friends Meeting, 1:00, PCR

25–Classified Professional Development Day

August 2-Friday, Campus Closed

14– Yuba College Convocation

19– Fall Semester Begins

Yuba College professor of psychology, Dr. Meridith Sel-

den, was awarded a $5,000 grant from the Academic Sen-

ate for California Community Colleges (ASCCC). The

highly competitive grant award (only 37 of 139 grant pro-

posals were funded) is for the development of open-

educational resources (OER) for Psychological Statis-

tics. In addition to this honor, future Yuba College stu-

dents will save significant money on textbook costs for

this popular course.

Yuba College is in the news with two great articles pub-

lished in the fabricator.com.

Weld Olympics challenges

students away from the

booth

https://www.thefabricator.com/

a r t i c l e / a r c w e l d i n g / w e l d -

olympics-challenges-students-

away-from-the-booth

Future Welders—Welding

Productivity

https://weldingproductivity.com/

article/future-welders/

Dr. Carla Tweed participated in this year’s Law

Enforcement Torch Run, kicking off the No.

California Special Olympics. Close to 97,000

police professionals in over 45 countries par-

ticipate in this worldwide effort to raise money

and awareness for Special Olympics.

As Yuba College and local public schools broaden their collabora-

tion in providing courses for

dual enrollment, concurrent en-

rollment, and Early College High

School, it becomes more critical

to also provide easier modes of

transportation. This new Yuba

Sutter Transit bus stop at the

Sutter County Center expands

access to education opportuni-

ties to students and reduces

pressure on working parents for

shuttling their children to the

college sites.

The shuttle service, appropri-

ately named “Yuba College

Shuttle” will run every 30

minutes and is FREE to ride be-

ginning January, 2020.

During June, 2019, Yuba College welcomed local students to campus as

part of the STEM Girls Con-

ference. This conference was

led by Yuba College Dean of

STEM and Alumnus Dr. Mi-

chael Bagley, With support

from Outreach Specialist, In-

derjit Deol, students learned

about many fields of educa-

tion, including Culinary Arts

as presented by Roy Hansen.

Yuba College Women’s Soccer

Team teamed up with Mountain

Mike’s Pizza on June 20 for a

fundraiser to support this year’s

summer youth camps and up-

coming intercollegiate season.

The team is led by coach Cristi-

na Baggio, and she thanks every-

one who attended the fundrais-

er and encourages all to come

out and watch a game this year.

Following is a friendly reminder

from our Childcare Center

M&O Director, David Willis, had the pleasure of participating as a pan-

elist in a nation-wide Webinar regarding the successful 2018 Yuba Col-

lege Roof Projects with Tremco WTI. The entire webinar presentation

is referenced in the following link. This project continues to

bring positive public awareness to the District and College. Nationwide

Webinar_ Yuba College 2018 Roof Project