Friday, July 28, 2017

Listing What CCSF Has to Offer




Aeronautics, Directions to CCSF Department of 
Anthropology,  Mission
Architecture Major Transfer Program
ART Ocean Campus
Art Department Register for Classes (Anna Asebedo)
AA-T  Associate in Arts in Studio Arts for Transfer
Bridge to Bioscience Program
Broadcast Electronic Media Arts
Business Web Pages--Intermediate (Noncredit, Mission Center)
Business administration  Office Administration Specialist
Certiport Lab--Microsoft Office and QuickBooks Certificate, Mission Campus
Child Development Certificate and Major
Child Development and Family Studies Department
Child Development Permit Matrix--with Alternative Qualification Options Indicated
Child Development 96 (Now at Mission Camus--only 1 copy!
Child Development Lab Center, Mission Campus (in English and Spanish)
Cinema Department of CCSF
Citizenship Classes, Chinatown Campus
Community Health Worker Certificate Program
          Post-Prison Health Worker Certificate
Computer Science Department
          Basic Computer Concepts Certificate Mission Campus
Construction Classes at Evans (Other side is Blueprint reading)
Construction Introduction to Construction Management Mission Center
Construction Management Courses (mission, Ocean, Chinatown/NB
Custodial Training Evans Center
English for Janitors (only 1 copy but interesting to see)
ESL Classes for Adults (Noncredit, all campuses)
ESL   Mission Campus  (Second side has all campus listed)
Ethnic Studies,  Introduction to  Ocean Campus
Financial Aid
          The California Dream Act
Foreign Language Classes
          Day
          Evening and Saturday
          Japanese
Free City Walls Torn Down and Barriers Busted cards
Free City Frequently Asked Questions
Free City College!  Enroll Now

GED  Mission Center
GED John Adams
HARTS 4 ALL Homeless/At Risk Transitional Students Program
Health
          Community Health Worker Certificate  Ocean?
          Youth Worker Certificate (Hlth 65)  Southeast Center

Health Occupations John Adams
Humanities:  Comparative Religions
IDST
          Ways of Faith
          Beautiful booklet--perhaps one to be displayed on tables
Interior Design
Journalism
Latin American & Latino/a Studies (Colonial History of Latin America) Ocean Campus
Latin American & Latino Studies, Art 105  Ancient Art and Architecture of Latin America
Latinas in the U.S.  "Voces"    Ocean Campus
Math Rocks  (Algebra, Southeast Center)
Matriculation--All-in-One-Day  (last session given is July 29) 
Medical Office Certificate
Middle East Studies
Mission Center Programs/Services
Music Dept.  Class Schedule--for table display?
Older Adults
Physical Education Dance and Athletics
Placement Tests
Puente
Spanish for Bilinguals (Español para bilingües)
Theatre Arts (2 different pamphlets, small supply)
Trauma Prevention and Recovery Certificate
Veteran (Student Veteran)  Health Program
Visual Media Design program brochure Ocean and Mission
Women Studies
          Womn 25 Introduction to Women's Studies:  Feminism Demystified
          The Politics of Sexual Violence
Working Adult Degree Program


Sunday, July 16, 2017

Today's outreach at Sunday Streets on Valencia (between 15th and 16th Streets), was awesome, but we really need an awning!
(Here awesome counselor Donna Hayes, sans awning, gives information to a passerby.)

This is not the first time we've asked for an awning, and we've heard arguments against having one, but today we were all melting in the sun--and even the apples used for weights melted.  Almost every group had an awning except ours, which made it hard to find our group when I left to get a coconut down the street.  I walked right past our spot and only realized I'd passed it when I saw the Golden Warriors awning. I've also been told that people couldn't find us when they were really looking.

So for comfort and for visibility, we need an awning, and Elgy Gillespie has volunteered to provide one. 

This morning other volunteers and staff provided some other good suggestions too.

We can avoid too much clutter--one set of flyers burying others--if we have flyers organized into accordion files.  Denise Selleck volunteered to spend an hour helping me get this started.

Denise also suggested that we have a couple of bulletin boards set up like a poster session at conferences so that people could see at a glance some of what CCSF has to offer.

These posters could possibly be attached to the proverbial awning or put on easels.

Student ambassadors suggested having departments color code their flyers so we can spot them more easily, distinguishing one from another.  Because colors are limited but flyers seem not to be, we may be able to achieve the same result if we file our flyers and have that bulletin boards!

Another suggestion from our student ambassadors was to rotate what we focus on each time. For example, today we wanted to be sure that Free City was prominent.  At the same time we became familiar with where to locate flyers for the specific interests expressed by the passers by.

We should have a flyer giving the dates, times, and locations  that the placement tests will be given.  I think Leslie Milloy said they'd been giving them daily (or was it weekly?) on the Ocean Campus. 

We did have the flyer giving information on the one-day testing and matriculation process of native English speakers. 

We need to make the application process simpler and more user-friendly.  Someone from UC Santa Cruz said theirs was a lot easier to use than City College's. 

CCSF also needs to remove the stumbling block of insisting that students declare a major.  Other colleges make it possible to say "Undecided," but students applying for CCSF can't choose that response.

Donna Hayes also said that some colleges indicate after each major  for which ones students can get financial aid.  Our students need that information too. 

The courses and departments students asked about were almost as diverse as our college itself and included

A public speaking class for people in business who need help with their English pronunciation
Environmental Science
Drawing and painting
Ceramics
Child Development
physical fitness
Advanced Japanese
Beginning Spanish
Diagnostic Imaging
Social Justice
College credit courses for high school students at Sacred Heart and Wallenberg

As usual the police, including one who's taking Administrative Justice at CCSF, came by. 




It's NOT usual for the CCSF chancellor to come by, so  Mark Rocha's doing that was very much appreciated.  I had the chance to talk to him about both about decisions he'd made at Pasadena Community College and his degrees in engineering (relating to his work after  Hurricane Sandy) and in literature.




For several outreach events, Board of Trustees President Thea Selby has been an active participant, which provides both inspiration and a model to follow.  Today, for example, she took several Free City postcards and approached people.  When one would-be student said she had had trouble applying and had, therefore, given up, Thea found a student ambassador to help her with the process.





I'd heard good things about Leslie Milloy, so I was glad that she showed up and helped out, giving me the chance to let her know the good things being said behind her back!

I got a coconut and then a refill, found out what all the white tents on campus were one week, saw Mission Dolores friends of a CCSF instructor who became a priest, and got to see Kathe Burke in an improvided soccer game with a toddler.  I even got to tell student ambassadors about "The Big Sick" and "Kedi" but very briefly because we were BUSY!!!