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Welcome to the inaugural issue of Cliff Notes: October 2018!Cliff Notes is a monthly digest of faculty and staff news compiled by the Office of Communications. Is there news about your department that you would like to share with the rest of the campus community? Awards, recognitions, longevity, new hires, special lectures, presentations or events? Let us know! You can send items of interest to marketing@sbcc.edu and include "Cliff Notes" in the subject line.
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JIM MOOY ON HAND AS SBCC MUSIC STUDENTS REHEARSE WITH MICHAEL MCDONALD AND PLAY ENTRANCE MUSIC FOR SOLD-OUT LINCOLN CENTER JAZZ ORCHESTRA CONCERT
When Associate Professor of Music, Jim Mooy, arrived at school last Friday, he found Michael McDonald rehearsing with students and faculty for the October 10 benefit concert at the Lobero Theatre, sponsored by the Foundation. Jim urges everyone to get a ticket if you haven't already. According to Jim, "We are going to tear the roof off of the Lobero!" Click here for more information about SBCC Music with Michael McDonald at the Lobero. Then on Saturday night at the Granada Theatre, Jim was on hand with his camera to catch SBCC music students, Tommy Mooy and Julian Littlehale who had been invited by UCSB Jazz professor, Dr. Jon Nathan, to play small group jazz as entrance music for the sold-out Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra concert. The students were also invited to the after-party where they had an opportunity to meet the artists. Taking time to reflect, Jim stated "This kind of community outreach and contact with legendary musicians is the status-quo for SBCC Music, but we are usually too busy lining up the next event to boast. Today I boast... we should all be proud that our community fosters these talented students. SBCC continues to lead the way!"
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Michael McDonald rehearsing with SBCC music students on Friday, Sept. 28. | |  |
Two SBCC music students were invited to play small group jazz as the audience entered Granada Theatre. | |  |
SBCC music students, Tommy Mooy and Julian Littlehale, with the small group jazz at The Granada. | |
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ATKINSON GALLERY EXHIBITION MOURNING/WARNING: TIA BLASSINGAME If you haven't yet had a chance to view the current exhibition at the Atkinson Gallery, be sure to visit before it closes on October 12. Mourning/Warning, is an exhibit by Tia Blassingame, a book artist and printmaker exploring the intersection of race, history, and perception. Utilizing printmaking and book arts techniques, she renders racially-charged images and histories for a nuanced discussion on issues of race and racism. Read more...
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 | DARREN PHILLIPS, NEW COUNSELOR, DSPS | |  | DR. JESS ESTRADA, NEW CHEMISTRY INSTRUCTOR
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 | CLARA OROPEZA, ENGLISH PROFESSOR, WRITES ACADEMIC BOOK Clara Oropeza, an SBCC English Literature Professor, is self-proclaimed “obsessed” with comparative mythology, literature and author Anaïs Nin’s writing. In mid-August, she published an academic book titled “Anaïs Nin – A Myth of Her Own,” which analyzes the author’s modernist writings. Oropeza began writing her dissertation on Nin while she attended Pacifica Graduate Institute and participated in The Pacifica Myth Program. She said she was deeply grateful that she found a program that focused on comparative mythology and literature. After analyzing Nin’s work for a year and a half, she decided to expand her dissertation into her own book. Continue reading... | |
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 | NATALIE D-NAPOLEON WINS NATIONAL AUSTRALIAN POETRY PRIZE Natalie D-Napoleon, who joined the Writing Center as a Laboratory Teaching Assistant in 2016, has been awarded the 2018 Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize for her work "First Blood: A Sestina." Selected for the top honor from over 1,000 entries, "First Blood" was inspired by her childhood growing up on a farm in western Australia. It is a poetic memoir using the complex and stunning form of a sestina. Playful and serious at the same time, it creates a positive mythology about a subject that is often taboo: menstruation as a rite of passage marking the end of girlhood.The complete collection of her poems titled “First Blood,” will be published next year by Ginninderra Press, an award-winning independent publisher based in Port Adelaide, South Australia.
| |  | ALEXANDRA FORBES THIERJUNG ACCEPTS SUSTAINABILITY AWARD ON BEHALF OF THE COLLEGE In July, Alexandra Forbes Thierjung accepted the 2018 Sustainable Transportation award that SBCC received from the California Higher Education Sustainability Conference at UCSB. Alexandra was instrumental in the establishment of a Commuter Program in 2014, rewarding sustainable commuters to SBCC campus with various incentives, recognition and motivations, effectively reducing Single Occupied Vehicles by 13%. Continued under Business Services Vice President Lyndsay Maas, the program has been managed by Alexandra for nearly 5 years. Alexandra credits the visionary support and guidance of Perrin Pellegrin (from Innovative Workshop Consulting) as contributing to the program's success. SBCC Commute has also been the recipient of two 2017 Green Building Council awards: the Green Innovation and Green Community Partner Award. | |
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 | WEBSITE UPDATE Over the summer, 10 staff and faculty members participated in a 3-week “User Acceptance Test” with Omni Update. The team spent hours reviewing and testing aspects of the new website design templates. Bugs, issues and requests were reported to Omni Updateto be resolved. Presently, the goal is to launch the new website for the Spring 2019 semester. | |  | SUSTAINABILITY PLAN An updated District Sustainability Plan for 2018 is in the final stages of being written. Based on input by the SBCC Sustainability Workgroup (comprised of faculty, staff, and students) ambitious new objectives have been set, including the goal for the campus to achieve Zero Waste between now and 2025. | |  | GUIDED PATHWAYS Thanks to everyone who participated in the Guided Pathways breakout sessions at our August 23 In-Service. Your feedback will play a vital role as we move forward. The notes from each group are currently being reviewed so that we might more effectively identify obstacles to student success and help all students achieve their goals. | |
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| Upcoming Faculty and Staff Events
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Michael McDonald to Join SBCC Music Students in Benefit at the Lobero Theatre October 10
Mark your calendars now for Wednesday, October 10, when the SBCC Foundation will present a special benefit concert featuring Michael McDonald alongside the amazing talents of SBCC Music students and faculty. Read more for full details...
Wednesday, October 10
7 p.m.
Lobero Theatre
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Garvin Theatre October 10 - 27October is the perfect month for enjoying a good mystery, so be sure not to miss The Theatre Group's production of "The Game's Afoot" directed by Katie Laris. Winner of the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best Play in 2012, this comic murder mystery takes place in a Connecticut castle in 1936, with danger and hilarity in equal measure. SBCC Staff and faculty with ID can get two free tickets to either preview, October 10 or 11 @ 7:30pm. Call 805-965-5935 to reserve tickets. They must be picked up by 1 day prior to the performance. For other performances there is a staff/faculty discount. Tickets can be purchased online at www.theatregroupsbcc.com or at the Box Office 805-965-5935.
Click here for more details...
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Dorantes Lecture: When They Call You a Terrorist Artist, organizer, educator, and popular public speaker, Patrisse Cullors is a Los Angeles native and Co-Founder of the Black Lives Matter Global Network and Founder of grassroots Los Angeles-based organization Dignity and Power Now. She is also a senior fellow at MomsRising where she is working on ending Maternal Mortality and Morbidity. Read more...
Thursday, November 15, 12:45 - 2:05 p.m.
Garvin Theatre
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Halloween Fun on October 31
Swing by the Campus Store for a Halloween Spooktactular: October 31, from 10-2 p.m. Fun contests, prizes, a raffle, and not to mention Karaoke!
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