COVID-19 Updates

Continue to keep updated at www.cccc.edu/coronavirus and join the CCCC COVID-19 Employee Support private Facebook group!

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Great Work by Health Faculty and Staff

by Lisa Baker, Dean of Health Science and Human Services, Health Sciences and Human Services

I wanted to share some phenomenal news. Our Health Sciences and Human Services team pulled together to donate supplies to our community healthcare providers to assist them in meeting patient needs during the COVID-19 crisis.

I would like to thank Vicky Wesner, Consuela Blaizes, Beth Ryan, Melissa Fogarty, Lisa Matthews, Scott Hunt, Lennie Stephenson, and Denise Martin for helping to organize and deliver much needed supplies. Thank you to every department who contributed toward the effort. Our partners cried happy tears of relief to receive the supplies, and I know that I teared up delivering them.

I am so incredibly proud of our team for our dedication and innovation. I am inspired every day by how you have embraced the challenges of online teaching and in turn created rich learning experiences during this public health crisis. You are all heroes, and I am grateful to be on your team.
Thank you!

The following supplies were donated to the following places:

Transitions Life Care: Hand Sanitizer - 13, Gowns - 10, Disinfectant Wipes - 31, Soap - 3 gallons, Gloves - 54, Masks - 15 boxes (50 per box)

FirstHealth - Moore: Disinfectant Wipes - 21, Masks - 15 boxes (50 per box), Headcovers - 4 boxes of 100, Hand Sanitizer - 10

Central Carolina Hospital: Masks - 60 boxes (50 per box), Hand Sanitizer - 14, Disinfectant Wipes - 16

Harnett Health: Masks - 30 boxes (50 per box), Disinfectant Wipes - 8, Gowns - 110 plus 11 cases, Face Shields - 2 boxes, Safety Goggles - 27, Gloves - 63 boxes plus 6 cases, Shoe Covers - 6 boxes

TLC-Sanford: Disinfectant Wipes - 14, Soap - 3 gallons, Hand sanitizer - 3

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2020 Annual Awards - Nominations Due May 8th

by Professional Development

It's time to submit your nominations for our annual awards. Please view complete details for nomination instructions and guidelines for Staff Member of the Year, Faculty Member of the Year, Adjunct of the Year, and Excellence in Advising.

The nomination window closes on Friday, May 8th. Please contact Erin Blakeley at eblak142@cccc.edu with any questions.

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Campus Fund Drive Packets

by Foundation

Campus Fund Drive Packets are out! We depend on YOU, our CCCC family, to help support the needs of the college and our students.

100% of the donations to the Foundation go directly to fund needs of our students and the college. We appreciate your continued support of the Foundation and its mission!

For more information, please visit our website at www.cccc.edu/foundation.

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Health & Fitness Sciences Equipment

When the time comes, everyone will be able to enjoy the equipment delivered for Health & Fitness Sciences!

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Home Office Ergonomics

While you are working from home, we want to ensure you remain healthy and safe. A comfortable workspace can help you feel your best. View the Home Office Workstation Reference Guide.

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Faculty and Staff In the News

Faculty and Staff have been highlighted in the news during the past month. Read more below!

Chatham News & Record, Disconnected by a pandemic: Chatham’s broadband issues glow brighter during COVID-19-induced orders, featuring Kaan Ozmeral.

Chatham News & Record, CCCC facing same educational challenges as many during COVID-19.

Chatham Magazine, Melissa Fogarty Medical Assisting Program Director, pg 45-47.

Organizational Wellness & Learning Systems (OWLS), How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Soulful Distance or “Health Consciousness in a Time of Epidemics” featuring Trinity Faucett.

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Upcoming Blackboard Upgrade and Reveal Sessions

Blackboard will be upgraded Friday, May 15, through Sunday, May 17. We will be having a longer upgrade window than usual to allow us to move over into the Blackboard Saas (cloud) hosting environment.

Blackboard Ultra Base Navigation (UBN) will be turned on and available to all users. We will continue to have our courses operating in Original Course View. The New Box View (how you grade assignments) will be getting an update to a new product, Bb Annotate, on May 25. No downtime will be needed for that update to our system. Please send any questions about the upgrade to Amanda Carter at acart117@cccc.edu.

