July 14, 2003
Twenty Seventh Edition of the Year


Top of the News to You
Where "Managed Hiring" employees now work
CSM administrators and staff given day off on August 8
KCSM faces removal from cable service, GM asks supporters to speak out
CSM baseball players moving up, receive pro contracts, scholarships
CSM's Mooney is Giants' minor league player of month

But It's All News You Can Use...
New
Opening Day set for Monday, August 18
Helen Souranoff teaches theatre class for youth
College for Kids students will be on campus for three weeks

Ongoing, updated information
Language Arts Division announces new Gay/Lesbian Literature class for fall
New fall semester BUSW class
Campus improvement project update

Fun Stuff
Terry Simonson celebrates her 36th wedding anniversary in style

Summer 2003 Bulletin Board
Schedules of campus services, divisions
Library
Food vendor
Bookstore
Cashier's office
Health Center
Social Science Division

Contact us with your feedback
CSM Internal
CSM Listens

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Top of the News to you

Where "Managed Hiring employees" now work
Beginning July 1, as a result of the nearly completed Management Hiring process, familiar faces were in new positions and new faces were in familiar positions at the District's three colleges.

Managed Hiring, a cost-savings program, began in March as a much preferred alternative to layoffs. The process included included retirement and separation incentive packages that created vacancies. Those position-openings would be filled if they were "funded" for the new fiscal year, left unfilled if not. The vacancies allowed for employee movement across the District, resulting in continued employment for those whose positions were determined "non funded" for the new fiscal year and new opportunity for employees seeking a change.

Managed Hiring involved three rounds. Employees at all three District colleges were allowed to participate in the first round and only employees in "impacted" or "non funded" positions in the second. Any second round employees not placed entered the final round.

The program was necessitated because of expected significant cuts in District funding from the state for the 2003-04 fiscal year. At CSM alone, based on the projected reduction, the new year's budget needed to be cut by $4 million.

The following is a rundown of where CSM and KCSM employees who participated in Managed Hiring are working now. The information on present positions came from the District Board of Trustees June 25, 2003 Board Report.

Within and To CSM

•Gloria Bianchi is an administrative assistant, still reporting to the Office of the Vice President of Instruction; she was the telecourse coordinator.
•Juanita Celaya is KCSM's promotion/web content coordinator; she was an KCSM accounting technician.
•Ada Delaplaine is a payroll clerk in Operations, having moved from the Office of the Vice President of Instruction where she was a student services accounting technician.
•Isabel Dillman is an assistant II in Admissions & Records (A&R); she was an A&R clerk at Cañada College.
•Betty Fleming is the telecourse coordinator in the Office of the Vice President of Instruction; she was a KCSM staff assistant
•Bryan Gerbig is a senior Library/ media technician; he was an athletic trainer at Cañada College.
•Joyce Griswold is an office assistant II in Counseling; she held the same position in the Career Center.
•Rita Gulli is a staff assistant in Corporate Education at CSM, formerly working in KCSM's Major Planning Gifts department.
•Samuel Haun is a KCSM accounting technician; he was a staff assistant in Corporate Education at CSM.
•Zarghona Khana is an office assistant II for the Business/Creative Arts and Language Arts divisions; she held that same position for the Language Arts Division.
•Christianne Marra will be a staff assistant in the President's Office on September 1, 2003; her former position will be instructional aide in the Language Arts Division.
•Elizabeth McCarthy is an instructional aide II in the Math/Science Division; she formerly held that position in the Learning Center at Cañada College.
•Patricia (Trish) Millet is a shipping/receiving clerk in Operations; she was an office assistant II in Counseling.
•Niruba Srinivasan will be a KCSM TV programmer on September 1, 2003, moving from a clerk position in A&R.
•Jeanne Stalker will be a KCSM accounting technician on August 1, 2003, leaving her staff assistant position in the Physical Education Division at Cañada College.
•Rebecca Winchester will be a TV Programmer at KCSM on September 6, 2003, leaving her accounting technician position at KCSM.

CSM Employees To Skyline College
•Eric Benjamin is an operations assistant I in Operation, having left his position as office assistant II in CSM Counseling Department.
•Jon Holloway is lead security officer; he was a CSM security officer.

CSM Employees To Cañada College
•Alejo Vasquez is an instructional aide II in Academic Support Services; he held the same position at CSM Multi-media Center.

Employees at CSM to District Office
•David Feune will be a senior human resources assistant on January 1, 2004; his former position will be program coordinator in Corporate Education at CSM.

The Managed Hiring program should be completed by the end of July, according to a District administrator, and updates will be provided.

In upcoming weeks, a report on retired, voluntary separated and reassigned CSM employees will appear in CSM Internal.

