| Start Date and Time | Event Details | Location |
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| 8:00 AM - 1:00 PM | Roadrunner Rush
Start your semester off right by attending Roadrunner Rush! Roadrunner Rush is designed for incoming new students. Attendees will be able to locate their classes, pick up student ID cards, buy books, print class schedules, meet other students, and learn more about the campus! A free BBQ lunch is included! | Main Campus |
| 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | Looking Under the Hood
FLEX #108
Take a tour of the Automotive Technology department and see what we are up to! Play with our hybrid vehicle trainer and see the Toyota Prius in a box! Coffee and doughnuts provided!
Strategic Initiatives
2. Supporting Student, Faculty and Staff Success | |
| 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM | Planning Spring Butte College Talent Show
FLEX #374
Do you have a talent you'd like to share? Do you know somebody who'd like to appear onstage? Are you good at organizing and recruiting? Join Magian Smith and the talent show team to begin planning the Butte College Faculty and Staff Talent Show. The show will take place in the Black Box Theater in early Spring 2018.
Strategic Initiatives
2. Supporting Student, Faculty and Staff Success
6. Enhancing a Culture of Inclusiveness
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| 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM | StrengthsQuest Part 1
FLEX #101.1
Come join us and learn more about StrengthsQuest!
Strategic Initiatives
2. Supporting Student, Faculty and Staff Success
4. Maximizing Resources to Support Student Learning
6. Enhancing a Culture of Inclusiveness
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| 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Student Rights and Faculty Due Process
FLEX # 201
Student discipline problems are on the increase, and the number of student appeals and complaints have gone up dramatically. What you don’t know about your rights and student due process can cause both you and the student
unnecessary problems. Topics of discussion will include: What constitutes disruption? Can you suspend a student? How do you report an incident? What records do you need
to keep? What key elements should be in your syllabus?
Strategic Initiatives:
1. Enhancing a Culture of Completion and Academic Achievement
2. Supporting Student, Faculty and Staff Success
4. Maximizing Resources to Support Student Learning | |
| 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM | You Can Learn a Lot from a Rock
FLEX #109
When most people think of geology they think of rocks. Geology is certainly that, but it is more a rigorous physical science in its own right. This workshop is designed to introduce the nonscientist to some of these phenomena.
Strategic Initiatives
1. Enhancing a Culture of Completion and Academic Achievement
2. Supporting Student, Faculty, and Staff Success | |
| 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Peer Evaulator Training
FLEX #300
Evaluator training is mandated by faculty contract once a full-time faculty member reaches tenure. The training session must take place before a newly-tenured instructor serves on an evaluation team for
a colleague, and the workshop also serves as a good review of the evaluation process for any instructor or administrator.
Strategic Initiatives:
1. Enhancing a Culture of Completion and Academic Achievement
2. Supporting Student, Faculty and Staff Success
4. Maximizing Resources to Support Student Learning
6. Enhancing a Culture of Inclusiveness | |
| 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Understanding the Evaluation Process
FLEX #307
As full-timers we all undergo the evaluation process. When we are first hired it is presented briefly but many of us have questions and concerns. This is a time to review the process, how to ensure it is followed and how to protect yourself. We point out the usual problem areas and help support you in this process. Come with other union contract questions as we are here for you.
Strategic Initiatives
2. Supporting Student, Faculty and Staff Success | |
| 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | Club Advisors' Luncheon
FLEX #201
The Club Advisors' Luncheon is a workshop for club advisors. Club advisors will be updated on upcoming related information.
Strategic Initiatives:
1. Enhancing a Culture of Completion and Academic Achievement
2. Supporting Student, Faculty and Staff Success
4. Maximizing Resources to Support Student Learning
6. Enhancing a Culture of Inclusiveness | |
| 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Gear Up for Accreditation!
FLEX #356
Do you have questions about Accreditation? Have you always wanted to know about the inner workings of Butte College? Do you like to write? Work with others? Do research? Conduct interviews? Analyze data? This workshop is for you!
Strategic Initiatives
1. Enhancing a Culture of Completion and Academic Achievement
2. Supporting Student, Faculty and Staff Success
3. Using Data-Informed Processes for Continuous Improvement
4. Maximizing Resources to Support Student Learning
5. Modeling Sustainability
6. Enhancing a Culture of Inclusiveness
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| 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Build an Honors Class
FLEX #111
Have you ever wanted to redesign your course outline to more specifically focus on applications, global questions, primary texts, and student discussions? Do you want to teach students who are self-motivated, genuinely curious, collaborative, and have an inquiring mind? Do you want to be able to focus on fewer students in your class? The Honors Program may be the place for you! In this workshop we will discuss the philosophy of the honors program and how to build an honors class. Bring your official outline because we will be building the courses together!
