Dr. Larson’s January 2017 Report to the Board of Trustees
January 26, 2017Commendation The Association for Institutional Research (AIR) is the world’s largest professional organization for institutional researchers. It provides educational resources, best practices, and professional development opportunities for more than 4,000 members and is committed to building the institutional research capacity of America’s two-year institutions. Ms. Mary Troy, Assistant Director of Institutional Research, was recently nominated for a Data.......
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Dr. Larson’s Colloquium Speech Spring 2017
January 20, 2017Expanding Our Mission Jon H. Larson President Ocean County College January 20, 2017 “The really great discoveries have been made by men and women who were driven not by the desire to be useful but merely the desire to satisfy their own curiosity.” Abraham Flexner Good morning and welcome to the Spring Semester of our.......
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$50,000 Awarded to Ocean County College Foundation by OceanFirst Foundation to Help Support Student Scholarships
January 13, 2017The Ocean County College Foundation recently received a grant of $50,000 for student scholarships by OceanFirst Foundation of Toms River. The grant provided 50 scholarships in the fall 2016 semester to full-time freshmen who graduated from high schools in Ocean and Monmouth County. Scholarship recipients received $1,000 awards. Since the inception of OceanFirst Foundation’s scholarship program in 2010, it has generously.......
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Dr. Larson’s December 2016 Report to the Board of Trustees
December 7, 2016Presentations Mr. Ralph Bertini, Television Production Director, in recognition of his outstanding representation of Ocean County College during the NJCAA Division III National Women’s Soccer Championship as well as for the generosity and professional courtesy extended to a colleague, Mr. Michael Brown, Television Producer/Director for Montgomery College, during the championship games. Ms. Roberta Krantz, Part-Time Director of the Jay and Linda Grunin Center for the Arts, in appreciation of.......
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Grunin Center Wins Two New Jersey Stage Awards!
December 2, 2016The Jay and Linda Grunin Center for the Arts is pleased to announce that it has received two New Jersey Stage Awards! This is the first year that the Grunin Center was nominated and subsequently won for these prestigious awards. The Grunin Center received: GOLD for Best Place to See Live Dance Performances; and BRONZE for Best Place to See Emerging.......
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Dr. Larson’s November 2016 Report to the Board of Trustees
November 2, 2016Strategic Initiatives The first year of Strategies for Success, the implementation plan for the Charting our New Course transformation initiative, recently concluded. The Annual Year-End Report (Attachment 1) was submitted on behalf of the Guiding Coalition to provide an update to the Board of Trustees. It focuses on the progress of each of the strategies and their recommendations as well as summarizes the activities and challenges experienced during this review period. Ms. Sabrina Mathues, Outgoing Chair of the Guiding Coalition, will.......
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Dr. Larson’s September 2016 Report to the Board of Trustees
September 22, 2016TO: Members, OCC Board of Trustees FROM: Jon H. Larson, Ph.D. President SUBJECT: Items of Interest for the September 22, 2016, Board Meeting DATE: September 16, 2016 Community Outreach Dr. Ali Botein-Furrevig, Associate Professor of English, presented an educational awareness seminar on the Jewish Orthodox culture and the history of the Lakewood Jewish population to the employees at Larson Ford of Lakewood. President Paul Larson is committed to ensuring that his staff is sensitive to.......
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Dr. Larson’s Fall 2016 Colloquium Remarks
September 1, 2016Disruptive Change: Forward Thinking for the 21st Century Colloquium Remarks – Fall Semester, 2016 Jon H. Larson, Ph.D. President Ocean County College “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” – Albert Einstein Good.......
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Dr. Larson’s August 2016 Report to the Board of Trustees
August 25, 2016Fall 2016 Colloquium The theme of the Fall 2016 Colloquium on Thursday, September 1, 2016, will be “OCC’s Future: Disruptive Change and Forward Thinking in the 21st Century.” The day will begin with a continental breakfast at 8:00 a.m. and my State-of-the-College Address at 9:00 a.m. Five concurrent workshops will be scheduled in Bartlett Hall from 10:15 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and again from 11:45 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. They include: I. The Ocean Way presented by Dr. Toni Clay, Ms. Tracey.......
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Dr. Larson’s July 2016 Report to the Board of Trustees
July 27, 2016Academic Affairs Conversations have continued between Dr. Lisa DiBisceglie, Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs, and members of the New Jersey Institute of Technology administration. OCC and NJIT should very soon be entering into a Joint Admissions Agreement and a Memorandum of Understanding that will include NJIT offering classes on the OCC campus starting in.......
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