MPC Job Descriptions
Using the 10 hundred most common English words
“I work at the computer all day making the world
look pretty by taking pictures and putting words
around them….. I make their eyes feel happy.”
-Jeanette Haxton, Office of Public Information
MPC Job Descriptions
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“I help people when they are hurt, sad, or want
to know more about bad things in your body …
Smiles are the a good way to fix some of these
problems.”
-Kelly Eyler, Health Services Specialist
MPC Job Descriptions
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“Students want to learn about computers … I
help them. I listen when students lose hope and
want to throw a computer out the window.
I try to talk them out of it.”
-Steve Bruemmer, Instructional Tech Specialist
MPC Job Descriptions
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I show people how to do the art of making
pictures. The first thing we learn are the ways to
make pictures and how to use a box to make
pictures … The person making pictures can look
at their world through this box and use it to say
ideas about the world.
-Kevin Bransfield, Photography Instructor
MPC Job Descriptions
Using the 10 hundred most common English words
“…This is a key question: why, knowing what we
know, we accept business as usual? The round
ball we live on wonders, as do the other animals
still here with us, the trees that remain, lands
where now there is only smoke, the big waters
that may have no little animals left by the time
you read this … [I]f we study carefully and hold
up the truth, it may be that a change is going to
come.”
-Anthony Villarreal, Sociology Instructor
MPC Job Descriptions
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“…My job is to make sure people use their money
in the way they should and not go crazy. I enjoy
my job.”
-Linda Martin, Fiscal Department
MPC Job Descriptions
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“I am done working. I used to work but I finished.
Now I like to … walk to the place where the land
and water meet.”
-Nancy Goering, Retired Business Instructor
MPC Job Descriptions
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“I wonder about the way students are learning
and what things will be like in 20 years if things
keep on as they are with people not learning to
think or ask questions...if people just accept what
is told them as true and don't learn to think
about the possible ways they might be getting
lied to, in another 20 years it will be hell.”
-Stephanie Tetter, Librarian
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“My job is to show students how to help doctors
… They have to work in a team and they really
have to get good at talking and listening to other
people. It is a fun job. Most students really like it
and that makes me happy.”
-Monika Bell, Medical Assisting Instructor
MPC Job Descriptions
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“What happened in the past and the agreed
upon story written down about the past are two
very different things. What stories have we
missed? Why? What can both the missed stories
and the agreed upon stories tell us about us, our
long ago families and families not yet here? The
answers to these questions change us, make us
pay attention and see the world around us in
new ways.”
-Elizabeth Mullins, History Instructor
MPC Job Descriptions
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“I get people to learn about the round thing we
live on … The rocks tell us that some of them are
very very old, older than we can even dream
about.”
-Fred Hochstaedter, Earth Science Instructor
MPC Job Descriptions
Using the 10 hundred most common English words
I sit at a desk in an office at a college and help
students and teachers meet for class. My biggest
work is to help the teachers plan their classes,
make sure all the facts about the places and
times to meet are right and then help students
find the classes they want to take.
-Barbara Smallwood, Creative Arts DOM
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“What do I do? I do what is needed to get the job
done. This is the way I think and I wish more
people here thought the same way. … There is
more that I do, but I have to go back to work
now.”
-Leslie Procive, Assistant to the VP of Acad Affairs
MPC Job Descriptions
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“I help people find good people to do work in the
college. Then I help these good people be happy
at work … I also remind them to remember to do
normal stuff they have to do, like making sure
people are doing good at work and sending in
stuff to me.”
-Kali Viker, HR Analyst
MPC Job Descriptions
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“I help students get money for school. I do this by
showing students where the money comes from.
My job is to get people with money to give that
money to those who need it.”
-Danielle Hodgkins, Student Financial Services Coord
MPC Job Descriptions
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“To understand the living world is to also
understand us. We are all part of this amazing
and interesting place, and we are all better off if
we get that and act like it.”
-Kevin Raskoff, Biology Instructor
MPC Job Descriptions
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“Some people say I just help people find books. … [B]ut
my job is so much more than that. The world is full of
ideas, and I help people learn how to find the most
important ideas for answering questions they have…”
-Catherine Webb, Librarian
MPC Job Descriptions
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Numbers and letters can be used together is
many ways. In this class we will study their use to
find the answers to problems made up of letters
and numbers.
-Bob Evans, Math Instructor
MPC Job Descriptions
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“I teach people how to see, how to feel and how to
think. I teach people to believe in themselves and
how to share their ideas with others … I teach
people how to use many different things like paint
and paper, to make works that express their ideas.”
Notice the words NOT on the list: art, artists, appreciate,
creativity, I could have done this exercise very easily if I my job
is to teach people how to shoot guns!
-Robynn Smith, Art Instructor
MPC Job Descriptions
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“I show people how to make things fit in a space-home or office--and how to use those things
well, while also making sure that those things
look the way they want them to look--cool.”
-Sunshine Giesler, Interior Design Instructor
MPC Job Descriptions
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“Some people think I just help people get classes or
fill out forms. Some of my family think I fix the
world’s problems or the people who cause problems
in the world. I think I love my job and the people I
have in my job, in the seats of the class and the
people who help learn the people in the seats.”
-Kelly Fletes, EOPS Counselor
MPC Job Descriptions
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“Think. Fix. Read write rush.
Put out fires. Answer questions.
Age… Give directions.”
Linda Logsdon, Physical Sciences DOM,
in fine haiku form
MPC Job Descriptions
Using the 10 hundred most common English words
“I show and tell students about matter. Matter is
anything that takes up space and can be light or
heavy…We look at how matter plays a part in
everything from cells to business. We have fun
playing with matter together!”
-Sarah Gerhardt, Chemistry Instructor
MPC Job Descriptions
Using the 10 hundred most common English words
“I help people think, have conversations, and use every
idea possible to grow learning in our college and all
around us…At the end of the year, students dress in
college red or white and come in long lines to get a
paper from me and the other guys. The paper shows
they learned something. The students leave with a
very big smile on their face.”
- Celine Pinet, VP of Academic Affairs
MPC Job Descriptions
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“I talk to people about words. Some people need to
read a book but do not know the words in the book, so
I help them learn the words. Sometimes they know the
words but are not be able to find the idea in the
words, so I help them learn how to find the idea.”
-Skip Seibel, ESSC Instructional Specialist
MPC Job Descriptions
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“I present ideas to anyone serious about a way to
make life better and not worse for themselves. They
can use these ideas to get a good job and make more
money. It is especially sweet when they share these
ideas with others to make life better.”
-Larry Walker, Dean of Student Services
MPC Job Descriptions
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“We help people fill jobs, find jobs and keep jobs. We
help the people who work here understand the things
that help them and keep them happy. Sometimes
people do not do what they are supposed to and then
we have to tell them that too, but not very often...If
you visit us you can have something sweet to eat.”
-Barbara Lee, Dean of Human Resources, and the HR
staff
MPC Job Descriptions
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“I explain to my family how much money they
can spend. Sometimes our interests are the same
and sometimes they are different. In the end, we
always agree because our interests are not really
that different.”
Steve Ma, VP of Administrative Services