Announcements/Business:
- District Webinar and in-person event: they need more in person registrants - if you’d like to sign up do so before Friday at 8am.
- June 25th 9-12th is the Crow Hill Insurance shredathon. Go to https://crowhillins.com/10th-annual-shred-a-thon-june-5th-2021/ for more info.
- Local Haiti is putting on a program called Evening for Haiti on April 25th at 5 pm. Contact Pat for more info to sign up.
- Evening group will start meeting in person again, April 28th at 5:30 at Angela’s or Kristi’s if there’s bad weather.
- May 1st Wildfire Preparedness Day event at the Elk Creek firehouse. Serenity magazine has a really nice article out about that event.
- Food Bank of the Rockies grant was approved for the 285 backpack project. Once a month, 3rd or 4th thursday of the month they will send pallets of food for four separate menus for four weeks at no charge to us. It would really help through any connections Rotarians have to please let people know they can get in touch with Charlotte to get them signed up to get kiddos food on weekends during summertime. Charlotte just needs to put in an order by the beginning of May.
- Lee will be putting out a survey about getting back together for in-person meetings
- Angela: town hall meeting tomorrow night, get on and listen in
- Finn: Assistant Governors meeting happened yesterday, there will still be money available for district designated funds so if there is a project we need to get it reported sooner than later for approval.
Program: Jamal Bowen, First-Year Experience Program at the Community College of Denver
- Jamal Bowen grew up in Montbello in Denver and attended Denver Public Schools which shaped who he is today. Jamal graduated from CSU in 2013 and then obtained his masters in Organizational Management from Ashford University, School of Business and Technology in 2016. He teaches Business and Entrepreneurship at Community College of Denver and is here to tell us about the First Year Experience program. He’s also Morti’s nephew!
- The First Year Experience program at Community College of Denver is aimed at helping new students to be successful at CCD
- There are a range of students and backgrounds that can participate
- The program creates clear milestones to track towards to help with career exploration and study skills. Meeting students where they are and pushing them in a way that makes them successful. Break down a semester plan and helps them to “start here, go anywhere”
- Jamal teaches business and they had an opportunity to collaborate with DU. Some CCD students had never been there, and they were working on an event to present to the community and they were all very proud because his students stood out.
- Milestones are bundled into a course with a FYE professor that teaches with a content professor. FYE is there to assist and help out along the way throughout the course. FYE Course is geared at teaching study skills and career skills but counts towards certificate/degree programs so the content teacher doesn’t have to take time away from their content. aka business or sociology
- This goes a long way in giving these new students confidence which in turns sets them up for better success in school.
- They have seen the growth in their students, but the biggest thing is the testimony they’ve seen with their students.
- They are putting together a promotional video, if anyone knows of students who may be interested these are opportunities that are being provided to everyone!
- Go to https://rotaryconifer.org/ and click Downloads to access and download the Community College of Denver - First Year Experience presentation.