Claudia Wilroy: Good morning, everybody. Thank you for being here with us this morning.
I'm really happy that we were able to reorganize our schedule and that we're all here today. Our President, as you know, we did a few changes with our
webinar system is not able to log in at the moment. We hope he can join us soon. So I am going to call to the stage, Dr. Dadabhoy, our Dean of Student Services and she will do the welcome for this morning. Thank you all for being here.
Dr. Khushnur Dadabhoy: Good morning everyone.
My name is Khushnur Dadabhoy and I'm a dean of student learning here at Moorpark College. It is my pleasure to welcome each and every one of you to Moorpark College today.
We are excited for the fall semester to start and we are expecting students to return to campus to on ground classes, as well as online classes.
We have different services available to you as well as a list of different classes that are available to you as well.
Throughout this one hour presentation we will introduce you to those services and introduce you to different members of our Moorpark College community. Thank you for joining us today, and once again, welcome raiders.
Claudia: Alright, so before we go on with our agenda,
I just wanted, I saw a question coming in, and I know many of you are asking, will have the same questions,
after the presentations are over at 10:00, we'll be doing the tours. We have enough time, enough people who are waiting for you on campus. So please do come to the campus.
Even if you're coming at 10:15, 10:20, 10:30, we'll still conduct the tours. We're here for you today. So the schedule will continue as you guys had received
your agenda. Parking still in the same place. Check in at the gym just like you had it on your map. The only thing that we've changed for today was the
presentation. So instead of having it at the gym face to face, we're doing it online. So at this time I'm going to
introduce you to our next dean, Priscilla Mora and she's going to talk about Title IX and then she will introduce the other speaker. So thank you so much for being here today. Priscilla?
Priscilla Mora: Thank you so much, Claudia.
Good morning, everyone. It is wonderful to have 243 participants so far on this webinar.
And I am personally so excited to see students coming back on campus, with classes starting next week and I want to extend the welcome that Dr. Dadabhoy already extended as well.
My name again, is Priscilla Mora. I'm one of the deans of student learning at Moorpark College and I also serve in the role of Title IX Coordinator. And if that's something you're not familiar with, I'll be talking to you about what that means. So if we can go to the next slide please?
Our goal here at Moorpark is really to help you succeed. And part of that is, we want to make sure that everyone is safe, everyone is comfortable, everyone has the support that they need to be successful.
And Title IX is a program that helps to ensure that as well with those goals of helping everyone understand appropriate and inappropriate behaviors and how to avoid those,
to share information about the law related to Title IX, and to prevent any problems before they start. So we'll be sure to answer any questions that you have about this, as we continue on.
Michael, if you want to go ahead?
So what is Title IX? Title IX is a federal law that probably some of you may have heard about from, there's been a lot of publicity around this of late, especially,
related to one of the Supreme Court Justices who recently passed away, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who was very instrumental in helping
this law move forward and working on a number of cases related to Title IX. And it really is to ensure equity in terms of
gender at all educational institutions to receive federal funding. And this is the actual language of the law.
"No person in the United States shall on the basis of sex be excluded from participation in
be denied the benefits of or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance."
And this law dates back to 1972. And there have been a number of cases that have helped to refine and clarify the areas that it covers. So if we can go to the next slide please?
These are the major areas that Title IX covers. Again, it is a federal law that prohibits sex or gender discrimination. So sexual misconduct, of course, is
covered under Title IX and it requires colleges and universities to prevent and prohibit gender based discrimination or crime, sexual harassment, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking when that is based on sex or gender.
A small caveat to this is that Title IX only applies to events that are related to our college that happen on campus or if it's a formal event that is hosted by the college, such as a field trip,
or an athletic event at an away game, those are also covered by Title IX, but not things that occur off campus, otherwise. And our purpose in explaining this as one of your first
pieces of information, is everything that we do here is about supporting student success, and we want everyone to be able to go to their classes and to participate in their
activities without needing to worry that something doesn't feel right to them. So that is our purpose in talking about this today. Next slide please?
So the Title IX areas again, cover gender based discrimination, and that includes unequal access to programs or services that are based on gender.
Sexual harassment, that can come in the form of words or actions or a combination of the two. And then stalking,
would be, this is including various elements of stalking: frequent, repeated, unwelcome communication, invitations, following, messaging. So it's not a single event or even two events, but a repeated pattern.
Sexual assault, which is intimate touching of another person without their consent and rape. Next slide please?
So I have on the screen three scenarios and we're going to ask you to kind of apply those definitions that I just talked with you about
to see if you think this fits under the Title IX descriptors. So the first scenario,
"Andre shares that his academic counselor advised him against being a child development major because he's a big guy with a deep voice and may scare small children.
The counselor steered away from classes in the child development major and toward classes in business instead."
Do you think this is a Title IX violation? And I believe that you should have a question about scenario one. Do you think it is yes, no, or not sure? So please go ahead and enter your answers there for the case with Andre.
And we'll take a moment and before we show those results.
Okay. Are we able to see the results now?
Okay. So the majority of people who answered 108, said yes, that does sound like a Title IX violation. 26 said no, and 39 are not sure.
The majority is correct. Yes, if we treat students differently, based on their gender, that is
sex discrimination and is covered by Title IX. And so we want to make sure everybody knows, regardless of how you identify
for your gender, all of our programs and services are equally available to you. And we want to make sure that everybody feels that way.
So let's go to the second case scenario.
"Jason and Veronica went out on a date. They both said how much they liked each other and wanted to kiss each other. At the end of the night, they made out and talked about hanging out the following weekend.
The week after, Veronica ghosted Jason." Is this a Title IX violation? Go ahead and enter your response for this scenario.
And if we could post scenario two?
