Changing Your Health One Habit at a Time

The ACC Wellness Program is offering employees a chance to get healthy this spring through a program called LOVE YOURSELF - LIVE WELL. This eight-week program offers support, helpful information and prizes for changing one health habit in your life. Whether you want to change your weight, stop smoking, move more, eat better or just have more fun, this program offers you a way to make it happen. Go to http://www.austincc.edu/hr/wellness/gethealthy/ and get your health transformation started. To get help creating a successful health goal and strategy, sign up here for the one-hour "Changing Your Health - One Habit at a Time" workshop at your campus.

Professional Development Opportunity at TCCTA

The 61st Annual TCCTA Convention will be held February 21-23, 2008 in Dallas at the Fairmont Hotel, offering educators a wide range of educational presentations. Topics run the gamut from successful teaching tips to financial planning. In addition to discipline-specific workshops, there will be GIFTS sessions covering such subjects as "Maximize the Group Work Experience in your Classes," "The Changing Roles of the Instructor in the Online Classroom," and "How to Improve Student Learning." To learn more about the convention and its offerings, please go to http://www.tccta.org/ and click on Events on the lower right hand corner of the page.

ACC pays the convention registration fee for faculty to attend the TCCTA convention, but you must be a member to attend. So, in order to attend you must first join the organization (ACC does not pay membership fees) at http://www.tccta.org/; once you are a member, you will automatically be registered for the convention. You should not pay for registration for the convention because when you attend, ACC will be sent the bill for your attendance. Please note that ACC pays registration only and does not pay travel costs unless you acquire that funding from your department.

Upcoming Workshops

worried In addition to our usual offerings, the list below previews workshops being offered this Spring. Go to the Workshop and Event Registration Database to view or register for any of these professional development opportunities.

WELL: Sandwich Generation–Learning to Care for Yourself as You Care for Others
2/5/2008, 10:00am-12:00pm, HBC 411

Workplace Communication
2/7/2008, 1:00pm-2:30pm, HBC 411

An Interactive Science College Classroom
2/8/2008, 1:30pm-3:30pm, NRG 2213

Personal Response Systems (PRS): One Professor's Experience
2/8/2008, 10:00am-12:00pm, HBC TBA

Crime Prevention in the Workplace
2/13/2008, 9:00am-9:30am, RVS S 103
2/29/2008, 8:00am-8:30am, NRG 2119

Six Simple Steps to Fitness Success
2/22/2008, 10:00am-11:30am, PIN 1013

WELL: Today's Top Health Threats
2/22/2008, 12:30pm-1:30pm, NRG 4136

SAFE ZONE: Diversity Outreach
2/29/2008, 12:00pm-1:30pm, EVC 3154

WELL: Back and Neck Pain (full)
3/3/2008, 12:30pm-1:30pm, EVC 8500

Course Redesign 2: Impact of Beliefs and Practices
2/8/2008, 2:00pm-4:00pm, HBC 410

Course Redesign 3: Exploring Technologies – Uses & Examples
3/7/2008, 2:00pm-4:00pm, HBC 218

Course Redesign 4: Integration and Redesign
4/18/2008, 2:00pm-4:00pm, HBC 410

Course Redesign 5: Self Assessment
5/9/2008, 2:00pm-4:00pm, HBC 103.2

Course Redesign 6: Sustainability in Course Redesign
5/30/2008, 2:00pm-4:00pm, HBC 103.2

CUST: Lean Office Certification Program
3/20/2008 to 4/3/2008, 8:00am-4:30pm, HBC 103.2

Adobe Acrobat Professional 8.0: Forms
Dreamweaver Basics
iCal
Faculty Training For Advising
Outlook Express Basics
Microsoft Excel Basics
Microsoft Excel Pivot Tables
Microsoft Excel: Formulas and Functions

Faculty Evaluation Results Are In

Faculty Evaluation Results for faculty members have been sent to all campuses. If you are a faculty member and you did not receive your results please fill out this form: http://www.austincc.edu/hr/eval/requests/information_request.php.

Faculty Evaluation results for Department Chairs have been sent from the Faculty and Staff Evaluation office and are in the process of intercampus mail distribution. If you are a Department Chair and you do not receive the evaluation results for your department within the next few days, please contact the Faculty and Staff Evaluation office at 223-7745 or via email at vforrest@austincc.edu.

Spring Development Day Keynote Offers Cutting-edge Insights

Spring Development Day Keynote Speaker Dr. Kelly McMichael brought keen insight to the critical question of just how one redesigns a curriculum to meet the needs of the 21st century student. A video clip of her talk can be accessed here.

John Caporusso Retires this Month

By P J Caporusso, Professional Development & Evaluation Programs

I’m coming out of the corner and taking a seat in class, now that I am retiring from ACC at the end of January. Hard to believe it’s been 25 years since I started here. I won’t be too far away though. I’ll still be teaching periodically in CE. Other than having more time in general, I’ve looked forward to being a student again. I’m enrolled in two CE and one credit class for this semester, so I’ll get my money’s worth out of my parking tag.

Our InfoStream editor, Merrilee Shopland, suggested I write something about my 25 years in higher education here at ACC. I don’t have enough space for that, and you don’t have enough time. What I will say is that I remember when the phrase lifelong learning was introduced and Malcolm Knowles made popular the term andragogy. I was mature enough to grasp the truth and reality of those concepts, and I think life is longer when we hold on to our enthusiasm for learning. Learning is growing, and growing is evolving, and that’s how I feel about this “retirement thing.” I’m not stopping—just making new connections that are taking me to new places for learning.

If you missed the invitation, we’ll be celebrating and reminiscing on Thursday, January 31, 3 p.m., HBC 201. RSVP Nicole Bell, 223-7997. Otherwise, I may see you in class.