Strategic Initiatives
1. Enhancing a Culture of Completion and Academic Achievement
2. Supporting Student, Faculty and Staff Success | |
| 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Transfer Counseling Center
FLEX #202
The Transfer Counseling Center is pleased to announce the launch of the Transfer Academy for the fall semester. The goal of the academy is to increase the number transferring to the UC system. In addition, the Transfer Academy will work to foster a culture of transfer on campus, specifically, to the UC system. We will demonstrate the development of a comprehensive student education plan, and the various tools available to students and how faculty can assist in increasing student transfer rates.
Strategic Initiatives
1. Enhancing a Culture of Completion and Academic Achievement
2. Supporting Student, Faculty and Staff Success
4. Maximizing Resources to Support Student Learning
6. Enhancing a Culture of Inclusiveness | |
| 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | AIM for the Horizon: A Look at Imporvement to the Accomodations System
FLEX #203
Join us to learn about the new improvements to the AIM online accommodations system. We have been working to incorporate faculty suggestions for the system and want to share the newest model that will allow faculty to log in access to make completing testing agreements and uploading exams even easier. Don't miss this workshop.
Strategic Initiatives
2. Supporting Student, Faculty, and Staff Success
6. Enhancing a Culture of Inclusiveness
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| 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM | Glass Fusing Workshop Part 1
FLEX #112.1
Explore your creative side. Come down to the Sculpture Lab and try your hand at glass fusing. We will be working with transparent, opalescent, iridescent and diachronic glass and creating jewelry and small ornamental pieces. Thursday there will be a brief art glass lecture in ARTS 234, then we will head down to the sculpture lab where you will cut and design glass pieces. The glass pieces will be fired overnight. Friday will be spent finishing and assembling your glass pieces using a variety of findings. Space is limited to 25 attendees. Materials fee $10.
Strategic Initiatives
2. Supporting Student, Faculty and Staff Success
4. Maximizing Resources to Support Student Learning
6. Enhancing a Culture of Inclusiveness
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| 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM | Student Stress and What We Can Do To Help!
FLEX #506
Students (as with all of us) experience a lot of stress. Through discussion we will explore the types of stressors with which our students are dealing. We will also discuss strategies we can use to help students develop coping skills for dealing with and reducing their stress. We will discuss how internal vs. external locus of control, problem vs. emotion based coping and the common, unhealthy strategies that people often use.
Strategic Initiatives
2. Supporting Student, Faculty and Staff Success | |
| 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM | Curriculum Committee Retreat
FLEX #903
The Curriculum Committee will meet and review the goals for the upcoming year.
Strategic Initiatives:
1. Enhancing a Culture of Completion and Academic Achievement
2. Supporting Student, Faculty and Staff Success
3. Using Data-Informed Processes for Continuous Improvement
4. Maximizing Resources to Support Student Learning | |
| 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Diversity Committee
FLEX # 650
Individuals interested in fostering diversity on campus are invited to join the Diversity Committee meeting and hear an overview of their work on campus and plan for the upcoming year. The Diversity Committee works to promote an inclusive community that embraces all aspects of diversity among students, faculty, and staff. To raise awareness toward this goal, the committee organizes events and participates in campus events; provides diversity workshops and trainings on campus; funds faculty, staff, and students to diversity workshops off campus; and makes recommendations to faculty, staff, and administration on diversity-related topics.
Strategic Initiatives:
1. Enhancing a Culture of Completion and Academic Achievement
2. Supporting Student, Faculty and Staff Success
4. Maximizing Resources to Support Student Learning
6. Enhancing a Culture of Inclusiveness | |
| 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM | The Science of Decision Making
FLEX #200.5
We are exposed to 11 million bits of information every second, but we can only consciously process about 40 bits of it. This workshop will explore how this phenomenon affects important decisions we make every day that could have lasting effects in our classrooms, campus and community.
Strategic Initiatives
1. Enhancing a Culture of Completion and Academic Achievement
2. Supporting Student, Faculty and Staff Success
6. Enhancing a Culture of Inclusiveness | |
| 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | Make Iit Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
FLEX #114
This project will consist of a book club that will feature a current, readable, research-based and affordable book focused on the mechanism of learning. For the fall 2017 semester, the book will be Brown, Roediger and McDaniel's Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning (Belknap Press; Harvard University Press, 2014.) The August Flex Week meeting will introduce the book and sketch out more details. During the semester, the club will meet every other week to discuss one chapter.
Strategic Initiatives
1. Enhancing a Culture of Completion and Academic Achievement
2. Supporting Student, Faculty and Staff Success
4. Maximizing Resources to Support Student Learning
6. Enhancing a Culture of Inclusiveness | |
| 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | Writing Across Boarders: When Is Second Language Writing Good Enough?
FLEX #113
Writing Across Boarders is a 3-year documentary project founded by Oregon State University Center for Writing and Learning and its writing-inclusive curriculum program. The documentary's purpose is to keep faculty, writing assistants, and other professionals work more productively with international student writing environments.
Strategic Initiatives
1. Enhancing a Culture of Completion and Academic Achievement
2. Supporting Student, Faculty and Staff Success
4. Maximizing Resources to Support Student Learning
6. Enhancing a Culture of Inclusiveness | |
