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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Dr. Larson’s January 2014 Report to the Board of Trustees
January 27, 2014Administration Building Update In the early morning hours of Saturday, January 4, due to extremely cold weather a pipe burst in the Administration Building, which caused water damage throughout the building. The building was closed for repairs, and clean-up began immediately. Because we were in a heavy registration period leading up to the start of the spring semester,.......
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Dr. Larson’s Spring 2014 Colloquium Remarks
January 21, 2014Colloquium Spring, 2014 I Have A Dream Welcome, everyone, to Ocean County College’s 2014 Spring Colloquium! It is so wonderful to see all of you again! Thank you for coming. And, thank you, each and every one, for all you have done and will do in this momentous year for this extraordinary institution. 2014 will.......
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Dr. Larson’s November 2013 Report to the OCC Board of Trustees
December 2, 2013Ocean County College Athletics On Saturday, November 9, the Ocean County College Men’s and Women’s Cross Country Teams competed in the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) National Championship Meet hosted by Holyoke Community College in Massachusetts. I am very proud to announce the Women’s Team won the National Championship and the Men’s Team finished as the National Runner-Up. Liz Kowalski won the women’s race and was named the Individual National Champion. She was also named an NJCAA.......
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