Amy Goodman to Speak at College of MarinThe College of Marin Film Department, Community Media Center of Marin, Book Passage, and Cinema League are co-sponsoring a lecture and book signing by Amy Goodman, an internationally acclaimed journalist and host of the daily grassroots global news hour Democracy Now!

Goodman has won many of the most prestigious awards in journalism, including the George Polk Award, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, and the Robert F. Kennedy Prize for International Reporting. She set out on this national speaking tour to mark the 13th anniversary of Democracy Now! and to talk about her third book written with her brother, investigative journalist David Goodman, titled Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times, Hyperion (2008).

Date:      April 12, 2009
Time:      6 p.m.
Location: College of Marin
              Olney Hall
              835 College Ave., Kentfield

Admission is free of charge. Please contact Communications Professor Frank Crosby at (415) 485-9364 or Michael Eisenmenger of the Community Media Center of Marin at (415) 413-4818 for more information.

Institutional Effectiveness SurveysIn support of the WASC self-study and the assessment of institutional effectiveness, the college’s Research Office has implemented several surveys this month.

1. The Student Opinion Survey is in progress and going well. It went out to instructors on March 23 for distribution to students in their courses. We have received over 800 student responses and there is still time for instructors to complete the surveys. The date for returning the surveys to the marked boxes in the Mail Room at either campus has been extended to April 10, 2009. Please help in collecting student opinions.
2. A survey on the student’s opinion of the college’s smoking policy was sent to a random sample of 600 students on March 31. Responses will be collected until Tuesday, April 7, 2009.
3. Finally, all employees of the college have been e-mailed a smoking policy survey to collect staff opinions on smoking at the college. The results of staff and student smoking surveys will be presented to the College Council on Thursday, April 9, 2009.

The smoking surveys are short and sweet – only two questions. Please fill out the survey online and get your opinions counted. Thanks to all who completed the surveys.

Latino College Awareness DayCollege of Marin is pleased to announce the 13th Annual Latino College Awareness Day. This event will be held in the Fine Arts Theatre, Kentfield Campus, on Thursday, April 9, from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. We are expecting approximately 350 Latino students from local high schools. Latino College Awareness Day will be coordinated by the Outreach and School Relations Department. This event will feature keynote speaker Dr. Juan Carlos Arauz who is a consultant, trainer, and writer specializing in areas related to immigration, youth, and education. He completed his Ed.D. at the University of San Francisco in International and Multicultural Education. He has been featured in a documentary that focuses on contemporary civil rights activists and has traveled around the country as an inspirational storyteller.

Attendees will also receive an introduction to Student Services programs and campus academic programs information. To augment the information available to students, tables and chairs will be set up outside in the Library Center Quad where College of Marin Students Services and some community based organizations will provide information from 10:50 a.m. to 11:50 a.m. so that students can learn more about the services and opportunities that are available to them.

KudosSpecial thanks to the Associated Students of Emeritus College (ASEC) Council for their continuing support of Community Services classes. Since fall 1995, ASEC has subsidized over $10,000 in support of over 100 low-enrolled Emeritus College Community Services classes, including bird watching, foreign languages, creative writing, music appreciation, anthropology, art, music, and fitness classes among others. Thank you, ASEC members, for your support of Community Services classes.

COM Drama Department Presents Charles L. Mee’s Big LoveThe College of Marin Drama Department will present Big Love by Charles L. Mee in the Studio Theatre on the Kentfield Campus April 24, 25, May 1, 2, 8 and 9 at 8 p.m. and May 3 and 10 at 2 p.m. Molly Noble, who directed last seasons smash hit, Dancing at Lughnasa, and who, in addition to her teaching duties at the college of Marin, is also Artistic Director of Porchlight Theatre Company, will direct the show.
Based on Aeschylus’ ancient play The Suppliant, Big Love is Mee’s delightfully modernized nod to the timelessness of the story wherein fifty brides flee to a manor in Italy to avoid marrying their fifty cousins. When asked why he wrote the play, Mee said he wanted to go back to what some have thought to be one of the earliest plays and see if the situation is as relevant today as then – and of course it is: “refugees, gender wars and men and women trying to find what will get them through the rubble of dysfunctional relationships, and anger and rage and heartache.”
Tickets for Big Love are $15 general; $10 for students, seniors, and College of Marin employees and alumni. Tickets may be ordered by calling the College of Marin Box Office at (415) 485-9385 or Brown Paper Tickets at 1 (800) 838-3006.

Annual Spring Dance ConcertCollege of Marin Dance Department presents The Next Step April 10 and 11, 2009, at 8 p.m. in the Fine Arts Theatre. The program will feature guest artists, trainees from the San Francisco Ballet School Trainee Program, with choreography by the College of Marin dance faculty and production design by e “Ernie” Ernstrom. The production is a feast for the eyes and ears with modern ballet, jazz, and hip-hop pieces set to music by leading composers such as Philip Glass and Zoe Keating.

