FPDC Newsletter

Dear Colleagues,

First a note to retirees: OMG you did it! Congratulations! Please make sure to submit your FPD Self-reported Attendance contracts before the close of May 17. If you need more time to finish your hours, you can make that arrangement with your dean prior to the close of the 17th, but please submit your contracts on time so that your final paycheck from the college is not impacted.

And now the rest of the email to all faculty: This email is just a reminder that our FPD Self-reported Attendance contracts are due this Friday, May 17. Since we are paid for Faculty Professional Development hours, if we don't complete our contracts, then our pay will be impacted. If you have any concerns, please contact your area dean asap.

End of Year FPD Deadlines for 2018-2019:

Full-time Faculty

• Self-reported attendance due: Friday, May 17, 2019
• Last day to complete FPD hours with area dean’s permission: Friday, May 31, 2019

Part-time Faculty

• Spring term
  • Self-reported attendance due: Friday, May 17, 2019
  • Last day to complete spring semester FPD hours with area Dean’s permission: Friday, May 31, 2019

What to do if you need more time to complete your hours?

If you need more time to complete your hours before Friday, please contact your dean. It is possible to get permission from your area dean to finish specific professional development activities after May 17 but before the end of June when the academic/fiscal year closes, but we need to get permission to do so prior to the May 17 due date. Don't forget to gather up any support material for webinars and conferences attended in case your dean requests it.

Don't forget to check out our FPD Events Calendar for more opportunities for FPD hours. You might consider contacting Student Services and First Year Experience for any upcoming events, like Umoja Graduation on May 23. Please contact the Umoja Community at avcumoja@avc.edu or FYE@avc.edu for more opportunities.

Looking for something online? Here is a webinar from the California Community College Academic Senate. Follow the link for more information and to register. It's free, but registration is required: Friday, May 17 at 9:30 OERI What's Next

If you have questions about the FPD Contract System, please contact our Tech Trainer, Greg Krynen. (BTW, you can claim the time spent in tech training as FPD hours).

Next year, Rosa Fuller (of the Law Scholars program) will be our FPD Faculty Co-chair. The FPD Committee is excited to work with Rosa; she is a thoughtful leader with impeccable integrity. Thank you, Rosa!

The end of the semester is in sight!

Kristine Oliveira

AVC Faculty Professional Development Committee Presents:

Faculty Professional Milestones

2019 Annual Symposium

Antelope Valley College, Uhazy Hall, HS 201

3 May 2019, 12:30 - 5:30 pm (doors open at 12pm)

Faculty may claim up to 5 hours FPD Standard 1 credit

Part 1: Welcome and an Invitation

12:30 - 12:40 pm Kristine Oliveira, Chair of the FPD Committee: Welcome and opening comments

12:45 - 1 pm Dr. Zia Nisani: “Growing a Culture of Scholarship through Undergraduate Research at Antelope Valley College”

Part 2: Recent Publications

1:05 - 1:30 pm Kristal Ibrahim, MS, MSW: "Fostering Student Connectedness in Distance Education Social Work Programs"

The number of fully-online, industry-accredited social work programs has rapidly increased over the past five years. Despite this growth, little literature exists regarding US online social work students’ sense of connectedness to their programs. In light of the Social Work Grand Challenges of Eradicating Social Isolation, and Achieving Equal Opportunity and Justice, we examined existing literature regarding US students’ sense of connectedness to their online, and distance education social work programs.

1:35 - 2 pm Dr. Zia Nisani: “Chemoreception in Scorpions and its Role in Modulating Defensive Behavior: Predator Avoidance and Stinging”

For a group of animals once thought to be minimally responsive to natural chemical stimuli, terrestrial arachnids can claim some of the most elaborate chemosensory organs among the Arthropoda. Recent years have witnessed a steady increase in literature highlighting the role of chemoreception in scorpions. Ample evidence reveals that animals take predation risk into account when making decisions about how to behave in particular situations, and scorpions are no exception. To examine risk-assessment, we assessed the behavioral responses of the desert scorpion, Paruroctonus marksi, to airborne chemical cues from a natural predator, the larger scorpion Hadrurus arizonensis, using a Y-shaped, dual-choice olfactometer. The results suggest that P. marksi is capable of detecting a predator's airborne cues, though the nature and identity of these cues remain unknown. The constellation array of the scorpion's fixed finger likely functions in detecting these cues. We also investigated the influence of predator odors on the stinging behavior of H. arizonensis by stimulating them to sting in the presence or absence of odor from a potential rodent predator, Rattus norvegicus. When predator scent was present, fewer probes were required to elicit a response, and more wet stings resulted compared to the odor-free condition. Moreover, smaller scorpions were more reactive than larger ones, which is also consistent with threat-assessment. These variations in stinging behavior suggest that detection of predator odors elevates the scorpion's defensive response in potentially threatening circumstances. Collectively, these findings reveal that scorpions utilize chemosory cues (both air- and substrate-borne) to modulate their defensive responses.

