Employee spotlight: Josh Moore Josh Moore has been at Victoria College since he was a teenager. Twelve years ago he started at VC as a student, and after taking classes with Bill Byers and Mary Mayes, he knew he wanted to be involved with sports. He met his wife Nicole when they were both students involved in intramural volleyball, and together they petitioned to start a club women’s volleyball team in 2005. Moore and his wife wrote the bylaws and raised funds for uniforms and equipment. “I love the sports program here,” said Moore. “Working in sports at VC has been my dream job ever since I started here as a student.” It wasn’t long before he was head coach of the VC Pirates women’s volleyball team that plays in the South Texas Club Sports League along with other two-year colleges in the region. Two years ago Moore also began teaching. Recently, however, his job description has changed slightly. He is now officially the Part-Time Intramural/Extramural Specialist assisting the head coaches of each club sports team with budgeting, administrative procedures, uniforms, fundraising, workout schedules, game
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Josh Moore is the Part-Time Intramural/Extramural Specialist for all VC sports teams.
schedules and high school All-Star games. “I really do enjoy organizing, and I think it will make things easier for our coaches and physical education staff, along with our students and coaches at our competitor colleges, to have just one point person at VC to contact about club sports,” said Moore. In addition to organizing all of VC’s club sports teams, Moore is also in charge of scheduling and promoting intramural sports. He will teach a tennis class in the summer and volleyball during the regular semester, along with continuing to serve as the head coach of the VC Pirates women’s volleyball team.
Student Services learn communication skills at retreat
KEY Center staff listen during the retreat on how to develop good communication skills.
How many departments on campus are Student Services departments? Ten! Personnel from each of these departments, along with staff from both the Calhoun County and Gonzales Centers and the Office of Instruction, met on Thursday, May 31 for the annual
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Student Services Retreat. The focus of the retreat was to help employees develop good communication skills and build lasting relationships. One of the morning’s highlights included a group activity where four “survivors” were given a plane crash scenario and asked to list the items they felt were most important to their survival. In doing so, behavior and group dynamics were demonstrated, but even as they learned about themselves and each other, the room was constantly full of laughter. “We got a lot of great information about our own personalities and how to deal with others,” said Sherre Clegg, Campus Manager at the VC Calhoun County Center, “but it was fun. We had a good time.”
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Darin Kazmir and Sherri Pall were co-presenters at the 2012 Annual Conference of the Texas Administrators of Continuing Education in Austin on April 25. Their presentation, titled “Tired of Being the Redheaded Stepchild at Your Institution? How to Get Your CE Programs Noticed,” highlighted VC’s integrated marketing approach to increase awareness of Workforce & Continuing Education programs. Participants learned about ways to keep their programs in the community spotlight and received several samples that demonstrate VC’s approach to integrated marketing. The presentation was well received, and they were invited to give the presentation again the next day. A number of other community colleges have requested additional information, including Central Texas College, Midland Community College and Tarrant County Community College. Darin Kazmir is the Director of Marketing & Communications and Sherri Pall is the Director of Workforce & Continuing Education.