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Mary Rees: Good afternoon, We'll, wait just a minute while the

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rest, while people come and join the, our, February

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8, Moorpark College Campus Update. Good

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afternoon.

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Good afternoon to everyone. We're so glad you

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could join us today for our February 8 Campus,

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Moorpark College Campus Update. We have a lot of

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items to go over today. So it's going to be, I

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think, a really informative update. Just want to

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remind everyone that the update is recorded and it

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will be after the transcriptions are done, it will

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be posted on the president's website. So it will

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be available for everyone at that location. Also that

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the updates are closed captioned. If you are

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interested in having a closed captioned, if you go to

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the bottom of your screen, you can click where it

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says CC for closed captioned. We do have a Q&A,

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if you have questions as we go through the webinar

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today. Please type in your questions and we will

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do our best to try to address those. Good

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afternoon, Julius. I should, or sorry. I should

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mention. Sorry, go back one more minute Matt. Sorry,

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just to mention today on the agenda we're going to

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be talking about, first of all, updates, and then

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we're going to have some information about Early

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Alert with Starfish and then some information

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presented to us about a presentation coming on the

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campus about AB 705. Thank you. So sorry,

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Julius. Good afternoon.

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Julius Sokenu: Hi, Mary. Hi, everyone,

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welcome and thank you for joining us this

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afternoon. It's a pleasure to be here with you. I

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hope you had a restful weekend. And again,

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we are very grateful to everyone who is doing

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their very best to help our students be successful

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under these challenging circumstances, but more

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importantly we are all, equally as important, we

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are grateful to the faculty and the staff for your

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continued commitment to our students' success. Some

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of you may have heard that last week, I think it

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was Thursday, Thursday or Friday, Thursday,

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at Ventura College, the Black History Month event

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there was was Zoom bombed by some folks who then

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displayed some Nazi paraphernalia, as well as

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racially offensive imagery and language. I just

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wanted to share with you that we do our very best

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here at the college to safeguard those Zoom

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circumstances, particularly when we have

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situations like that at Ventura where the intent was

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to really engage and allow people to to discuss

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and engage in conversation around a very important

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topic. Unfortunately, those individuals were able

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to, you know, disrupt the event with their hate. We know that

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hate is not a value that we support and one

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that we endorse at this college and in this

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district. And so we we ask you to please continue

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as you do these programs, work with our folks, work

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with the instructional technologist, with Michael

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and with Matt, dean, so that we can safeguard those

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environments for you. We will predominately offer

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these events as webinars and less so

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as Zoom meetings, so as to avoid these

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kinds of situations. But just wanted to let you

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know that we are on top of it here at the college

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and we are making sure that those environments are

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safe for all involved. Again, it's important for

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us as we continue to plan for fall 20-21

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that the college community is an active part

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of that. And so we are going to allocate some time

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during these campus updates for very specific fall

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20-21 question and answer. We ask

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that if you are, if you have specific questions

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and you want us to address them during the campus

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update, please send an email with those questions.

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Send them to Linda, Linda Resendiz and please

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copy Mary. And so that way we will have those

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questions available and we can then address those

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questions for you prior to, during the campus

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update. If you can send those questions to us by

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the Friday before that Friday morning before, we

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will do our very best to respond to the questions

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or concerns on that Monday's campus update. The next

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campus update is February the 22nd. Monday,

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February 22. Same time and same place. And please

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so we hope that we can sort of continue the

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conversation around what we're doing for the fall

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and that people can use this venue as one of the

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numerous venues to articulate their need, their

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concern, and provide us some valuable feedback so

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that we can do what's best for everyone involved.

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The Spectrum Club, which supports our LGBTQI

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community, they sent out an email last week to

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faculty and staff inviting you to their M.C. Out slash

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Ally Network meeting. This is the first meeting

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of the semester. That meeting will take place on

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February the 23rd, February the 23rd

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from 3:30 to 4:30 pm. A Google

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announcement or for that, for that meeting. If you

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would please fill out that Google Form and

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submit it. Sally Ponce O'Rourke and Ashley Vaughn

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are available to answer any questions that you

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might have regarding this particular event. Okay.

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As you know, this is, February is Black History

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Month, and we continue with the dynamic of, you know, Black

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History Month events on campus. Michael has

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put in the chat a link to our extensive Black

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History Month events. Thank you and kudos to the

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Black History Month Planning Committee. Some

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thoughtful, engaging, entertaining community

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building activities have been planned for this

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month. And thank you for those of you who attended

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the kickoff ceremony on last Monday and

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viewed the video celebrating Black History Month

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and online, as well as through that event. On

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Professor Lauren Swonden from our Film Department

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will be presenting and facilitating a talk on

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Remember the Titans, the movie, and you can see

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the...Please watch the movie beforehand so

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that you can participate in that

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engagement. And then you will certainly have

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an opportunity to share with others your insights

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from the movie. Again, the whole Black History

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Month set of events are available to you. You can

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go to the Black History Month website and you will see that

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that list of programming. And Michael's also put that

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in chat to enable you to access those those events.

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I believe Allison will be sharing with us the Covid

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data for this past week.

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Allison Case Barton: Well, good afternoon.

