The DCE ConnectionVolume 8, Issue 4 June 2010

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New Program Coordinated by DCEThis spring semester, K-State’s Conference and Noncredit Programs had the pleasure of coordinating the fi rst Introduction to Lean Operations in Healthcare workshop on April 30. The workshop was sponsored by David Ben-Arieh, a professor for Kansas State University’s College of Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering (IMSE) department, and was held at the K-State Alumni Center. Aimed toward hospital directors, qual-ity control leaders and staff, chief nursing offi cers, management engineers, and managers, the workshop’s guest speakers included representatives from K-State faculty, a private not-for-profi t Kansas medical center, and a healthcare improvement consulting fi rm.

Some of the objectives of this workshop focused on learning about the key tools that can actuate change in a healthcare organization, understanding how to appropriately use lean concepts as a performance improvement tool in the participant’s healthcare organization, learning how to test and implement key intervention to improve the delivery of patient-centered care, and how to obtain a lean toolkit to help jumpstart the participant’s own improvement efforts as well as obtaining hands-on experience.

The fi rst speaker, Ben-Arieh, began with an introduction of lean operations, what is it and how it works, by discussing national data, trends and needs, and planning for lean projects. Doug Miller, Manager of Informatics for a healthcare improvement consulting fi rm, Premier, Inc., informed participants on existing lean concepts such as value stream mapping, Lean 5 S, and Lean Kaizen. Rep-resenting Kansas’ best tertiary care center in rural America, Terry Siek, Chief Nursing Offi cer from Hays Medical Center, addressed topics such as lean and current practices. Lastly, John Wu, a professor at K-State, discussed several metrics and performance measures used within the lean operations fi eld today.

Ben-Arieh summarized this year’s workshop as a success and is looking for-ward to the possibility of holding the Introduction to Lean Operations in Health-care Workshop on an annual basis.

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Academic Advising GraduatesFour students in the Academic Advising master's degree program attended gradua-tion ceremonies in Bramlage on Friday, May 14. Stephanie Sheffi eld, from Bakersfi eld, California, brought several family members with her to help celebrate. Her parents live in Okinawa, Japan and they made the trip to "watch their baby graduate!” Jerold Quaerna, from Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, brought his two daughters and wife to the celebration. The two teenage girls seemed very proud of their father! Elaine Newman, from Abbotsford, British Columbia, brought one guest with her to Manhattan. Racheal Roy, from Warren, Rhode Island, and also brought one guest with her to graduation.

Dean Mike Holen met with the students after the ceremony to offer his congratulations and to take pictures with the graduates. The students were all very complimentary of the academic advising program and of the Division of Continuing Education and the College of Education. One of them said, "We knew each other through class and online discussions but had never met each other before. It was great to get to know fellow students and to meet some of the faculty members who taught the classes."

Marketing and Communications Services will be following up with many of the graduates to write feature stories that will be sent to their respective local media outlets.

Southwest Kansas AccessUs Elementary Education Graduates Nine students in the elementary education cohort in southwest Kansas met in Manhattan on Friday, May 14 for a graduation reception held by the College of Education, Elementary Education Department. Many brought their own children and their parents, representing three generations for several of the graduates. All present were so proud of their graduates and the accomplishments they have made. Gail Shroyer wel-comed the group and gave each student an opportunity to tell what the program meant to them and what their families and friends had to sacrifi ce to support them in their pursuit of this degree. Other instructors for the program spoke to the students and praised them on their dedication and hard work and for sticking with the program when times got tough. A total of fourteen students in this program graduated on Saturday, May 15. The students were all fi rst-generation college students and will be teaching in the mostly Spanish- speaking communities of Southwest Kansas.

Nineteen engineering master's distance students graduated this spring. Roxanne King, who earned her Master's in Engineering Management after four years, was one of the students who attended Commencement on Friday, May 14. She continued her online studies even when she was stationed in Iraq and over the past four years has lived in at least four or fi ve other locations.

Diego Farfan, another engineering graduate this semester, did not attend Commencement but came to Manhattan from Florida in late April for his fi nal exam. Diego came from Peru barely 10 years ago and spoke no English when he arrived. After fi nishing his bachelor's degree in Florida, he successfully completed his Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering via K-State's distance education program in just over two years.

Engineering Graduated 19 at May Graduation

Ellen Stauffer and Roxanne King at May Commencement.

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On May 11-12, the Midwestern Higher Education Compact (MHEC) hosted a meeting in Minneapolis of transfer and articulation ex-perts and other thought leaders from around the region as part of the CREST initiative (Credential Repository for Education, Skills, and Training). MHEC received a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to explore the feasibility of CREST and to determine how and in what form the concept might be brought to fruition. More than 40 individuals from all 12 MHEC states participated in the meeting. As conceived, CREST would enable degree seekers to create a web-based portfolio to bank or store the college credits they have earned and to document learning they have achieved through workplace training, military service, community education, and other formalized experiences. CREST would then match individual degree seekers with institutions who would present degree comple-tion plans based on the assessed "value" of the portfolio. Degree seekers would then evaluate the multiple offers and choose one based on whatever combination factors are most important to them. The meeting was a joint effort of MHEC and initiative partners with the Institute for Academic Alliances at Kansas State University. A full report of the meeting and progress on the initiative to date will be presented to the MHEC executive committee at its upcoming meeting in Sioux Falls.

