Are You Ready? Submit a Video Promo by April 1, 2022
Promote YOUR class or program to the NSCC community and beyond! Here’s your chance! Promote your course, certificate, degree or program. Tell your story in one minute. Videos will play as part of a video loop in the gym during the Transforming the Future Festival on May 13, and be posted to the NSCC Social Media and/or potentially on the NSCC Website.
Tech Requirements:
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Video can be No longer than 60 seconds
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Format: Either Horizontal or Vertical
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Can be a phone selfie or use your favorite video editing software
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If doing this as a selfie, focus on head & shoulders. Not full body unless you are demonstrating something.
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Record in a quiet setting with little to no background noise.
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Be sure there is plenty of light. Ring lights are great for selfies. If outdoors, be in the shade. Be sure your background isn’t brighter than you are.
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Keep the camera steady. Use a tripod or other device to keep steady.
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Upload your video using this google form: https://forms.gle/
5tRWhqyHAk3fTyQt6 (please note to check the box to agree to the linked release form)
For questions contact Dianne McDermott Cerasuolo at dmdermo@northshore.edu or Jim Harrington at jaharrin@northshore.edu
Due Date: on or before April 1, 2022
Call for Submissions!
Have an artistic side that you would like to share? Arts in April is still accepting
submissions for lectures/panels/
Please email Cari Keebaugh (ckeebaug@northshore.edu) or Aaron Keebaugh (akeebaug01@northshore.edu) with proposals or questions!
Celebrate Women's History Month!
Women’s History Month had its origins as a national celebration in 1981 when Congress passed Pub. L. 97-28 which authorized and requested the President to proclaim the week beginning March 7, 1982 as “Women’s History Week.” Throughout the next five years, Congress continued to pass joint resolutions designating a week in March as “Women’s History Week.” In 1987 after being petitioned by the National Women’s History Project, Congress passed Pub. L. 100-9 which designated the month of March 1987 as “Women’s History Month.” Between 1988 and 1994, Congress passed additional resolutions requesting and authorizing the President to proclaim March of each year as Women’s History Month. Since 1995, presidents have issued a series of annual proclamations designating the month of March as “Women’s History Month.” These proclamations celebrate the contributions women have made to the United States and recognize the specific achievements women have made over the course of American history in a variety of fields.
"The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights." - Gloria Steinem
Student Engagement will be hosting a number of Women's History Month events, including the two listed below. Visit the Events Website for all the details and to register for each event.
The Women In Leadership Series continues with a panel discussion by NSCC Women in Administration on Wed, March 9 at 11:00am in DS106B (Danvers Campus). Panelists include Janice Forsstrom, Michele Cubelli Harris, Bonie Bagchi Williamson, Allissa Flint-Kummel, and Andrea DeFusco-Sullivan. Due to COVID precautions, all attendees must check-in at the event. Walk-ins are welcome, but help us make the check-in process easier by registering in advance. RSVP HERE!
In celebration of Women's History Month we invite you to join our local State Representative, Sally Kerans, in a discussion about the Progress of Women in Politics and Society. The event will take place in Danvers DS106B on Wednesday, March 23rd at 11am. Read more about Representative Kerans and register for the event online. Due to COVID precautions, all event attendees must check-in at the event. Walk-ins are welcome, but you can make the check-in process easier by registering in advance.
Additional resources:
Check out Women's History Month Reading 2022 from Penguin Random HouseWomen's History Month 2022: A Children's Book Every Day
--Nikki Pelonia, Chief Diversity & Equity Officer
President’s Cabinet Highlights
March 1, 2022
Gina Yarbrough, General Counsel, Massachusetts Community College System – Cabinet held its first meeting with the new general counsel. Discussion included options for a telework policy. Gina then stayed for the remainder of the meeting.
Commencement 2022: Amanda Dooling presented multiple options for this year’s in-person Commencement. Bill asked for feedback by the end of the week so that a timely decision could be made on how to proceed.
