Transfer Prep Grant Newsletter
Title V/HSI
CHC Transfer Center Opens
It took years of planning questions regarding transfer—
and hours upon hours of con- for example, “What happens if
centrated effort, but Crafton I have more than 70 units?”
Hills College finally has an
The Center offers dozens
actual Transfer Center. CHC of workshops on topics ranging
President Gloria
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Honors Lounge on
students to unFebruary 1. She President Gloria Harrison derstand
the
praised the efforts welcomes community to range of choices
CHC Transfer Center
of dozens of people
they have open to
who were collecthem. This intively responsible for the de- cludes one module for detervelopment of both facilities.
mining “What is the ideal uniThe Transfer Center will versity for me?” and another
not duplicate the services al- for exploring majors in colready available in general leges universities, not only in
counseling, such as complet- California, but across the couning a Student Education Plan. try as well. “Our goal is to help
Rather, the Transfer Center students make informed deciwill offer services ancillary to sions,” explains the Transfer
counseling, such as quick Center Coordinator, Mariana
Moreno.
Mariana’s efforts are supplemented twice a week by the
superlative services of Ruby
Zuniga, Administrative Secretary, as well as much appreciated help from Casandra
Tucker, a federal Work Study
employee, and two interns
from the Masters in Counseling
Program at the University of
Redlands, Alexandria Smith
and Souts Xayaphanthong.
They have been kept busy
ever since the Center opened
with over 30 students per week
coming to use the services.
New Honors Coordinator
If you’ve been by the
Honors Lounge this semester,
then you’ve probably had the
pleasure of meeting our new
vibrant and dedicated Honors
Coordinator, Jennifer Floerke.
Jennifer assumed her new
grant-funded .50 position as
Coordinator of the CHC College Honors Institute (CHC) in
January. As hundreds of students will attest, however, Jennifer is not new to the campus.
She has taught Speech courses
at Crafton for 6 years now,
including Public Speaking,
Interpersonal Communication,
and Small Group Communication.
Jennifer took an unorthodox route to teaching. After
earning her EMT certification
from Saddleback College, she
completing Fire Academy
training through CalFire, for
Volume II, Issue 3
February 2012
College Transfer
Fair, March 7
Representatives from a couple dozen universities and colleges will visit the Crafton
campus again on Wednesday,
March 7, for the Spring 2012
College Transfer Fair to help
CHC students prepare for transfer to their chosen college or
university. Our students will
be able to ask questions of representatives from the University of California, Riverside;
the University of Redlands;
CSU San Bernardino; Cal Baptist University; Cal Poly
Pomona; Azusa Pacific University; and a host of others. In
support of our students’ aspirations, all CHC employees are
also encouraged to wear the
colors of their alma maters as
we continue to grow into our
vision of becoming the
“premier community college
for . . . transfer preparation.”
whom she worked as a firefighter during the early ‘90s
before dedicating herself to raising a family. Later, after returning to school and earning her
Master’s degree in Speech with
an emphasis in Rhetorical Theory from CSU San Bernardino in
2005, Jennifer began teaching a
full gamut of Speech and Com-
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Transfer Prep Grant Newsletter
SI Program Off to a Promising Start
As one of the initiatives mandated by
the Title V/HSI Transfer Prep Grant, a
Supplemental Instruction (SI) program
was launched this fall in three courses
that have proven historically difficult for
students: ANAT 101 (Essentials of Human Anatomy and Physiology); HIST
100 (History of the United States to
1877); and HIST 101 (History of the
United States 1865 to Present). SI is a
learning enhancement program designed
to organize and improve the ways students prepare for class outside of class. SI
is attached to subjects to provide students
with a systematic and disciplined approach for processing the subject material
assigned by the professor.
The SI sessions integrate the review
of lecture notes, textbook reading, outside
supplemental readings assigned by the
instructor, along with appropriate modeling of learning strategies. How to learn is
embedded into SI sessions along with
what to learn. Collaborative learning
strategies are used in SI sessions as a
means of creating a more active learning
environment for student participants.
Through practice and mastery of effective approaches to learning, students can
adapt and transfer these strategies to
other subjects and content areas.
Each semester every SI leader receives training prior to the beginning of
the term, and in-service training continues throughout the semester as well.
These training sessions include specific
teaching and learning theories and strategies. Daniel Bahner, who attended SI
Supervisor training workshops at the
University of Missouri, Kansas City,
where SI was first developed, serves as
the CHC SI Coordinator. Among other
duties, he conducts the training, meets
weekly with each SI leader, and periodically attends SI sessions throughout the
semester and offers formative feedback
for the improvement of the program.
According to the Office of Research
and Planning (ORP), these efforts have
proven successful. In a Research Brief on
the Impact of Supplemental Instruction on
Student Success in Fall 2011 the ORP
reported the following findings:
• 65 students attended one or more SI
sessions and earned a Grade on Record
(GOR) in Fall 2011.
• 52% of the students who attended an SI
session attended two or more SI sessions.
• 26% of the students who were enrolled
in a section where SI was offered attended an SI session at least once.
• Students who attended one or more SI
sessions had a substantially higher success rate (82%) than students in the
same section who did not attend at least
one SI session (72%).
The vision of Crafton Hills College is to be the premier community college for public safety and
health services careers and
transfer preparation.
New Honors Coordinator, continued
munication courses, not only at Crafton,
but at RCC, Norco College, and Mt. San
Jacinto College, Menifee campus, as well.
In her new position this semester,
Jennifer has thoroughly enjoyed learning
more about the Crafton community and
campus. She has also enjoyed interacting
with other community college colleagues
at the monthly meetings of the Honors
Transfer Council of California (HTCC).
Equally rewarding has been the research
she has pursued while completing our
application to the UCLA Transfer Articulation Program (TAP). Although the
learning curve of her position—what she
calls “catching up with the program”—
has been challenging, Jennifer is excited
about future prospects, such as the student
service component we have just started
implementing and the planned outreach to
high schools.
Jennifer considers interacting with
the Honors students the most rewarding
aspect of her current job. She is especially excited that three CHC Honors
students have been chosen to present their
research at the upcoming 12th Annual
Research Conference hosted by HTCC at
UC Irvine: Marcus Dashoff (History);
Harrison Hadsock (Field Geology); and
Mark Johnson (Geology). Under Jennifer’s energetic and enthusiastic leadership, student involvement in CHI, which
has grown over 20% just since she took
the helm, will no doubt continue to grow.
So, the next time you’re in the vicinity—say, when you’re getting a soda or a
sandwich from the cafeteria—treat yourself to the new, delightfully perky pres-
ence in our Honors Lounge: Come up and
introduce yourself to our new Honors Coordinator, Jennifer Floerke. You’ll be
happy you did.
Honors students Ty Hopp and Bradley
Harjehausen enjoy the comforts of the
new CHC Honors Lounge