2:05 - 2:30 pm Dr. Ariel Zatarain Tumbaga: “Indians and the Mexican Revolution: Indigeneity, Coloniality & Literature”

As part of my larger book project, this presentation explores the relationship between indigeneity—or indigenous identity—, subalternity, and ideology in the literature of José Rubén Romero and Martín Luis Guzmán. The authors of the Revolution practiced what John Beverley dubbed an “epistemological privilege” in their representations of indigenous people (1999). In José Rubén Romero’s Apuntes de un lugareño (1932), for example, the Purépechas of the island of Janitzio are orientalized through “protruding cheekbones and those cold and tiny eyes” and resemble people of “distant Japan, among austere monks, impassive mandarins or samurai of legend.” In El águila y la serpiente (1928), Martín Luis Guzmán describes the caudillo Francisco Villa’s gaze “like a Yaqui Indian looks upon all that befalls his gaze: like a possible target to fire upon.” As such, I reread Mexican Revolutionary literature taking into account what Walter D. Mignolo calls a Spanish and Mexican“epistemic colonial difference” that delegitimizes indigenous forms of knowledge and history (The Idea of Latin America). In this sense, Romero’s Apuntes will be studied as a text that reproduces Spanish colonial perspectives of indigenous people during the Mexican Revolution. And I will offer Guzmán’s complicated understanding of the Yaquis as (1) representatives of Mexico’s northern barbarie (that is, people whom the Jesuits had failed to civilize), and (2) exemplary soldiers of the victorious Northwestern army. I will demonstrate how for both novelists aboriginals are both irredeemable Others and an integral part of Mexican identity.

Break 2:30 - 2:40 pm

Part 3: Retiring Faculty Lecture to the Communities of Antelope Valley College

2:40 - 3:00 pm Dr. Susan Lowry: Last Lecture

Part 4: Professional Development Projects

3:05 - 3:20 pm Sawsan Farrukh’s Mentorship: “The First Year: A Survival Guide”

During my first semester at AVC, I took part in a Faculty Mentorship with Kristine Oliveira. My presentation is a reflection on my experiences as a new teacher. A blend of my own classroom escapades and advice for those entering their first year, this lecture is a survival guide meant to encourage new teachers on their journey to becoming confident lecturers in the face of a lack of experience and anxiety about absolute failure.

3:25 - 3:50 pm Mark Hoffer’s Faculty Learning Community: “Story Ark: Using Narrative to Elevate Teaching Practice and Build Academic Community”

The primary goal of our FLC was to use narratives and narrative analysis in the teaching of critical thinking. Throughout the year, we endeavored to understand more deeply the ways that narrative forms can be used to enhance the teaching of critical thinking while aligning classroom practice with increased awareness of, and impact on, institutional and cultural practice. The community members met once a month to explore those topics, wrote short reflective pieces on the use of narratives and narrative writing in the classroom, and those insights were used to interrogate the stories that we wield in our classrooms as well as outside of the college.

3:55 - 4:20 pm Tina McDermott’s Sabbatical and Faculty Learning Community: “Service Learning” and “Teaching Social Justice”

The overarching educational goals of any communication studies program is to improve and enhance students' abilities to relate well to other people in a complex society. I sought to deepen students' learning by establishing opportunities for them to take the learning experience out of the classroom, through focused, interactive service learning/ community engagement assignment components in partnership with nonprofit agencies in the Antelope Valley. I will share some of my research into this field, the projects that I developed and implemented since my return, and suggest some ways to include service learning in other disciplines.

Shortly after returning from my sabbatical, I lead a Faculty Learning Community intending to explore how social justice could be highlighted in a variety of disciplines to develop increased awareness, inclusion, empathy, and a heightened concern for human right and equity in the academy and the community.

Break: 4:20 - 4:30pm

4:30 - 5:20 pm Lisa Karlstein’s Sabbatical: “The Farrier: A Contemporary Record of the Quiet Hero through Photographic Social Documents”

A farrier, commonly known as a horseshoer, is a specialist in the trimming and balancing of horses' hooves and the placing of shoes on horse hooves. The word farrier comes from the Latin word "ferrum" which means iron. The tools used by farriers today including the anvil, hammers, rasps, a hot forge, are unchanged from what was used by blacksmiths 5000 years ago. Over the past six months, I have interviewed and photographed ten farriers from all over Southern and Central California. For this project, I chose traditional wet photography methods instead of digital photography. An important piece of this project was spending time getting to know and understand who each one of my subjects was to record authentic and vulnerable images. This connection with the subject allows the photographer to capture the true essence of the human before them. My genuine interest in each farrier's way of life created a space between us where the subjects felt honored to be seen, and it was in that space where the most powerful social documents. This directly flows from the great historical photographers, such as August Sander, Edward Curtis, Lewis Hine, Dorthea Lang, and Irving Pen, who changed the world's perception of their subjects through the development of trust, respect, and curiosity. The images I have documented and my first-hand experiences connecting with the subjects will be used in the classroom to add value to lectures and discussions.