So yes, it is, no it isn't, or not sure. What do you think?
Okay, let's take a moment to give people a chance to put in their responses.
Okay, can we see the results of scenario two?
Okay. Overwhelmingly you all thought, no, this is not a Title IX violation and you are right.
It is certainly okay to go on a date and maybe you don't like someone, maybe it's not the nicest way to treat someone that's for sure, but it is not covered under Title IX.
Okay let's go to the third scenario. "Sheila and Dallas used to go out. Sheila sees Dallas on campus one day and grabs their butt. She says, 'You're looking good, as ever.'" Is this a Title IX violation?
Let's go ahead and share scenario three. Do you think, yes, it is, no it isn't, not sure? Let's take a moment.
Okay, can we see the results for scenario three?
All right, again, overwhelmingly, the majority of you thought, yes, that does sound like a Title IX violation with 178. And a few people thought, maybe not, and a few more not sure. It is a Title IX violation to touch another person in that manner,
and so, yes. The answer is yes. Good job, so it looks like the majority of you understand
kind of what this federal law covers and I'll talk just a little bit more about it, and I know that these situations can be a little challenging to think through.
So don't worry if you didn't get it, we have some more support to help make sure that everybody understands what is covered under this law. Let's go to the next slide please?
So a little more information about Title IX. The vast majority of Title IX cases that get reported involves sexual harassment. Although, I did talk about five different categories of behavior that fall under Title IX.
Both men and women can be perpetrators or victims of sexual misconduct. So we sometimes have an idea that the majority of some kind of behavior is done by one or the other sex,
and ideally, we wouldn't let any of those preconceptions get in the way of reporting or asking a question.
If something doesn't seem right, you can always just ask, "This is what happened. What should we do in this kind of situation?" So,
the safest thing is always just to ask if you're not sure.
Transgender people are also protected under Title IX. And it's important for everyone to know that all managers and coaches have to report any Title IX violations. If they
witness it, if they're told about it, if they hear about it, they're required to report them.
And once we know of something that could potentially be covered under Title IX, we put protections in place for all parties, while an investigation occurs. So our goal, again, is to make sure that everybody is safe and can be successful. And let's go to the next slide please?
We do have a formal policy about sexual assault and we have other policies related to discrimination and harassment.
I'll just briefly read through a couple of excerpts from a board policy 3540, Sexual and Other Assaults on Campus, which reads:
"Any sexual assault or physical abuse, including but not limited to rape as defined by California law,
whether committed by an employee, student, or a member of the public that occurs on district property, is a violation of district policies and procedures
and is subject to all applicable punishment, including criminal procedures and employee or student discipline procedures."
And, "Students, faculty, and staff or maybe victims of sexual and other assaults shall be treated with dignity and provided assistance." So our college policies are really here to ensure that people understand what is not allowable, and our primary goal is prevention.
If anything ever untoward anything that you're concerned about seems to be happening, though, please report it. So that we can put it in safeguards for for you or the party who's involved. If we can go ahead to the next slide please?
We do have a number of resources available to you. We provide crime prevention information. We have sexual misconduct and Title IX information. Very extensive. We list it on our website.
I can also be contacted if you'd like some additional information. I'll give you my contact number in a moment, and we have sexual assault response information.
The Student Health Center, which is one of the services that will be shared more about in a minute, also offers confidential services and
there are Telehealth and Zoom options for those as well as in person. Our goal is education and prevention. So that is the purpose of this morning section.
There are really very, very, very few cases of anything related to Title IX that happen,
but in order to get there, we want to make sure everybody understands what behaviors are not appropriate, so that we can prevent them, in support of every student's well being and success. If we could go to the next slide please?
So if you do think, "Maybe this seems like, it doesn't feel quite right to me. I'm not sure if it's okay." If you experience something you're concerned about, or you witness something that looks like sexual misconduct,
please make sure to report it. If we can go ahead with... yes. So,
if you are an athlete you can report to a coach, any of your professors, a dean, such as myself or Dr. Dadabhoy, to the campus police, the Student Health Center. If
you want to talk about something confidentially, you can talk about it with a mental health counselor, through our Student Health Center
and they will keep it confidential. Otherwise the other parties who report to are obligated to report to me, so that I will open an investigation. If we can go to the next item. So what next?
If there is a report, an investigation will be underway and no contact letters may be issued. If the person who you are concerned about has been
trying to contact you, we can issue a letter which makes it against our policies if they attempt to reach out to you. So we do want to make sure that each student feels safe, immediately and knows what protections are in place to support them.
If we can go to the next one? Thank you. Then what and next. If there is an actual Title IX case, there are various
forms of discipline that might be appropriate, depending on the situation. And those could include a warning, a reprimand, suspension, or in the most serious cases, expulsion.
Also want to remind folks that any false accusations or ignoring no contact rules, as I mentioned before, about the no contact letters, or retaliation against someone for reporting a Title IX case, can also lead to discipline. Let's go to the next slide/ What now.
The next thing that every student should do is to complete the mandatory Title IX training, and on the next slide you're going to see some instructions about how to do that.
So you will go to your student portal. And if, as you see, on this slide the "Library and Learning Resources tab" in the upper right hand corner, second from the right, you're going to click on that. And if we can go to the next slide?
If you scroll all the way down to the bottom right section there's something called "Student Quick Links".
And it's the second link from the last, the one which is in bold, "Sexual violence awareness and prevention, a Title IX training for students".
So every new student should complete this training before classes start. And of course, that's Monday of next week. One week from today. So you have a little bit of time to do that. We can go to the next slide please?
The webinar that is through that quick link, takes about 20 minutes to complete. We want to make sure that everyone completes it before the first day of school on August 16. Can we go to the next slide please?