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Happy Monday to everybody. I'm happy to report

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that our trends on our campus are going about the

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same as our county, and state, and actually nation

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where we're sort of on a like a downward trend

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with our new cases. And everybody is

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recovering nicely from their Covid if they've

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had Covid. Just gives you a little snapshot here of

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what, what we've experienced over the last week.

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has been working very hard to do all the contact

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tracing. We will be having athletes on campus

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starting this week. And that's going to add to

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some of these numbers probably and definitely add

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to our contact tracing. And to help them out, it

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would be really nice for you to remind any

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students coming on campus that they do their at

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home screening on the app before they come to

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campus, that they really carefully read the

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questions and carefully answer them mindfully and

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accurately, and that if they end up having a Covid

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test, that they upload that on to the app as well.

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the efficiency of our, of our app and our system,

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and it really helps with the contact tracing as

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well. So those are my little suggestions for today.

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know at the Student Health Center. The other piece

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of it is you could go to the Student Health Center

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website and click on "Covid Information" that will

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take you to our Covid update website, where this

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information is updated each week, but then also

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information about vaccines and other kinds of

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Covid information is right there for you. Thanks

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have to use QR codes when people come on campus?

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check in at one of the tables, and then when you

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go to wherever you're going on campus, there's a

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QR code. And if you notice that there are not QR

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codes where you are going on campus, please let me

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know that so that we can replace it. Sometimes the

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wind blows them down or whatever. So that's

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a very important part of this, because if we don't

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know where you went on campus, it's really

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difficult to do the the tracing. Yeah. Thank you

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for that question. Any other questions?

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if we see on campus, if it talks about checking in,

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for asking that question to me. I think all almost

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all of the, I think all of the signs have been

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changed, though. So screening is testing, right?

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signage. So checking in is what you do when you're

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coming on campus to teach or when your students

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are coming on campus for class. And screening and

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testing are what the county does, you know, for

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the Covid testing. So that was a little confusing,

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and it's been rectified in the signage and

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hopefully it's clarified for everybody. That's a

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good question. Any other questions?

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those good questions and have a good rest of your

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there's an additional Black History Month program

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tomorrow from 3:00 to 4:30 pm. It is

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called Hashtag Trust Black Women, and it's an

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inter-generational conversation amongst Black about

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Black women and Black women's activism. Professor

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Tammy Coleman has inserted the link on our Q&A.

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appreciate it. So we do have that program

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scheduled tomorrow between 3:00 to 4:30

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any particular questions for me before I turn it

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Jennifer Clark: It's my turn.

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Thank you. Thank you, Julius. And hello, everybody.

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Very, very pleased to be with you all on this

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beautiful February afternoon. I just have a few

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updates for you. The one I'm going to focus on and

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start with is just to inform our community that

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we've unfortunately had a recent uptick in

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fraudulent applications and course

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registration. This is a system wide problem.

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nation, I imagine certainly in California have

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seen over the last few months, you know, a large number of

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fraudulent students, right, registering for classes. But

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most importantly, what these fraudsters are after,

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of course, is money. So they're, they're falsifying

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they're not real students. They're applying

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for college. And again, many, many registered at

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our college, at Ventura, at Oxnard. And they're after,

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Pell money or California Promise money or any

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sources like that, of course. So I want to take

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this opportunity to really help people understand,

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particularly faculty understand the timing and the

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relationship between the census day and when

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financial aid disperses. So normally speaking, of

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course, with regularly scheduled courses that are

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like 16 weeks, census day of course, happens

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the third week of class. So we have a little bit

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more time to assess whether or not a student is, if

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there's any activity and whether we need to drop a

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student. If it's a shorter,if it's a

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shorter term course, a late start course,

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accelerated, a summer course, whatever you want to

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call it, the financial aid disbursement

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happens very, very quickly. It happens after only

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one or two days of class, like the first day,

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second day. So if you've got a class that only

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meets like once a week, financial aid is

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disbursement is going to happen like right after

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that first meeting. So if you don't see any

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activity with those students, please, please,

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please drop those students. In a few cases that

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didn't happen and we had some we have some

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fraudulent applications, some fraudulent

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disbursements go through. And so, you know, that's

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that's kind of a problem. We're giving away money,

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college money, right, right to these people. On

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the other hand, if it really is a student and

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the student perhaps isn't, doesn't intend to take

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the class and they're just sort of waiting to be

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dropped, they will receive a financial aid

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disbursement after census day for a class that

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they don't intend to take, which means that

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they're very likely going to be given more money

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than they should have. And then there's this very,

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very lengthy process by which the student has to

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make payments back to the college in order to, you know, pay

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back the money that they shouldn't have had

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disbursed to them in the first place. So they have

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to call and set up a payment plan. And you can

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imagine and it's really a pain for our

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students. It's a very, very large hurdle for them.

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And if, God forbid, something, they missed

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something and they thought something was taken

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care of and it wasn't. You know, a fifty dollar charge after

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a couple of years can become two hundred dollars

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because there's this huge, you know, 40 percent

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interest that gets charged for unpaid fees, and

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not to mention IRS can get involved, garnish their

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wages. I mean, it can present a very, very massive

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problem for our students. So please, please,

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please, we implore you it is a best practice to

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drop those students before or sorry, right, right,

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after no longer than census day. So right

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after that day, drop those students with no

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activity. I wanted to go to move to the CARES and

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HERF money. Just as a reminder, we are getting a

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CARES supplemental, quite a large amount for Moorpark.