External Requests for On Campus Events: It was reaffirmed that such requests should be forwarded and processed through Tim Godzik.
Enrollment: It was noted that summer enrollment is now live and that fall enrollment will begin April 1. Plans for fall will include moving towards having more people on campus to best meet student needs. Much attention is being paid to scheduling classes to ensure buildable scheduling options to meet what students are looking for.
Women's History Month: Who Inspires You?
March is Women’s History Month, a time for us to honor and celebrate women's contributions to history, culture and society.
We invite you to help celebrate by sharing a brief paragraph or two about a woman who inspires you. Doesn't matter who she is - all that matters is you are inspired by her.
Please include a photo of yourself OR a photo of the woman who inspires you OR a photo of the two of you together. We will be featuring submissions on social media and all submissions will be added to a Women's History Month video that will be made available to the NSCC community at the end of March. Click here to enter your submission.
Thank you for your participation!
--Linda Brantley, Executive Director, External and Public Relations, lbrantle@northshore.edu
NSCC Foundation $cholarships – 2022 Cycle
This year’s Foundation Scholarship cycle will open to students on March 1st. Eligible students (those with 6 earned credits and a GPA of 2.5) will be notified at the beginning of March that the system is open and ready to receive applications. New applicants will be notified once they are accepted and have an NSCC ID and email address.
As in the past, we will need staff reviewers, and training in the new system will be offered before the review cycle starts. More information will follow in the coming weeks, and in the meantime, if you have any questions, please contact Kathy Faulkner at kfaulkne@northshore.edu
This is the website for the scholarship page https://www.northshore.edu/scholarships
2022 $cholarship Reviewers Needed
The Scholarship team is looking for a few good reviewers. Thank you to those of you who have already said YES.
Scholarship reviewing is one of the most rewarding experiences at NSCC! It doesn't take up a lot of time and you feel great after doing it. Last year we gave out 345 scholarships totaling $310,000 to over 320 students.
If interested please email Kathy Faulkner kfaulkne@northshore.edu
Reviewing will happen between April 11 - April 22.
Job Posting - Internal Candidates Only
PT Administrative and Technical Support to the
Forum Steering Committee and the Governance System
Duration: Permanent fall semester, spring semester & summer while Forum Steering is in session
Equivalency: Approximately 5 to 10 hours per week
Reports To: Chair/Vice-Chair Forum Steering Committee/Governance Subcommittee
This position is not open to benefited AFSCME, NUP, NUC, or MCCC Professional staff.
For further job details, click here.
Dr. Lillian Derderian
It is with sadness that we share this information about a long time leader at NSCC:
Dr. Lillian A. Derderian, Dean of Student Services at North Shore Community College from its inception in 1965 until her retirement in 1995, recently passed away at home with daughter, April Derderian Fellows, by her side. She was 98.
Her family requests that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the North Shore Community College Foundation, Inc. for the Dean Lillian A. Derderian Scholarship, a permanently restricted fund. Donations can be mailed to 1 Ferncroft Road, PO Box 3340, Danvers, MA 01923 or made on-line, https://www.northshore.edu/giving/give-year-round.html....
Dr. Derderian is remembered each academic year when the Dr. Lillian Derderian Award for Outstanding Service award is given to a student for outstanding service to their club or the overall college community. An obituary for Dr. Derderian can be found here.
Gary Williams
As the NSCC community continues to process the passing of our friend and former colleague, Gary Williams, we have received his obituary and wanted to share it with all of you, Gary Williams obituary.
There is information in his obituary about a celebration of his life this Saturday, March 12th . March 12th is Gary's birthday, he would have turned 73 this year.
Gary Williams Tribute 2022, courtesy of Faith Hocter, Media Services
ID: 94707
Student Service Awards Nominations
Student Engagement welcomes all faculty and staff to recognize students by nominating them for our special campus-wide awards. Awards are open to club leaders, leaders in the classroom/office, or students that stand out to you in some other way. Please see all the available awards and complete your nominations online. Also, please save the date for the celebration on Tuesday, April 26 at 4:00PM in the Lynn Gym.