So, I want to really invite everyone, if you have any questions as you think back on those scenarios like, "Oh, why was that okay? Why was that not okay?" If you're wondering what fits under Title IX,
if you have any concerns at all, if you'd like to know what sort of support we can provide to people, please contact me at any time.
Again, my name is Priscilla Mora. I'm Title IX Coordinator and one of the deans here at the college. You can email me at pmora@vcccd.edu,
and you can also find my direct telephone number on the Title IX page on the Moorpark College website.
So I'd like to again welcome you and encourage all of us to be safe, be well, and be successful. We are here to support you and we are so glad that you're with us today.
So that concludes my portion explaining a little bit of background about this important law, Title IX. And next, I'd like to introduce our next speaker, Dr. Traci Allen, who will talk more about student support services. Traci?
Dr. Traci Allen: Really quick Priscilla. There was a couple people commented, to see the... I was wondering because there's three or four people who mentioned. Do we quickly want to just review
that? I'm having trouble finding the link. Where to do the training.
Priscilla Mora: Oh okay.
Let's see. I'm looking in the chat.
Oh, you want to go back to the slide to show where the link is? Is that the question?
Dr. Allen: I think so. That would be helpful.
Priscilla: Oh super. Michael, would you mind? Yeah. So if you're in your student
portal and then you should, if we go to the next slide...
you should see this part called "Student Quick links" in the bottom right section.
And it is the second one from the end.
So can folks, let us know in the chat if you're seeing that now, or if you're still having some difficulty finding that, because we do want to make sure it's clear to everyone.
Okay,
I'm not seeing any further responses. Did anyone see anything else?
And if it would,
if it would be helpful, any of you who might be having trouble finding the link, you're always welcome to email me and I'll send you some screenshots, additional screenshots that might show the whole picture. Let me know how I can help you get to that training.
Okay, anything further on that one?
Dr. Allen: I think, maybe we'll just plan to follow up with the links. It looks like people are still having a little bit of trouble on mobile as well. So we can follow up probably, maybe with the email correspondence to that. It looks like there's still some confusion.
Priscilla: Okay.
Alright sounds good. So I'm going to hand it over to Dr. Allen now.
Dr. Allen: And actually Sarah is up next. I'm gonna let Sarah take over and then I'll follow. No problem.
Sarah Martinson: Hi everyone. My name is Sarah Martinson and I am here to share with you about online student support.
The online student support offers student support for all online learning, technology, and all of your general questions. Next slide please?
So the online student support desk is here to offer you help with navigating and using Canvas, troubleshooting, assisting users
navigation. If you have any questions on how to submit an assignment or paper, we are here to help, and
along with registration, how to drop a class, we can point you to the right department or assist you.
There is also assistance on setting appointments with other departments on campus, such as counseling and tutoring and more.
We also can offer you information on various library services and general campus information, such as the Covid screening process, campus events, graduation, and even directional. We're even here to offer you help with your Zoom classes.
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We are located on the first floor of the LLR building. That is the bottom floor located below the library. And we have computer access. If you need to use a computer to attend one of your Zoom classes, we will be having
webcams and headphones for use and also there will be a student online support specialist there to help you with any technology issues or online learning needs.
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The other services that we offer. We have laptops, hotspots, and other technologies.
The laptops can be used for the whole semester, or even just for a couple hours in the library. We offer hot spots in case anyone needs Internet access.
And soon to arrive, we will have headphones, calculators, and webcams. And here's a screenshot showing from the library website, under the library guides, where to
request a laptop or hotspot.
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And here is our contact information. You could reach us via phone, email, or anywhere on the Moorpark College website. If you scroll to the bottom, all you need to do is click on "Online Learning".
Thank you.
Dr. Allen: Okay. Welcome again everyone. My name again, is Dr. Traci Allen and I'm a counselor here at Moorpark College. And I'm going to do an overview on students services here at Moorpark College.
It's a lot of information and a lot of slides and I'm trying to monitor the chat. And we'll
basically, go over each department. And we want to make sure students understand in this new environment how important student support is, and we are still continuing to offer all of our student support.
And now that we're kind of, we have a lot of classes that are starting to come back to campus, we're offering our support
still online and lots of different ways, as well as some in person support, but it's really important to go to our website and go to this particular office
to understand the different ways you can receive support. So let me kind of go through some of the services for you. On the next slide we'll start with
Admissions and Records. So our Admissions and Records Office is located and Fountain Hall in our campus.
And that's basically, as you have applied to Moorpark College online, and you've set up your portal, the Admissions and Records Office is really there to support students in the enrollment process. So again, they have
an office in person, in Fountain Hall, but again, a lot of our all of our services, we have been remote for the last year and a half and are continuing to offer that service for students. You do not need to come into campus
to take care of things, but as I talk about other services, a lot of times, if you have registration and class schedules that might be something to be counseling help, but it's more
regards to your account and kind of your residency and being billed the right ways, California resident, things like that,
Admissions and Records is really there to support you in the application to Moorpark and ensuring you have your account setup, you're able to log into your portal correctly.
That's all the kind of information that they kind of help with. And we have a Welcome Center.
You can see the phone number is 378-1400. And so, if you're not sure, if you have a question of where to go for help, the Welcome Center is a great place just to start. So, "You know, this is what I need help with."
And they're going to make sure that they refer you to the right department and the right program.
And so please know that's in our Fountain Hall, our Welcome Center and Admissions and Records, and that is all accessible online.
Again, from our website, under student services homepage, there's a link in the top right hand corner that will take you directly to our online support for our Welcome Center, and
again, and can refer you to make sure if you have any problems with your application that Admissions and Records can help you.