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It's almost eight million dollars in

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additional relief money or Covid relief money.

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It's basically a CARE supplement. We have one year

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to spend it, at this point. So we'll be we're

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putting we are furiously putting plans together to

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invest in our college, invest in our students for

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the long term, right, with the short term money.

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So I wanted to also let people know that with the

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first CARES money we had of some 2.5

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7 1 million of course in student aid. We

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are rapidly spending that down, we're almost done.

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We've got about three hundred and eighty thousand

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dollars left. We've been able to we've been able

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to directly disburse to nearly twenty eight hundred

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students. And these are grants that these students

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have received that have really helped them, that

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they do not have to pay back. So it's especially

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helpful for our students. So but we do expect

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certainly by April and that's our time frame where

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we have to have that last three hundred and eighty

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thousand spent. That will be easily spent spring

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semester, no problem. And then there'll be a CARE

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supplement, as I mentioned a few minutes ago or a

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couple of minutes ago, that will additionally will

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help our students further for the next year

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because some of that money is for student direct

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aid. I wanted to just remind everybody we have hot

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spots that can be loaned to students if needed.

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Linda Resendiz is the contact. Please have the

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student contact her directly and then she will

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shepherd them or she will begin the process for them to

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get their hot spot if needed. Laptop as well. We

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are continuing to loan out laptops and, and

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Allison already reminded everybody about when you

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come on campus, filling out the questions

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diligently, really reading those questions

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carefully before you come on to campus, and then

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when you come on to campus, when you go into a

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room, a building, please scan that QR code so that

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if there is contact tracing that's needed, that

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impacts you our student health center folks have

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a much, much easier time doing it. Thank you very

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much. That concludes my update.

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Mary: Thank you, Jennifer. A lot of opportunities to

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help out our students in that so thank you. This is

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as Julius was saying, this is really off to a

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wonderful spring semester here. I love the

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football. And we're talking about this as a year

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of lemons and people making lemonade. So I feel

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like that's what you all have done. It's, we

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have more students who are taking less units, but

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we have more students than last year, last

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semester. And we really appreciate the opportunity

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that we have to really be making a difference for

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these students. We know that, that their

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interaction with all of our faculty, and staff, and

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administrators really is is helping all of our

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students move forward towards their educational

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goals. So this semester, we have want to make sure

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that we're providing all the support we can for

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our students. And we're going to be talking today

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about some Starfish applications that we have with

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Early Alert. And for those of you who are thinking

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"Early Alert, been there, done that." I want to

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we're going to be talking about a whole new Early

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Alert. The system is really about wraparound

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services. It's about bringing others into the team

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to help the faculty support the students. So I

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think you'll be very interested in what Claudia,

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and Monica have to say, and Khushnur on that. Just

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a reminder too as we go through the semester, we

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have a lot of resources for the faculty and for

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the students. Tutoring center is open and we have

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tutoring available in such a variety of courses

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and time frames. So please encourage your students

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to take advantage of all of the opportunities so

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that we can help all of our students moving

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forward this semester. As we move for the semester,

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we're going to be wanting to talk about ways that

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we as a campus and just know that the campus is

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very committed to helping the county with whatever

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vaccines we have offered to be a vaccination site.

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We don't know if we will be or not, but we are

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committed to helping the county...

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move forward with whatever is going to be helpful

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to increase the safety of our whole community. For

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fall, as Julius said, each of the updates, we're

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going to have a time with any questions and

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answers or any new information so that we can all

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know that we're all part of the planning that's

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going to be going on to try to provide as safe and

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efficient and with excellence as Moorpark does

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at moving out of helping all of our students with

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their education. We're going to have a lot of

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more options for students, and for the faculty, and

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staff looking at ways on how we do bring things

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back in the fall. You've been hearing

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conversations about high flex, how to do cameras within

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the classrooms to increase options there so you

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can have both some online and some on ground for

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your students. We're going to be looking at

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alternate sites. I think you probably know we're

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currently using our parking structure very

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creatively with dancing on one floor and Music on

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another floor. We're going to be looking at

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perhaps bringing in air frame tents so that we can

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looking at whether we can use our the field house.

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campus that we can either put an outdoor structure

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or do something differently so that we can provide

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safe structures and safe opportunities for

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providing on ground opportunities for our students,

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faculty, and staff. We're also looking at zero

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textbook costs. This is the time to make sure that

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if you have that option, want to make sure that we

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mark it on the classes for summer and fall.

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This is a real access

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piece for our students, so if we can provide them

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with free textbooks, it really helps our students

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out. One of our other options here on campus that

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we're going to be looking into is we're going to

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have a PRT visit. And many of you will remember

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this from a couple of years ago. It's a peer

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review team. The state gives us an opportunity to

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identify an issue or something that we want

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support on, on the campus, and then they put

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together a team from all over community colleges

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all over the state to come and work with us on

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campus, through positive questioning, gives us an

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opportunity to meet and to talk together on how to

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address these two concerns. And then we get money

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from the state to look and work on trying to deal

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with these two areas. The two areas that Moorpark's

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identified that we would like help from, from

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our peers on, is one is how do we take all of our

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work that's going on with our diversity, equity,

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inclusion, and make sure that these changes and

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these what we're working on is going to be

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sustainable. So how do we look at our developing

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an anti-racial culture and a culturally competent

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culture on campus and make sure that all of this

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is sustainable? So help us deal with some of these

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very difficult and complex issues. The second area

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that we want to focus on is making sure that we

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develop a distance ed plan with an equity lens. So

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we want to look at both of these two areas and

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reflect as a campus, as well as get outside

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experts to give us, help us with this reflection.

