Titan Talk by Community College of Beaver County

April 2013

CCBCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s student newsletter

Issue 4

Titan Top Story

WALK FOR A CAUSE!

SATURDAY, MAY 4TH, 10 A.M. TO 1 P.M.

CCBC Athletics and Events Center 2 mile walk plus food, group prized and a 50/50 raffle $15/person registration fee Open to the public. Pre-registration is required.

All funds raised will be donated to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. MORE INFORMATION TO COME!

Sponsored by CCBC SGA and Student Activities Contact SGA President Katie Mottes at Katherine.mottes@ccbc.edu or Fran Siters in Student Activities at 724/480-3462 for updates.

Policy on Nondiscrimination Community College of Beaver County does not discriminate in admission or employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, qualifying disability, veteranâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s status, age, or national origin.

Photo of the Month Beth Jansto

Want to see you and your friends in the next issue of Titan Talk? Email photos taken on campus to activities@ccbc.edu.

TEACHER OF THE MONTH ! Beth Jansto has been teaching here at CCBC for just over twenty years, “What I really like most about teaching here is the small size and the attention I can give the students.” She holds a BS in Mathematics from Agnes Scott College in Georgia and a MS in Mathematics from Clemson University. “I started teaching because we just moved here and I was trying to find a part-time job while my kids were little. I got a job teaching and then realized that I loved it!” Mrs. Jansto claims that her favorite part about her job is just the students in general, she loves seeing them and seeing the light bulb go off when they finally get it. Past teachers and personal methods influence her style of teaching, “I try to make math make sense the way it makes sense to me, if that makes sense” she laughed. Mrs. Jansto has a bright, colorful personality that is adored by her students, “she’s like the best lady ever”. Students claim that her knowledge and her ability to teach is “truly one of a kind”. In addition to her enormous amount of knowledge, Mrs. Jansto enjoys gardening and is a lover of fiction. If you are interested in taking one of her classes, she teaches College Algebra, Pre-Calculus, Calculus I, and, Calculus II.

Campus Shout Out! Dear students, On Tuesday, April 16th, 2013, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., my class of students from the Vietnam course (216 01) will be organizing and presenting The Be-In event. The students will be reenacting the antiwar protests from the late 1960s and early 1970s, on the CCBC main campus. This event will be an outcome of my students’ portfolio research projects. Students will be dressed in hippy-like clothing and carry protest signs as they march and chant throughout the campus during this time. It is our plan to have the central campus area arranged to evoke the spirit of the protest movement, along with a variety of activities, including a charity bake sale, a tie dye station, a poetry reading, ping pong, and a water balloon toss. My students and I would like to invite everyone to join us and participate in all of our planned activities. The Be-In will be held rain or shine; in the case of rain we will use the main floor of the Student Services Center. For all further information about the Be-In, please contact the student coordinators John Fosnaught (john.fosnaught@ccbc.edu) and Stephanie Roth (stephanie.roth@ccbc.edu). Best regards, Dr. Nives Rumenjak

Help is on the Way! Spring 2013 Tutor Schedule

Tutor Name

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Jeff Canter

9 a.m.-1 p.m.

12-6 p.m.

9 a.m.-1 p.m.

9 a.m.-3 p.m.

11 a.m.-3 p.m.

9 a.m.-1 p.m.

ACCOUNTING jeff.canter@ccbc.edu Stacey Brown 11 a.m.-3 p.m. MATH - ACT 101 stacey.brown@ccbc.edu

Thursday

Nancy Livitski

9 a.m.-1 p.m. 9 a.m.-1p.m. 12-6 p.m. MATH 2:30-4 p.m. 2:30-4 p.m. nancy.livitski@ccbc.edu 5:30-6 p.m. 5:30-6 p.m. Jason Henderson 3-6 p.m. 10 a.m.-1p.m. 3-6 p.m. 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Basic MATH 1:30-4:30 p.m. 1:30-4:30 p.m jason.henderson@ccbc.edu

Malley Branchetti

9 a.m.-3 p.m. ENGLISH malley.branchetti@ccbc.edu

9 a.m.-12 p.m.

9 a.m.-3 p.m.

3-6 p.m.

Beth Fleeson

3-6 p.m.

12-6 p.m.

3-6 p.m.

9 a.m.-3 p.m.

1-3 p.m.

2-4 p.m.

8 a.m.-12 p.m. 12:30-3:30 p.m.

8-11 a.m. 2:30-4:30 p.m.

ENGLISH - ACT 101 beth.fleeson@ccbc.edu

Michael Nutz SCIENCE michael.nutz@ccbc.edu

Justin Pastore

9 -11 a.m. LAB TUTOR-ACT 101 12:30-2:30 p.m. (Learning Lab) 4-6 p.m. justin.pastore@ccbc.edu

Library, Room 206 8 a.m.-6 p.m. 8 a.m.-6 p.m. 8 a.m.-6 p.m. 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Tutor hours are subject to change. For more information, call 724-480-3438. Open computer lab hours: Monday through Thursday from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Friday from 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Calendar of Events April 1-5

