♦ Tonight!! Tula’s Night Club. February 11, 2015. Join the Bellevue College Jazz Band, directed by Jim Sisko, at 7:30 p.m. Cover charge is $10. More information

♦ Tomorrow is the A/H Potluck & Food Drive – Thursday, February 12, 2015. Bring something that helps you create your own personal island of sanity in the cold sea around us. We will also celebrate “National Plum Pudding Day” & participate in the Food Drive. Please sign up at the following site: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/60b0b49a8ad2aa02-2ndannual More information

♦ Belletrist Deadline (extended) – Tuesday, February 17, 2015. Call for submission of art, poetry, and prose to Belletrist, BC’s online literary magazine. Belletrist features students, faculty, administrators and staff artistic accomplishments every year at:
http://studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu/belletrist/ More information

♦ Big Band Jazz Festival. February 6 & 7.  read more

♦ Belletrist Deadline (reminder) – Monday, February 9. Call for submission of art, poetry, and prose to Belletrist, BC’s online literary magazine. Belletrist features students, faculty, administrators and staff artistic accomplishments every year at: http://studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu/belletrist/   read more

♦ Tula’s Night Club.  February 11, 2015, Join the Bellevue College Jazz Band, directed by Jim Sisko, at 7:30 p.m. Cover charge is $10.  More information

♦ National Plum Pudding Day & Food Drive – Thursday, February 12. Potluck in the lunchroom from 11-2. Bring something that helps you create your own personal island of sanity in the cold sea around us. Please sign up at the following site: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/60b0b49a8ad2aa02-2ndannual  click here for more information

♦ Assessment, Teaching & Learning Winter Retreat. March 5-6, 2015, Rainbow Lodge, North Bend.  Key Themes: Fostering Sustainable Pro-D, Navigating the Post-Tenure Gap, Teacher-Leader Opportunities, and Faculty Success.  Read more

♦ Save the date! Wednesday March 11 Arts and Humanities Faculty and Staff will be dining together, viewing the current art exhibit in the Art Gallery and attending the  Opening Night of the Theatre Art’s musical  – Carnival..read more.

♦ Blue Thursday & Friday.  Support the Seahawks by wearing team colors or team clothing.  A&H group picture will be taken both days at 10:30 am in the reception area of R 230.

♦ Spring Quarter 2015 textbook orders.  Click here to read more information.

♦ Bellevue College’s Vocal Jazz Ensemble. Friday, January 30, 2015 http://www.bellevuecollege.edu/music/pacific-jazz-festival-2015/

♦ Jazz Band Festival.  February 6 & 7 http://www.bellevuecollege.edu/music/jazz-band-festival/

♦ Belletrist Deadline – Monday, February 9. Call for submission of art, poetry, and prose to Belletrist, BC’s online literary magazine. Belletrist features students, faculty, administrators and staff artistic accomplishments every year at: http://studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu/belletrist/   read for more information.

♦ Thursday, February 12, is National Plum Pudding Day potluck & Food Drive in the A&H lunchroom from 11-2. Bring something that helps you create your own personal island of sanity in the cold sea around us.
Please sign up at the following site: www.SignUpGenius.com/go/60B0B49A8AD2AA02-2ndannual
read for more information

♦ A reminder to faculty! (submitted by Maggie Harada)  Promotion applications (for Lecturer I and Lecturer II positions) are due Friday and should be sent to the dean electronically.

♦ Tom Hanks speaks to President Obama’s community college proposal and the impact of community college on his life.  (If you haven’t had a chance to read the article, make sure you read it, makes for a very interesting read) http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/14/opinion/tom-hanks-on-his-two-years-at-chabot-college.html?_r=1

♦ Bellevue College’s Vocal Jazz Ensemble. Friday, January 30, 2015 http://www.bellevuecollege.edu/music/pacific-jazz-festival-2015/

♦ The Student Government has opened a food pantry containing non-perishable food, easy-to-fix meals, and hygiene products. A student needing lunch can get something at the pantry, located outside the ASG Offices above the cafeteria, take the food downstairs to the microwaves, and prepare it there. We have needed this for a long time, and it’s great to see. Please pass the word along to your students. (submitted by Gordon Leighton)

♦ Looking for BC letterhead?  You will now be able to find it on the A/H Commons site for future use….click on this link

♦ Tula’s Night Club. Join the Bellevue College Jazz Band, directed by Jim Sisko, onJanuary 14, 2015 at 7:30 pm.  Cover charge is $10.  More information

♦ Call for submissions of art, poetry, and prose to Belletrist, BC’s online literary magazine!  Belletrist features students, faculty, administrators and staff artistic accomplishments every year at http://studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu/belletrist.  Our next deadline for submissions is February 9^th, 2015.  Please let your students know, and consider submitting your art, poetry or prose.  We also welcome video and audio submissions of music and performance art!…read more

♦ Established scholars and artists of all disciplines who are seeking a peaceful place to work or study can apply to the Whiteley Center, on Friday Harbor.  For more information, please contact Julianne Seeman, poet and English department faculty member, who recently spent time there.
Whitley Center web site:
http://depts.washington.edu/fhl/Whitley/

♦ Please send your office hours to Seda Markarova.  In addition, please make sure she knows your office location and office phone number too.