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So many of you, depending on what committees

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you're on and what areas you have be engaged in on

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campus, probably will get a request to join this

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PRT visit. They're going to be coming February

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26. They'll be joining us virtually on

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Zoom the whole day. So if you get an invitation,

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I really hope that you'll be part of that, those

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conversations so you can help us deal with both of

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these kind of concerns.

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So, Amanuel, do you have some updates for us as

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well?

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Amanuel Gebru: Yes, Mary, thank you so much. Good afternoon,

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everyone. Great to be here with you all this week.

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Happy Monday. Just a few updates from our Outreach

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team who continues to support our community with

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our outreach efforts virtually, they're offering

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weekly workshops every Wednesday from 2:30

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to 5:00 p.m., via Zoom to help returning and

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prospective students apply to Moorpark College. And

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also they'll have some fun virtual events

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coming up this month for prospective students and

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the community as well. In addition to that, they

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will be also doing parent night, which will be on

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February 17 from 5:30 to 6:30 and

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another parent night on the 25th from 5:30

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to 6:30 that will be in Spanish for our

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Spanish speaking communities. And so Alejandra and

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her team will be doing that work outreach efforts.

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And then also in March, they will be holding a

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student open house on March 4 from 5:30

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to 6:30. So a lot of activity happening in

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terms of ways we can work with our community, high

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schools, and also adult populations to engage them

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in our outreach efforts and help with enrollment

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for the summer and fall semester.

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And then the next slide, just want to remind you

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about, you know, our college continuing to support our ACCESS

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students. So this is from our ACCESS team and Silva.

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Just a lot of workshops. Accommodations can be

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different from what they were before, since Covid

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has brought up a lot of new limitations for

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students. So if you have students who mention any

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medical or mental health care concerns, please

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refer them to the ACCESS Office, but also to the

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health center. If students who identify having

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learning disability or ADHD, please have them

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contact the ACCESS Office or when in doubt, always

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just contact Silva, who's willing to assist you in

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some of the next steps. In addition, ACCESS has

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student success workshops for all students

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throughout the spring semester. The topics and

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Zoom links will be in the ACCESS website. The

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flyer will be included in the chat, so please get

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a chance to refer students to the ACCESS Office

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and provide them these wonderful resources as they

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transition into their spring semester. Also want

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to take the time to thank Kristen, who provides

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leadership for our Student Activities Office, for

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kicking off our MC LEADS workshop last week there

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were over 70 students who were in attendance

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virtually. We were hoping to do this in person to

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provide leadership opportunities for all of our

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students. So this is still happening virtually.

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And I want to thank Kristen for her leadership in

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executing this, but also want to thank all the

506
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faculty and staff who continue to do workshops in

507
00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:08,620
providing leadership workshops for our students

508
00:29:09,130 --> 00:29:12,100
across campus. Thank you, Mary, and I'll pass it

509
00:29:12,100 --> 00:29:14,110
back to you. And I know we have some presenters.

510
00:29:19,470 --> 00:29:22,560
Mary: We certainly do Amanuel before we get into those

511
00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:24,960
two presentations, there were two additional

512
00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:28,980
questions that probably we'll deal with first. One

513
00:29:28,980 --> 00:29:32,850
is was mentioned about the student athletes

514
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be coming back on campus. They'll be coming back on

515
00:29:35,430 --> 00:29:37,710
campus just for conditioning. We are still

516
00:29:37,710 --> 00:29:41,430
following Ventura County Public Health guidelines.

517
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And so the student athletes would be coming for

518
00:29:46,740 --> 00:29:50,420
conditioning at this stage. So we are just a case

519
00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:52,920
to answer that concern. The...

520
00:29:56,830 --> 00:30:00,330
The other concern was about the vaccination, Julius,

521
00:30:00,340 --> 00:30:02,650
I don't know if you want to address that, but the

522
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question was about

523
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the requirements or I think the first question is

524
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probably about availability of vaccines and then

525
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requirements for faculty and staff and then

526
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students. And I understand those are very

527
00:30:16,870 --> 00:30:17,840
different questions.

