Announcements

Thursday, June 24, 2021

New Email Migration

Hello,

We are ready to migrate to the new email system over this weekend, June 26-27. Please be aware that email may be intermittently unavailable during that time but messages will continue to come in. In preparation for the migration here a few things to know and how you can assist us with the process:

1. Please be patient. We are moving from a complicated system and we have many users. We’ll be working throughout the weekend. Please report any issues Monday morning on 6/28. We’ll have extra folks on the Help Desk and work through our tickets as quickly as possible.

2. Visit the ITS System Status Page for updates at www.clpccd.org > Departments > IT Services Home > System Status

3. Please know there are three ways that users can access email:

a. When we first migrate, the simplest way to access mail will be to log on via the web to the new web address outlook.office.com. Your username and password should be the same. This will be the permanent replacement to the old “Outlook Web App”.

b. The Outlook client on your desktop *should* automatically redirect you to the new O365 servers. The system may ask you to close the Outlook client and restart. If you have issues with this please try outlook.office.com to get started and contact the Help Desk Monday morning (more on that below).

c. Many users set up email on their phones or tablets. With all the makes, models and email apps out there these can be tricky. The best way to put the new email account on your mobile device is to install the MS Outlook App which is available via the App Store/Google Play. Instructions will be found at the ITS website.

4. How do I get help?

a. You can visit www.clpccd.org > Departments > Information Technology Services (click IT Services Home) and submit a ticket through Service Now from the link on the right side of the page using your username/password

b. If you can’t log into Service Now you can send an email from either your work email account or a personal email account to clpccd@service-now.com . Please include the following in your subject line:

i. Your organization (LPC, CC, CLPCCD)

ii. Your username

iii. Please also include a detailed description in the body of the message.

c. You can also call 925-424-1715

5. There are some excellent resources about Outlook 365 available at (please cut and paste the URLs below, and you may want to make them favorites):

a. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/get-to-know-outlook-on-the-web-3f1a229b-0d60-438f-b515-dd7a28026bc1

b. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/create-and-send-email-in-outlook-19c32deb-08b6-4f90-a211-02bc5f77f360

c. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/manage-your-calendar-and-contacts-in-outlook-631a182a-21e0-4e41-8fa2-0d83e55da02d

Thank you for your patience throughout this process.

Best,

Bruce

Thursday, June 4, 2020

George Floyd's Killing - petitions to sign and support

Dear Arts, Media & Communications, or Arts and Humanities (our former name that I miss right now),

This last week has been horrific, full of pain we already knew was there. Our email is down, on and off, and it’s summer, so it isn’t likely many of you will read this. Nonetheless, it would be stupid, and maybe even crazy-making, not to say something that points out the color of the sky when it’s dark at mid-day.

I do not know how you are handling the pain and contradictions all around of living in a place with so much hatred and discrimination against the black community and people of color, and so much money in the middle of poverty, some of us with very secure jobs and others not,​ even on our own campus. One of Emily Dickenson’s poems on walking death seems fitting, and even more so Maya Angelou, and words from Dr. Martin Luther King:

Maya Angelou

A free bird leaps

on the back of the wind

and floats downstream

till the current ends

and dips his wing

in the orange sun rays

and dares to claim the sky.

But a bird that stalks

down his narrow cage

can seldom see through

his bars of rage

his wings are clipped and

his feet are tied

so he opens his throat to sing.

The caged bird sings

with a fearful trill

of things unknown

but longed for still

and his tune is heard

on the distant hill

for the caged bird

sings of freedom.

The free bird thinks of another breeze

and the trade winds soft through the sighing trees

and the fat worms waiting on a dawn bright lawn

and he names the sky his own

But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams

his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream

his wings are clipped and his feet are tied

so he opens his throat to sing.

The caged bird sings

with a fearful trill

of things unknown

but longed for still

and his tune is heard

on the distant hill

for the caged bird

sings of freedom. (Maya Angelou)

Emily Dickenson

It was not Death, for I stood up,

And all the Dead, lie down -

It was not Night, for all the Bells

Put out their Tongues, for Noon.

It was not Frost, for on my Flesh

I felt Sirocco’s - crawl -

Nor Fire - for just my marble feet

Could keep a Chancel, cool -

And yet, it tasted, like them all,

The Figures I have seen

Set orderly, for Burial

Reminded me, of mine -

As if my life were shaven,

And fitted to a frame,

And could not breathe without a key,

And ’twas like Midnight, some -

When everything that ticked - has stopped -

And space stares - all around -

Or Grisly frosts - first Autumn morns,

Repeal the Beating Ground -

But most, like Chaos - Stopless - cool -

Without a Chance, or spar -

Or even a Report of Land -

To justify - Despair.


Dr. Martin Luther King

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

Below is a list of places that you can donate to and petitions. Victoria collected them. I also suggest or remind those of us with healthcare through the district that we have access to support through EAP and medical plans, and that talking is good, with so much forced isolation (phone number attached).

Former students from our Art and Digital Media programs shared these resources with us.

Petitions to Sign

Where to Donate

True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice. (Dr. King)

Sadness and anger,

Deonne