Bulletin for December 19, 2022

 

 

  Holiday Hours

To our students, faculty, staff and community members, we wish you a safe and joyful holiday season. While NSCC will be closed on Monday, December 26, 2022, and Monday, January 2, 2023, we are available to help or support students with enrollment services via CentroHub between Tuesday, December 27 – Friday, December 30, from 9:00 am – 1:00 pm. 

 

Happy Holidays from the Bulletin staff!

The Bulletin will be on hiatus for the January break, resuming weekly publication on January 17, 2023.

Wishing everyone a safe and joyous holiday season and a happy, healthy New Year!

--Bulletin Staff

 

 

From left, NSCC Provost Dr.Jennifer Mezquita, NSCC President Dr. William Heineman, and Quincy College Provost and Chief Academic Officer Dr. Servet Yatin shake hands following the signing of a partnership between NSCC and Quincy College on Wednesday |Spenser Hasak

A whirlwind of a week!

Last week the Board of Higher Education passed our new five-year Strategic Plan, then we were notified that we had received a $1 million dollar grant from the state to further build out our Bertolon Health Care Center of Excellence. We also received funding from the Shannon Grant which will allow us to continue our role in efforts to reduce gang involvement and violence in Lynn, and finally, we joined our colleagues from Quincy College in signing a new transfer agreement that will allow NSCC grads to seamlessly transfer to receive a bachelor's degree without losing credits and with scholarship assistance. We LOVE weeks like this!

 

 

Join us at the Winter Wonderland Celebrations!

Mix and mingle with colleagues and enjoy refreshments, music, and
FREE raffle drawings - lots of fun prizes!
Gingerbread creations will be on display - vote for your favorite!

Lynn Campus, Monday, December 19, 2- 4pm, Lynn Cafe
Danvers Campus, Tuesday, December 20, 2- 4pm, Math & Science Old Cafe

Please RSVP

-CARE Committee

 

 

Kudos Korner

 

 

 

 

We want to see you in pictures!

2023 Faces of NSCC - TOGETHER   We welcome all NSCC students, faculty, staff, administrators to participate by submitting a picture(s), short video and or quote.  Encouraged to include with you any 2/4 legged/feathered family/friends at home, on campus, outside, studying, having fun, traveling, vacations, anywhere!  We want to see you! 

Deadline to submit April 30, 2023.

Submit Here

Thank you,
--Diversity Leadership Committee 2023 Faces team

 

 

NCBI: Creating a Climate Where All Are Welcome!

The National Coalition Building Institute (NCBI) is alive, well, and very active here at North Shore Community College. We are building on our 27-year history here at the College with a new partnership with Salem State University (SSU) and their NCBI team.  NSCC and SSU are teaming up to host a diversity/equity/inclusion/belonging workshop to the new employees at both institutions in early January. Our NSCC NCBI team has been preparing for this as well as many other initiatives. Over the next year, we hope to offer NCBI exposure workshops to the new leadership team at the College. We also are planning to host a Summer Retreat in early summer where team members will have new professional development opportunities, team building exercises, and culture sharing.

In late summer, plans are in the works to bring NSCC together with Cape Cod Community College and Salem State University to provide a Train the Trainer 3-day workshop where new NCBI trainers will learn the principles and practices of NCBI in order to facilitate upcoming trainings themselves. In addition to all of these efforts, our NCBI team continues to meet monthly and offer mini-workshops in the classroom. So far this semester we’ve offered workshops in PSY 110, HUS 100, and First Year Experience courses.

If you have an interest in learning about how to join our team of NCBI facilitators, please contact either of the co-chairs of NCBI, Nikki Pelonia(npelonia@northshore.edu) or Dave Houle (dhoule@northshore.edu).    

For information about NCBI, click here  or go to www.ncbi.org.  There is also a form available for requesting workshops.  Join us in creating a climate where all are welcome!

--Dave Houle and Nikki Pelonia, NCBI co-chairs

 

Please share with your students!

FREE Math Success Lab Program

The STEM Starter Academy grant at NSCC will be funding a free Math Success Lab program for NSCC students this January. The program is open to all NSCC students. Please help spread the word to students who could benefit! You can access the printable flyer here.

The Math Success Lab is for students who want to improve their math skills in preparation for upcoming classes at NSCC. This course is taught by a math professor and will meet for 5 classes -  2 hours each class. The purpose of this refresher course is to give students the necessary study skills to be successful NSCC students.  Students will learn note taking skills, number sense and efficient methods of problem solving.

There is no financial cost to students attending math success lab.  Students of any math level can take this course. Students are expected to participate in all classes. The class will meet in Lynn campus from 10 am to 12 pm on January 3, 5, 10, 12, 17. Sign up here. 

Questions can be sent to Ali Tateosian, NSCC STEM Coordinator, at atateosi@northshore.edu

 

 

 

 

Navigate Weekly Workshops

We are hitting the end of Fall 2022 semester, and Spring registration has been open for a few weeks now. Visit one of our workshops (even if the topic isn’t registration) to talk about how Navigate can be used for your end of the semester needs! As always, our videos can be found on the Navigate NSCC - Youtube Channel. Make sure to like & subscribe! 😊

Remember: The Navigate blackboard course, as well as the resource tiles on MyNorthShore, are places to find useful materials.

These will be our last two weekly workshops before we come back for Spring 2023!

Wednesday, Dec. 21st

2:00PM - 3:45PM                   Open Session Time 

--John, Jake, Michael, Jeleiny & Sam

 

 

 

Stop by to wish Joanne Sullivan well!

