July 8, 2020

A&H SPOT LIGHT

  • SUMMER QUARTER SYLLABI – At a timely convenience between now and July 15, VIA Email a PDF copy of your course syllabus to A&H@bellevuecollege.edu, please and thank you!
  • SUMMER OFFICE HOURS –Send your Summer office hours to A&H@bellevuecollege.edu VIA Email as soon as possible with available time to assist students in Canvas, or by e-mail, or however you plan to be available, please and thank you.

NEWS

Under the guidance of Governor Inslee and college leadership, Bellevue College will be experiencing intermittent furloughs totaling to four days in July and one day per month for the next following five constitutive months (nine days total). While it is our goal to minimize the impact on normal operating hours, you may experience a slower response time than normal. All administrative staff at BC, all classified and exempt employees will be on furlough and therefore not reachable one day per week. When reaching out to individuals, notice the availability within email signatures. We thank you for your patience as we continue to work from home under current circumstances and with less working hours available for our work. 

  • Human Resources – Furloughs, Shared Work, & Unemployment | SharePoint.
  • If your SAW account were a victim of imposter fraud, send an email to Joshua Tintes, HRBP.  
  • Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Regarding Furlough and Unemployment Shared Work Benefit | View.
  • Furloughed state employees: SharedWork Q&A | Click Here.

THIS WEEK

  • Wednesday, JULY 8 – Introduction to Grants | Join.
  • Thursday, JULY 9 – MCS Community Lounge: Tea and Chat | Join.

SYLLABI INFORMATION

  • Please send Summer 2020 syllabi to A&H@bellevuecollege.edu via e-mail. 
  • Don’t forget to mark the links “public”
  • See Below For Instructions: 
    • Making Syllabi Public; Go into settings (located at the bottom on the left-hand menu), scroll down to “Visibility,” and make sure the word “course” is in the box. Right beneath the Visibility box, check “Customize,” then the word “syllabus” should be showing, make sure the word “public” is displayed.
  • Please follow this link for Informational Technology Service (ITS, or also known as the HelpDesk). 
  • Visit the eLearning web site for recent updated links and info about the syllabus template. 
  • For any questions regarding the syllabus content, template, or links provided in the template, please contact eLearning.

FACULTY RESOURCES

July 1, 2020

A&H SPOT LIGHT

NEWS

  • Human Resources – Furloughs, Shared Work, & Unemployment | SharePoint.
  • If your SAW account were a victim of impostor fraud, send an email to Joshua Tintes, HRBP.  
  • Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Regarding Furlough and Unemployment Shared Work Benefit | View.

THIS WEEK

  • Wednesday, JULY 1 – Microsoft Training: Outlook, Follow-By Q & A | Join.
  • Thursday, July 3 – Independence Day Observed.
  • Saturday, July 4 – Independence Day!

FACULTY RESOURCES

June 24, 2020

NEWS

THIS WEEK

The WATCHDOG

FACULTY RESOURCES

June 17, 2020

A&H SPOT LIGHT

  • Hyesu Park’s new anthology, Media Culture in Transnational Asia: Convergences and Divergences (Rutgers University Press, 2020) is now available online. | For more information on Hyesu’s book, please Click Here
  • From the Chamber: Long Distancing | Virtual Concert

NEWS

  • Governor Gary Locke’s first day as Interim President at Bellevue College | Click to watch his first remarks to campus. 
  • COVID-19 Testing Locations for Folks Who Don’t Have Insurance:
    • SeaMar located 3801 150th Ave SE in Bellevue | 425.460.7140 to set up an appointment to be tested
    • ICHS located at 1050 140th Ave NE in Bellevue | 425.373.3000 to set up an appointment to be tested
    • Eastgate Public Health clinic |14350 SE Eastgate Way in Bellevue | 206.477.8000 to set up an appointment to be tested
  • Free Drive-Thru Testing Locations:
    • North Seattle| 12040 Aurora Ave N |Hours: 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. (Mon. – Sat.)
    • SODO | Location: 3820 6th Ave. S |Hours: 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. (Mon. – Sat.)