The next slide is ACCESS. So ACCESS is our program on campus that will provide accommodations
to support students with disabilities. So accommodations are based on the students need and how that need with the class that they are in, what accommodations they might need and make sure they're supported in their classroom environment.
A disability is a visible or invisible disability. For examples, a visible disability can be a use of a wheelchair, needs some type of modification for you, in a classroom.
Then, obviously, invisible disabilities can be learning disabilities. So over 10% of our population is registered with ACCESS and receiving some type of accommodation.
It's a confidential process, a lot of students sometimes are concerned that that shows up on their transcript. Again, it's completely confidential, but it is voluntary. So if you
had a plan in high school and you want to continue to receive support, it's very important you apply to our ACCESS Office. You go to their website. There's a
step by step application process to get registered with ACCESS, so that they can make sure before classes start. This is important to do this as soon as you can,
that they can connect with you, see what accommodations you qualify for, and make sure you're supported for classes,
and working with instructors for day one when the semester starts. So please visit our ACCESS website, if you have a visible, a physical or learning disability and they are there to support you through your success here at Moorpark.
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So we have a career transfer center, which is in Fountain Hall. We like to boast a little bit at Moorpark College that
depending on which rank. We are usually number one, number two, number three in the state. Number four in the country in completion and transfer at Moorpark College.
And so we're really proud of that. And we have a ton of resources to help students, if your goal is to come here to transfer.
Some students come to Moorpark knowing exactly what they want to major in and where they want to go, and we have a ton of pathway programs to help you with that. So for example, like the UC schools,
we have what are called TAG's, Transfer Admission Guarantees. The Career Transfer Center has workshops and
information on the website that will explain that process to you. We also have some students who come to Moorpark and they're unsure of their major.
Which is common and a vast majority of students, and so we have career exploration tools to help students find their goal.
So we again, encourage you to go to that website, into our office, and we have workshops that can help you with career exploration.
We have, through a career center portion, we can help with internships, on campus jobs, helping resume writing, job search
skills. So it's just a huge resource again, for related to career and transfer.
We have university reps who come to our campus. So obviously, our local schools like CSUN, and CSU Channel Islands, and Cal Lutheran, but also schools outside of our area that we can connect you with, if your goal is to transfer. And there's just a wealth of information
on that website for both the CSU's and the UC's, as well as private, out of state, and HBCU colleges. So we do have strong transfer admission
agreements with all of these schools. We can help you through that process. And it's never too early to start. So if you want to transfer, do not wait until you've been here a year or a year and a half.
Come in early and connect with the transfer center so that we can get you on the right track with what the requirements are to help ease that transition of that transfer into that school.
And again, if you're unsure of a major in college, that is okay. We have a ton of information and workshops for undecided students. I'll also plug, we have a counseling
class that helps with career research, career search as well, COUN M02. So if you are interested, as an undecided, want a career class, this is just a great office and resource on campus to help you.
Next service to highlight. Student Activities. So yes, there is student life at Moorpark College.
Obviously, life looks a little different on college campuses right now, as they have in the past, but we still have clubs and student activities and student life going on on campus, a lot more remotely.
But we highly recommend getting engaged and being connected when you come to Moorpark College. There's a ton of student
success research out there that shows being involved on campus helps with success. So what we don't want as students coming into Moorpark, taking class, getting back in their car, and leaving campus. We want you to connect to Moorpark College. We want you to connect to the campus.
Again, we have over 40 different clubs, based on academic interest, based on
intercurricular interest, maybe there's a club that we don't have that you are interested in that you could start. I mean there's just so many ways to connect on campus.
And we have a lot of leadership programs. Again, on our student activities website you'll see information about what's called our LEADS Program
and our President Student Leadership Forum. These are unbelievable opportunities to get involved again on campus
and develop your leadership. These are great for your resume, great for your college applications. I'm looking at that picture I know one of those students they're going to Stanford next year that was involved in these leadership programs. So
please take a moment to go to our Student Activities Office and find something that connects to you and find a way to get connected outside of the classroom to Moorpark College.
Next slide? To highlight Financial Aid. So there's a lot of information on this slide, but a couple important key steps that we just want to highlight. Number one file a FAFSA.
If you have not filed a FAFSA, please, please, please do so. Times are very different, right now, with the type of financial aid support we can offer due to Covid.
And so, if you knew, years ago, "Oh, I won't qualify," and things like that, file the FAFSA. There is money out there for you to go to college, right now, more than there ever has been.
So if you are just enrolled in six units, you will automatically get funding this year, because of
funding, what's called our stimulus cash funds. That is coming to us to give you as a student.
So you don't have to have the FAFSA filed, but we highly highly recommended because there's all kinds of other opportunities of other funding we can give you above that and above and beyond that stimulus money. So,
again, if you are in 6 units or more, you will qualify is funds are available for our students stimulus program, but please fill out the FAFSA,
because you also might qualify for other programs as well.
If you need help filling out a FAFSA, they do, every Tuesday, from 4:00 to 6:00 our Financial Aid Office does Zoom sessions to help with the FAFSA workshop. Again, every Tuesday from 4:00 to 6:00.
And right now, you really just need to be monitoring your MyVCCCD email, and your portal. That's really where we'll be updating is
what you qualify for, any award packages. Through the month of August and September, our Financial Aid Office will be working really hard to package all of those what we call CARES funds that's that
stimulus funds that are being provided for students to attend that are 6 units or more.
So, again kind of what are the next steps. You should get an email that talks about what grants and what loans you may qualify for as a new student.
And you want to follow the steps to activate that account and select the process of how you would receive your refund and those grants.
Again, our Financial Aid Office is available online to kind of answer any questions.