Colleagues -- Joanne Sullivan is retiring! Having joined NSCC in 2010, Joanne has spent the last 12 years shepherding projects (state, federal and private) and herding cats (us) with her inimitable style.  North Shore has been the fortunate recipient of her many successful grant submissions – most notably our recent Title III grant -- and we are lucky to have had her.  Though she declined to be the star of a rowdy send-off party, Joanne is in her office (DB 322) Monday through Wednesday.  Please take some time between now and December 21^st to stop in and wish Joanne well as she begins this next chapter of her life!

--Laurie LaChapelle, AVP, Planning, Research and Resources

 

 

 

 

Arts in April: Call for Faculty, Staff, and Student Participation

The Arts in April committee is now planning the month-long arts festival for April 2023 and wishes to invite faculty, staff, and students to participate in the programming.

One way to participate is for faculty or staff to host an event, by yourself or with other faculty or staff. In the past, for example, faculty and staff have demonstrated techniques such as printmaking, hosted panels on various topics such as comic book artists, demonstrated how to enact combat scenes for dramatic productions, performed on various musical instruments, and exhibited their own art in one of the NSCC libraries. If you would like to discuss possible ideas, please email Cari Keebaugh (ckeebaug@northshore.edu).  Presentations may be on campus or virtual though we are eager to offer more on campus events this year.

Another way to participate is to create an assignment in one of your spring courses that offers students the opportunity to write or perform and to receive credit (or perhaps even extra credit) for their work that would be presented on campus or virtually. For example, students might write poems, create a Tik Tok performance or short video, or create an art work related to course work. The committee is thinking of a variety of ways in which this work would be featured as part of Arts in April, either as an on campus exhibit or a virtual presentation.

If you are interested in participating in either of these ways, please notify Cari Keebaugh (ckeebaug@northshore.edu) at your earliest convenience and no later than the end of January, 2023. Cari needs to know what type of assignment you plan to incorporate into your course by the end of February 2023, but students would not need to submit their work until sometime in March.

Finally, we hope you will support Arts in April by taking your classes to some of the events and/or by making them aware of this festival.

 

 

 

Final Exam Schedule

Please find below the link to the Final Exam Schedule for the Fall 2022 semester.  Please note that the schedule is subject to change.  Consult your instructor for further details:https://tinyurl.com/y326f6b7

 

 

 

COVID-19 Vaccination Student Accommodation Deadline and Process

While the College and the MA Community College’s strongly prefer that all students, faculty and staff receive their COVID-19 vaccinations (and on-going boosters), we also recognize that some individuals will seek accommodations.

If a student is seeking a reasonable accommodation for the COVID-19 vaccination for Spring 2023, please have them complete the Student Reasonable Accommodation Form by the deadline date of Tuesday, January 3, 2023. The Student Vaccination Review Committee has 10 business days to respond to a completed submission. Therefore, it is crucial that students requesting a reasonable accommodation do so by the posted deadline date to have their application reviewed prior to the start of Spring 2023 classes.

Please note, if a student submits a request for a reasonable accommodation, it’s the College’s intention to provide a reasonable accommodation while upholding the Massachusetts Community College COVID-19 Vaccination Policy. All requests are carefully reviewed, and alternative options such as taking a course on-line or via videoconference may constitute a reasonable accommodation. Requests for accommodations do not guarantee that the student will be approved for the specific accommodation they are seeking. Questions about the process should be directed to the Student Vaccination Review Committee by emailing vax_accommodations@northshore.edu.

~The Student Vaccination Review Committee

 

 

Important Year-end Updates from Payroll:

1. Address Verification: In preparation for year-end tax reporting and document delivery, any updates in home address must be made by no later than 12/31/2022 in HR/CMS Self-Service site.

2. Employees may consent to receive and print out an electronic W-2 or 1095-C through HR/CMS Self-Service:

       Some benefits of suppression are as follows:

• A reduced risk of forms being lost or stolen in the mail.

• Early access to W-2 and 1095-C in mid-January only to those employees who are suppressed through HR/CMS by 12/31/2022. Employees who select suppressed* W-2 and/or 1095-C will receive an email when those become available. *Paper W-2 or 1095-C forms will not be distributed through the mail.

• Suppressed W-2 or 1095-C format allows individuals the ability to “cut and paste” the information into most tax preparation software.

If you do not wish to consent, form W-2 will be postmarked in the mail by January 31, and 1095-C in the mail by the end of February.

There is no action required if employees have already consented to suppress Forms W-2 and 1095-C.

How to access the W-2 and 1095-C consent forms:

• Consent to Receive Electronic W-2, employees can log into HR/CMS and go to Self Service> Payroll tile > W-2/W-2c Consent tile

• Consent to Receive Electronic 1095-C, employees can log into HR/CMS and go to Self Service> Benefits Details > Form 1095-C Consent.

For answers to Frequently Asked Questions about the Form W-2, please use this link here.

For answers to Frequently Asked Questions about the Form1095-C, please visit here.

As reminder, NSCC is not supported by the Employee Service Center (ESC), please do not contact the ESC. If you have any questions or need assistance with the above info, contact HR/Payroll at ssta@northshore.edu and/or
(978) 739-5422.

 

 

 

 

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.    

December Deep Dive
Why is it so hard for women to talk about money? Open up social media, and you’ll see people sharing intimate details of their lives – things they might not even discuss with their closest friends or family – with virtual strangers. But when the conversation shifts to finances, women often clam up, keeping the specifics of their wages private. Even as discussions about equal pay become more common in society, many women still hesitate to talk to each other about their bottom lines. So, what happens when women talk openly and honestly about money? Watch this video from NBCLX News.

Think about this:

This is an example of Christian privilege: A bumper sticker supporting your religion won’t likely lead to your car being vandalized.