Ohio Association of Two-Year Colleges

Conference 2010 -- Teaching and Learning in the Social Media Age
Mark your calendars now and plan to join us at Central Ohio Technical College on October 22, 2010.  Our conference theme this year is “Teaching and Learning in the Social Media Age.” Kim Goudy, COTC Professor of Business, is our Conference Chair.  Mark your calendars now and plan to be a presenter (see below)! 

Call for Proposals
Have an experience with Social Media you'd like to share?  Now is the time!  The conference theme is “Teaching and Learning in the Social Media Age.”  Email us your proposal before April 9. Proposals should reflect the conference theme, which may include topics as: 
-Opportunities for electronic collaboration        
-Changes to program design/delivery 
-Web 2.0
-Impacts on faculty load   
-New teaching tools
-Social media/social media marketing  

Proposal Deadline: Emailed by Friday, April 9, 2010.
Submit proposals to:  
Kimberly Goudy (740-366-9436)  kgoudy@cotc.edu

Proposal Guidelines  Please submit the following:
• Title and a one-sentence description of your presentation   along with the name, institution, address, phone number and e-mail of all participants. (E-mailed proposals must be Microsoft Word compatible)
• 100-word summary of proposal, linking presentation goals with conference theme
• Specific equipment and/or audio-visual requests
•Presentations are 50 minutes in length.  
Please note: presenters register at the full registration rate.
 

Teaching Awards--Seeing Double!
Rhodes State College made a remarkable sweep of the annual Outstanding Teacher Awards this past October.  Deb Geis, Nursing Instructor at Rhodes, won Teacher of the Year; and Judy Giffin, Mathematics Instructor, won for Outstanding Adjunct Teacher of the Year.  Congratulations to Deb and Judy, as well as all 22 outstanding teacher nominees, all of whom were recognized and celebrated at Rio Grande on October 16, 2009.   

Teaching Scholarship--Congratulations! 
The 2009 winner of the OATYC Teaching Scholarship is Professor Adrienne Cassel from Sinclair Community College. Congratulations, Professor Cassel! The OATYC Teaching Scholarship supports two-year college professors and administrators with teaching responsibilities at accredited Ohio two-year member institutions to develop projects that enhance teaching and learning in their classrooms.   

Professor Cassel's project is entitled, "Writing in the Weathered World: Using Place-Based Education to Improve Student Learning, Increase Environmental Awareness, and Foster Community Involvement."  This program proposes to integrate general education requirements across disciplines to create a real-world, international learning experience for first-year community college students that focuses on environmental awareness.  Professor Cassel will be recognized at the 2009 OATYC Conference at Rio Grande Community College in October.  She will be awarded the $1500 grant at that time. Professor Cassel will present her year-long findings during an educational session at the 2010 OATYC Conference at Central Ohio Technical College.

Journal
The OATYC annually publishes a refereed journal.  Please consider submitting your research and/or conference paper to our refereed journal.  Submissions are accepted year-round, and proposals are blind reviewed for acceptance.  Submission information is available. 

Newsletter
The latest newsletter, Spring 2010 comes out in hard copy in February 2010.  An electronic copy is available now.  The current issue of the newsletter focuses on our 43rd Annual Conference being held on October 22, 2010, at Central Ohio Technical College.

University System of Ohio
The University System of Ohio was launched in August 2007 to promote Ohio's network of public colleges and universities--which includes 13 universities with 24 branch campuses, a public medical school, and 23 two-year technical and community colleges--working in a collaborative, cooperative environment across the state. 

OACC
Information for trustees of Ohio's two-year colleges is provided by the Ohio Association of Community Colleges which was founded in 1993 as a forum for sound trustee training, communication, and trustee-president cooperation.  The OACC Faculty Symposium is being held on March 4 and 5 of this year in Dublin, OH.  See the web site for more information. 

OFSCTC
The Ohio Faculty Senate of Community and Technical Colleges, established in 1995, is made up of representatives chosen by the faculty from each two-year college in Ohio.   The OFSCTC, which meets five times annually in the offices of the Regents, provides the voice and perspective of the two-year faculty to the Chancellor and Regents on the relevant issues facing higher education.

AACC
The American Association of Community Colleges is the primary national advocacy organization for community colleges, with the mission of "building a nation of learners." 

Historical Slide Show
Please enjoy a short historical slide show of photos showing the growth of Ohio's two-year college system. This slide show was compiled for our 40th anniversary conference (2007) by Board member Vicki Rostedt and her team at Summit College of the University of Akron.