But you really want to make sure you follow the portal, you follow the notices, and reach out to them for any information to how the money will be dispersed to you.
But please fill out a FAFSA, enroll in 6 units or more, and we have funds for you to covering registration, books, fees,
and Financial Aid will walk you through your particular award amount. So please if you have not done that, check your portal accounts and communicate with Financial Aid any questions you have about your specific account.
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So counseling. Academic counseling is available for students. So I talked a little bit about that with Admissions and Records, and the Career Transfer Center,
we want to support you towards your educational and academic goal. That's what the Counseling Department is here to do. We are two weeks prior to the first day of classes, or one week, right? So,
August 16 is coming quick. Prior to classes starting and so it's really important. Obviously, you get set in your schedule. This is obviously, the busiest week, one of the busiest weeks for Counseling,
just with all the students trying to get ready. If you still need assistance with getting enrolled in classes for fall, we have workshops
called our Registration Rocks workshops. We have one today, in person at 12:30 at the end of this event. And then you can see, we have them continuing throughout the week on the 10th, the 11th, the 24th, the 25th.
So if you need assistance, this is the best place to go. Counseling appointments are difficult the week prior just because there's 10 plus thousand students trying to get help. So please go to these workshops, we can help you get enrolled in your classes.
And you can sign up for these workshops via the link on our Counseling Department website on the student services website.
Next slide more about counseling. So again, we have virtual drop ins. So the best way right now to get assistance with counseling is either attending the registration workshops, or we do have a virtual drop in.
So you go under the student services tab during our office hours. There's a student services link there.
And there you'll see there's a big arrow on the left under counseling that says, "virtual drop in," you can also get through there from our website.
And that will kind of put you in what we call a kiosk and it's a first come, first serve, and we will help students, as you wait to kind of a lobby type of area,
during our office hours that we can help you with any questions about registration. I know I said, like classes start on the 16th, but we do have
not all of our classes. We have long term, what we call short term classes. So some classes don't start till September, some don't start till October.
Whether it's a 16 week, 8 week, 9 week, 10 week class, we have some variety of classes. So,
don't feel like if you didn't get classes, by Monday to start, there are still availability of classes.
There was a question I saw on the Q&A before we started about, how long can we add and drop classes, which I thought would be a good question to answer for everybody.
Because we have various class start dates and end dates, it could be different by the class. So it's really important,
the class schedule is where you're going to find everything you need to know about your particular class. When you're looking online at the class schedule,
You click on that five digit CRN. So every class say, PSY M01, there might be 20 sections of PSY M01, but each class has a unique five digit CRN. You click on
that a pop up box will show up and it will tell you all the deadlines to add
and drop the class, and any ramifications that might happen of when you drop that class, in terms of refunds and so on. It'll have your instructor email contact. It'll give you information,
is the class solely online, do I have to come on campus for just exams, you know, is it what we call synchronous versus asynchronous.
There's a lot of options with our classes, which is great, you know for students have a lot of different variety of options, but
it can also be kind of confusing because maybe all your classes are being offered a little bit different way. So,
please that's my advice. Again, if you're unsure look at your student schedule, click on that five digit CRN and that will give you all the details you need to know whether your classes
it will say 100% remote online or, if you have to login at a certain time every week and so on. And next slide?
In terms of, we do have some classes that have what we call a prerequisite. So, for example, if you wanted to take an economics class,
you do have to show proof, you have like an Algebra 2 course or something in high school.
Or different classes have different prerequisites. You do not have to come in person to get this taken care of. We have an online prerequisite clearance request. So if you're trying to sign up for a class
and it's giving you an error message that says, you know, "Course has a prerequisite,"
that's for Counseling. So don't contact Admissions and Records, if it's requesting a prerequisite, we need to verify, you have the academic prerequisite background to enroll in that class
and that could be as simple as an email request via the link and attaching like an unofficial high school transcript or whatever the prerequisite is. For example,
a lot of our science classes require high school chemistry, so we just would need to see at a high school transcript or
something to clear that. Many of our courses do not have prerequisites, so
this again, is only if you are encountering an error. You want to sign up for a class that has a prerequisite,
you don't need to go through virtual drop in, you don't need to come on campus, you can simply on our counseling website on the right hand side there's a link for prerequisite clearance request. You click on that link and we can remotely do that for you, so you can enroll in the class.
Next slide?
Okay, so we have a lot of programs again, for student support. We care about student support on campus. Some of you may already be enrolled in our FYE and CHESS programs.
So, just to clarify some of what the support is for our students on campus. We have,
I talked about academic counselors already. The role of the academic counselors are there to create an education plan and support you academically and help you find classes you need to transfer again, to earn your certificates and degrees and so on.
So we also have what we call success coaches on campus. And they are there to support and navigate you through the college process. So maybe,
you need help with how to do time management, maybe you are needing note taking skills, I mean just the success coaches are there
just to help you navigate your college experience. It might be as simple as you know, you're just not sure
if you're signing up for the right the classes, or if it's online and they can just really help again understand and navigate kind of our systems for you. So coaches are available to all students. You don't have a part of our FYE or SYE.
Again, right now, we have an office on campus again, remote, we have a coaches available that you can make appointments with and to check in and they're there to mentor you make sure you're on track.
And provide referrals on campus.
Some faculty might reach out, throughout the semester. If you're maybe you're struggling in the class, you might be contacted by a coach so they can connect you and make sure that you know about all of our tutoring on campus.
Our library is where our Learning Resource Center and our Tutoring is. We have unbelievable tutoring in math, English, and single subjects on campus. So they're really there again, just to connect you with peers connected with faculty and staff.
