CSM's
sixth annual Health Fair will be held in Building 5's South Cafeteria
on March 30 and 31. On both days, the free event runs from 10 am to
2 pm. March 29, 2004
Twelfth Edition of the Year
Top of the News
Two-day
CSM Health Fair starts Tuesday
"Mental Imagery In
Art and Science"--an art exhibition and lecture April 2
Latest budget subcommittee
meeting summary, upcoming agenda
But It's All News You
Can Use...
Two from CSM on Who's Who in America list
CSM instructor
one of 16 to lead national initiative on multicultural education
Counselor
Steve Morehouse is one busy guy
CSM instrumental in approval of
program model for serving students with psychological disabilities
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement
of Teaching visits CSM
Student Activities Office now
selling stamps
Research
Latest CSM Research
Briefs: "CSM Students with Bachelor's Degrees"
Upcoming CSM events
Mark your calendars: Astronomy
Day Skyshow & Open House on April 24
For Students
Transfer Center Events this week
Ongoing
information
Sources
of information about the campus facilities improvement program
Diversity lecture series continues
on May 6
Fun
Stuff
A little more help with a new name
for the Fun Stuff section
Who
has the Employee of the Month parking spaces in April
Contact
us with your feedback
CSM Interna
CSM Listens
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Top of the News to you
Two-day
CSM Health Fair starts Tuesday
CSM's
sixth annual Health Fair will be held in Building 5's South Cafeteria
on March 30 and 31. On both days, the free event runs from 10 am to
2 pm.
All campus students, staff, faculty and administrators are invited to participate.
The event offers health risk and stress level assessments and body fat analysis. Participants may test their cholesterol and glucose levels.
HIV testing will also be available.
A doctor and podiatrist will be present to answer questions, along with a massage specialist.
Plus, there will be the usual fun, including prizes, food and raffles.
For more information, call (650) 574-6396.
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"Mental Imagery In Art
and Science"--an art exhibition and lecture April
2
CSM
will present “Mental Imagery In Art and Science,” a free
art exhibition and lecture by professor Mohsen Janatpour, on April 2
at 7:30 pm in the campus theatre.
Janatpour is a math, physics and astronomy professor at CSM. An accomplished artist as well, he has been delivering special presentations at the College since 1995. The April 2 event will be his 16th. Each one has examined, in some way, the connection between art and science.
He has discussed topics such as “Evolution of an Artist’s Vision: Toward a Unification of Art and Science” and “The Rigor of Art & the Spirituality of Science.” On the latter topic, Janatpour posed and discussed the following question: “What if Rembrandt met Einstein?”
On this April’s topic, he said: "From Michelangelo’s portrayal of David and Goliath on the Vault of the Sistine Chapel to Einstein’s thought experiments which lead to the formulation of the General and Special Theories of Relativity, from the ancient’s models of the universe to the Neil Bohr’s model of the hydrogen atom, mental imagery has played a central, if not the central, role in the development of art and science. Indeed, one can correlate the progress of art and science directly with the human’s progress toward the formation of new mental images."
That is the type of discussion that audiences can expect to hear as Janatpour speaks from stage during his exhibitions with his works displayed, often large and vibrant with color, behind him. Visit his website at www.mohsensart.com and see his works of art and read his poetry. He is also a musician.
Over the last three years, Janatpour has developed a series of works he calls “Symvisios.” In paraphrasing the words of Nelson Goodman, Janatpour said that with his Symvisio artwork he has attempted to "metaphorically exemplify" the union of art and science. Janatpour explained that Symvisio is derived from the Latin “sym,” which is defined as “together,” and the Latin “visio,” which means “view”--and that his “visual compositions run, to some extent, parallel to symphonic compositions in music.”
For more information about the exhibition/lecture, which is being sponsored
by CSM’s Associated Students, Science Club and
Math/Science Division, or on Janatpour, call the professor at (650)
574-6272.
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Latest budget subcommittee meeting summary, upcoming agenda
The
College Council's budget subcommittee met for the ninth time this academic
calendar year on March 8, 2004.
