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Irvine Valley College forensics win national titles Speech and debate students are preparing for next week’s Phi Roh Pi Tournament in Woodland Hills. K r i st i n e Mar t i nez
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NUMBER ONE: The Irvine Valley College Forensics Team shows awards from March 23-25 Tournament.
Irvine Valley College’s Speech and Debate Team won two national titles at a tournament that took place from March 23 to the 25 at the University of Pacific. The speech and debate team of 20 students and 10 coaches were awarded the titles “2013 National Champion of Two Year College Tournament Sweepstakes” and “2013 National Champion of Two Year College Season Sweepstakes.” The tournament was held by the National Parliamentary Debate Association (NPDA) in which both two-year and four-year colleges attended. According to the NPDA’s official website IVC was awarded the “National Champion of Two Year College Season Sweepstakes” based on the team’s
121.42 cumulative points they received from a combination of four tournaments. Amongst the 197 two-year and four-year colleges that attended, the team placed sixth overall. “We teach public speaking here differently than anybody in the country,” Forensics Coach Gary Rybold said. “Which means doing a lot more speeches, having a lot more small groups and getting a lot more student engagement.” Rybold attributes much of the team’s success to the numerous amounts of practice each student receives in the program. The coaches yearn for all students’ communication skills to improve as well as their overall personnel. “We focus on life skills,” Director of IVC’s Forensics Edwin Tiongson said. “It’s about presenting [the students] and
Colleges to alleviate impacted classes Senate Bill 520 will force public colleges to give full class credit toward online courses. Vale r y Fregoso
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Saddleback and Irvine Valley Colleges had already been working on trying to deal with the bottleneck courses before the California Senate Senate President Pro Tem Darl Steinberg’s Senate Bill 520 was proposed to the California Senate on March 13. Senate Bill 520 is proposing to enforce University of California, California State University and California Community College systems to give class credit to approved online course providers to help clear the impacted classes. Steinberg is proposing the budget of $10 million to the UC’s and CSU’s and putting $16.9 million toward Califor-
nia Community Colleges towards this online education proposal. According to Dr. Kathy Werle, dean of Academic Programs at Irvine Valley College, these impacted classes would not be occurring if the Senate issued more money to the schools. “We have been working out this problem for a long time,” Werle said. “In the context of the budget
have been working on numerous of solutions to help with the impacted classes, even before the new Senate Bill was proposed. One solution they are proposing is to try to build a student-centered schedule. This will allow students to plan ahead the classes they need after they take their assessment tests. Through this, they can see the
“We are both colleges working to make sure students get through our programs.” - Dr. Kathy Werle crisis in California, lack of growth in money, and reduction of the work force, we have cut back the number of courses and sections we have offered, because there has been no money coming forward in the state.” Even though the budget has been low toward education, Werle said that IVC and Saddleback
needs for the classes prior to making the schedule according to Werle. Another solution is using massive on-line courses to help students prepare for assessment and placement tests. This it can help students skip basic level courses to help speed their completion time and to lower their cost of schooling. After
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getting the assessment data, they can plan for the courses needed. At IVC and Saddleback, they already have a high majority of their courses offered online. IVC currently offers approximately 10 percent of their courses online. “We offer 15 percent of our classes at Saddleback online,” President of Academic Senate Bob Cosgrove said. “[This is] one of the highest in the state.” Werle said that pieces from senate bill 520 already fit into what they are currently working on. “We are both colleges working to make sure that students get through our programs,” Werle said. “There’s a lot of motivation to do that outside the bills accountability.” Senate Bill SB520 is currently being proposed and amended in the Senate. The hearing date for the Committee on Education is on April 24. vfregoso.lariat@gmail.com
IVC to hold career fair
Senate bill 1456 makes its way to Saddleback.
Career fair open to students and public.