--Danny Shapiro, Assistant Coordinator of Student Engagement, dshapiro@northshore.edu
Navigate Weekly Workshops
As we continue our Spring operations, you may be trying to find the best ways that Navigate can help keep you organized, launch student initiatives, or get your advisees up to speed on their Academic Plans – OR you just have a random range of questions you want to pellet us with! The next few weeks are geared towards generic topics, but please jump on in any session, at any time, for any reason.
It’s always good to review your Navigate skills. Please review the Blackboard Navigate Training Course for additional resources at any time.
Wednesday, March 9
2:00PM - 2:45PM Navigate Overview: General
3:00PM - 3:45PM Open Session Time
Wednesday, March 16
2:00PM - 2:45PM Academic Planning, Scheduling & Registration
3:00PM - 3:45PM Open Session Time
Wednesday, March 23
2:00PM - 2:45PM Calendar Sync, Availability & Appointment Campaigns: Concepts & Ideas
3:00PM - 3:45PM Open Session Time
Wednesday, March 30
2:00PM - 2:45PM Student Lists, Advanced Searches & Reporting Tools
3:00PM - 3:45PM Open Session Time
Thank you for your interest in Navigate!
--John, Jake, Scott & Michael
Calling all creatives!
We need you to get involved…in the Performing Arts at North Shore!
We are looking for actors, artists, sound editors, tech wizards, and more to join us this Spring Semester (2022) for:
ANIMAL TAILS: A Virtual Storytelling Project
Talented tricksters go toe to toe with terrible troublemakers in this series of tales featuring a menagerie of feathered, finned and four-legged beasties from around the world.
Come join the team responsible for bringing these stories to life this fall!
No experience needed. All interested students, faculty and staff are welcome to participate.
AIR DATE: April / May, as part of NSCC’S Cultural Arts programming.
For more information about how you can become involved in this virtual performing arts event at NSCC contact Matthew Woods at matwoods@northshore.edu.
CTLI Coffee and Conversations Series
Over the spring semester, the CTLI will be hosting a series of informational sessions
on a variety of teaching, learning, and assessment topics. The Coffee and Conversations
sessions will be held virtually twice a month on Fridays from 9:30am to 10:30am. Please
join us with your favorite cup of coffee or tea and we will bring the topics to hopefully
spur plenty of conversations.
Our next session will be held on Friday, March 11th and the topic will be “Curriculum
Mapping: A Tool for Better Program Design”. The session will be facilitated by Luciano Sappia, who will lead us in exploration of Curriculum Mapping practices. “Have you ever
wondered how and where your students are developing the outcomes you have set for
your program? Have you scratched your head thinking about designing a new program
and struggled with deciding how many courses and exactly which courses to offer and
how to sequence them? Curriculum Mapping is a great tool to help streamline the process
by methodically and intentionally thinking about the building blocks needed to deliver
the outcomes we intend for our students to achieve going through our programs. In
this session, we will go over the importance of this practice, the basic methodology
and its application. You will walk away from the session with tools and templates
to get you started in creating your own curriculum map.”
Please use the following Zoom meeting link for all Coffee and Conversations sessions:
https://northshore-edu.zoom.
Future Coffee and Conversations sessions will be held on the following Fridays (listed
below) so please save the dates in your calendar:
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April 1
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April 15
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April 29
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May 6
Topics have been scheduled for a few of these sessions but we would love your feedback
on some topics for the other sessions. Please share any ideas around what you might
like to learn more about at https://forms.gle/
We hope to see you at one of the sessions!