The following is a summary of that meeting, with Virgil Stanford, dean of Administrative Services, facilitating:
Meeting Notes
Attendees: Candice Alfaro, Rick Ambrose, Joyce Berghoff, Tom Diskin, Chris Eden, Arlene Fajardo, Jacqueline Gamelin, Michael Habeeb, Maggie Ko, Virgil Stanford, Martha Tilmann, Henry Villareal
Absent: Tania Beliz, Pat Griffin, Shirley Kelly, Grace Sonner
The notes of the February 23 meeting were amended and approved.
The Student Services Release Time report item was carried over to our next meeting.
A discussion was held regarding potential budget reductions and it was decided that we will wait for more information from the next District Budget Finance Committee.
The next meeting is scheduled for Monday, March 22.
Agenda of April 5 meeting
1. Review Meeting Agenda
2. Review and Approve Meeting Summary of March 22
3. Presentation by Executive Vice Chancellor James Keller
4. Discussion of Potential Budget Reductions
6. Other Business
7. Set Next Meeting Date and Agenda
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But It's All News You Can Use...
...CSM counselor Martha Gutierrez was recently selected for inclusion in the eighth edition of Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, an honor for which she was nominated by a former student....Ruth Carsch, a CSM instructional librarian for the last nine years and a District employee since 1986, concurrently has a custom information consulting practice and is also listed in Who's Who in America.
...Kate Motoyama, a CSM speech professor, has been selected as one of 16 communication faculty members nationwide to lead a national initiative entitled "Communicating Common Ground." The project is designed to foster respect and acceptance through multicultural education.
...Steve Morehouse, CSM's high school relations counselor, is one busy guy. From mid-August 2003 through mid-February of this year, he has conducted 97 off-campus outreach events, including college nights/fairs/workshops, presentations on the community colleges and application workshops. He has also met individually with numerous students, parents and high school counselors. And when he’s on campus he can often be found counseling CSM students in his office.
...The District Board of Trustees has approved the program model for serving students with psychological disabilities in San Mateo County, a collaborative effort between the District and the community. This partnership was brokered by Ernie Rodriguez, a CSM psychology instructor and CSM Psychological Services Tim Stringari, both of whom have long been recognized as leaders in supported education. In fact, the program model, built upon Stringari's earlier work at CSM, has been titled “Transition to College” as a tribute to him. Also, Stringari and Steve Robison, coordinator of CSM Student Activities, developed a leadership for service certificate of completion that was recently approved by CSM’s curriculum committee and ask that the word be shared with students.
...On March 5, four members of the Integrative Learning Project with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching visited CSM to learn more about community colleges, and specifically, about CSM’s learning communities projects. The group visited several basic skills classes and met with instructors participating in learning communities activities at the college. Mike Burke, professor of mathematics, coordinated the visit.
...CSM Student Activities Office in Building 5 is now selling $.37 U.S. postage stamps at face value.
Research
...The
College's Office of Research has just published a new study
entitled “CSM Students With Bachelor’s Degrees,”
CSM Research Briefs, 13:5, March 2004. This study examines enrollment
trends of students with bachelor’s degrees. The context of this
report is the possibility of a state-wide implementation of a differential
per unit enrollment fee increase for California community college students
who possess a baccalaureate degree—from $18 to $50 per unit or
more. To view the latest brief, click here.
For other Research Briefs and information from
the CSM Office of Research, visit the Research section linked at left.
Upcoming events
...Mark your calendars. Astronomy Day Skyshow & Open House will take place at CSM on April 24, from 3 to 9 pm. For adults and youth, this free event is open to the public and will feature astronomy software demonstrations, handouts and giveaways, repeating planetarium shows, continuous videos, make-it-yourself planisphere lessons, astrophotos and, weather-permitting, planet and star gazing with telescopes! Also, weather-permitting, the event's signature feature the "REAL SKY® STAR SHOW?" will begin at 7:50 pm. It is a unique real-time multi-media extravaganza presenting the wonders of the heavens via the fusion of traditional sky gazing with modern technology. Come see the planets Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, stars, nebulas, clusters, galaxies and our own Moon, splashed live across a 15-ft. screen! Location: CSM, by the Planetarium (Building 13). Sponsors: CSM, San Mateo County Astronomical Society (SMCAS), Ewell Observatory, and Broadchoice, Inc. Free parking is available in all student lots and staff lots 19 and 20A. For locations, see the campus map at http://www.collegeofsanmateo.edu (select About CSM / Maps…). For information, call SMCAS at (650) 341-3572 or 592-3192, or CSM at (650) 574-6256, 6272, or 6268. Or, email mgwe@pacbell.net, or stanfordd@smccd.net.
