2018 BOARD OF TRUSTEES ELECTION UPDATE #4 - First Forum for District 7 Candidates Scheduled for 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 28 at EFC Pleasant Grove

The first of four forums for candidates for the District 7 seat on the DCCCD Board of Trustees, will begin at 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 28, in the Community Room of the Pleasant Grove Campus of Eastfield College, 802 S. Buckner Road, Dallas, 75217.

All DCCCD faculty, staff, and students, and Pleasant Grove community members, are encouraged and invited to attend.

2018 BOARD OF TRUSTEES ELECTION UPDATE #3 - DCCFA Plans Candidate Forums in March and April at Four DCCCD Colleges

The DCCFA is pleased to announce plans to conduct four forums for the two candidates for the District 7 seat on the DCCCD Board of Trustees, Charletta Rogers Compton and Micheal Jackson, to engage with the community and the issues in advance of the May 5 election.

EDIT: Please note the changes noted below, as of Thursday, March 29:

1. 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 28, in the Community Room at the Eastfield College Pleasant Grove Campus, 802 S. Buckner Road, Dallas, 75217;

2. 7:00 p.m. 5:30 p.m. Thursday, April 5, in Room B149 at Mountain View College, 4849 W. Illinois Ave., Dallas, 75211;

3. 7:00 p.m. 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 18, in Room C100 at El Centro College, 801 Main St., Dallas, 75202;

4. 11 a.m. Wednesday, April 11 Tuesday, April 24 Thursday, April 12, in the Performance Hall Room M233 at Cedar Valley College, 3030 N. Dallas Avenue, Lancaster, 75134.

Faculty, students, staff, and community members all are invited and encouraged to attend.

District 7 has been represented by Charletta Rogers Compton since 2000. Trustee Compton also has served as Chair of the Board since June 2014. Micheal Jackson previously served as vice president of instruction at El Centro College.

This map shows the locations of all seven DCCCD Board Districts. This link can be used to find voting precinct information, and DCCCD Trustee District, for all residents of Dallas County.

Early voting will be available Monday, April 23 through Tuesday, May 1.

Tuesday, April 24, is the last day applications for early voting by mail are accepted by the Dallas County elections department.

You can obtain a voter registration application at this link.

District Web Services Seeks Faculty Input on New Browsable Class Schedule

District Web Services is working on a new Browsable Class Schedule. They are asking for faculty input, suggestions, and feedback on what we think of the prototype. They have set up a test environment where faculty can explore and formulate suggestions for further improvement.

If you are interested in evaluating the Browsable Class Schedule environment, please see below. We know Spring Break is upon us so the cutoff date is March 28.

The test site is at (https://www1.dcccd.edu/Demos/BCS/) . You are welcome to comment on:
Functionality
Look and Feel
Data Integrity
Anything else

Provide your feedback by using this link:

https://forms.dcccd.edu/WES/Feedback/pages/feedback.aspx

SECOND REMINDER: Please Participate in Part 2 of the DCCFA Climate Survey by Friday, March 9

Every two years the DCCFA gathers feedback from members through a Climate Survey. Many of you took Part 1 of the Climate Survey in Fall 2017 to convey attitudes on controversial issues such as compensation. We thank you for your input, as it has helped inform and shape our ongoing conversations with our college and district leadership in our shared governance model.

Now we are conducting Part 2 of the Climate Survey, which includes the ongoing questions that are asked every two years, in the Spring semester of even numbered years. The questions are adapted from the American Association of Community Colleges “Competencies for Community College Leaders.” The questions should take no more than 10 minutes to complete. Your participation helps us represent your interests. The survey is housed on a web server owned and operated by a DCCCD faculty member, and only the cumulative results are shared, so your responses are anonymous.

As has been practice for each previous administration of the climate survey, your faculty association president will share the quantitative results with you and your College President, and the DCCFA Faculty Council will share the results with the Chancellor.

Please take the time to provide your feedback by clicking on the link below to complete the survey before Friday, March 9, 2018:

http://webteched.com/FacultyEvaluation2018Part2.aspx

Please note that recent rain events and power and internet service outages - including those that may not affect your home or campus, but rather could affect telecommunications equipment somewhere between your computer and where the survey server is located - may sporadically interrupt one's ability to complete the Climate Survey. To minimize possible disruptions, please plan to take the complete survey as soon as you click the survey link.