5:25 - 5:30 pm Closing Remarks from the Chair of the Faculty Professional Development Committee

Featured FPD Event

Faculty Professional Milestones Symposium

Friday, May 3, noon - 6pm (tentative)

UH-201 (map)

Presenter/s : Sawsan Farrukh, Charles Hood, Kristal Ibrahim, Lisa Karlstein, Dr. Susan Lowry, Tina McDermott, Dr. Zia Nisani, Wendy Stout, Ariel Zatarain Tumbaga

Standard #1: Faculty Academy hours - up to 6 hours 5 hours

The Faculty Professional Development Committee invites the communities of Antelope Valley College to to join us in celebrating the recent scholarly and artistic accomplishments of the faculty. This year, the lineup includes presentations by participants of the Faculty Mentorship Program and Faculty Learning Communities, faculty who have recent publications of scholarly or creative works. We will also be audience to the culminating work of previous sabbatical recipients, and will hear parting wisdom in the Last Lecture of esteemed retiring faculty. Faculty are encouraged to attend as many or as few presentations as they wish during the symposium with short breaks between; each presentation will have its own sign-in sheet.

Upcoming FPD events

(check the FPDC website for the most up-to-date information on locations and times)

Friday, March 22

8:00pm CANCELLED The Percussion "Impact:" How Hitting Stuff Sparked a Cultural Revolution

Saturday, March 23

7:00pm AVC Symphonic Band "Music of the Americas" and Antelope Valley Solo Festival

Friday, March 29

6:00pm Green Jobs, Greening the Workplace, and Greening the Curriculum

Thursday, April 11

6:00pm 50 Year Anniversary of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey

7:00pm Dance Dimensions 2019

Friday, April 12

7:00pm Ugly Nature vs Bambi Nature: How Our Assumptions Blind Us

Saturday, April 13

9:00am Smart Landscaping Workshop--Veggie Gardens

Thursday, April 18

6:00pm White Whales, White Bears, and White Men: Melville's Vague, Nameless Horror

Friday, April 19

6:00pm An Evening with the Department of Geosciences

Wednesday, April 24

7:00pm Borrow Like Shakespeare in Your Classroom

Friday, April 26

8:30am AVC’s Inaugural Environmental Summit 2019

Wednesday, May 1

FACULTY RECOGNITION DAY EVENT

Friday, May 3

12:00pm (tentative) 2019 Professional Milestones Symposium

8:00am Using Socratic Seminars and Philosophical Chairs to Deepen Understanding of Rigorous Texts

Sunday, May 5

7:00pm AVC Symphonic Band & AVC Honor Band "From Darkness Grows a Light"

Friday, May 10

8:00am Honors Convocation

Wednesday, May 15

1:00pm Developing Winning FLC Proposals

Thursday, May 16

1:00pm Developing Winning FLC Proposals

Saturday, May 18

9:00am Smart Landscaping Workshop--Surviving Summer

8:00pm AVSOMC Season Finale - Wish Upon a Star

Saturday, May 25

7:00pm AVC Test Flight "Rock into Summer"

Friday, May 31

8:30am GRADUATION

Student Equity Events

Standard #1: Faculty Academy Hours - various

Friday, March 22

9am - 4:30pm Umoja Day (registration at 8:30am; Performing Arts Theater)

Thursday, April 18

12:30pm - 1:30pm Lunch & Learn: 3-2-1 Quick Write with John Wanko (LC-113)

Friday, April 26

9am - 1pm Umoja Intensive Workshop (APL 201)

Monday, May 3

8am - 11am AVID for Higher Ed: Socratic Seminar & Philosophical Chairs (SSV 151)

Synchronous Webinars

Academic Senate for California Community Colleges

Presenter/s : ASCCC Open Educational Resources Task Force

Standard #1: Faculty Academy Hours - 1 (synchronous events only; follow the links to register for events)

Friday, March 22

9:30am LibreText "Freeing" the Textbook

Friday, March 29

9:30 Economics

Friday, April 5

9:30 Foreign Languages

Friday, April 12

9:30 Computer Science

Friday, April 19

9:30 Chemistry

Friday, April 26

9:30 Geography

Friday, May 3

9:30 OER for Librarians - A Crash Course

Friday, May 10

9:30 Curating and Publishing OER Materials

Friday, May 17

9:30 OERI What's Next

Featured FPD Event

Seventh Annual Anthropology Expo and Open House

Day Session

Fri, November 2, 12:30pm – 4:00pm

UH-201 (map)