...Please
visit collegeofsanmateo.edu/transfer for a complete listing of CSM Transfer
Center events, workshops and university rep visits, including those
listed below:
Transfer Club meets every Monday, from between
12:10 to 1:00 pm in the Career Center (Building 5, Room. 128)
Events
•Psychology Major
Day, April 1, from 11:10 am to 12:30 pm in Building 5, Gallery
Room
•Academy of Art College
of San Francisco Tour, April 2, from 10 am to 2 pm
Meet
a University or College Representative; make appointment by
calling (650.358.6839) or in person at (Building 5, 128)
•UCLA
Filipino Transfer Student Partnership Program, March 29, from 10 am
to 2 pm in Student Center (Building 5)
•Norte
Dame de Namur University, March 30, from 10 am to 12:30 pm in Student
Center (Building 5)
•University
of San Francisco, March 30, from 10 am to 1 pm in Student Center
(Building 5)
Also, contact Mike Mitchell, the Center's coordinator, with questions at (650) 574-6662 or mitchellm@smccd.net.
Ongoing information
...Sources
of information about the Capital Improvement Program (unofficially
called the campus facility improvement program) can be obtained from
a variety of sources, including CSM Internal, which continuously
provides updates such as those in the January 26, 2004, December 1,
2003, March 31, 2003 and November 11, 2002 editions located in the News
Archive section linked above.
Also, here are the name, address on campus, phone number and email address
of Swinerton's Karen Freeman (650.378.7334; lower level of Building
6; and freemank@smccd.net). Swinerton Management & Consulting is
the San Francisco company hired to manage the CIP. Employees are encouraged
to contact Freeman with questions.
Plus, at http://smcweb.smccd.net/accounts/facilities/planconstruct/capitalimprove.html,
they will find updates on the project, including a recent "Open
Forum" slide presentation, as well as other relevant information.
Finally, Professor Lloyd Davis, secretary of CSM's Academic Senate,
prepared a detailed summary of a similar improvement project presentation
made to his organization. That information appears in the Academic Senate's
October 28, 2003 minutes, which can be found by clicking on the Committees
link at left and then on Academic Senate Governing Council.
Lastly, more open forums are planned.
...
The
next spring
2004 "President's Lecture Series: Diverse Voices in Writing"
speaker
will be Francisco Jiménez, an author and local academician.
The topic of his May 6 talk in the campus theatre is
"The Immigrant Experience: The discovery of Self, Purpose, and
Place through Writing." The event will begin at 11 am, and will
be followed by a reception and book signing in Building 5's Gallery
Room. To read more about Jiménez, visit the In Depth section
linked at top. The lecture series is being made possible by
a generous donation from the Lane Family Charitable Trust.
Fun Stuff
...Your assistance is still needed? CSM Internal is considering changing the name of this section from "Fun Stuff " to perhaps something like "On the Lighter Side." So far, the following suggestions have been made: tidbits, interesting and unusual facts, did you know and here's the scoop. One reader wrote: "Actually I think “fun stuff” is pretty cool! Why change it?" Please send additional suggestions to habeeb@smccd.net.
...The
Employee of the Month spaces for April belong to Henry
Villareal (Lot 5) and Ernie Misa (Lot 4).
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See Calendar section for more event info or News Archive linked above to view past editions.
Please contact Mike Habeeb at habeeb@smccd.net, if you have any story ideas or comments regarding CSM Internal.
If you have any suggestions, complaints, compliments or comments about CSM's staff, faculty, administrators, divisions, departments or services, CSM Listens at (650) 574-6677, extension 9080, or csmlistens@smccd.net wants your feedback.