THIS WEEK

  • WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17 – Board of Trustees Regular Meeting At 2 PM | Join Zoom Meeting
  • THURSDAY, JUNE 18 – Second A & H representative for Faculty Commons | Wish To Vote
  • FRIDAY, JUNE 19 Juneteenth
  • SUNDAY, JUNE 21 – Father’s Day
  • MONDAY, JUNE 22 – Course Assessment over Lunch 12 PM – 1 PM | Teams Meeting Link

The WATCHDOG

FACULTY RESOURCES

  • BC Online Training Resources | Check out some of the excellent online training resources at Bellevue College! Click Here!
  • Collaborate And Create Amazing Graphic Design For Free | Click Here
  • Friday Yoga and Meditation Classes | Yoga and/or meditation virtual classes on Friday.
  • Human Resources Events Calendar. Click To Check Out.
  • Mental Health Resources | Click Here!
  • President’s Office Virtual Discussion Board | Join The Discussion  

June 10, 2020

NEWS

  • All employees will be required to wear a cloth facial covering or face mask while on campus. Exceptions to this rule include when working alone in an office (without interactions with others) or when in a vehicle.

THIS WEEK

  • FRIDAY, JUNE 12 – Weaponization of Whiteness – Second Session from 11 A.M.-12 P.M. Please email Christina Sciabarra at to register.
  • SUNDAY, JUNE 14Flag Day

The WATCHDOG

FACULTY AND STAFF RESOURCES

June 3, 2020

THIS WEEK

  • TODAY! JUNE 3 – Submit a Video for Virtual Commencement! Submit Here.
  • FRIDAY, JUNE 5 – Pride Cabaret Friday, June 5 at 6:00 P.M. Click Here to JOIN or VIA Email Tammi Doyle for questions.
  • FRIDAY, JUNE 5 – Nominations for chair elections of English, World Language, and Communication Studies programs. Please, be sure to check with the individual first to be sure they are willing to serve. Note that Current chairs can be re-nominated and elected. Please send Ellen Nichols VIA E-Mail your nominations for your program’s chair by Friday, June 5th. Next week we can explain about the voting. Please, note that this week we are only looking at nominations and all full-time and lecturer faculty in the program will be sent a ballot for voting.  
  • FRIDAY, JUNE 5 – Faculty Commons Council needs an additional faculty member from our division to serve.  This would be a wonderful contribution to shared governance.  Professional development is as important to us as we seek to continuously improve our personal work and our college.  If you are interested or want to nominate someone, please send Ellen Nichols VIA E-Mail your nominations for this position by Friday, June 5th. Next week we can explain about the voting. Please, note that this week we are only looking at nominations.  
  • FRIDAY, JUNE 5 – Faculty who were originally scheduled to teach on-ground or hybrid classes, please determine whether you will change your course delivery to all asynchronous instruction (our more traditional online course model where there are no scheduled class meetings) or if you will have some level of synchronous class time where you expect students to participate via Big Blue Button, Zoom or Teams, etc.  Also, indicate whether a webcam is required.  Work with your chair about submitting this information. Please complete the posting of your information by this Friday, June 5th.
  • FRIDAY, JUNE 5 – MCS Community Lounge: Tea and Chat is scheduled for Friday, June 5, 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. Join Here.
  • TUESDAY, JUNE 9 – HR Lunch and Learn: Food and Mood. The session will begin at approximately 12:00 P.M. Click Here To RSVP.

THE WATCHDOG

ADDITIONAL READING

  • Preparations Reminders This Time of Pedantic and Chaos | Click Here
  • Phase 1 Higher Education & Critical Infrastructure Workforce Training Restart COVID-19 Requirements. Read More.

THE BOB PURSER ART GALLERY

  • The Bob Purser Art Gallery will be posting virtual content in the upcoming months. The first series of posts will be interviews with art faculty about being an artist in these extraordinary times, major influences, interests, and what they view as the purpose of art.  Each questionnaire provided to a faculty member is broken into two Instagram posts, the first of which is life at this time. 
    • The handle for the Gallery Instagram account is: @bobpurserartgallerybc
    • Please direct any questions to Jono Vaughan, Gallery Director. 