♦ Please submit your syllabi through the Request Center, click on the Arts & Humanities option, or directly e-mail Janis Juarez your syllabus.  For ELI, e-mail Bernadetta Titus.  Please check your syllabi for the following outdated links.

♦  Tula’s Night Club. Join the Bellevue College Jazz Band, directed by Jim Sisko, on January 14, 2015 at 7:30 pm.  Cover charge is $10.  More information

♦ On-line Class Evaluations – Click on the below link to access student evaluations.  Please note that the evaluations will not be accessible until after grades are due.

https://www.bellevuecollege.edu/classeval/educator/

♦ New Enrollment Procedures & Deadlines, Effective Winter 2015 – Valuable information for “Instructor Drop for no-show students” and “Late Registration forms.”

♦ Winter 2015 Textbook Orders (submitted by Janis Juarez) if you haven’t sent in your winter 2015 texbook order yet, remember to send it directly to Anthony Wellnitz via e-mail.  Please do not use the Bookstore web site.  Anthony’s e-mail is:  a.wellnitz@bellevuecollege.edu

♦ Winter 2015 Syllabi Since there has been no announcement for a new syllabi procedure from Information Technology Services, the syllabi procedure will remain the same for winter quarter 2015.  Please submit your syllabi through the Request Center, or send an e-mail to Janis Juarez with the syllabus as an attachment (Word or a pdf file).  ELI instructors submit syllabi through the Request Center, or e-mail to Bernadetta Titus.

♦ Arts & Humanities Commons WordPress site.  Save the A/H Commons WordPress site in your “Favorites” section on your computer.  Not only do we have the A&H Weekly News Digest archived, there has been information pertaining to daily operations added at the top under the tabs. https://commons.bellevuecollege.edu/artsandhumanities/.

♦ Happy Holidays – Enjoy Your Break! – next issue will be Wednesday, December 31, 2014.  Please send me (Janis Juarez) your news item by Monday, December 29, 2014

♦ Faculty Professional Development Day  (submitted by Nan Ma)
Please join us for the Spotlight on BC Writers panel on December 11 from 10:30-12:15pm in B101.  Many of our colleagues from A&H will be reading from their original work.

Panelists include: Sean Allen, Ethan Anderson, Scott Bessho, Jim Dicus, Tammi Doyle, Leslie Lum, Nan Ma, Natalie Martínez, Fernando Pérez, Aaron Reader, and Jeffery White.

♦ It’s a Wonderful Life with Scott Bessho
Scott plays the evil Henry F. Potter and various smaller parts at Kenyon Hall on December 5, 6, 7, 12 & 14 | Tickets: $18 Adult / $15 Student & Senior – available through Brown Paper Tickets …read more

♦ Entertainment Book 2015 – BC Music Department Annual Fund Raiser 
Cost is $25 (discounted price)
Seattle/Eastside & North Puget (or South Puget) combined
Available in multiple places:
o Front counter of Arts & Humanities, R 230 (8:00 – 5:00 pm)
o Performing Arts Office in the Carlson Theatre, E100 B (9:00 – 3:30)
o Music Students
o All fall music concerts…read more

♦  Winter 2015 Textbook Orders (submitted by Janis Juarez) If you haven’t sent in your winter 2015 textbook order yet, remember to send it directly to Anthony Wellnitz via e-mail.  Please do not use the Bookstore web site. Anthony’s e-mail is a.wellnitz@bellevuecollege.edu

♦ YOU ARE INVITED to the opening reception of ‘Falling’ Recent Film and Photography of Michael Moody Culpepper on Wednesday, December 3, 2014 in the Bellevue College Art Gallery, D 271 …read more

♦ Food Drive Donations – Cold weather is coming, and many in our campus community will need an extra helping hand to put food on the table.  Please put your donations of non-perishable food items in the barrel in the lunchroom (R240C) on December 2-3-4.  Students will pick up our items on December 5, 2014…read more

♦ Annual Pottery Sale – Thursday, December 4, 2014

10:00 am – 6:00 pm in C 120 A&B (Student Union) | This year Bob Purser’s “Western Boots” will be available for sale.  Bring your checkbook or cash (no credit cards) to purchase beautiful handmade items…..read more