So again, please reach out to our success coaches, through our FYE Office, and they can connect you to
get more support on campus. And we do we just wanted to mention a CHESS Program is a grant we have that's a peer mentorship with a partnership with CLU, California Lutheran University.
And it's a great opportunity for students with career exploration transfer. They can receive extra support and guidance
along the way, and this is for initiative for a male leadership program. So please just reach out to our FYE Office and CHESS Office. Claudia Sitlington is our director in this area.
If you want to be connected or learn more about these programs, and again, get connected to our success coaches. These programs are available to assist our students and support.
Next slide?
Okay, so EOPS is a state funded program and it came out of the civil rights movement, it was signed into law
that we need to provide academic counseling and support to full time students. So again, this is a program you need to qualify for, that is a
grant program for students. To qualify, you must be a California resident or an AB 540 student, you must be full time, which is 12 units,
again, modifications, if you're a foster youth or an ACCESS student, you need to be eligible to qualify for what's called the
California Promise Grant A, B, or C, it used to be called the BOG again, this is via your FAFSA. So your FAFSA, that will determine
if you qualify for that promise grant and then have less than 50 units and be what's called educationally disadvantaged as defined by EOPS. And there's a list on the EOPS website
of what qualifies as educationally disadvantaged. So if you think that this might be you, and this is a great program
to be a part of. You benefit from lots of things like priority registration, you get book grants, you get meal vouchers, again, counseling, you meet with counselors three times a semester,
transfer assistance and just a lot more. It's an unbelievable support program, we have great success rates.
But again, you must qualify to be part of our EOPS Program and so please go to that website, if you think based if you're FAFSA, you qualify for one of these grants or you've believed to be
educationally disadvantaged, which you'll see the list on that website, please reach out in there still time to follow up and apply to be part of our EOPS Program.
Next office. So we do want to talk about STEM, which is science, technology, engineering, and math. If you are interested in studying in biology, biotechnology, or computer network systems engineering at Moorpark
and you are Hispanic or you qualify for the Pell Grant again, we would know that from the FAFSA,
we have a grant program called STEM Impacto. That is for designed for you and support for you. So you'll get to know your instructors, you'll get guidance from peer mentors, you'll have academic tutors, you'll get to intern.
It's a brand new program for Hispanic students who are interested in studying again, biology, biotechnology, or computer network systems.
And if you qualify for the Pell Grant or a Hispanic student, you qualify for this. Applications will begin on August 16. So,
there's a website "moorparkcollege.edu/impacto". If this is a group you fall under, we highly recommend under these programs, and these majors, that you look out for this program. It is an unbelievable,
there's financial incentives with it, and just a place where you can get some more student support while you're studying these programs at Moorpark. Next slide?
So Student Health Center, and priscilla had mentioned this this office kind of at the beginning. This is one of our best resources on campus for students, our health center
is free. So the list of services our health center provides is a long list of both mental health and physical health is free to use as students.
So again, they are doing Tele health options and Zoom options. In some services they are doing on campus. So it's important to go to the website to find out the difference between what services, you can get again via Zoom and Tele health versus in person.
You can call the office or go to our Student Health Center, but again, there's so much information from
again, your basic health needs and they're their support you. When you're on campus and you have a basic health need,
again, so much mental health services. We're all managing a lot, right now, you know, especially if you're new to college there's a lot of anxiety that comes with that and a lot to balance if you need help
coping with anything that is, the health center is the number one place to start. We have unbelievable faculty and staff in our health center that are here to support you both physically and mentally on campus at Moorpark College.
And most a lot of services are free. They have medical care, mental health counseling, and again, they can offer a lot of referral services as well if you don't have,
if there's additional support that you would need outside of what the health center can do. So please, please take advantage of our health center if you have any physical or mental needs that is a free service to use as a student, while you're a student here at Moorpark College.
Next.
All right, who wants $100 a free swag? Moorpark College bookstore beginning on August 2
through September 2. So, it's a one time deal, right? So you want to pay attention to those dates.
If you provide proof that you have been vaccinated, you get $100 for the bookstore. It's all you gotta do. So if you go to the next slide, I'm going to show you
how we do that. So in your MyVCCCD app, which hopefully you're already familiar with, because
we'll talk about daily check in to come to campus, when you do have to come to campus, but this is where you upload your vaccine
proof of your vaccine immunization. So when you open up the app right away, you're going to see tiles on the top of your app, and if you kind of scroll to the left there's one it looks like a needle,
and that is where the vaccination self report form is. You'll click on "next."
You'll select which vaccine you received, and you will click "next". And there, you can upload, just take a photo of your vaccine card. You upload that and that gets logged into our system
so we know you are now a vaccinated student, which is important to have on campus for us anyway.
But that is what you take to the bookstore and again, you have till September 2 to do this. You will get $100 that you can use on anything in the bookstore, but you must
use that $100 by September 30, if that makes sense. So you have until September 2 to provide the proof of the vaccination and then you have until September 30, to spend that $100. So,
this is obviously an incentive, we want students in terms of just protecting our community our faculty, students, and staff. And so this is just a perk if you are vaccinated that we are providing for our students
to make sure that we can again, provide a safe environment we can and who wants who wouldn't want free $100, so take advantage of that.
Next slide?
Okay. So when I talked about the app and coming to campus, obviously, today's a little different, some are coming in person, some of us are online and remote,
but it's important to know when you come for fall, when you come on ground to classes or student services or
whatever you're coming on campus for, you must do that at home pre-screening on the MyVCCCD app. So, again, you'll download that app
and then one of the first tiles on the top is to do the pre-screening, which will ask you questions,
if you had any symptoms and so on. If you mark yes to any of those, you're going to get a red pass and you need to contact the health center.
And you'll obviously, you would not be able to come on campus if you've been in contact with them are having these symptoms and things like that.