Nominations will be accepted for 2013-14 SGA

April 5 Talent Show

April 25th

End of the Year Bash at ASC

Health Sciences Center Auditorium Officer Positions: FREE food and drinks Doors open at 5:00 p.m., President Sponsored by show starts at 6:00 p.m. Vice President SGA and Student Activities Come enjoy and appreciate Treasurer the talents of your fellow Secretary CCBC students! Nominations can be submitted to the current SGA Tickets at the door: President, Katie Mottes, in $1 for kids under 12 End of the Year Bash at the SGA Office or to Fran $1 for students Main Campus Siters in the Student Activi- (with a valid student ID) FREE food and drinks ties Office, SSC 1102 or via $3 for adults and people FREE Foto Button Fun & Pictures e-mail: Katherine.mottes@ without an ID Proceeds benefit the Beaver County Hu- Too ccbc.edu or fran.siters@ Put your face on buttons, cards, man Society ccbc.edu You MUST have sticky pictures the person’s permission Sponsored by SGA and Student before you can nominate Activities them! Elections will be held in the Warm Up Wednesday Student Activities office, SSC 1102/ID April 17, 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 Last Day of the room, the week of April 8th – 11th. a.m. Titan Cafe Spring 2013 Oram’s Donuts & Coffee .50 cents each; Cinnamon Semester is May Game Time Raffle Rolls $1 (.50 for ½) 6th. CCBC Titan Cafe (cafeteria) Proceeds benefit M.S. 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Research Tickets:$2 each or $8 for 5 Sponsored by SGA and Student Activities All proceeds will benefit Commencement the M.S. charity in partner- 2013 Job and Career Fair ing with the SGA of CCBC. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. is Thursday, Enter to win great prizes: Athletics and Events Center May 9th in •Rainaldi’s gift certificate For Job Fair information, •Applebees gift certificate go to: the Athletics •CCBC cafeteria gift card www.ccbc.edu/jobfair •Gift Basket www.ccbc.edu/careerandre- Events Center at •and many more! sumehelp Tickets can be purchased 6:00p.m. from a Team member beginning March 27th. For questions, contact Tara PN In-House Application packets for Spring 2014 Clinical are available at 724/650-1741 or Miat the Information and Registration Center as of April 1, 2013. chael Gandy at michael.gandy@ccbc.edu

May 2nd

April 17

April 3rd

Career Services News Office Hours: Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. (or by appointment) Student Services Center, upper Level

Are you getting ready to graduate? Be sure to check out the Career Services Job Boards located across campus for information on employment opportunities.

Career Corner:

Stop Stressing These 7 Elements of Your Job Search By Alison Green Job hunting is stressful, but job seekers often make it more stressful than it needs to be, by agonizing over details that most employers don’t care about at all. Here are seven of the most common things that job seekers often stress over—but shouldn’t spend any time worrying about.

6. Your college major and your coursework (in most cases). With some exceptions, employers generally care that you have a degree, but much less about what field it’s in. And (again with some exceptions) they really don’t care about what classes you took or what you wrote your papers on. They want to know that you attended a reputable school, did well there, and graduated. Beyond that, most of us really care more about work experience.

1. How you address your cover letter. Job applicants often spend time trying to hunt down the name of the hiring manager so they can address the letter to “Dear Ms. Smith” rather than “Dear hiring manager.” Most managers don’t care at all if you took the trouble to find their names. If it’s not readily available, “Dear hiring manager” is just fine.

7. That summer job you got fired from in college. One job that didn’t go well isn’t going to kill your candidacy. We all made mistakes when we were new to the workforce. As long as you have other work experience, it’s not a disaster. In fact, you don’t even need to include the job on your résumé, although if you do, be prepared to talk about what you learned from the experience.

2. Your résumé design. What employers want from your résumé design is a document that’s clean and uncluttered, easy to scan, not overly fancy, and puts the information we want in the places we expect to find it. Whatever design you choose that achieves those goals is fine with us.

Alison Green writes the popular Ask a Manager blog, where she dispenses advice on career, job search, and management issues. She’s also the co-author of Managing to Change the World: The Nonprofit Manager’s Guide to Getting Results, and former chief of staff of a successful nonprofit organization, where she oversaw day-to-day staff management, hiring, firing, and employee development.

3. Whether your résumé is one page or two. Unless you’re right out of school, it’s fine for your résumé to take up two pages. Consider this license to stop using small fonts and narrow margins to cram everything into one page; we don’t mind two (and would prefer to spare our poor strained eyes). 4. Your “personal brand.” Employers don’t care about your personal brand; we care that you do good work. The evangelists telling you that you must build a unique and recognizable personal brand are looking for a new concept to sell you in an overcrowded marketplace. Employers—the people actually thinking about hiring you—could care less. Do good work and build a good reputation, and forget the branding hype. 5. Whether your post-interview thank-you note is handwritten or emailed. What we care about is the content of the note. Is it well-written? Does it express enthusiasm? Does it build on the conversation we had in the interview? If it does these things, it’s done its job. It doesn’t matter if it arrives via a handwritten note card or in an email.

Community

College of Beaver County

Job & Career

Fair 2013

Wednesday, April 17

10 a.m.-3 p.m. Athletics & Events Center

CCBC CCBC Speaker Speaker Series Series Presents Presents

Cyber Security

Friday, April 12, 2013, 1-3 p.m.

Learning Resources Center, conference room 9103

Featuring: Scott C. Zimmerman, CISSP Information Security Engineer Leader, Computer Sciences Corporation

“How Small and Medium Business Can Manage Security Well On a Budget” and “How Large Environments Can Manage Their Security”

Drew Kleibrink

Mid-Atlantic Director, IMSM

“ISO-27001- (Information Security and Privacy) Information Security Management Model”

Free admission! Free parking! For more information:

Speaker.series@ccbc.edu 724-480-3552 Follow us on Twitter #CCBCSpeakerSeries

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