♦ Access to LMC Kiosk for A&H Programs – submitted by Mark Storey
BC’s Library Media Center has been experimenting this quarter with handing over their window-front kiosk and front-lobby flat screen monitor for use by academic departments.
They have two-week slots open next year for departments wishing to take them over to highlight specific issues, or simply to show the BC community what their program is doing.
The world-renown BC Philosophy Department has stepped up to showcase “Philosophically-Minded Activists.” We have an interactive (quiz-style) PowerPoint presentation looping on the flat screen, related books and DVDs on display at the kiosk, and flyers available touting some of our department’s Winter 2015 courses. Stop by the LMC and take a look at what Philosophy has done with their presentation, and get some ideas for your department. Contact the LMC for additional information, or me (Mark Storey) if you want to hear from a faculty member how easy it is to work with our LMC peers on this. mark.storey@bellevuecollege.edu or 425-564-2118…read more

♦ “Evergreen Fall” Choral Art Concert
Friday, December 5, 2014; 7:30 pm | Bastyr University Conference Ctr | Price: $7 general public, $5 students, staff, faculty & military…read more

♦ It’s a Wonderful Life with Scott Bessho
Scott plays the evil Henry F. Potter and various smaller parts at Kenyon Hall on December 5, 6, 7, 12 & 14 | Tickets: $18 Adult / $15 Student & Senior – available through Brown Paper Tickets …read more

♦ Tuesday, December 9, A&H Potluck from 11-2 in the lunchroom. Submitted by Gordon Leighton and Katherine Oleson   Bring a dish that reflects your personality or your culture—perhaps a favorite family holiday treat.  Here is the link for the online sign-up: www.SignUpGenius.com/go/60B0B49A8AD2AA02-endoffall …read more

♦ Entertainment Book 2015 – BC Music Department Annual Fund Raiser
Cost is $25 (discounted price)
Seattle/Eastside & North Puget (or South Puget) combined
Available in multiple places:
o Front counter of Arts & Humanities, R 230 (8:00 – 5:00 pm)
o Performing Arts Office in the Carlson Theatre, E100 B (9:00 – 3:30)
o Music Students
o All fall music concerts…read more

♦ Reading Apprenticeship 5-Week Online Course – It is Well Worth Your Time! Submitted by Jen Anderson    All of us, as instructors, require reading in our classes – from textbooks, to assignments, to websites and items posted on Canvas. Yet how many of us know anything about how our students’ reading history has impacted them as readers? How many of us know and use strategies to promote greater depth of understanding of the texts we are requiring our students to read? If you are interested in making reading a more student-centered and meaningful part of your course, the Reading Apprenticeship Program is for you!

The Reading Apprenticeship Program, developed by West Ed, is a 5-week online course that requires 2-3 hours/week. You get to play the part of the student while learning and using a variety of strategies to make reading easier and more meaningful for your students.

For more information, please visit www.readingapprenticeship.org or contact the Reading Lab chair, Megan Hansen at megan.hansen@bellevuecollege.edu.
This program is time well spent in making developing strategies to make reading more relatable and accessible for your students. Engaged and persistent readers develop confidence and competence in the classroom.

♦ TONIGHT! – BC Jazz Combo – Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Directed by Jim Sisko; 7:30 pm in the Carlson Theatre; $5 General; tickets available at the door or though Brown Paper tickets 

Contact Lyneen Patnoe for more information at: 425-564-3114, or e-mail: lyneen.patnoe@bellevuecollege.edu …read more

♦ Student Poetry Reading
Date: Tuesday, December 2
Time:  12:30 pm to 2:40 pm
Location: C 120…read more

♦ Pottery Sale (click on the blue title for more information)
Mark your Calendars!!
Date: Thursday, December 4
Time: 10 am to 6 pm
Location: C 120 A&B (Student Union/Cafeteria)
This year we’ll be selling the “Western Boots” that Bob Purser made. The art faculty are glazing them and preparing them for the sale (a limited quantity on hand). Beautiful handmade items will be available for sale.  Please note: cash or checks will be accepted – no credit cards.

♦ Food Drive Donations – Cold weather is coming, and many in our campus community will need an extra helping hand to put food on the table. Please put your donations of non-perishable food items in the barrel in the lunchroom (R240 C) on December 2-3-4. Students will pick up our items on December 5, 2014…read more

♦ “Evergreen Fall” Choral Arts Concert. Friday, December 5, 2014 | 7:30 pm | Price $5 students, staff, faculty & military | $7 general public | Location: Bastyr University Conference Center, 14500 Juanita Drive NE; Juanita, 98008…..read more

♦ Call for submissions of art, poetry, and prose to Belletrist, BC’s online literary magazine!  Belletrist features students, faculty, administrators and staff artistic accomplishments every year at http://studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu/belletrist.  Our next deadline for submissions is February 9^th, 2015.  Please let your students know, and consider submitting your art, poetry or prose.  We also welcome video and audio submissions of music and performance art!…read more