But if you have been vaccinated, again, you've uploaded your vaccination card, you are going to answer those questions,
and if you get what's called a blue pass, you are free to come onto campus. So again, it's kind of a two step process. You have to do that pre-screening
to get that blue pass, but then, when you come to campus you still need to check in. There'll be a map. In a second I'll show you. There's about
seven different check in
stations. You'll need to show them that blue pass on your phone.
You'll get a wristband and that clears you to come on to the campus. It's very important to do that because we just scan and know who is on our campus in case we ever need to do contract tracing in any event.
So again, you want to get a blue pass by doing that screening. We'll know that blue pass, because we have proof of your vaccination and you answer the questions you'll get a wristband and you're free to come on campus for that day.
And you need to do this every day. So you don't do it once. Every day you come to campus you have to do this process.
If you have not been vaccinated, there's no verification of your vaccination,
but you still answer the questions and you have the no symptoms and so on, you'll get a green pass, which is the same thing. You can still come on campus but you'll need to check in
at those same check in spots. You'll get again, that green or blue pass at that check in table. So again, we know who is on campus. You'll get your wristband.
And everywhere you are on campus we really want you, you'll see there's QR codes to every building you go in on campus, you want to scan those QR codes. So again, we know where you have been on campus should we need to contact you for any type of tracing.
We are mandating when you are on our campus that you wear a mask when you're indoors, in the classroom setting, in offices, regardless of your vaccination status. So again, when you're outside you can take your mask off.
But we'll be required to wear a mask indoors for all classroom and student services, regardless of vaccination status when you're on campus. So that's important to know for the fall.
Next slide? I think we have just about one or two more slides and we're... So this is a
view of the campus map. So again, not sure how well, you can see it but there's little purple hearts
and I think there's like said seven or eight of them, mostly the top parking lots of the campus by our major buildings, those are the campus check in points.
So again, every time you come to campus, you'll need to do your pre-screen on your app first on your phone, then you will go to a check in you'll get a wristband, and you're free to come on campus for the day.
Also important to know, you'll see some blue kind of circles squares,
we have a lot of outside areas that we have set up for students to have outside areas to have breaks between classes to do study time.
Our whole top parking lot if you've been on campus before or if you're new to campus it's no different to you, we have solar panels now. We're calling it Solar Village.
So there's a lot of shade, and a lot of area. We'll have WiFi available.
So please know when you come to campus, if you need to break between classes, there are lot of outside areas, student break areas that we're providing for students to have.
Please note, all of our parking is open, I'm going to talk about parking in a second, but our parking garage will be closed for the fall semester, as well as you'll see those two red kind of
you have to cross the street outside parking lots will be closed for the semester, but all our other parking lots will be open to you as a student.
So next slide, just last comment about parking. Parking is free for you this semester. This has been a rapidly changing process, and this has to do with getting
funding to help with that again, trying to make as much support as we can for students. So you do not have to get a permit.
They're just not going to ticket. So when you come to campus you do not need to worry about having a parking permit this semester. If you have already purchased a parking permit, I'm sure there will be a refund process
that we can follow up with, and I think that was a question in the chat. I'm not sure if that got answered.
But again, you can contact like maybe the business office, if you have questions about that, but if you have not yet done either the parking permit process, please do not do it, it is free for this semester for students to park on campus.
Okay, I think we have one last slide.
Okay, so we are
introducing and again when we had our original sign-up and RSVP, you got to choose, we have
organized all of our academic programs into what we call our areas academic areas of interest at Moorpark College. So we have our Arts, Media and Entertainment, Human Behavior, History and Society, Business,
Information and Technology, Communications and Languages, Health and Wellness, Science and Math, Education and Teaching, and Exploratory for our undecided students on a program.
As a student when you come now as a new student at Moorpark, you've already received an email from what's called your success team. So,
as you applied to Moorpark, you got an email like a sample suggested classes to enroll in from your success team.
Use that email. Every area of interest has a support team that is here to help you on campus and they offer
host events, whether it's an open house or get to meet your faculty. So please just know whatever major you are in, it is aligned with what we call a cohort or an academic area and we want to
provide support to you in that.
When we were planning this in person event, we were going to specify and do specific tours. So, because obviously, students in our science and math area have their classes and kind of different buildings than our arts and entertainment students.
So for those of you who are here on campus right now kind of watching this remotely from their phones and their cars, we still are going to provide tours for you. So
we're going to close out this session in just a couple minutes, and then you will head to the gym and we will
organize you at the gym of how we can separate you into areas of interest for your tours, so we can to make sure we highlight
the different buildings that you might be in more, in that particular area. And again, we will if you can get here by 10:30, we again, if you stayed home to watch this remote,
we will be able to provide tours again, because this is the virtual session. And then after the tour, up in that Solar Village area, we will have lunch for our students. An opportunity
for students to be outside on our campus and connect.
That part is still going on for the day for the schedule as well. Just this morning, having vast majority students inside the gym is what we moved to a remote last minute.
But we just wanted you to be aware of our academic areas of interest,
so you are familiar with those. Again, and you can go to our website and you will find web pages for each of these areas of interest that will have our success team emails there. So,
if you are unsure of your programs or any questions about your major you can contact that success team email address, and someone will support you and get back to you.
So it's 10:03, I know that's a lot of information. So thank you everyone for sticking on with us and I'm going to hand it back over to Claudia to tell us the next steps of the event. Thank you. Welcome again, from Moorpark College.
Claudia: Hi Traci. Thank you so much.
We have a couple of answers. I wonder if you are able to go over them and answer them live, Traci, in the Q&A.