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CSM administrators and staff given day off on August 8
President Shirley Kelly announced recently that CSM administrators and staff will be given August 8 off because the campus will be without electrical power. As reported last week, a cogeneration unit will be installed that Friday.

The campus is on a summer, flex schedule designed to allow the campus to close around 12:30 p.m. on Fridays. Therefore, the power "outage" will amount to just a half a day of work interruption.

"CSM administrators and staff will be given that time off, however, without having to take vacation or comp time," said President Shirley Kelly.

Because of the importance of keeping KCSM on the air, it will be supplied with a generator so its staff can continue to run the station.

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GM asks supporters to speak out
KCSM faces removal from cable service
By Marilyn Lawrence, KCSM's general manager
As we near completion on our conversion from analog to digital braodcasting, we'd like to inform you of a very important matter that concerns the future of your community station and its carriage on basic cable.

With two other prominent public broadcasting stations sharing the television market in the San Francisco Bay Area, KCSM TV faces an uncertain future as cable companies consider eliminating all but one of your community station's digital signals from their basic cable service. I am confident you feel as strongly as I do about our community station and realize we can't let this happen.

Under the present requirements, cable providers are required only to carry the local analog stations that can be received in the cities they serve. All other services are provided at their discretion. However, these "must carry" rules do not address digital television, the format in which all television stations--public as well as commercial--have been mandated by the federal government to broadcast.

Cable companies make money in four ways: 1) subscriber fees for basic services, 2) subscriber fees for enhanced services, 3) providing data services and 4) through pay-per-view services. Since cable providers are required to provide public stations for free, there's no opportunity for them to tie a fee to carrying stations like KCSM.

Carrying additional digital signals (also known as multicasting--a key feature in digital television) provided by local stations to serve and entertain the community occupy bandwidth and prevent cable providers from providing other services that generate more revenue for the cable companies. In fact, some of the services that are available over the air today for the benefit of consumers are not being carried on cable at all.

What can you do?

If you subscribe to cable, be vocal. Let your city representatives know how you feel about the prospect of losing vital community broadcasting services like KCSM. Call or write your cable company and let them know you want KCSM to remain available on cable.

And, of course, keep watching!

Thank you for all you do for KCSM.

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Receive pro contracts, scholarships
CSM baseball players moving up
...All 12 sophomores from CSM's men's baseball team have either signed major league contracts or will be going to four-year universities or colleges--some receiving scholarships, according to the College's baseball coach Doug Williams.

It has already been reported in previous editions that star center fielder Mike Mooney signed with the San Francisco Giants and ace pitcher Scott Felmdan with
the Texas Rangers. They are already playing in the minor leagues this summer.

In addition, a number of other players from the Coast conference champions are going to continue their careers at four-year institutions in the upcoming year.

Left fielder Colton Daines will be going to Vanderbilt University on a scholarship. Pitchers Mike Orlick and Chris Herrera will go to Sienna College and Sonoma State University, respectively, and will receive scholarships. Pitcher Jesse Allen will be attending Sonoma State University and right fielder Andy Hnilo Sacramento State University. Both will receive partial scholarships.

Utility player Andy Paine will be off to Penn University, and third baseman Ryan Worthington and catcher Mark Sagrafena will attend Sonoma State University. Outfielder Matt Cozzolino, because of injury, has not yet declared where he's going to go but is planning on a four-year school.

CSM's Mooney is Giants' player of the month
The San Francisco Giants named outfielder Mike Mooney of the Arizona Rookie League club and six other players the organization's Minor League Players of the Month for June, club Senior Vice President and General Manager Brian Sabean announced last Thursday.

Mooney, the stand-out center fielder for CSM's Coast Conference championship team over the last two years, signed with the Giants in the 16th round of the recently concluded Major League Baseball draft. He immediately began hitting the ball hard and often in the team's rookie league, displaying the skills that earned him the Conference's Most Valuable Player title in the Spring.

The CSM star went 10-for-28 (.357) in eight games for his team in June, leading it in average, hits, runs (six), doubles (three), runs batted in (six) and stolen bases (three).

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But It's All News You Can Use...

New

...The District's "Opening Day" will take place on Monday. August 18, starting at the Performing Arts Center in San Mateo through lunch and then continuing at the respective colleges in the afternoon. Fresh & Natural will cater the breakfast and--can you smell the barbecue in the photo?--Armadillo Willy's will provide the ribs, chicken, beans, slaw and corn bread for lunch. More details will be provided in upcoming weeks.

...Helen Souranoff of the campus theatre developed the curriculum for and taught a class entitled "Set Design–Tech" for the recently concluded Music & Fine Arts Camp at CSM. Souranoff provided the 10 to 14 year old participants "an up-close, behind-the-scenes course for technical theatre buffs." Her students were offered "hands-on learning, including training in production design, lighting, sound, and building sets." As a final project, the students built the sets for and some made up the stage crew at the camp's musical performances. The camp is a cooperative effort between CSM, Community Education at CSM and the City of San Mateo.

