Coordinating Board Reflection

August 28, 2017, the first day of my fresh and scary journey. My first day as a Colorado Christian University student, English composition online is my first class. Part of me is ready; part of me is ready to throw in the towel. I hadn’t even had a chance to turn a paper in, and the first assignment, a 5-paragraph essay had me thinking “you’re a crazy person for going back to school, it’s been 11 years since you had to write a paper. What are you thinking?” I told myself its 5 weeks (later I would realize actually 6) you can make it 5 weeks! Although I knew writing wouldn’t be my easiest subject, I knew I had to try my hardest. This class was condensed and hard, but effective and informative; I’ve learned so much, felt all sorts of emotions and know I can apply what I’ve learned in classes to come.

For chemistry, I choose a argumentative white board because I had to work with a team to succeed it is all a lab analysis and other lab groups made their own critics toward the presentations.I had to acquire information to solve my problem.I over came this assignment by taking many procedures to accomplish and then argued my evidence to argue with other teams.This also helped improve quality of the work that was expected.If I were to redo this assignment,I would put in more in for information on the

Last year, I set the goal that I wanted to pass the 2017 AP Studio Art 2-D: Design Exam. I wanted to prove my art ability. For the portfolio, I had to create 12 pieces that demonstrated a theme and 12 pieces that show experimentation. Sadly, I needed 6 pieces still. For a week before the exam, I worked on the other pieces everyday. Drawing, then adding Ink, then adding white out, then adding cutouts. The night before, I stayed up until 4am to finish. I was able to successfully finish my portfolio and I received a 5 on it. This year I submitted an application for the YoungArts competition and I hope to become a finalist.

Reeve Union Board allowed me to work with 5 different groups on campus. These very diverse groups planned campus activities such as Winter Carnival and Homecoming. These activities involved immense planning and working with many different people to provide the campus and Oshkosh community with safe and fun events. This would help me in Rome because I could help plan group activities and make sure everyone no matter what their personality is has an enjoyable experience.

That would be in addition to the admissions piece as it relates to the numbers, decisions, appeals, etc for freshmen and transfer. As I mentioned, that decision piece has become one of the most rewarding as it hits closer to issues of policy which is my educational interest in pursuing my doctorate, but also, a natural progression of advancement in my career. However, as liaison, their would need to be an additional person who remains in the college. In many cases, this additional person or support already exists in other colleges and schools (McCombs, COFA, etc) be it a program coordinator, assistant director, or other professional staff (not just students) who focus on this work. CNS has chosen not to invest in additional support in this area and I was instructed to scale back when discussing the feasibility of implementing my desired initiatives with my previous supervisor. The interest and outcomes of the new and expanded efforts I shared with you are well received and the demand is there. In Houston, I saw myself as an innovator – developing the first regional information sessions for freshmen in 2008 and the first transfer sessions for the entire admissions office in 2009 to hosting the first Meet UT with an organized regional program featuring all of the colleges and schools in 2010. I believed I was brought to CNS to do the same, however, without additional resources, it is increasingly difficult to maintain and impossible to grow our plan – this includes the current plan that I've drafted for the 2015-16

Making revision to my rough draft was difficult but a rewarding task. At times I felt like I needed a break from my paper and I did take many breaks. Taking breaks is understandable however when an individual take breaks try to keep in mind the timeframe in which you need in order to complete the final research paper. This experience has taught me that planning is a must and sticking to the planning schedule is necessary in order to produce a grammar, well structured and organized paper.

I do not recall learning about reflective practice in my undergraduate studies. Reflective practice according to Barbour (2013), “is the cyclic process of internally examining and exploring an issue of concern, triggered by an experience, which creates and clarifies meaning in terms of self, existing knowledge, and experience; resulting in a changed conceptual perceptive and practice” (p. 7). According to Barbour (2013), reflective process has many positive outcomes to help guide the nurse to become an expert nurse that can make on the spot decisions that do not interrupt patient care. I feel that reflective practice would have been beneficial to help guide me from a student nurse to a practicing nurse with critical thinking skills.