528
00:30:17,900 --> 00:30:20,680
Julius: Sure. So in terms of

529
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requirements for faculty and staff, the district's

530
00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:29,350
position and I think it's very well informed, is

531
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that we will require that faculty and staff who

532
00:30:32,740 --> 00:30:37,120
are on campus for work and supporting our students

533
00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:39,970
get vaccinated and that vaccinations will be a

534
00:30:39,970 --> 00:30:43,870
prerequisite for being on campus to work. As far

535
00:30:43,870 --> 00:30:47,800
as students are concerned at this point, we're

536
00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:51,040
not, we don't have assurance that we can mandate

537
00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:53,350
that students get vaccinated before they can come

538
00:30:53,350 --> 00:30:56,560
on campus. But what we do know is that we can

539
00:30:57,010 --> 00:31:00,760
begin to develop campaigns towards students so

540
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:03,610
that when vaccines become available, that then

541
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students can get vaccinated and it will help to

542
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:10,720
mitigate the risk of transmission on campus. In

543
00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:14,330
terms of availability of vaccines, as you know, we

544
00:31:14,330 --> 00:31:16,690
are in the education sector and in the education

545
00:31:16,690 --> 00:31:19,780
sector we are part of phase one, tier one, phase

546
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one B, the county is still in tier one, phase one,

547
00:31:25,300 --> 00:31:29,830
phase one A at the moment. So they're barely moving

548
00:31:29,830 --> 00:31:33,340
into the latter half of that phase. The goal is

549
00:31:33,340 --> 00:31:37,960
that the county will speed up its vaccination of

550
00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:41,650
folks in the previous category and that we can

551
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then get to vaccination for folks in education,

552
00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:48,460
hopefully in the next month or so. But that is all

553
00:31:48,460 --> 00:31:51,340
really kind of speculation right now, because, as

554
00:31:51,340 --> 00:31:54,310
you all know, the logistics of vaccine

555
00:31:54,310 --> 00:31:57,690
distribution has been rather slow. And so our

556
00:31:57,700 --> 00:32:00,520
county, like all of the counties, are struggling

557
00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:05,350
with meeting the need. Having said that, Ventura

558
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County has gotten 90 percent of the vaccines

559
00:32:11,590 --> 00:32:16,240
they've received into people and into people of the

560
00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:20,290
particular category that they are servicing at

561
00:32:20,290 --> 00:32:22,860
that particular point in time. They immunize them in

562
00:32:22,870 --> 00:32:25,300
that particular point in time. So the county is doing

563
00:32:25,300 --> 00:32:29,890
reasonably well in comparison, but again, we hope

564
00:32:30,130 --> 00:32:34,390
that the speed can be accelerated, so that by the

565
00:32:34,390 --> 00:32:37,840
time we start school in August, our staff and

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our faculty, and administrators will be vaccinated and

567
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that folks who are students of ours will have

568
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:48,490
begun vaccination hopefully by the end of the

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fall semester, we will have a campus of students

570
00:32:53,110 --> 00:32:55,630
who are fully vaccinated or at least very close to

571
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that.

572
00:32:59,650 --> 00:33:03,250
Mary: Thank you for that clarification, Julius. Claudia

573
00:33:03,250 --> 00:33:05,660
has some really exciting information for us.

574
00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:07,600
Claudia, good afternoon.

575
00:33:08,779 --> 00:33:11,620
Claudia Sitlington: Hi, Mary, thank you. I

576
00:33:11,620 --> 00:33:14,400
just want to thank everyone for having me today,

577
00:33:15,010 --> 00:33:19,090
and I'm here to provide some updates and really

578
00:33:19,090 --> 00:33:23,020
some preliminary information on early alerts in

579
00:33:23,020 --> 00:33:26,410
Starfish. Could you go to the next slide, please?

580
00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:31,600
Thank you. So Starfish is the product that we

581
00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:34,660
utilize a lot of us on the Student Support side

582
00:33:34,660 --> 00:33:38,980
are utilizing this product in order to make the

583
00:33:38,980 --> 00:33:41,050
appointments for students. As you know, students

584
00:33:41,050 --> 00:33:43,060
can go online, they can go into their portal and

585
00:33:43,060 --> 00:33:45,850
they can click the little Starfish icon and they

586
00:33:45,850 --> 00:33:47,860
can schedule appointments with their counselors,

587
00:33:47,860 --> 00:33:52,990
with their coaches. So it's extremely easy way, an

588
00:33:52,990 --> 00:33:55,840
accessible way for students to be able to make

589
00:33:55,840 --> 00:34:00,100
their appointments, but not only is it that it's

590
00:34:00,100 --> 00:34:03,510
also a tool that can be utilized for Early Alert.

591
00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:06,760
And so I'm here today to just really give and what

592
00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:10,960
I'm calling it is a bird's eye view of what this

593
00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:14,500
is going to look like as we move forward. And just

594
00:34:14,500 --> 00:34:16,330
to give everybody idea of a little bit of a

595
00:34:16,330 --> 00:34:20,050
timeline. So when I started on the campus, which

596
00:34:20,050 --> 00:34:24,310
was July of 2019, and we were having

597
00:34:24,460 --> 00:34:28,090
phone calls every week regarding Starfish and

598
00:34:28,090 --> 00:34:30,550
Early Alert and what we can utilize this product

599
00:34:30,550 --> 00:34:32,860
for and how it's going to help our students. So,

600
00:34:32,860 --> 00:34:35,050
of course, as we know, as we're trying to move our

601
00:34:35,050 --> 00:34:37,540
agenda forward with equity and being able to

602
00:34:37,540 --> 00:34:41,260
provide our DI populations with additional support

603
00:34:41,530 --> 00:34:43,720
and not only additional support, but targeted

604
00:34:43,720 --> 00:34:46,780
support, which is extremely important, that's

605
00:34:46,780 --> 00:34:48,490
where this is going to come into play and of

606
00:34:48,490 --> 00:34:52,480
course, help us with our agenda for retention as