-Andrea Milligan and Kim Stevens
Spring Institutional Professional Day
NSCC's Spring Institutional Professional Day for faculty and staff will be held virtually
on Friday, March 25th from 9:00am to 1:00pm. The theme for the day will be focused
on diversity, equity, and inclusion and Universal Design for Learning. We are proud
to welcome Dr. Thomas J. Tobin, an internationally recognized scholar, researcher, author and speaker on technology-mediated
education. Dr. Tobin will present an interactive keynote for the opening session on
The Secret “Step Zero” to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
After the opening session, there will be various breakout sessions to attend such
as:
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Strategies to include UDL in your Department's Services
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Keeping the Body in the Classroom and Other Lessons from Cyborgs: The Intersections of Race and Disability
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Teaching Practices that Promote Equity and Create an Inclusive Classroom
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Equity Minded Practices in a Syllabus
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NSCC Tableau Dashboards: A Tool for Examining Equity Gaps in Student Academic Performance
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Exploring Information Literacy through a DEI Lens
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Student Financial Services Supporting Students
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Using Assistive Technologies as a Principle of UDL
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Foster Youth in Higher Education
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Title 3 and Me: Contextualization through Collaborative Design
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What Do We Know about Learning and Thriving?
More information about Professional Day including a schedule of the day is available at https://sites.google.com/northshore.edu/nscc-professional-day/home Check back often as more details will be added as the program develops.
--Thank you,
The CTLI Advisory Council
20 Minute Online Professional Development
The Monday Morning Mentor series will be available over the spring semester to bring you professional development in twenty-minute snippets.
For the week of March 7th - What Are Practical Solutions for Managing My Online Teaching Workload?
Directions for Accessing the Link to the Presentation and Supplemental Materials
Select the URL link below to access the presentation and to print the supplemental materials. (You may also copy and paste the URL into your browser’s address bar.) Supplemental materials are available to view and print now.
https://sites.google.com/a/northshore.edu/mmm/
New presentations go live at 10:00am each Monday morning and are only accessible through Sunday.
The series is being brought to you by the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Innovation – we would appreciate your input!
--Andrea Milligan, amilligan@northshore.edu
WHAT A GREAT WAY TO START YOUR WEEK!!
Welcome to the
Equality & Equity Project
As part of our commitment to Anti-Racism, Diversity & Inclusion, the Equality & Equity Project will provide historical and present-day information about the contributions, challenges,
culture, and daily lives of the many vital groups that make up our NSCC community,
and the larger world.
We invite you to visit often, reflect on what you see and read, discuss it with others and, hopefully, expand your knowledge base, appreciation, and understanding of groups beyond your own.
March Deep Dive
Maybe you've seen this picture. Do you know its history? Although Kamala Harris was the first woman, and the first woman of color, to be elected to serve as Vice President of the United States (2020,) she stands on the shoulders of so many, including Ruby Bridges. Read more here.
Think about this:
Marsha P. Johnson was an African-American transgender women and drag artist whose activism in the 1960s and 70s had a huge impact on the LGBTQ+ community. At that time, being gay was classified as a mental illness in the United States. Gay people were regularly threatened and beaten by police, and were shunned by many in society.
In June 1969, when Marsha was 23 years old, police raided The Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City, forcing over 200 people out of the bar and onto the streets, and then using excessive violence against them. Marsha was one of the key figures who stood up to the police during the raid and, in the following days, led a series of protests and riots demanding rights for gay people. News of these protests spread around the world, inspiring others to join protests and rights groups to fight for equality.
A month after the protests, the first openly gay march took place in New York - a pivotal moment for the gay and trans community everywhere.
If you have any questions or comments on NSCC's Equality & Equity Project, please contact us at EqualityEquity@northshore.
Sign up now for the March Mobile Markets!
Free farmers market-style distribution of fresh fruits and vegetables and, at times, non-perishable food items. The March mobile markets will be offered on both the Lynn (03/04) & Danvers Campus (03/10) and 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗯𝗲 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗡𝗦𝗖𝗖 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀, 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗳𝗳. Registration will be required for each monthly market. Sign up here https://tinyurl.com/2p8nkexp