CREST Initiative partners and CREST steering committee: Back (L to R): MHEC Commissioner Ken Sauer, senior associate commissioner for research and academic affairs at the Indiana Commission for Higher Education; Dawn Anderson, senior coordinator, Institute for Academic Alliances, Kansas State University; and MHEC Commissioner Conway Jeffress, president, Schoolcraft College. Front (L to R): MHEC Vice President for Research and Policy Analysis Chris Rasmussen; Sue Maes, dean of the Division of Continuing Education and co-director, Institute for Academic Alliances, Kansas State University; and Marcia Schuley, research assistant, Division of Continuing Education, Kansas State University.

MHEC hosts work meeting on CREST Initiative

Academic and Professional Programs - a new unit that was formerly part of Continuing Learning Lynda Spire, Supervisor Rosemary Boggs, Kathy Burkholder, Deb Eakes, Ron Jackson, Cara Koerperich, Trina McCarty, Bettie Minshall, Janice Nikkel, Ellen Stauffer, and Laura Sylvester

Conferences and Noncredit Programs - a new unit that was formerly part of Continuing Learning Sharon Brookshire, Supervisor Tanya Beninga, Charissa Bowditch, Heide Burke, Liz Babcock, Dana Flynn, Rebecca Frakes, Debbie Hagenmaier, Jennifer Hodges, Nichole Stoddard, and Kathleen Witcher

Marketing and Communication Services - formerly the Public Information Offi ce Melinda Sinn, Supervisor Jon Faustman, Leonard Leeling, Kim Schurle, Traci Taylor, and Rosanna Vail

Student and Faculty Services - a new unit that was formerly the Facilitation Center and now includes the new Call Center Lynda Spire, Supervisor Peggy Blanken, Suzy Hay, and Erin Moore

DCE Units Change Names

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EXCELL Students Meet Willie the Wildcat

Students in K-State’s Project EXCELL visit with Willie the Wildcat during a break from their Saturday class activities. Students were VERY excited to meet Willie and lined up for autographs and to get their pictures taken.

Willie the Wildcat cheers on students in K-State’s Project EXCELL. Project EXCELL (Extending College Education for Lifelong Learning) provides noncredit continuing education classes for adults age 18 and older with mild developmental disabilities or other cognitive disabilities. This project is funded by the Kansas Health Policy Authority and managed by Wamego/USD #320 as part of an area consortium, which UFM is involved in.

Kristi was a May 2010 graduate with a Bachelor of Arts in Politi-cal Science and International Studies with a Certifi cate in Confl ict Resolution. She plans to continue working at Continuing Education as a student assistant for Rosemary Boggs until August. She is also serving as a fi eld director for the Manhattan area and north for Jerry Moran for Senate.

Dawn was a May 2010 gradu-ate with a of Master of Science in Counseling and Student Development. She will be working in her current position with DCE as Facilita-tor for the Bachelor's Degree Completion Program through the summer. She hopes to fi nd a position in advising or where she can work with students.

Brandon was a May 2010 graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Management Information Systems. Brandon will begin working for Great Plains Manufacturing in Salina as a PC Systems Specialist on June 7. Brandon’s last day at Continuing Education will be June 4.

Kristi KondaContinuing Learning

Dawn LesperanceContinuing Learning

Brandon PerkinsDuplicating/Mail Center

May 2010 DCE Student Graduates

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DCE Conference Calendar

Birthdays

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June1 ....... Rebecca Frakes, Conference Registration5 ....... Sophie Ball, Conferences and Noncredit Programs7 ....... Ivy Popovich, Registrar’s Offi ce7 ....... Taylor Richter, Student and Faculty Services12 ..... Tanya Beninga, Conferences and Noncredit Programs15 ..... Ruth Williams, Dean’s Offi ce20 ..... Eva Hedtke, Conference Registration22 ..... Marian Mersmann, Student and Faculty Services22 ..... Adam Miller, SVS High School Spanish23 ..... Maria Riviere, SVS High School Spanish24 ..... Molly Bostwick, Academic and Professional Services24 ..... Lisa Steffens, UFM28 ..... Kelly Terrell, Program Development and Marketing

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JUNE1-4 ......... 4-H Discovery Days..................................................................Manhattan, KS2-4 ......... Engineering and Science Summer Institute for Teachers (ESSI) .....Manhattan, KS6-9 ......... Annual Conference for Veterinarians and Trade Show ....................Manhattan, KS6-11 ....... GROW: Girls Researching Our World ...........................................Manhattan, KS7-10 ....... Music Symposium ....................................................................Manhattan, KS10-13 ...... Arthropod Genomics ................................................................Kansas City, MO10-25 ...... K-State Orientation and Enrollment ............................................Manhattan, KS11-18 ...... Rapid Methods and Automation in Microbiology Workshop .............Manhattan, KS11-20 ...... Wildcat Warm Up .....................................................................Manhattan, KS14-15 ...... Rural Grocery Store Summit ......................................................Manhattan, KS14-17 ...... Association for Communication Excellence Conference (ACE) .........St. Louis, MO17-18 ...... North Central Conference of Vet Laboratory Diagnosticians ............Manhattan, KS23-25 ...... EXCITE!: EXploring sCIence, Technology, and Engineering .............Manhattan, KS24-26 ...... UCA Cheer Camp .....................................................................Manhattan, KS28-7/3 .... Combined Radon Measurement/Mitigation Courses and Exams .......Jefferson City, MO