For my community government participation, I will be going over a few democratic instances from a LTCC Board of Trustees meeting. These instances come from the meeting of Tuesday, September 26, 2017. To start off, the meeting included two examples of how the opinion of the people are heard at the board meetings. First, Marta Sternal, the International Student Program Coordinator, discussed to the board the update with ISP. More importantly, international students were able to answer questions about their experiences being in Tahoe. Each one had a special story and a testament to the ISP and how it was creating a positive impact in students lives. As Student Trustee, it is always very special for me to see students personally address the board that makes policies about the college. The direct communication is a great example of how the voice of the students are valued and included. This meeting was important for another reason, a reason that affects thousands of students without their citizenship living in America. The board approved standing with the California Community College Chancellor's Office to denounce the decision to end the DACA program. As Student Trustee, my position allows for me to bridge the gap between the students and the board, bringing the student voice into policy decisions for our local college. This was the first time being Trustee where I was able to reach out to students about this important decision, asking them for their opinion about this important decision. Since I am in this position, I have a glimpse of how a Trustee position functions in Congress. Of course, this is a very wide leap, comparing Student Trustee with a Senator, but I

This semester I learned a lot about writing in English 151. It has been a roller coaster ride with these essays for me this semester. I learned step by step how to write a good essay and how to have your readers be engaged in what you’re trying to tell them. Each essay I did has taught me something valuable I can take to the next level of English. I feel as if as the semester went by I did not take my writing that seriously and that reflected in my grades I received in each essay. It made me a better student and writer and it will reflect next semester. In this essay, I will reflect on what I learned throughout this semester that you should apply in your writing when you begin English 151.

I made a documentation board about an activity we did in the classroom. The activity was about using acorns to measure our bodies. I had the children guess how many acorns tall they would be and created a graph. On one side of the graph it said “prediction” and on the other side it said “actual”. The children each had a partner while doing the activity. One child laid on the floor, while the other child measured them with acorns and counted one by one. When they were finished measuring, we went over to the graph to write the result and then switched. On the documentation poster, I made sure I included all the children’s pictures, the graph we made, the children’s words, and the correct developmentally appropriate standard so that parents could

I am currently involved with the Rebel Events Board (REB) and I chose to join this group because I had prior event planning experience while I was on student government in my high school. I take pride and enjoyment into the groups that I am committed to, but I do notice that this group lacks in certain aspects and abilities towards being a well-established group. Based on the group emotional norms box from chapter 8 (Johnson), I notice a big lack of interpersonal understanding. The areas that are lacking within the interpersonal understanding norms, I notice the group leaders could improve on incorporating more time towards getting to know all the members well. Sometimes the group just dives into discussions or announcements without really

Joseph F. Healy in Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class speaks towards the end of the Chapter 5 about institutional discrimination and in turn about affirmative action. Affirmative action being a set of policies and actions which favors certain groups and minorities who have suffered discrimination based on their minority status in the past, this favoritism usually comes into play in relation in employment and education. It is also described in some cases as being “positive discrimination”. Affirmative action was implemented in the 1960’s and 70’s and remains a hot button issue since its implementation and I am personally of the belief that race based affirmative action in university settings in particular is counterproductive and serves no real

I printed out this email and I highlighted the answers we were to bubble in. However, once we began to bubble in the answers there was a problem. The overwhelming majority of the students did not know their address. This created a major problem because I was given only one paper with the students’ address. Thus, I had to spend the majority of the time helping students with their addresses. Around 10:50 Tammy Becker walked in and told my class that we were being too loud (I was doing my best helping students fill out their address). She said we were to start the test at 11:05 am. As a result, I made sure we did start the test at 11:05 am. At 11:05 am the students began testing. I followed everything we were instructed to do during the PSAT.

As a growing and diversifying department, it is necessary from time to time for us to review our programs, our policies, and our staffing requirements. Please look over these expectations and let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

What inspired my 3D plan was my learning community that I took sophomore year. In visualizing cultural change, we learned of art in the French Avant-garde by different artists such as Picasso as well as Einstein’s theory of relativity. We also learned about networking and how to mathematically compete distances between members of a group. As a final project, we calculated the distances between members and inventions art and science. For my 3D class I am currently learning genetics and plan to take ethics in the spring. I want to explore how both topics where viewed from a historical Islamic perspective and how it would have changed over time. I noticed that Understanding Islam in Historical Perspective has not been available in my sophomore