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Re-Imagining the Learning Center Workshop February 27, 2010 |
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HartnelL College shall provide its diverse communities and student population with equal opportunities for educational access and success. |
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Hartnell ColLege Collaborative Title V |
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Presenters
Laura Hope Laura Hope has been a community college educator and leader at Chaffey College for the past twenty years. During that time, she has served students as a professor of English, teaching foundation, transfer, and honors courses. Outside of the classroom, Ms. Hope has worked in various leader-ship capacities. She has served as the English, ESL, modern languages, and reading coordinator, Puente English instructor and co-coordinator, student learning outcomes coordinator, and interim dean of language arts. In 2000, Ms. Hope was elected Chaffey College Faculty Lecturer of the Year, and in 2006 she was honored by Chaffey College President, Marie Kane, and NISOD as an outstanding educator and leader. The primary focus of her career has related to the Basic Skills Transformation at Chaffey College, which has garnered both statewide and national attention for its results on student achievement. She was selected from faculty to lead the implementation of the Success Centers and worked as their coordinator from 2000-2008. As part of her commitment to the Chaffey College and community college missions, Ms. Hope initiated a Success Center in the California Institution for Women in Chino in 2005 to support an Associate’s Degree program for female inmates. She currently serves as Chaffey College’s interim dean of instructional support. Ms. Hope was a contributing writer for Basic Skills as a Foundation for Student Success in the California Community Colleges, a literature review on effective developmental education practices, which informed a self-assessment tool to guide California’s community colleges in the basic skills efforts directed by the Strategic Plan. The publication recently earned the Mertes Award for Research from ACCCA and the Research and Planning Award from the RP Group of California. Since the fall of 2007, Ms. Hope has been working as a faculty trainer to assist other colleges as they develop their own strategies for improving basic skills success. She has consulted with dozens of colleges regarding academic support strategies, including Riverside Community College, Rancho Santiago College, LA Harbor College, Orange Coast College, and Mt. San Jacinto College. Additionally, she has participated in visiting teams to eight community colleges to evaluate the effectiveness of their basic skills programs. Currently, she is collaborating on a publication exploring interventions that support high school to college transitions. Ms. Hope is currently working toward a doctoral degree in community college leadership at Walden University.
Robert Rundquist Robert Rundquist has been the Instructional Specialist for the Chaffey College Writing Center since 2003. With nearly 15 years of experience working in community college writing centers—including time at Los Angeles Valley College, Los Angeles Trade Technical College, and Pasadena City College—Mr. Rundquist has developed innovative approaches to learning center services. In particular, he is interested in developing new types of instructional delivery modes that transcend the one-on-one tutoring experience and better mirror the process-oriented nature of classroom instruction. He has expertise in learning styles, online instructional support, and a variety of professional, creative, and academic writing genres. In support of the statewide Basic Skills Initiative, Mr. Rundquist has consulted with dozens of organizations and colleges on learning center pedagogy, including the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, Long Beach City College, College of the Canyons, Hartnell College, L.A. Harbor College, Riverside Community College, the El Camino College Compton Center, and as the keynote speaker at L.A. Pierce College’s 2008 “Student Success Conference.” He has presented at numerous regional and national conferences on learning center pedagogy and administration, including the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), the English Council of California Two-Year Colleges (ECCTYC), and the International Writing Center Association (IWCA). He recently served as the President of the Southern California Writing Center Association. Mr. Rundquist attended L.A. Valley College before transferring to the University of California, Berkeley, earning his BA with Highest Honors in English Literature in 1996. He returned to Los Angeles to do his graduate work at the University of Southern California, receiving his MA in English in 1999. |