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Ambassador Selection for 2020-2021 Academic Year

Student Activities is proud to announce the newly selected Ambassadors for the upcoming 2020-2021 academic year! These students were chosen to represent our great college based on their academic, leadership, and personal accomplishments. Join us in welcoming:

• Ashley Williams
• Elizabeth Ward
• Farra Corry
• Gabriela Cuellar
• Faith Thompson
• Lutfiah Alwahishi
• Melanie Mather
• Monica Cuevas
• Peyton Sprouse

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Virtual Coffee Breaks

The Center for Academic Excellence is hosting Virtual Coffee Breaks every Monday and Thursday at 9 a.m. until we're able to have in-person coffee breaks again! This is an informal time to connect with your colleagues. Feel free to join in at whatever time/day works for your schedule.

Please bookmark this Collaborate link to access the coffee break (same link for all of them). We hope to see you there!

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Spring Desktop Wallpaper

Download one of these beautiful photos by Kelly Baird and use as your desktop wallparer.

Click on an image below, when the image appears in your window, right click on the image and "Save Image As" to your computer (somewhere you can find later).

• For PC users, find that image wherever you saved it, right click on it and select "set as desktop background."
• For Mac users, right mouse click on the image and select "Set Desktop Picture."

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Student Activities Spotify

Student Activities knows that working from home can be stressful. We have created a Spotify profile to share some playlists to get you and our students through the day. Browse our themed weekly playlists, such as "Quarantine Quarantunes" or "Stress Relief Dance Break." You might even see some familiar faculty and staff faces pop up on our weekly "We Recommend" playlist. Follow us on Spotify for new and updated playlists!

If you are interested in being featured on our "We Recommend" playlist or if you have any suggestions for additional playlists, please contact Samantha Carroll at scarroll@cccc.edu.

Follow this link to navigate to our profile open.spotify.com/user.

Spotify is a digital music service that gives you access to millions of songs. You are able to create a free account here: www.spotify.com/us/signup.

Don't forget to subscribe when checking us out!

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Foundation Campus Fund Drive

CCCC Foundation

The generosity of our faculty and staff members never ceases to amaze us! Each of you are incredible and witnessing it daily through these difficult times is uplifting. Thank you for all you do for our students!

If you left campus before your Campus Fund Drive packet was turned in, and feel led, please contribute online! The due date for packets has been extended to April 30th. You can also donate via the Foundation website.

Your gifts help provide student support, scholarships, emergency needs, professional development, program needs, curriculum development and Cougar Market supplies. Thank you for your continued support!

Please let us know if you have any questions. Stay safe everyone!

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QEP Corner: My Academic Pathway

by Amy Gustavson, Assistant Director of Institutional Effectiveness & QEP

Calling all advisors! Check out these great advising resources!

• CCCC’s Advisor Resources (Portal Login Required)
• The Advising @ CCCC Folder is a great place to start! It includes financial advising information, advising forms, RISE information, technology resources, and the Academic Quick Reference Guide!

CCCC’s Advising Website

• CCCC’s Advising Website
• This webpage is a great resource for advisors and students!

Bonus: CCCC’s Advisor Hold Lift Form

• Advising Hold Lift Form (Portal Login Required)
• Use this form if you need to lift holds for your advisees.

Learn more about My Academic Pathway
by visiting our website!

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Notes from Institutional Effectiveness & Research

by Amy Gustavson, Assistant Director of Institutional Effectiveness & QEP

New Data Resource: JobsEQ

CCCC now has 10 licenses to JobsEQ! It’s a software platform that provides online access to data on demographics, degrees/awards (IPEDS data), employment, wages, job postings data, occupations, industries, skills, and so much more. JobsEQ can help CCCC identify new academic programs based on local job market needs, identify local workforce development needs, and write grant proposals.

Summer and Fall 2020
Data Dashboards

The Summer and Fall 2020 data dashboards are now available on the CCCC Dashboards website! Dashboards are updated daily mid-morning. New data dashboards include:

1. Enrollment (Summer 2020)
2. Enrollment (Fall 2020)
3. Retention and Course Fill Rate (Fall 2020)
4. 2020-21 Estimated FTE

Institutional Effectiveness & Research is your home for accreditation, strategic planning, outcomes & assessment, and institutional research!

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Red Clay Review

Music, the universal language, is the theme of the Read Clay Review 2019. This issue "...celebrates the musicality of language and our experiences of music."

Download the 2019 issue of the Red Clay Review.

Jeanne Juliam is a member of the North Carolina Poetry Society, The Nexus Poets, Carteret Writers, and Pamlico Writers Group. She is the author of two chapbooks, Blossom & Loss and Relic and Myth, and a full-length collection which will be published by The Poetry Box Select. She and her husband live in New Bern.