FACULTY RESOURCES

  • Jessica with Packback is here to help improve student engagement. Packback is designed to optimize time and doesn’t require any sort of course redesign. Each term, Packback selects 3 instructors from the district to use Packback. Live sessions are every Thursday and Friday at 11:00 AM (PDT) for the next three weeks. VIA Email Jessica if you are interested.
  • What You Can Control: Stress Management | Join and learn about what we can do and during this pandemic. Click Here!
  • What You Can Control: Food for Mood | Join and learn what we can do and during this pandemic time. Click Here!
  • BC Online Training Resources | Check out some of the excellent online training resources at Bellevue College! Click Here!
  • Register for Microsoft Sessions Training :
    • Bookings | Office 365 & Online Collaboration | OneDrive |Power BI  
  • Friday Yoga and Meditation Classes |yoga and/or meditation virtual classes on Friday.

PLEASE NOTE:  Please follow this link for Informational Technology Service (ITS, or also known as the HelpDesk). Visit the eLearning web site for recent updated links and info about the syllabus template.  For any questions regarding the syllabus content, template, or links provided in the template, please contact eLearning

May 27, 2020

THIS WEEK

  • THURSDAY, MAY 28– Board of Trustees Meeting. The session will begin at approximately 6:00 PM. To look at the agenda and/or to join, Click Here! 
  • Register for Microsoft Sessions Training
    • Bookings: Online bookings and appointments ⇒ On May 29th at 1:00 P.M. – 2:00 P.M.
    • Office 365 & Online Collaboration: Working on the cloud ⇒ On May 29th @ 10:30 A.M. – 11:30 A.M.
    • OneDrive: File storage and document sharing ⇒ ON May 28th at 10:30 A.M. – 12:00 P.M.
    • Power BI: Connect to and visualize data ⇒ On May 27th at 10:30 A.M. – 12:00 P.M.

The WATCHDOG

THE BOB PURSER ART GALLERY

  • The Bob Purser Art Gallery will be posting virtual content in the upcoming months. The first series of posts will be interviews with art faculty about being an artist in these extraordinary times, major influences, interests, and what they view as the purpose of art.  Each questionnaire provided to a faculty member is broken into two Instagram posts, the first of which is life at this time. 
    • The handle for the Gallery Instagram account is: @bobpurserartgallerybc 

FACULTY RESOURCES

  • What You CAN Control: Stress Management | Join and learn about what we can do and during this pandemic. Click Here!
  • What You CAN Control: Food for Mood | Join and learn what we can do and during this pandemic time. Click Here!
  • BC Online Training Resources | Check out some of the excellent online training resources at Bellevue College! Click Here!
  • Phase 1 Higher Education & Critical Infrastructure Workforce Training Restart COVID-19 Requirements. Read More.

PLEASE NOTE:  Please follow this link for Informational Technology Service (ITS, or also known as the HelpDesk). Visit the eLearning web site for recent updated links and info about the syllabus template.  For any questions regarding the syllabus content, template, or links provided in the template, please contact eLearning

May 20, 2020

TODAY

THIS WEEK

  • TUESDAY, MAY 26 (SAVE THE DATE!)Virtual Town Hall for students 1 P.M. to 2 P.M. Guest speakers: Dr. Brenda Ivelisse and Rob Viens.  Watch in your inbox for more info.

The WATCHDOG

THE BOB PURSER ART GALLERY

  • The Bob Purser Art Gallery will be posting virtual content in the upcoming months.  The first series of posts will be interviews with art faculty about being an artist in these extraordinary times, major influences, interests, and what they view as the purpose of art.  Each questionnaire provided to a faculty member is broken into two Instagram posts, the first of which is life at this time. 
    • The handle for the Gallery Instagram account is: @bobpurserartgallerybc 
    • Please direct any questions to Jono Vaughan, Gallery Director.

