Professional Documents
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RECOGNITION APPROACHES
Birthday Card from the College President
President Steve Mittelstet sends each employee a specially designed electronic greeting on their birthday. The e-card is
interactive and delivered via e-mail.
Birthday Card from Information Services & College Relations Celebrating you
Each year the Information Services Office creates an employee birthday card that We also honor our earth
Finding harmony.
includes a small commemorative item. In the past, greetings such as “You’re a
star,” accompanied a specialty pen. Other items A Happy Birthday haiku for
included stress balls, custom door hangers and
Thunderduck Post-It™ notes. This year, in the spirit of Roy Bond
From all of us in Information Services.
sustainability, we’re offering a recycled cardboard pen that’s attached to a card
featuring a haiku poem as a birthday wish. This birthday pen is made from recycled card stock and sustainable wooden chips.
Longevity Awards
The Exalted Order of The Snowy White Fillet celebrates employee longevity
starting with 10 years of service with recognitions for every five subsequent
years. Inductees into Snowy White Fillet are honored at an annual luncheon.
EMPLOYEE RECOGNITION
Employee of the Month & Innovation of the Year Parades
A staple of our awards approach is the “employee parade” for recognitions, such as Employee of the Month and Innovation of
the Year. Employees parade across campus in ceremonial regalia, gathering additional employees and students along the way,
to the recipient’s location. The honoree is joyfully declared and receives gifts such as movie passes, a plant, a parking pass,
and a coveted Thunderduck mug. These recognitions are reported in the ThunderBridge newsletter to employees and friends.
The recipients of the 2007-08 Innovation of the The Thunderducks start the parade, complete with Thuy Anh Nguyen of the Multicultural Center was
Year Award – ThunderBbolt Training project. ceremonial regalia, from Alamito Hall. named the April 2008 Outstanding Employee.
EMPLOYEE RECOGNITION (cont.)
Excellence in Teaching
This award recognizes the contributions of instructors in these categories: Full-Time Faculty, Adjunct Faculty, Continuing
Education Faculty, and Others Who Teach. The Excellence in Teaching awards are presented at Richland’s annual
Convocation. To honor the nominees, the RLC Instructional Television crew makes a full video production featuring each
nominee. The video is shown at Convocation to honor and recognize our beloved colleagues. The Excellence in Teaching
Award winner is nominated for the DCCCD Miles Production Award for Full-Time Excellence in Teaching and the Minnie
Piper Stevens statewide award.
The mission of the Council for Community Building (CCB) is to establish open lines of
communication among all those who have a stake in the success of Richland College
to develop ideas, strategies and measures to improve Richland’s learning environment.
The Council for Teaching and Learning (CTL) functions as a forum to promote excellent teaching and learning practices. It
also recommends enhancements to the teaching and learning environments, and creates and nurtures links between all
those who support the teaching and learning process.
Members of the Richland College community are invited to attend the Council meetings and take an active role in the work
of the Council. Employees also may contact any member of the Council for Teaching and Learning for input or information.
The Uncommittee's reading list for 2007-08 was The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls; Generation Me: Why
Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled – and More Miserable Than Ever Before by Jean M.
Twenge; Three Tales by Gustave Flaubert; Faster: The Acceleration of Everything by James Gleick; The Secret Life of Bees
by Sue Kidd; The Two Cultures by C. P. Snow and Stefan Collini; and Teaching the Trees by Joan Maloof.
GREENRichland
GREENRichland is a group of employees and students who believe in shared responsibility for the natural envi-
ronment and in the potential for a community college to make that responsibility real, accessible, and reward-
ing. GREENRichland partners with all Richlanders to develop and implement an action plan for moving
the college onto a path of environmental sustainability and for inviting others onto that path.
GREENRichland’s mission is to lead and learn with students, colleagues, and global partners in
developing practices, policies, programs and partnerships that promote a robust natural environ-
ment and an abundant quality of life for future generations.
OPEN-MEMBERSHIP COLLEGE COMMUNITIES (cont.)
Center for Renewal & Wholeness in Higher Education (CRWHE Headquarters)
CRWHE’s predecessor organization – the Center for Formation in the Community College, which later became the Center
for Formation in Higher Education (CFHE) – was launched by generous funding from the Fetzer Institute, sponsored by
the League for Innovation in the Community College, and headquartered at the District Office of the Dallas County
Community College District (DCCCD).
In spring 2008, a group of CFHE Distinguished National Advocates met in Taos, New Mexico, and
recommended that CFHE programs be continued in a broader organizational context to coincide
with a more comprehensive impact on the mission of higher education. The CFHE became the
Center for Renewal & Wholeness in Higher Education (CRWHE). Beginning in August 2008,
CRWHE is headquartered at Richland College and is supported by the DCCCD and the
League for Innovation in the Community College.
The vision of the CRWHE cultivates communities that serve, where the balance of
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ON CAMPUS
All ballots are in and counted for our
Employee of the Quarter
Fourth Quarter (June - August 2008)
Congratulations to Austin Longacre, Irrigation
Technician II, as the Facilities Services Employee of the
Quarter. Thanks for a job well done!
District Human Resources has notified that the Ad
Hoc Job Evaluation for Austin Longacre was approved
effective 06/09/08. Mr. Longacre's new job title is
Irrigation Technician II.
Source: Campus Quality Survey, 98,00,02,05,07
EMPLOYMENT
Employee of the Quarter
Fourth Quarter (June - August 2008)
PT Groundskeeper Seasonal Congratulations to Austin Longacre, Irrigation Technician II, as the Facilities Services
(1 position)
TOP LEFT: Mike Hau, Anson Ngo, Jone Tsou Employee of the Quarter. Thanks for a job well done! District Human Resources has notified
Richland College
Michael Brantley, Hong Tran and Terrick Tu.
FT/$1,338.00/Mo.
open until filled
BOTTOM LEFT: Roberto Manzanares and that the Ad Hoc Job Evaluation for Austin Longacre was approved effective 06/09/08. Mr.
Ron Woodson
Longacre's new job title is Irrigation Technician II.