Dr. Larson’s Colloquium Remarks
January 21, 2015““Where there is no vision, the people perish.” ” – Proverbs 29:18 Opening music: Creedence Clearwater Revival – “Up Around the Bend” Everybody! Put your hands together! Let’s get the juices flowing! All right! Good morning Ocean County College! Welcome everyone to the Spring Semester, 2015! Our theme for today deals with creativity, vision, and.......
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President’s December 2014 Report to the OCC Board of Trustees
December 8, 2014Phi Theta Kappa Ocean County College’s Tau Iota Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa continues to be an outstanding student organization. Phi Theta Kappa is the national honor society for two-year colleges. Its purpose is to recognize and encourage scholarship among two-year college students. PTK provides the opportunity for the development of leadership, service, scholarship, and fellowship among its members. On Wednesday, December 3, 175 new members were inducted into PTK during a very meaningful ceremony. To be eligible, these students must have earned.......
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President’s November 2014 Report to the OCC Board of Trustees
November 3, 2014Charting Our New Course I have invited Dr. Don Norris and Dr. Tim Gilmour, Strategic Initiatives, Inc., who are facilitating our Charting Our New Course initiative, to attend Monday’s meeting to give you a report on the significant progress that is being made by the Guiding Coalition and the Strategic Action Teams toward ensuring Ocean.......
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President’s September 2014 Report to the OCC Board of Trustees
September 22, 2014Ocean County College Center for Peace, Genocide, and Holocaust Studies I received a letter from the Executive Director of the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education, Dr. Paul B. Winkler, congratulating the College’s Center for Peace, Genocide, and Holocaust Studies for the excellent programs offered during 2013-2014for students, educators, survivors, and the community. The core mission of the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education is to promote Holocaust education in New.......
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Dr. Larson’s Fall 2014 Colloquium Remarks
August 28, 2014Fall Colloquium 2014 Charting Our New Course Good morning! Welcome to the Fall Colloquium. It is gratifying to see so many joining us today for a very important kickoff to Ocean County College’s efforts at thinking anew and acting anew in our transforming initiative: Charting Our New Course. Welcome especially to our distinguished guests: Chair of the Board.......
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President’s July 2014 Report to the OCC Board of Trustees
July 25, 2014Trip Abroad I will be attending the 3rd Universia International Presidents Meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from July 27 to 29. The theme of the meeting is “The University of the 21stCentury: An Insight from Latin America.” Its purpose is to create a collaborative interchange of ideas and insights into higher education to identify ways in which relationships among the Ibero-American universities and other universities can be enhanced as well as to promote the diffusion of knowledge through the Internet. This event is sponsored by Bank Santander.......
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President’s June 2014 Report to the OCC Board of Trustees
June 23, 2014Instruction e-Learning – The first semester of the e-Learning My Foundations Lab (MFL) Development Education Pilot Program has been completed and assessed. Although the pilot program initially presented a few challenges, it soon settled into a nice rhythm. Following the results of a preliminary analysis, the MFL Pilot appears to have yielded some very positive.......
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President’s May 2014 Report to the OCC Board of Trustees
May 27, 2014Academic Affairs The Faculty Center for Excellence, Innovation, and Creativity has been in operation for almost one full academic year. Under the leadership of co-directors Professor Jennifer Dellner and Lecturer II Robert Marchie and with the assistance from the Advisory Committee, much has been accomplished. In its new and beautiful location in Room 306 of.......
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President’s March 2014 Report to the OCC Board of Trustees
March 24, 2014Phi Theta Kappa The Twenty-Seventh Annual Phi Theta Kappa Middle States Regional Convention was held in Galloway, New Jersey, from March 7 to 9. Nine members of OCC’s Tau Iota Chapter, and one alumna, who is also an advisor to Tau Iota, attended the convention. The Office of Student Life provided financial support for the.......
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Dr. Larson’s February 2014 Report to the Board of Trustees
February 24, 2014e-Learning Partnerships Ocean County College is continuing to deepen the successful partnerships already in place with Kean University and Fairleigh Dickinson University. On February 12, Executive Vice President Sara Winchester, Vice President Jianping Wang, Director of e-Learning Jeff Harmon, and I joined with Mr. Matt Leavy and Ms. Allison King, CEO and Vice President of Pearson eCollege, respectively, to meet with Kean President Dawood Farahi and FDU President Sheldon Drucker and Provost Christopher Capuano. The.......
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