607
00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:55,780
well. So really what we are doing is I would get

608
00:34:55,780 --> 00:34:57,730
flags that come in and I'm going to be able to

609
00:34:57,730 --> 00:34:59,950
give a visual on a little bit here. But as flags

610
00:34:59,950 --> 00:35:03,280
come in and those flags need to be distributed and

611
00:35:03,290 --> 00:35:06,370
need to be able to identify what is it that the

612
00:35:06,370 --> 00:35:09,250
student needs, and is that something that can just

613
00:35:09,250 --> 00:35:12,940
be taking care of via phone call or does that need

614
00:35:12,940 --> 00:35:17,380
to entail layers of support? And that's what we're

615
00:35:17,380 --> 00:35:20,820
all here for. So really, that's kind of what, you know, Mary

616
00:35:20,830 --> 00:35:22,690
was saying with the whole idea of the wraparound

617
00:35:22,690 --> 00:35:27,100
services. So next slide, please? So with that

618
00:35:27,100 --> 00:35:29,980
being in mind, just to give you all a little

619
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bit of kind of like I said, that bird's eye view

620
00:35:33,130 --> 00:35:36,340
of what Early Alert is and how we can utilize

621
00:35:36,350 --> 00:35:39,760
Starfish, it can allow an instructor to notify a

622
00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:44,080
student if there is a concern about performance or

623
00:35:44,650 --> 00:35:46,630
it's important for us to keep in mind it doesn't

624
00:35:46,630 --> 00:35:49,120
just have to be a problem. It can also be if

625
00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:51,280
they're successful. So you are able to send a

626
00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:54,280
kudo's, you know, "Hey, you're doing well." And as we

627
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:58,480
know, those kind of motivational efforts go a

628
00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:00,700
really long way, because then that tells the

629
00:36:00,700 --> 00:36:02,920
students, "You know what I'm doing well and I want to

630
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:07,060
strive to do even better." And it's also an early

631
00:36:07,060 --> 00:36:10,450
warning tracking tool and that is able to collect

632
00:36:10,450 --> 00:36:12,730
information and, of course, share it with the

633
00:36:12,730 --> 00:36:17,710
individuals that are built in as point individuals. So

634
00:36:17,710 --> 00:36:20,920
each area selects point people, maybe it's one or two

635
00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:23,020
individuals, maybe it's more than that, depending

636
00:36:23,020 --> 00:36:27,790
on the area, to be able to assist with helping out

637
00:36:27,790 --> 00:36:31,620
the student. If a student begins to struggle in

638
00:36:31,620 --> 00:36:34,590
the course and you're noticing, you know, they're

639
00:36:34,590 --> 00:36:36,450
not coming to class, they're not turning in

640
00:36:36,450 --> 00:36:39,170
assignments, that's when that flag can be raised.

641
00:36:39,180 --> 00:36:41,610
And that's what we call the early warning. And

642
00:36:41,610 --> 00:36:43,920
that's going to give them that first notification

643
00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:47,400
that they are not on track as far as what you're

644
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:50,010
expecting of them based on the syllabi and based

645
00:36:50,010 --> 00:36:54,750
on the overall expectations of the class. Also,

646
00:36:54,750 --> 00:36:57,990
it's going to assist with the help they need

647
00:36:57,990 --> 00:37:01,530
outside of the classroom. As we know, working with

648
00:37:01,530 --> 00:37:03,690
the students there's that time with them during

649
00:37:03,690 --> 00:37:07,140
class, but then what happens after class? And so

650
00:37:07,140 --> 00:37:11,250
being able to utilize Starfish in a way that is

651
00:37:11,250 --> 00:37:13,620
going to be able to keep that communication

652
00:37:13,620 --> 00:37:17,010
consistent and that's going to assist referrals,

653
00:37:17,010 --> 00:37:19,230
as you see here. So whether those referrals are

654
00:37:19,230 --> 00:37:22,350
for tutoring, counseling, coaching, financial aid,

655
00:37:22,950 --> 00:37:25,770
so on and so forth, it will depend on what that

656
00:37:25,770 --> 00:37:29,170
student is actually going to need. And I briefly

657
00:37:29,170 --> 00:37:32,200
mentioned this earlier, but Starfish also does

658
00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:35,860
allow the instructor to raise the kudos. And

659
00:37:35,860 --> 00:37:38,740
again, I want to mention that because if you have

660
00:37:38,740 --> 00:37:41,200
a student that's doing exceptionally well or maybe

661
00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:43,090
if a student wasn't doing so great and then they

662
00:37:43,090 --> 00:37:45,280
got back on track, it does give them that

663
00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:49,030
motivation to be able to persist and say, "You know

664
00:37:49,030 --> 00:37:53,020
what, I got this. I can do this." Could you go to the next

665
00:37:53,020 --> 00:37:54,730
slide, please? So that's just the overall that's

666
00:37:54,730 --> 00:37:58,630
just the main idea of what we're going to be

667
00:37:58,630 --> 00:38:01,690
utilizing Starfish for. But most importantly, I

668
00:38:01,690 --> 00:38:04,120
wanted to be able to identify and share with

669
00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:08,230
everybody what the various flag types are, and a

670
00:38:08,230 --> 00:38:10,480
lot of this, of course, when I go into

671
00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:13,400
Starfish and I look at all the different areas,

672
00:38:13,900 --> 00:38:16,270
there's filtering and they're being able to sift

673
00:38:16,270 --> 00:38:18,910
out all of the information and the main ones that

674
00:38:18,910 --> 00:38:21,040
when I go in and I look for this information, this

675
00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:22,990
is what I'm looking for. So as you can see,

676
00:38:23,650 --> 00:38:26,770
there's low test scores, missing assignments,

677
00:38:27,100 --> 00:38:30,200
three plus flags. I'll explain what that is momentarily.

