Bailey-Week 2-EMCC Counseling and Distance Learning Center

Activities:

• Attended Dual Enrollment/Dual Credit committee meeting.
• Spoke with Brenda Wilson; She talked to me about her work with remediation, students with disabilities, and her assistance with helping students find resources to stay in school.
• Brainstormed faculty handbook ideas
• Constructed outline for handbook
• Attended teleconference

Reflection:
    I attended my first committee meeting last week. It was long but fun because I was able to see brainstorming in a professional and developmental manner. The process was very attentive to detail. This week, the meeting seemed to still be swimming in the problems. It was interesting to see them divide up the tasks because they divided based on who had the best connection to resources to get information.
    It was a pleasure speaking with Brenda Wilson. She is a counselor in the Center. She helped me understand remediation because that's an area in which she works. She mainly works with remediation concerning the technical programs. She also works with Students with Disabilities by sending out letters to faculty, notifying them of students who need accommodations. She emphasized that need and also explained to me that she assists with finding resources for students to help them stay in school, whether it is some type of scholarship, funding issue, or tutoring service. I enjoyed sitting in and observing the teleconference. The rest of the week was spent on the new faculty handbook. As part of a project with the Retention Committee, EMCC is planning to organize a new faculty orientation. The committee has proposed to give the new faculty a notebook, organized with vital information they may need to successfully advise students, since many of the teachers serve as advisers to students after their first semester. The thought behind the notebook is that this will be a resource that helps all faculty stay on track and updated. It will create a unified campus between Scooba and Mayhew, which hopefully will be reflected during advising, thus helping students with any situation that may arise. I will be the one organizing this notebook, which will also be created in a file that is accessible in a folder on the intranet.
    Finally, it was proposed to me this week to possibly serve as a voting member on the new branding and marketing campaign committee. I am honored to be given this opportunity because it will give me experience with helping a college research successful marketing slogans and campaigns that we can implement at EMCC. I think this is something EMCC needs for effective recruitment...they need a brand...something that stays with enrolled students, prospective students, and alumni when they hear it.