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2014-15 ANNUAL REPORT to the COMMUNITY That Place Made Me What I Am Today CHABOT-LAS POSITAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT 2014-15 ANNUAL REPORT TO THE COMMUNITY That place made me what I am today. Alumnus Tom Hanks, describing Chabot College Photo by Patrick Fraser STUDENT SUCCESS STARTS HERE Chabot-Las Positas Student Trustees Table of Contents Community College Quincy Taylor Chancellor’s Welcome . 4 Chabot College Student Trustee A Tribute to Chabot College from Alumnus Tom Hanks . 6 District Board of Trustees Tributes from Alumni and Students . 8 Celebrating the Legacies of Our Founders . 12 District 2014-15 CLPCCD Highlights . 14 Measure B: Building Pathways to the Future . 18 Nancy Kang Las Positas College Student Trustee CLPCCD’s Economic Impact . 21 Investing in CLPCCD Foundations . 24 Chabot College Donald L. “Dobie” Gelles Carlo Vecchiarelli President, Trustee Area 4 Secretary, Trustee Area 5 Message from the President . 28 Student Body Snapshot . 28 Creating Pathways to Success . 29 Faculty Honors . 34 2014-15 Headlines . 37 4 Athletics . 44 Castro Valley Dublin San Leandro Unified Unified Unified 2 7 Las Positas College Livermore Valley San Lorenzo 1 Pleasanton Unified Joint Unified Unified Message from the President . 46 Arnulfo Cedillo, Ed.D. Isobel F. Dvorsky 6 Hayward Unified 5 Student Body Snapshot . 46 Trustee Area 3 Trustee Area 2 3 New Haven Unified Creating Pathways to Success . 47 Sunol Glen Unified Faculty and Staff Honors . 50 2014-15 Headlines . 51 Athletics . 60 Chabot-Las Positas Community College District and Unified School Districts Castro Valley Pleasanton The CLPCCD 2014-15 Annual Report to the Community is dedicated Dublin San Leandro Hayward San Lorenzo to the memories of our outstanding leaders Dr . Reed L . Buffington and Livermore Valley Sunol Glen Dr . Barbara F . Mertes . Hal G. Gin, Ed.D. William L. “Will” Macedo Trustee Area 6 Trustee Area 7 New Haven The CLPCCD 2014-15 Annual Report to the Community was prepared by Mary Lauffer, CLPCCD Office of the Chancellor, with the assistance of many faculty, CLPCCD serves the San Francisco East Bay Area, staff, and administrators . Design is by Ogden Costa Creative Group . particularly southern Alameda County, through its two colleges: Chabot College in Hayward and Las Positas To view an online version of the CLPCCD 2014-15 Annual Report to the College in Livermore. CLPCCD is governed by a Community, please visit www.clpccd.org/newsroom . seven-member board of trustees which is responsible for all policy decisions. Board members are elected from trustee areas by the registered voters of nine communities: This annual report is printed on paper certified in accordance to standards set forth by the Forest Stewardship Council™, which Marshall Mitzman, Ph.D. Castro Valley, Dublin, Hayward, Livermore, Pleasanton, is committed to managing the world’s forests responsibly and www.fsc.org Trustee Area 1 MIX promoting well-managed forestry worldwide . Paper from responsible sources San Leandro, San Lorenzo, Sunol, and Union City. FSC® C006571 2 Welcome Message from the Chancellor It is my pleasure to share our 2014-15 Educational Excellence annual report with 2 Curriculum Relevancy you . In it, you will find EC Community Collaboration news about exciting new pathways to Educational Excellence forms the foundation of our success for our district and governs the planning, implementation, and students, many evaluation of everything we do . highlights of the year, and innovative Curriculum Relevancy ensures that our students collaborations with our educational, business, and benefit from the latest and most innovative community partners . curriculum available . One of our priorities this year was the creation of Community Collaboration with local business, a District-Wide Strategic Plan and an Educational government, educational institutions, civic organizations, Master Plan for each college . I am pleased to community groups, science, and industry partners results report that, with thoughtful participation from the in a team effort to provide educational opportunities CLPCCD community and other stakeholders, we that best serve our students and our community . have completed these key plans . The district plan provides us with operational direction and will aid Each day, we witness student success and hear the district and colleges in achieving their mission and testaments from our students and alumni about the vision . It contains information about the students and power of our colleges as agents of change . We have communities we serve, identifies important trends featured some testimonials in this report, as well as a that will impact educational instruction, provides powerful tribute from one of our most famous alumni, clear goals and action items to achieve these goals, Tom Hanks . Mr . Hanks penned a glowing homage to his identifies measurable outcome targets, and lays out a alma mater, Chabot College, that appeared in the New framework for monitoring and assessing those targets . York Times and in a White House blog . In his letters, The educational plans are aligned with the district he described the profound influence Chabot has had plan and articulate the colleges’ goals and strategies in his life and focused national attention on truths we for advancing their mission for the next five years . I am know well: our colleges are beacons of opportunity— grateful to each and every individual who contributed they transform lives, shape futures, and launch success . to these significant documents that will shape our By pursuing his passion, Mr . Hanks rose to international future as a premier community college district . fame . But, we, too, are beneficiaries of his success . He has given our world a legacy of compelling films Our shared vison served as a guiding light for these and masterful portrayals of characters that span the plans: a promise to place students at the center of the breadth of the human experience, broadening our learning experience and a commitment to core values perspectives and touching our hearts . When one that form three pillars supporting student success . student succeeds, the benefits extend beyond the individual—to families, workplaces, and communities, elevating quality of life for us all . Sincerely, Jannett N. Jackson, Ph.D. CLPCCD Chancellor 4 5 Alumnus Tom Hanks Writes about How Chabot College Shaped His Life of the classes I took there,” he wrote . “I produced Tom Hanks is helping advance the the HBO mini-series John Adams with an outline newly-formed Chabot College Alumni format I learned from a pipe-smoking historian, James Association . For more information Coovelis, whose lectures were riveting ”. Mr . Hanks about getting involved with the Alumni (1976 alumnus) noted that when he attended Chabot, Association, please send an e-mail to community college was “free, save for the effort you [email protected] put into it and the price of used textbooks,” which was or call (510) 723-7091 . all he could afford at the time . In his letters, he further described the Chabot College of his youth: Other notable Chabot alumni include: Ned Yost, Kansas City Royals baseball team “As a student there, I went to school alongside manager; Leidisi, Grammy Award winning When Hollywood legend Tom Hanks drove past Vietnam vets, moms, and middle-aged men, as well R&B and jazz vocalist; Richard Valle, Chabot College a few years ago with one of his as a few thousand young people like me who needed Alameda County Supervisor; Peggy Hora, children, he summed up his two years as a student time to sort out our lives and our options . We were Superior Court Judge, retired; Cliff Burton, here by saying, “That place made me what I am today ”. looking to get our general education requirements bassist for Metallica; Carl Potts, Marvel out of the way, to learn skill sets to improve our Comics cartoonist, creator of the Alien President Barack Obama’s proposal this year to make employment prospects, or to discover the road to Legion series; and Brad Jerrell, theatrical two years of community college free for responsible new, unimagined careers . We all found a different technician, George Lucas’ Industrial students prompted Mr . Hanks to shine a national home at Chabot, but it welcomed all of us ”. Light & Magic . spotlight on his transformative experience at Chabot College . He wrote tributes to Chabot in entertaining, Students from all walks of life still find a welcoming Photo by Patrick Fraser Chabot College expresses sincere appreciation highly personal essays that appeared in the New York home at Chabot College and at Las Positas College as to Tom Hanks and photographer Patrick Times and a White House blog . well . They have the same goals Mr . Hanks describes Fraser for granting us permission to use this photograph in our annual report. as they embark on new roads to the future of their In his essays, Mr . Hanks paid homage to his many dreams or to a future as yet unimagined—made inspiring instructors at Chabot and described their brighter because of an accessible, high-quality, and enduring influence on his life’s work . “Over the course life-changing community college education . of my career, I’ve only continued to reap the benefits See Tom Hanks’ Facebook Page Read Tom Hanks’ Letters See Tom Hanks’ March 4th, 2015 Facebook post http://nyti .ms/1C6jfcd with a photo of him and the “Welcome to Chabot” http://1 .usa .gov/1JxezlW sign taken when he visited the college: https://www .facebook .com/TomHanks 6 Tributes from Our Alumni and Students Chabot College “I am so grateful for the time I spent at Chabot “The Chabot College Nursing Program not only shaped College . The education I received there provided me me into a safe, knowledgeable, and skilled nurse . with the tools I needed to succeed at UC Berkeley It helped me grow as a person . The experiences I and beyond . What my professors and peers taught me encountered through my time here have strengthened at Chabot far exceeded my classroom expectations: my confidence as well as my communication and I learned how to be a good citizen of the world and leadership skills .
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