Monday, February 20, 2017

Women's Leadership Conference

What is the Women’s Leadership Conference (WLC)? – Our HACC female students will attend breakout sessions given by HACC professionals and community leaders to offer information on leadership related topics. Students will network and be empowered about being a leader at HACC and beyond. This initiative is funded by the HACC Foundation.

Who should attend? – Our currently enrolled female students! Any student who attends the WLC will benefit and have a great experience at a professional event at HACC! Students who register must attend the entire event from 9am-1pm

What about faculty/staff? – The keynote speaker, Mykee Fowlin, will give a powerful presentation at 9am that is OPEN to ALL HACC students, faculty and staff. Register to attend here. Female faculty and staff can also attend the networking session at 12pm to mingle and network with our student attendees. Register here.

When and where is the event? – Friday, March 17, 2017, 9am-1pm – HACC Harrisburg campus, Rose Lehrman Arts Center

Thank you in advance for sharing the information with your students and encouraging them to attend! Any questions or more information, please be in touch.
Best,
Ricole Jayman

#haccladieslead

Linked Documents
WLC Agenda

Staff are encouraged to attend the keynote address by Mykee Fowlin, who one HACC staff member has described as "inspirational and moving"--and all faculty and staff are asked to encourage female students to attend the entire event. The slate for this day is impressive!

Thursday, February 16, 2017

Friday, February 10, 2017

Enology and Viticulture Program Inactivation

From Michelle Myers, Department Chair of Business Studies

We are inactivating the Enology & Viticulture AAS and Certificate, effective Fall 2017 based on the findings of the program review.   Current students have been notified via e-mail and “snail mail,and Michele Kieff and I created a teach out schedule for the current students based on the CAPPs.   The teach out schedule is designed for the college-ready, full time student and runs until Fall 2019.  You will notice on the teach out schedule that I left Fall 2019 open because I want to work with the deans to develop the schedule on actual student needs at that time.   The teach out schedule lists the courses each term, the adjunct faculty usually assigned, whether it’s online or blended, and the academic dean responsible for scheduling. 

I will be sending your assigned CAPP’s with the teach out schedule so you can help your students get through the program.  I have or will do the following:

1)      I will submit a blanket course waiver for HRIM 100 (currently CULI 100) – The World of Wine  - 1 credit for those students who have not taken the course yet.  The 1 credit course duplicates what the students learn in ENVI 183 – Sensory Evaluation I and was deemed superfluous by the current adjunct faculty.  This course is only taught on the Harrisburg Campus and may be a hindrance to completion and the 1 credit waiver will help expedite completion.  (I hope!)
2)      I have identified the students who have taken fewer than 9 credits in ENVI courses and those who have not matriculated at HACC for at least two years.   You will see my notes on the CAPP’s and you may want to contact those students to determine whether they intend to complete or present them with other options.   Michele: you have the bulk of them and I only separated yours, but did not write individual notes on the CAPP’s. 

3)      The ENVI program will move to Workforce Development (WFD) with a tentative start date of Fall 2018.  If students ask, the program will continue in the current online/blended format, hopefully with the same instructors, and the curriculum will be modified to be more flexible to accommodate those who wish to take the courses for personal enrichment only.  I am working closely with WFD to ensure that the content of the program does not sacrifice academic integrity or rigor.  The overlap between credit and WFD implementation  is intentional to allow those students who were not able to enroll in all of their credit courses when they were scheduled to take them on the WFD side and articulate them back into their credit programs.   In the future new students will be able to articulate a WFD certificate into the Business AAS program (details still in progress).