Knowing is Half the Battle

Hello Success Center Staff,

I wanted to make sure that you were all aware of some campus events coming up in the next couple weeks:

The debate club will be having a debate on Friday May 30th at the Center Stage in the Whipple building starting at noon and ending at 1 pm.  The topic is, "Should Oregon open primary voting so that unaffiliated voters are able to participate." Two of our tutors are heading opposite sides of the debate: Tyler Cheek will argue for the proposal and Susie Day will argue against the proposal.  I am encouraging you all to show up and give your support to our Success Center co-workers.  

Our student government (ASUCC) is hosting the annual Spring Fever event also on May 30th.  Spring Fever will start at noon and end at 5 pm.  ASUCC is looking for some volunteers to help with the Spring Fever event.  If anyone is able to help, please contact Susie Day or another student government representative.  If you volunteer your time, you will receive a free tee-shirt as a "thank you" for your time.  

Last weekend ASUCC held their sixth annual dodge-ball tournament.  Our Success Team was able to come in second place behind the National Guard team.  The second place prize was a $75 gift card for Abby's Legendary Pizza.

While we are on the topic of pizza, we will be having a celebration for having over 1,000 student visits to the Success center for tutoring this term.  We will hold this event instead of having our tutor meeting on Friday June 6th.  I want to thank and congratulate our staff for doing a great job with getting students logged in and providing excellent support to our students at UCC.  We have been helping an average of just over 50 students each day.  We will also be giving out the CRLA certificates earned by each tutor on June 6th in addition to our previously mentioned celebration.  I appreciate all of your hard work and keeping up with what you are being asked to accomplish during your work week.  Since there have been some changes recently, I wanted summarize the tasks that need to be completed by all Success Center employees.

• E-Mails: Regularly (multiple times per week) check your student email account and any other e-mail address that you provided to the Success Center.  If you receive an e-mail from a Success Center staff member I need you to respond to it promptly.  Also, remember to log into G-Chat when you clock on to tutor.
• Tutoring Blog:  Each employee needs to read and post a response to the tutoring blog by the end of each week that a blog is published.  I will send e-mails out with a reminder of the web address for the blog (SuccessCenterTutoring.blogspot.com).
• Student Bank Entries: Each day that you work in the Success Center we need each employee to record three entries (deposits/withdraws) to the student bank.  These entries need to be interactions with UCC students that go beyond your typical day-to-day interactions.
• Weekly Reflection Form: Fill out the reflection forms when they are e-mailed out to you on Friday's and have the previous week's completed form e-mailed to me.  I sent out the first reflection form this Monday, May 19th, which should reflect your experience during this term so far, however the reflection forms going forward will be based on the events of the previous weeks.  Please spend some time to provide quality responses on the reflection forms.  I will start scheduling the one-on-one follow-up meetings for next week.

We will be having our tutor meeting at 3:30 this Friday like normally scheduled.  Campus, including the Success Center, will be closed May 26th for Memorial Day.

Question:

If knowledge is half the battle, Can anyone tell me what the other half is?