678
00:38:30,460 --> 00:38:32,620
There's a general concern flag and then there's

679
00:38:32,620 --> 00:38:36,040
also intervention needed. I want to take a second

680
00:38:36,040 --> 00:38:38,740
here to explain the three plus flag. And that's

681
00:38:38,740 --> 00:38:40,750
exactly what it sounds like. So if a student

682
00:38:40,750 --> 00:38:44,590
receives three one more flags, whether it be in

683
00:38:44,590 --> 00:38:48,160
one course or in several courses. As soon as we

684
00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:51,580
see the three plus flag, then it really is a

685
00:38:51,580 --> 00:38:55,500
matter of going in and that immediate contact. And

686
00:38:55,510 --> 00:38:58,330
so it's emailing the student. It's calling the

687
00:38:58,330 --> 00:39:01,810
student and really needing to figure out what

688
00:39:01,810 --> 00:39:06,160
exactly is going on so that we can intervene as

689
00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:11,340
early as possible. The next slide and, I apologize

690
00:39:11,340 --> 00:39:14,550
if the font is going to be a little no, I made it

691
00:39:14,550 --> 00:39:17,410
a bit larger, so I hope that everyone can see this

692
00:39:17,430 --> 00:39:23,640
okay. So basically per this flowchart. I started

693
00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:26,490
with the red at the top because we're alerting we

694
00:39:26,490 --> 00:39:28,860
need to be able to identify what's going on. And

695
00:39:28,860 --> 00:39:30,900
then as you start to see that it goes down in

696
00:39:30,900 --> 00:39:33,660
tiers, we go kind of into the yellow category and

697
00:39:33,660 --> 00:39:36,990
into the green. I want to make sure I'm on

698
00:39:36,990 --> 00:39:39,600
time as well. So you can follow along with me. The

699
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:41,400
very first thing that's going to happen is a

700
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:45,450
faculty member is going to raise a flag. And if

701
00:39:45,450 --> 00:39:48,900
you go to the left, if it's less low test scores

702
00:39:48,900 --> 00:39:51,990
or a missing assignments, then that's something

703
00:39:51,990 --> 00:39:54,120
that the student and the professor are going to

704
00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:56,160
talk about. What is it that the student needs to

705
00:39:56,160 --> 00:40:00,210
do in order to get back on track? Now, if I notice

706
00:40:00,210 --> 00:40:02,640
that students have a three plus flag, which is

707
00:40:02,650 --> 00:40:05,970
general concern or intervention needed, that's

708
00:40:05,970 --> 00:40:08,490
where you're going to see that next step comes in

709
00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:11,040
is I'm going to go in and triage and then I'm

710
00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:13,800
going to assign. The very first thing that I do is

711
00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:16,800
I check to see if a student is in a special

712
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:19,860
population. And if they are, then I immediately

713
00:40:19,860 --> 00:40:23,400
refer them to that area. So whether it be EOPS.,

714
00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:26,910
perhaps ACCESS, perhaps Athletics, you'll see that

715
00:40:26,910 --> 00:40:29,460
that first yellow box goes to the left, I'm going

716
00:40:29,460 --> 00:40:31,260
to go ahead and I'm going to send it to that

717
00:40:31,260 --> 00:40:35,400
individual. And then those services are going to

718
00:40:35,430 --> 00:40:37,410
reach out to the student and assist them. And I

719
00:40:37,410 --> 00:40:40,590
kind of do. It's a two way check I refer in

720
00:40:40,590 --> 00:40:43,770
Starfish, and then I send a quick email as well.

721
00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:47,760
If they are not in a special population, then what

722
00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:51,300
happens is the success coaches will email the

723
00:40:51,300 --> 00:40:55,680
students and they will let them know, you know, "We're here to

724
00:40:55,680 --> 00:40:58,500
help you. We want to be able to assist," and they

725
00:40:58,500 --> 00:41:00,860
provide them with all of the different services.

726
00:41:01,170 --> 00:41:04,170
So whether it be workshops, coaching appointments,

727
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:07,890
and sometimes it does have to turn into an

728
00:41:07,890 --> 00:41:11,910
additional referral. So if a student, if we

729
00:41:11,910 --> 00:41:13,980
determine that the student needs a different

730
00:41:13,980 --> 00:41:15,990
referral, perhaps they need to meet with a

731
00:41:15,990 --> 00:41:18,390
counselor, perhaps they need to meet with a

732
00:41:18,390 --> 00:41:21,120
different area on campus, we're going to go ahead

733
00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:23,160
and we're going to make that appropriate referral.