Tickets are $15 general; $10 for students, seniors, COM employees and alumni, and are available through the College of Marin Box Office at (415) 485-9385. The event is supported in part by the College of Marin Foundation, Dancer’s Guild, and the Saragay Stetson Memorial Dance Fund. For more information contact Kristi Kuhn at (415) 457-8811 ext. 7734 or by e-mail.

Green FestivalThe Green Festival hosted by the Associated Students College of Marin (ASCOM) will be held on Tuesday, April 7, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Learning Center Quad. There will be live music, green information booths, natural foods and products, and more. Come learn and enjoy!

Ongoing

Coping with Disruptive Persons & Workplace Safety Workshop: A Staff Development Activity for COM Faculty and StaffThis workshop will be presented by Officer Dan Widger of our Campus Police Department. The material is based on Dan’s 30 years of law enforcement experience and training, as well as input from several other police officers and college staff. Faculty may use this activity to fulfill Flex hours. The workshop is open to all College of Marin employees. No pre-registration is required. The workshop will include the following:

• Recognizing disruptive persons, students, non-students, and employees;
• Who to contact for assistance;
• The quickest and safest ways to get emergency assistance from police, fire, and medical personnel;
• Strategies employees can use to lower the risk of assault and other violence and how to calm the disruptive person; and
• Information on updated Board Policies and Administrative Procedures related to safety.

Participants who have handled incidents with disruptive persons will be encouraged to share their experiences--what worked and what didn’t. The presentation will take 60 to 90 minutes depending on class participation. The last 30 minutes will be set aside for specific questions and problem solving.

The workshop will be repeated several times to ensure that as many faculty and staff as possible have the opportunity to attend. The workshop can also be repeated for your group upon request. E-mail kathleen.kirkpatrick@marin.edu or call (415) 485-9344 to schedule additional sessions.

Workshop Schedule
(Each workshop covers the same material.)

Date:      Monday, April 13 (Spring Break)
Times:    10 a.m. to noon
              or 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. (attend either session)
Location: LC 39

Also, you are invited to join the College of Marin Police Department from noon to 1 p.m. for an informal brown bag lunch and discussion.
The workshop is cosponsored by the College of Marin Police Department and the Staff Development Office.

Re:BirthYou are invited to view a juried group exhibition by College of Marin students through April 19, 2009, in the College of Marin Fine Arts Gallery, Kentfield Campus. Exhibited pieces are the result of artists reflecting on our hyper-connected global world. As a people we are witness to a constant stream of births of new ideas, forums, and communities daily. The pieces on display are a reflection of this complex and essential process of creation, and/or the many faces of birth that surround us. For gallery hours please call (415) 485-9494.

COM AthleticsAthletics Home Schedule for the Week of April 6:
Baseball vs. Solano College
Tuesday, April 7, 2009, 2:30 p.m. in Kentfield

Athletics Away Schedule for the Week of April 6:
Baseball vs. Contra Costa College
Thursday, April 9, 2009, 2:30 p.m. in San Pablo

Results:
Baseball
March 31, 2009 COM 7, Napa 2
April 4, 2009 Solano 8, COM 4

Track & Field
March 27, 2009
Pat Ryan Invitational at Santa Rosa
Emil Tolliver
100-meter       first place
200-meter       first place
Ryan Gallagher
High Jump       first place
100-meter       second place
200-meter       third place
Pole Vault        third place
Alex Embusch
400-meter       econd place
Van Hopkins, Ryan Gallagher, Alex Embsch, and Emil Tolliver took first place in the 4 x 100 relay – the first time in 10 years that a College of Marin relay team has taken first place. Excellent job!

Swimming & Diving
April 4, 2009
Chabot Invitational
Martin Malasky
50-yard freestyle                20.99 first place
200-yard freestyle              1:43.45 first place
100-yard butterfly               53.02 first place
All were meet records; the 50 freestyle was a COM record.
Selim Fertani
200-yard breaststroke          2:24.39 third place
100-yard breaststroke          1:05.95 fourth place
Gabrielle Dembski
50-yard breaststroke            34.86 sixth place
100-yard breaststroke           1:15.49 ninth place
100-yard individual medley    1.07.48 ninth place
Gabrielle was the highest scorer on the COM women’s team.

The conference championship is coming up April 16 to 18, followed by the state championship April 23 to 25. Come out and support your Mariners!

Have a great week!

Frances L. White, Ph.D.
Superintendent/President

President's Monday Briefing webpage
Technical Contact: Nicole Cruz, Admin. Assist., 415-485-9648   x7648
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