FACULTY RESOURCES

  • Register for Microsoft Sessions Training
    • Bookings: Online bookings and appointments ⇒ On May 29th at 1:00 P.M. – 2:00 P.M.
    • Office 365 & Online Collaboration: Working on the cloud ⇒ On May 29th @ 10:30 A.M. – 11:30 A.M.
    • OneDrive: File storage and document sharing ⇒ ON May 28th at 10:30 A.M. – 12:00 P.M.
    • Power BI: Connect to and visualize data ⇒ On May 27th at 10:30 A.M. – 12:00 P.M.
  • Please follow this link for Informational Technology Service (ITS, or also known as the HelpDesk). Visit the eLearning web site for recent updated links and info about the syllabus template.  For any questions regarding the syllabus content, template, or links provided in the template, please contact eLearning
  • Do you have information to share that you think might benefit your division colleagues? 
    The weekly A&H Digest features “Faculty Resources,” for disseminating informative articles, workshops, and other events of specific interest to faculty.  Please send all info to:  Victor Sisavath.

May 13, 2020

THIS WEEK

  • REMINDER: Summer 2020 Quarter and Fall 2020 Quarter registration are now open!!!
  • SYLLABI– Please send the Summer 2020 and Fall 2020 syllabi to Janis Juarez and/or Victor Sisavath via e-mail or through the Request Center. 
  • Send ELI and all BaTS syllabi to Seda Markarova.  Keep sending the CANVAS links to Seda, Victor and me, the links are working out great on the A&H web site.
  • Please don’t forget to mark the links “public,”

See Below For Instructions: 

  • Making Syllabi public.  Go into settings (located at the bottom on the left-hand menu), scroll down to “Visibility,” make sure the word “course” is in the box.  Right beneath the Visibility box check “Customize,” the word “syllabus” should be showing, make sure the word “public” is displayed.  Your course materials will not be available to the public, they may see headings, but no documents or information is available for viewing.
  • Please follow this link for Informational Technology Service (ITS, or also known as the HelpDesk). Visit the eLearning web site for recent updated links and info about the syllabus template.  For any questions regarding the syllabus content, template, or links provided in the template, please contact eLearning

The WATCHDOG

  • The Watchdog – the student voice of Bellevue College, May 11th ed. Read up on the latest news which includes: Arts & Features, Opinions, Sports, and more.

FACULTY RESOURCES

  • Microsoft Teams Training
  • Register for Microsoft sessions training
    • Bookings: Online bookings and appointment
    • Office 365 & Online Collaboration: Working on the cloud
    • OneDrive: File storage and document sharing 
    • Power BI: Connect to and visualize data
  • Do you have information to share that you think might benefit your division colleagues?
    The weekly A&H Digest features “Faculty Resources,” for disseminating informative articles, workshops, and other events of specific interest to faculty.  Please send all info to: Janis Juarez.

May 6, 2020

TOP NEWS

Teacher Appreciation Week! A big shout out to all BC Faculties as we celebrate their hard work and dedication as always, expecially this week! Thank you!

THIS WEEK

  • Thu., May 7th from 10-11 AM | Integrated Student Supports (ISS) Spring Collective via Microsoft Teams
  • Thu., May 7th from 12:30-1:30 PM | Virtual Campus-Wide Open Forum with AVP for Effectiveness, Research, and Grants Finalist Samantha Dana
  • Fri., May 8, from 12:30-1:30 PM | Virtual Campus-Wide Open Forum with AVP for Effectiveness, Research, and Grants Finalist Joseph Wycoff
  • Mon. May 11, from 12:30-1:30 PM | Virtual Campus-Wide Open Forum with AVP for Effectiveness, Research, and Grants Finalist Cynthia Requa
  • Sunday, May 10th | Mother Day. Happy Mother’s Day to all mothers!

THE WATCHDOG

FACULTY RESOURCES

  • Do you have information to share that you think might benefit your division colleagues? 
    The weekly A&H Digest features “Faculty Resources,” for disseminating informative articles, workshops, and other events of specific interest to faculty.  Please send all info to:  Victor Sisavath.