Epithalamium by Jeanne Julian

Oh that old song.
That double pair of notes,
the first four of the Fifth,
familiar and strange as lilacs,
or lemons. Or looking down on clouds.
Or coming home. Marriage.
Why bother? We know how it ends.

But the original bedazzlement!
"When I went to put on my hat
I could not find my head,"
Beethoven's contemporary said,
who'd heard them new,
those sounds now marmoreal,
like your vows: "I will." "I will."

Four drops on an awning.
Waking, anticipating rain,
yet unsure which permutation
of water from the sky will come.
From that suspense the symphony travels
(the aged musician rasped in wonder)
"always from night to light."

Now, taking in and letting out the cat,
planting basil in a pot of clay,
riding a smooth train into Manhattan,
cooking an omelet, walking the flat rocks
where you first met,
may all be night to light,
as lightly linked as two notes in a hymn.

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Welcome New Employees!

New employees as of March 31.

• Tammy Gause - Custodian
• Jonathan Moulder - PC Technician II
• Jack Oglesbee - Custodian

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2020 Pay Dates

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Employee Assistance Program

by Human Resources

During these uncertain times, the EAP can provide resources to assist you and your family. EAP stands for Employee Assistance Program. It is a free benefit provided by CCCC and covers you and anyone in your household. Read this attachment for more information on how to access this amazing program.

Please contact Trinity Faucett with any questions.

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EAP on Social Wellness

by Human Resources

Please see attached for info from the EAP on Social Wellness. There is bonus information on Triggers from the National Wellness Institute.

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Birthdays

Birthday list provided by Human Resources

If you would prefer not to be listed or if your name does not appear as you'd like, please email marketing@cccc.edu and let us know!

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News From The CCCC Family

Barbara Jean Lott, 77, retired CCCC employee, passed away on April 3, at her residence. Professional services entrusted to Knotts Funeral Home in Pittsboro.

Nellie Lett Cox, 89, of Sanford, passed peacefully on March 27. Nellie worked for many years at CCCC in the Financial Aid Department and as Secretary to the President. After CCCC, she operated Nellie’s Outlet for many years. Memorial contributions can be made to Moore Union Christian Church, 4294 Buckhorn Road, Sanford, NC 27330; or to Buffalo Presbyterian Church 1333 Carthage St., Sanford, NC 27330.

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Social Media

Join the activity on social media! Do you write a blog, have a Twitter account, or Facebook page for your department or classroom? Share your link! Send to Marketing.

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Cougar Pets News

Cougar Pets are proceeding with adoptions for all of our animals who are already spayed/neutered. If the animal hasn't been spayed and neutered, then we notify the applicant that we will hold them until PPE resources become more readily available, and we can get the animal into surgery or we can suggest alternative pets that may have similar qualities for what they are looking for.

We are not able to host any meet-and-greets right now so we are doing adoption trials in home with pets that we think might be compatible but if they aren't a good fit for the household, then we can pick them up.

Meet Katniss

Katniss

Katniss is a 5-year old, spayed female, shorthaired cat. She can live with other cats but doesn't really play with them much as she prefers to cuddle with people. When asked a little known fact about Katniss, one of the student's stated, "She is very smart." She will come when called and jump back in her house if asked nicely and rewarded with treats.

Meet Genie

Genie

Genie is a 4-year old, spayed female, mixed breed....possibly hound or english pointer mix. She loves toys of all types. One of the student's states, "If Genie was a character from a book or movie, she would be Marley from Marley and Me. She can be rambunctious and adorable, but she is a fun, loving, and loyal dog that is always guaranteed to bring a smile to your face." Genie will do best as the only pet in the household. She can be shy when she first meets you but warms up to be a big cuddle-bug!

All adoptable dogs and cats are spayed/neutered, microchipped, and up-to-date on all vaccines. They have had regular dental cleanings, blood work, and physical exams. We pride ourselves on the care that our cats and dogs receive during their stay. Contact us at www.cougarpets.org for more information on our colony dogs and available cats.

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Send along your Cougar Bytes contributions!

Our monthly Cougar Bytes newsletter is focused on staff and faculty. We welcome your stories, successes, events, photos, or shout-outs in every issue. Please submit your contributions to marketing@cccc.edu or contact Cris Oliver with any questions or suggestions.

The deadline for contributions is May 26 for the May issue.

To be sure your contribution is included, please submit at least two days ahead of the publication date. Thank you!

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