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NOVEMBER 2020 EDITION

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4 A focused, concerted effort
6 for a safe Return To Building
8 for students and faculty.
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CONNECTION
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Introducing a certification
program tailor-made for
LSC-Tomball faculty and staff.

LEARNING

A labor of love that played
a crucial role preparing for
the new normal.

LEADERSHIP

Professors collaborate over
Sabrina the Witch and Pop
Culture in the classoom.

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› Return To Campus CO
An Enormous Accomplishment
“We had to confr
While Fall 2020 will in no way
resemble a normal semester, details so we co
the ability to provide face
to face classes for our stud- Dr. Lee Ann N
ents and work together again
on campus is a positive step “Although I enjoyed the extra time at home with my
forward. Many people work- family, I had multiple outfits laid out for my first week
ed very hard to get our cam back on campus. It felt like high school!
pus ready by creating I was mostly glad to return to some
helpful resources for sense of what used to be normal.”
those coming to
college facilities. Christi Biggers

Division Operations Specialist

“Thoughts of returning caused a stir
of emotions. However, the joy of
seeing students and colleagues in-
person again calmed any qualms.”

Jackie Shepherd

Division Administrative Assistant II,TB President Office

“Initially I was nervous and a little apprehensive about
returning to the campus, but seeing friendly faces again
made me realize how much I had missed the interaction

with the students, staff and faculty.” Laurie Taylor

Administrative Assistant, Student Success

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OMMUNITY

ront a myriad of complex Renewal of TRiO Grant
Rescues Low Income Students
ould open the doors...”
Nutt, President, LSC-Tomball The TRiO Student Support Services grant was

We created the Back to the renewed for another five years at LSC-Tomball.
Pack Web page for students
and employees. The online This is a program with which we’ve seen great
guide includes an extensive
interactive handbook success and we are thrilled that we will have the
containing all the information
one needs for a safe return opportunity to continue to intrusively advise 140 ›
to building. Many people students each academic year. The award from
stepped up during these the Department of Education is for $261,000
preparations, especially our annually and will help fund personnel, student
facilities department who services and supplies, plus cultural and campus
went above and beyond to
make sure that LSC-Tomball trips. The grant supports
was ready and safe for our
return. first generation, low

income students, as

well as students with

documented disabilities.

Because it is federally

funded, it serves students

who are U.S. citizens

or permanent residents.

Dr. Emmitt Carter This renewal provides
Manager, TRiO
much-needed security for
current TRIO students,

staff, and their families. A key component of TRIO

is the family atmosphere and to provide, through

our support, stability and a sense of belonging.

Tomball Regional Health
FounSdtautdieonntGErxapnetriFeanccielistates

The TRHF lifePATH® grant of $122,857
will fund a wraparound support coach and
Academic Strategist for another year. The
Academic Strategist helps students transition
to higher levels of independence. The
Wraparound Support Coach provides one-

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HOMEGROWN CERTIFICATION CON

DESIGNED TO ALIGN WITH on LSC-Tomball’s campus. Six
sessions over one semester
LSC-TOMBALL CULTURE challenged faculty and staff to
look at themselves and others,
› While most college and dinator III, joined together often in deeply emotional and
universities are hiring a to conceive, design and conflicting ways.
for-profit business to present implement, perhaps the first
diversity, equity and inclu- ever, home grown DEI certifi- (DEIC)
sion certification (DEIC), cation tailored to the faculty
LSC-Tomball took matters of their campus. Their inau-
into its own hands. Janie gural certification program
Filoteo, Ph.D. Sociology, was actually an experiment.
and Rene Arnold, Profes- They were trying out stuff that
sional Development Coor- had never been attempted

“We thought the best way to address certification
on our campus was to really bring it home and
make it special to LSC-Tomball. Every college has its
own culture, so Diversity, Equity and Inclusion looks
different depending on the campus environment.”

