Creating a Successful Community

Hello Success Center Employees,

• Many of you are either working on your last term to complete your first year of college or are looking forward to graduating after this upcoming Spring Term. I would like to congratulate each student that continues to work at brightening their future by attending Umpqua Community College. Success is typically not easy . However, the more work and effort that you put into it, the greater the reward is in the end. As we finish up these last few weeks, I ask that you not only find what motivates you to continue fighting for success, but that you also encourage others to do the same. 

• The Success Center has recently added some new members to our team: we have two new Success assistants Miles and Jacob, as well as a new skills tutor, Allen. In addition to adding new members to our team, we will be offering office hours with each of our tutors. The office hours are broke down into twenty minute increments for a total of three sessions per hour. The office hour sessions are designed for those students that are in need of some one-on-one time with a tutor to develop a plan or strategy for moving forward with their courses.  This should allow the student to be able to effectively continue with their coursework with only needing minimal help from the tutors. Because it will take some time for the students to be informed of this service, your office hour time slots may not be filled for the first couple of weeks. When you have open slots for your office hours you can either tutor during that time in the Success Center or find a tutee that would benefit from your one-on-one time. If you have tutees in need of some one-on-one time as you are tutoring throughout the week, there is a Success Center referral/appointment form on the UCC website.  This form will be sent to the Success Center front desk to schedule an appointment for the student. We will discuss this more during Friday's meeting. 

• We will be visiting classrooms during the next two weeks to inform students of the services that we offer. If you are interested in helping out with these presentations please let me or Tyler Cheek know as soon as possible. These presentations will be done in pairs and will last no longer than ten minutes. 

• "The aquarium has been sitting idly for two weeks now because it was not approved to be used. Many of the students have shown interest for an aquarium, and many more are disappointed that we will no longer have one. Robert has started a petition on behalf of the students to persuade UCC that the students have a say in whether or not we should have an aquarium. The petition can be found at:
  

  http://www.change.org/petitions/umpqua-community-college-approve-a-reef-aquarium-for-the-success-center

It just takes a moment to sign, so if you have an interest in seeing a saltwater reef tank in the Success Center make sure you do your part!" - Robert

• I will be posting the schedules by subject inside the Success Center doors Tuesday morning. If there are any concerns with your schedule times or if you need to be added to subject please let me know as soon as possible. Thank you for the amazing work so far this year that has made the Success Center such an impactful place for our student body. Let's finish the year of strong! 

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

 -Benjamin Franklin