...Community Education at CSM, coordinator of College for Kids, is seeking the assistance of campus employees. Young people, ages 10 to 14 years old, will be at the College in the afternoons and participating in the eleventh annual enrichment program at CSM from July 14 to July 31. Mondays through Thursdays, the youth will be attending classes in buildings 4, 5 (South Cafeteria) 8, 10 and 14. They will be arriving in the drop-off areas (mostly in Parking Lots 4 and 5) around 1:15 p.m. and leaving from those same areas at about 4:45 p.m. At 2:15 and 3:25, they will be going from one class to another. Community Education is requesting that employees help direct students to their classrooms and exercise patience and additional guidance during drop-off and pick-up. Please call (650) 574-6149 for more information.

Ongoing, updated information

...In a recently distributed flyer, the Language Arts Division announced a new fall class entitled Gay/Lesbian Literature (Lit 261/861). Taught by Professor Joyce Luck, it will meet on Tuesday evenings from 6:30 to 9:25 p.m. and explore the works of writers such as Dorothy Allison, Andrew Holleran, Michelle Tea, David Leavitt, Audre Lorde, Michael Cunningham, Rita Mae Brown, James Earl Hardy, Achy Obejas, E.M. Forster, Thom Gunn and Adrienne Rich. Themes to be examined include self-identity, essentialism v. social-constructionism, queer theory, coming out, homosexuality and the Church, AIDS, gay marriage and parenting, gender identity and the politics of outing. For more information about the course, call (650) 574-6677, extension 9260. Go to www.collegeofsanmateo.edu for information about registering.

...Beginning in Fall 2003, CSM will be offering BUSW 680--Introductory Project Management Using Microsoft Project. Learn everything there is to know about Microsoft Project, a multifaceted and highly versatile project management software program used for tracking tasks, costs and resources. This is a short course -- only 8 weeks -- and will be held on Wednesday evenings from 6:30 to 9:20, beginning on August 20. For more information call (650) 574-6494, or go to websmart.smccd.net to register online.

...For more information about the campus improvement project (CIP), go to smccd.net and click on facilities and then on "Planning & Construction." Swinerton Management & Consulting, the San Francisco company hired to manage the CIP, has representatives on campus, located in the lower level of Building 6. The company has a communications coordinator, Karen Freeman, to answer questions from CSM employees. Her phone number is (650) 378-7334 and her email address is freemank@smccd.net. For past articles about the campus improvement project at CSM, see the March 31, 2003 and November 11, 2002 editions of CSM Internal in the News Archive section linked above.

...Fun Stuff
Terry Simonson of Cooperative Education celebrated her 36th wedding anniversary with her husband Mike recently at the Highlands Inn in Carmel. Pictured at the Pacific Edge restaurant, the happy couple are enjoying a sunset.

Summer 2003 Bulletin Board
Schedules of campus services, divisions

...The summer hours for the Library from June 16 through August 8 are 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. (closed 2:00-4:00 p.m.) and 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., Mondays through Thursdays. The Library Learning Center Hours are 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., Mondays through Thursdays. The Library and Learning Center will be closed on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Note: Tutoring services will not be available in the Library Learning this summer.

...The summer and now fall schedule of the campus food service vendor, Fresh & Natural, is as follows:

The cafeteria and Food Court but not the International Cafe will open on June 16, the beginning of the summer semester. Their hours will be Mondays through Thursdays, from 7:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Beginning August 20, when the fall semester begins, the cafeteria will be open from 7:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., Mondays through Fridays. The International Cafe and Food Court will be open from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., Mondays through Thursdays, and 7:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on Fridays.

...CSM Bookstore's hours this summer from June 23 through August 19, the hours are 7:45 a.m. to 7:15 p.m., Mondays through Thursdays. The Bookstore will be closed on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and holidays.

...The Cashier's Office in Building 1 will be open from 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Mondays through Thursdays, and 8:00 a.m. to noon on Fridays, from June 16 through August 8. And it will be open in the evenings from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m., Mondays through Thursdays, during the first two weeks of the summer 2003 semester or June 16 through June 27.

...The Health Center's summer hours are as follows: June 16 to July 24, Mondays through Thursdays, 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.; June 16 to August 7, Monday through Thursdays evenings, 5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.; and closed on Fridays.

...The Social Science Division office’s summer 2003 hours will be 7:00 a.m. to noon and 12:30 to 4:30 p.m., Mondays to Thursdays, closing on Fridays, starting June 6 through August 8. The dean will be on duty on certain Fridays during this summer period.

See Calendar section for more event info.

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