And then, after we're done we just hope to see you all here on campus. We're ready for the tours,
then we'll have the food, so hope to see you. And Registration Rocks.
So hope to see you on campus in about half an hour so.
Traci?
Dr. Allen: So am I going through some of the questions and answering those, Claudia? Is that what you wanted me to do?
Claudia: Could you please?
Dr. Allen: Okay, so let me see specific ones.
I know I saw there was one about other colleges. So remember we're a three school district, MyVCCCD. So you can sign up for classes at Moorpark, Oxnard, Ventura, all through the same portal.
So that was one question I saw how do you transfer to a different district. It's not a transfer just because, again, you can take classes, you can sign up. It's just that five digit CRN that dictates which campus you're at.
So there's a question about that.
We will need documentation for prerequisites and again, it doesn't have to be an official document, it can be an opened unofficial transcript that you would attach to an email, so if we need to
provide a prerequisite to your high school transcript we can do that. Canvas. So your MyVCCCD portal is where everything's going to be.
When you log into your portal, on the right hand side you're going to have access to Canvas. This is where all your online information, your online course information is going to be.
There's something called Starfish and that's where you can link to make counseling appointments.
There's a link there called Degree Works, where you can find how to create an education plan. So really spend some time going into that portal and those quick links and finding a lot of information there.
You do not have to be vaccinated to come onto campus. Again, you have to fill out that pre-screening. Currently, it is not a mandate that you will get cleared with a pass and a wristband, and everyone must wear a mask
indoors, but right now we are not mandating the vaccine to be on campus. But you must get a green or blue pass from the pre-health screening before you come on campus.
You are not required to be at the tour today.
If you again, are here and coming on campus for the tour, you'll see signs for the new student welcome by the gym and the gym is where the tours will be taking off.
There's a lot so I'm trying to screen.
Claudia: I know I'm going through them as you're going through them too. So there's that part of the question. "So as Zoom participants are we to come to campus for the tour?" The tours are not mandatory, but if you'd like to come, we're here.
Dr. Allen: And counseling hours.
So Mondays we are 8:00 to 5:00. Thursdays 8:00 to 5:00. Tuesday, Wednesdays we are 8:00 till 7:00. So those would be the hours for counseling.
Claudia: And as far as tours on campus, please reach out to and I'm responding here to Brendan, please reach out to the Outreach Office
to see we're able to schedule tours after today, and I will post again, the email for Outreach.
Dr. Allen: So questions about, so the bookstore is located in what's called our Campus Center. So when you come on to the campus it's kind of
on the right hand side of the campus. Our Campus Center's where the bookstore is located, but you could like I said, you can go online and connect to our bookstore.
If your textbooks are in, they already say what your options are, if you can rent your books, if you can buy your books,
used, new, every class depending on the book, has different options and availability. Some textbooks might not be in yet. So you just kind of need keep checking in and the instructors are going to be aware of that. Obviously,
sometimes just based on publisher's books aren't here by the first day, but most are. So again, if it's still being determined, you'll just wait and then you'll
log in to your online class or show up to class and you'll find more information if the books aren't in yet, they'll help with that.
ZTC, Zero Textbook Costs. The instructor
is using resources, to provide resources for you for class that you do not need a purchase. They won't be necessarily giving you a book, but they're using online resources
in lieu of making you buy a book. So if you have what's called a ZTC class, there's nothing you need to do prior to class and again, the instructor will be providing you all the reading materials and resources you would need for that class.
"When will I know what time or days my classes meet online,
because looking at my classes, using the CRN on the browse it says to be announced?"
So...
Claudia: I would say contact...
Go ahead Traci.
Dr. Allen: No, I was just going to say, so when you're looking at the class schedule, so you don't even need to be logged into your portal, I mean if you're just looking at the class schedule,
it's really important to read all the details for the course. So it might say, Tuesday at 3:00, 3:00 to 4:50,
but if it says "Zoom web based" that means you're online, but you have to be on at that time every week on Tuesday at 3:00.
If it just says, "to be determined, web Zoom," that just means it's an online course, you don't have to be on at an exact time. So
a lot of our online classes, do not have what we call a synchronous time where you have to be on at an exact time.
It will have deadlines and dates and assignments, so it's not like a at your own pace. I mean you will need to
Again, going into your Canvas and you'll have what we call a shell for each one of your classes. So if you're signed up for four online classes,
getting closer to when school starts, I think it's maybe two days prior, that shell should be there for all of your classes,
you'll be able to look at, it's kind of nicely set up in modules. It will start here and here's your syllabus, that'll give you all the
important information you need for your online classes of when the assignments are due and when you should be logging in.
But again, all our online classes are kind of setup in two different ways. They're either
online where they're not what we call synchronous, where you don't have to ever be on at an exact time. So those to be determined that's probably what those classes are, where you're just doing your online work
following your syllabus and your requirements for the class. But there are some online classes and it will detail it in the class schedule, as well as the CRN that you had to be on an exact time.
That will be determined in the schedule, so you would have again, information in your Canvas with your Zoom links to be able to do that, but always reach out to the instructors.
The email address again, is on your student schedule, if you have questions. Again, these are things that virtual drop in, the Welcome Center, success coaches, like if you're just really still unsure of how your classes are setup, we can look that up for you and help you with that.
Claudia: Alright, I think we're kind of
out of time. We'll try to finish answering, typing the questions.
But if there are any questions, please feel free to email the Outreach Office and we'll answer all your questions. And it's
mcoutreach@vcccd.edu. And I've posted a few times on the link. So thank you so much for being here with us today. Hope to see you on campus.
A lot of you have asked, if you've come late for the tours, we'll accommodate, we'll be here. So just come on down, or up, or over and we'll see you soon. Thank you so much for being with us today.