734
00:41:24,210 --> 00:41:26,370
You're going to see here that if the

735
00:41:26,370 --> 00:41:29,040
individual need is determined, we will send it

736
00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:32,340
to a counselor assistant. And then from there, the

737
00:41:32,340 --> 00:41:35,820
counselor assistant will either work with that

738
00:41:35,820 --> 00:41:39,030
student, refer to a counselor, again, provide

739
00:41:39,030 --> 00:41:42,870
additional services, workshops, dependent on what

740
00:41:42,870 --> 00:41:45,240
they need. And then you see at the very bottom

741
00:41:45,240 --> 00:41:47,760
here, we need to make sure that those flags are

742
00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:49,890
being cleared. What does it mean when the flag has

743
00:41:49,890 --> 00:41:52,530
been cleared? It means that the student has been

744
00:41:52,530 --> 00:41:54,330
sent to the appropriate area.

745
00:41:56,930 --> 00:42:00,440
I know that was kind of a lot all at one time, but

746
00:42:00,470 --> 00:42:04,670
we're all going to be in this process, really

747
00:42:05,060 --> 00:42:08,390
working together to learn what the process is

748
00:42:08,390 --> 00:42:09,950
going to look like. I know there have been

749
00:42:09,950 --> 00:42:13,010
discussions about and being able to provide us

750
00:42:13,010 --> 00:42:16,550
with a training so that we can really see this at

751
00:42:16,550 --> 00:42:19,460
a larger scale. Again, I've been working with this,

752
00:42:19,460 --> 00:42:22,850
but it is a much smaller scale. So I just wanted

753
00:42:22,850 --> 00:42:24,920
to be able to come here today to present the

754
00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:28,190
preliminary information. And hopefully that gives

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everybody a, you know, clearer idea of what our efforts are

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going to be utilizing this tool.

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Mary: Thank you, Claudia, appreciate it. There was a

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question asking whether student services could

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also flag a student.

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Claudia: I would have to look into that, and I don't see

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why not, because as long as each individual has

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the correct access and we have the right point people,

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there shouldn't be any reason why you wouldn't be

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able to.

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Mary: And we have a wonderful question asking if people

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can do this now?...Can they use Early Alert now?

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Claudia: So

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it will open up and I might I might defer to

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Khushnur on this, but I don't believe it's been

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opened up just yet for this current semester. I

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don't know if we're just going to do a whole new

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fresh start for the fall. Khushnur, would you be

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able to answer that?

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Khushnur Dadabhoy: Yes, it'll open up in a

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couple of weeks.

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Claudia: Okay, perfect. So, yes.

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Mary: Thank you

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all very much, appreciate that. It's going to be a

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great tool for our students. Thank you.

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Claudia: Thank you.

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Mary: Monica,

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is going to tell us now a little bit about this

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wonderful program that's going to be coming,

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talking about AB 705, right?

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Monica Garcia: Good afternoon, Moorpark family. I am Dean Garcia and

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I am the administrative lead of the racial

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and social justice work group on civic engagement

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theme three and we invite you we're actually very,

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very excited to invite you to an event on February

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19th at 1:00 to have a conversation with

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Assembly member Jacqui Irwin, who authored the AB

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705 bill. And with the Campaign for College

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President Michele Siqueiros who actually sponsored

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the bill. The AB 705 bill changed the landscape

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of our English, Math, and ESL offerings by

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eliminating placement tests and remedial courses.

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So we would like to invite you all to have a

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dialogue and ask the question, you know,

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accelerating success in Math and English to close

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the equity gaps in, and has it worked? Did it work?

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So the link is in the chat if you'd like to

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register to the event. Also, you have all been

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invited through your calendar Outlook to register

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there if you'd like. If you do it, and we would love

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for you to join us, and when you do register,

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there is an opportunity to be able to ask a

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question to our guest speakers. So please do so if

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you care to ask any questions that you'd like

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about AB 705. The social justice

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work group Civic Engagement is very excited to

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have you join us and we look forward to all of

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your wonderful questions and hope to see you all

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there on February 19 at 1:00. Thank you.

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Mary: Thank you, Monica. This is really quite an

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opportunity for all of us on campus to be hearing

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from these two very strong, influential women,

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which is another key and two, we do have next month is

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Women's History Month. So if anyone has any ideas

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on presentations, I think Tammy Coleman is looking

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for helping to coordinate that. So if you have any

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ideas on that. The AB 705 meeting should

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be a really a wonderful opportunity for all of us.

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Julius, do you have any additional comments or

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points for us today?

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Julius: I just wanted to say again,

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thank you and ask you to please continue to be

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safe as you interact on and off of campus wherever

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you go. And as you can see, we have a plethora of

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wonderful programming this month, whether it be

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around AB 705, or Black History Month,

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or reaching out to help support our LGBTQI students

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and our colleagues. So please take advantage and

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participate in these activities. I know that the

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members of our social justice work groups continue

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to meet and work towards their goals for this

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spring semester, and we look forward to the

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presentations to us and the programs that they'll

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be providing over the course of the semester, but

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also at the end of the semester, at our other

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spring planning retreat, we can hear from the

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group and from you what we're doing well and what

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we need to improve upon in this particular area.

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Please, again, make sure that if you have any

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particular questions or concerns about the fall

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semester, send us questions ahead of time or else

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save them for the campus update on the 22nd

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and we can answer those questions at that

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time. Thank you so much. Have a great rest of the

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day.