JACC State Convention 2009

There were a few things that I enjoyed from this year's state convention.

The first one was a workshop about how to be an editor without killing anyone.

The adviser from Cal State Sacramento didn't listed common problems that editors face constantly.

She didn't give any real solutions, but she gave ways to deal with them.

It's a thankless job, but we have to deal with it.

I'm waiting for an e-mail with her PowerPoint presentation on it.

I also enjoyed the page layout competition. The comments left on my entry say that I would have been a finalist if I didn't accidentally use the libelous story.

I should have took more time to read them so I could've caught the anonymous source.

You live and learn though.

The convention also had shuttles on Saturday going to the state capitol building.

That was fun to walk around in there.

This was definitely one of my favorite conventions I've been to.

SLO Committee

Bryan Reece acted as chair of an Student Learning Outcomes Committee in the fall semester as a taskforce.

The Faculty Senate is requesting it become an official committee.

The purposes of the committee include:
- overseeing the SLO strategy for Cerritos,
- providing support to individuals and programs on campus that need assistance with developing and assessing SLOs.
- suggesting college-level resources to support SLOs,
- coordinating with other groups doing SLO work,
- overseeing SLO assessments for the AA/GE, career and technical, transfer, developmental education programs and institution and
- monitoring trends and practices on issues within the committee's scope and communicating them to the college.

An SLO Committee sounds essential for Cerritos College.

Expanding SLOs is one of the eight required improvements for Cerritos.

A special committee dedicated to this could just be the trick.