Jo hnn y w ilson
Val e r y F r e g os o
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Bruce Gilman, chairman of the Student Success Committee, revealed a list of six proposals which would put Saddleback on track to reaching the many academic improvements specified in the Seymour-Campbell Student Success Act during last week’s Academic Senate meeting. The Student Success Committee, formed in October of 2012, aims to localize and focus the suggested changes from the Seymour-Campbell Student Success Act to best fit Saddleback. State Senate Bill 1456, approved by Governor Brown in September of 2012, allowed for the creation of the Seymour-Campbell Student Success Act, which “targets state resources on core matriculation services that research has shown to be critical in increasing the ability of students to reach their academic and career goals.” (Seymour-Campbell Sec. 5. 78211.5). During his presentation,Gilman defined student success as sanctioned by the Student Success Committee-“At Saddleback, successful students define, pursue, and achieve their educational goals. A collaborative effort between all individuals in the college community actively engages students,
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WHEELING AND DEALING: Bruce Gilman discusses student success at the April 3 academic senate meeting.
helping them realize their personal and academic aspirations.” The remainder of the recommendations in Gilman’s presentation included creating an online “Student Success Center” as well as an on-campus facility, restructuring the teaching model on a district-wide scale to better fit modern learning methods, and establishing an Academic Executive Committee to spearhead these initiatives at the college. jwilson.lariat@gmail.com
The Irvine Valley College Career Center is holding their first career fair of the year on April 23 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the SSC Quad. There will be many employers attending with many part-time and full-time jobs and internship opportunities in areas such as customer service, real estate, entry level positions, and business management and marketing jobs. Some employers scheduled to attend include: the Art’s Institute, AT&T, California Highway Patrol, Cox, Verizon and the Irvine Unified School District. In each booth, employers will also be able to talk about job opportunities related to your field of major. There will be another booth provided by the career center to critique your resume. The Career and Technical education program from IVC will also have a booth to educate the students about their different certificate programs. “We are hoping that the student turn out will be good for this one, because we are only having one,”
Kay McDonald, Career Center Project Specialist said. “I hope they take advantage of this opportunity. In the future we are hoping to do a fair once a semester.” Walk-ins are allowed during the event, but McDonald does suggest students who are interested in talking to the employers to dress appropriately by wearing either a suit or dark jeans and a nice shirt. A representative from Mary Kay will also be available to do makeovers. To help prepare students for this event, McDonald is holding orientation sessions on April 16 and 18 at 1 p.m. In these sessions they will go over what to expect from the career fair, how to write your resume, tips on how to present your self and to help come up with your thirty-second pitch for the employers. You can RSVP for these orientation sessions by emaling kmcdonald18@ivc.edu. If you cannot make it to the orientation sessions, you can also make an appointment with the career center. This event is open not only to IVC students, but also to Saddleback students and the public. vfregoso.lariat@gmail.com
putting themselves out there, in such a way where an audience is wowed, the judges are wowed. Basically they are able to communicate with meaning, able to communicate with certainty, to be an empowered speaker.” The team is currently preparing for their next national tournament, Phi Roh Pi that will take place April 16 through the 20 in Woodland Hills, Calif.. According to Rybold, approximately 500 students and 80 community colleges will be attending. The Phi Roh Pi tournament includes solely community colleges in which a variety of speeches and debates will be performed; impromptu, readers’ interpretation, readers’ theater and speeches students have worked on and prepared all semester.
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Upcoming Events: Summer 2013 Registration is now available on Mysite!
Saddleback: Healthy Mind, Body & Soul: A Community Health and Wellness Fair A fair with educational workshops, free health screenings, and health and wellness community resources. Wed. April 10, 2 p.m.-5 p.m. Located in the quad 2013 Spring Plant Sale Thurs. April 11 - Fri. April 12 9 a.m.- 5 p.m. Located in the Saddleback Nursery Fashion a la mode Explore a day of fashion inspired workshops. Fri. April 19, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Located in the first floor, BGS building
Irvine Valley College: Sophomore Music Recital Fri. April 12 - 8 p.m. Located in A-311 (Rehersal Studio) “Noises Off!” Comedy Play A comedy about making a comedy. Wed. April 10- Saturday April 13. at 8 p.m Sunday April 14 at 2 p.m. Located in the PAC