Presenter/s :Dr. Darcy L. Wiewall

Standard #2: College Colloquia Hours - 3

The Anthropology Expo and Open House is comprised of day and evening components. The day component will introduce the audience to the discipline of Anthropology and focus on what students can do with a degree/career in Anthropology. During this segment students will present their current research projects and professional anthropologists will discuss what they have done with their degree/career in Anthropology. The presentations will be followed by a student panel comprised of former AVC students discussing their experiences in Anthropology Departments at UC 's and CSU's. Take advantage of this wonderful chance to explore the discipline of Anthropology, the opportunities within the field, and its rich diversity of research conducted by local anthropologists. Participants can attend one or both components of the event.

Evening Session

Fri, November 2, 6pm – 9pm

UH-223 & UH-201 (map)

Presenter/s :Dr. Darcy L. Wiewall

Standard #2: College Colloquia Hours - 3

For the evening segment of the expo, the department will host a meet and greet reception from 6-7pm in UH-223 followed by the keynote speaker, Gabriella Skollar, the Director of the Gibbon Conservation Center (GCC), The mission of the GCC is to promote the conservation, study and care of gibbons through public education and habitat preservation. During her talk, “Gibbonology” she will discuss urgent issues about the plight of these small apes, talk about the path that brought her to the Gibbon Conservation Center, her recent findings on gibbon communication and the ups and downs of her conservation work. Please join us for this interesting and informative event. Participants can attend one or both components of the event.

Upcoming FPD events (check the FPDC website for the most up-to-date information on locations and times)

Friday, November 2

12:00pm AVC Collaborative: Working Together to Improve Counseling Services

12:30pm Seventh Annual Anthropology Expo and Open House, Day Session

1:00pm *POSTPONED* Using WICOR Strategies in an Online Teaching Environment

6:00pm Seventh Annual Anthropology Expo and Open House, Evening Session

Saturday, November 3

11:00am Sustainability and Global Warming: How Great Art Can Help Us Prepare for the Future

Thursday, November 8

6:00pm 100 Year Anniversary of the End of World War I

Monday, November 12

VETERANS DAY HOLIDAY

Tuesday, November 13

7:00pm Working with LGBTQIA++ Students

Friday, November 16

7:00pm How Fossil Fuels Have Altered the Course of History

Thursday, November 29

7:00pm AVC's Final Dance Showings

Saturday, December 1

7:00pm AVC Symphonic Band "Symphonic Portrait"

Saturday, December 8

7:00pm AVC Test Flight "Rock into Winter"

8:00pm Holiday Harmonies

Friday, January 11, 2019

10:00am Three Read Study Method

Saturday, January 12, 2019

9:00am Smart Landscaping Workshop--Roses, Roses, Roses

Friday, January 18, 2019

10:00am Integrating Alternative Teaching Methods into Classrooms

7:00pm Using the Quantum Chemistry of Photosynthesis for Bio-Inspired Solar-Energy Conversion

Monday, January 28, 2019

8:00am Active Learning Strategies for Nursing Faculty

Tuesday, January 29, 2019

9:00am Nursing Exam Writing Workshop

Thursday, January 31, 2019

8:00am Orientation for Adjunct Associate Degree Nursing Faculty

Friday, February 1, 2019

8:00am - 4:00pm Spring Opening Day

Student Equity Events

Standard #1: Faculty Academy Hours - various

Monday, November 15

2 - 4pm Melanin Monday (AVC Library Plaza)

Tuesday, November 20

4 - 8pm Friendsgiving (AVC cafeteria)

Thursday, November 29

11:45am - 2p, Umoja Porch Talk: Kwanza (AVC Library Plaza, location tentative)

Student Equity is now accepting faculty applications for Umoja Study Jam sessions for November 27, 28, and 29, from 9am - 5pm. Full time faculty may claim Standard #1 FPD credit, and Part time faculty may apply for High Engagement stipends. Please visit the High Engagement page for more information or to apply.

Synchronous Webinars

Academic Senate for California Community Colleges

Presenter/s : ASCCC Open Educational Resources Task Force

Standard #1: Faculty Academy Hours - 1

Friday, November 2

9:30am OER Webinar - English

Friday, November 9

9:30 OER Webinar - Child Development/Early Childhood Education

Friday, November 16

9:30 OER Webinar - Counseling - College Success/Personal Growth/Career Counseling

Friday, November 30

9:30 OER Webinar - Biology