JANIE FILOTEO RENE ARNOLD [LEARN MORE]
Professor, Sociology Professional Development Coord III

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NNECTION

CRITICAL ›

CONVERSATIONS

SPEAKERS SERIES

Presented by LSC-Tomball Office of Diversity & Inclusion

To foster an inclusive and eq- The purpose of the Critical JEREMY KIRK
uitable community, we must Conversations Speaker Series is
continue to learn, grow and to provide opportunities to learn Director, Diversity and Inclusion
challenge our own worldview about local and global issues
in light of others. By doing so, and to offer participation activ- standing and thought processes
we’re able to truly access the ities that affect positive change. behind the topics. Engaging
power of many diverse expe- Critical Conversations is a in conversations about racial
equity and social justice can be
uncomfortable, but the conver-

riences that comprise our col- model for facilitating dialogues sation is required to promote a
lege. As LSC-Tomball builds an that will bring to the surface healthy dialogue, find common
increasingly diverse community, conflicting ideas and beliefs ground, and, more importantly,
we are committed to mitigating related to inequalities that can share ideas and resources to
biases and creating an environ- often activate tension. Partic- solve problems.
ment that supports, respects and ipation and feedback allows
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HARLAN’S LABOR O

› What brought about the creation of
the D2L training series?

Kentrie LeDee Fontenot, Director of COTE,
asked me to deliver some D2L training
for Faculty Return Week. She had been
asked by faculty to have the various sup-
port resources consolidated for them and
presented to them, a guidance she passed
on to me. They were initially only going to
be four—one topic for each day of Faculty
Return Week. But I wanted to enlarge the
selections, so I made it two per day.

How did you come up

with the topics? Harlan Williams
Online Instructional Designer
I work for LSC-On- & D2L Support
line and there is an

instructional design- LEA
er assigned to each
campus, and we communicate with each
other often. I initially polled my colleagues for

ideas, which were primarily centered on D2L

support. But I wanted to expand my training

offerings, to go beyond the limits of just D2L, and include broader topics

of instructional design.

How did you come up with the content?

Each webinar is a PowerPoint I’ve developed. These presentations are primarily
based upon the job aids in the Virtual Teaching Assistance Center (VTAC) knowledge
base, albeit expanded and fleshed out with original research and experience.

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HONORS COLLEGE

EXCELS

IN NEW NORMAL

Any especially interesting Since Honors classes have always
about one of them? been face to face, the move to a
hybrid format is new for LSC-Tomball
They are all topics that interest me! Honors College students and we’ve
That’s the joy of developing your own taken significant steps to mitigate
curriculum! That said, my favorite is the change. In response to the
“Designing For Disaster”, which has changes, we have implemented new
much more of my own professional
opinion in it than most of the others. ›Special Topics in Honors sections

Care to add anything? to support our students, such as a
Portfolio Scholarship and Transfer
I will be doing some more webinars class, as well as a Leadership
in the coming months. Keep an eye Development section. Our Honors
out for them! College Leadership Coordinators
have created a Leadership Speaker
ARNING Series, where they have invited
speakers from campus and the
Thanks to the new normal, we were unable community to speak on issues related
to visit in-person with Harlan. However, to leadership in the workplace.
he graciously consented to participate by We organized a mentoring system
email. So we sent him a list of questions for incoming honors students, so
and his answers were just what we were they have a way of connecting to
looking for. So without any editing here each other and receiving support.
are his candid responses. The Honors faculty has stepped
up and are doing an amazing
job connecting with students in an
online learning environment. The
Honors College is still hosting the
same events, but workshops and
conference are virtual. The Honors
Undergraduate Research Day will
be online and will require some
additional training on how to give
virtual presentations.

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LEADERSHIP

Yearning for Yesteryear: Nostalgia and the Politics of
Sentimentality in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

Drs. Sean Tiffee and Janie Filoteo have long been fans of popular culture and its ability to act as
a barometer for the society that produces it. It is not uncommon for students to walk past them

debating Kim Wexler’s fate (Better Call Saul) or the significance of time loops in The Good Place.

› In fact, it isn’t uncommon for very apparent
students to eagerly join in the
conversation because, as when you work with
Dr. Filoteo puts it, “pop
culture matters.” When someone who was
Netflix announced a reboot
of the ABC family-friendly trained differently. It
show from the 1990s,
Sabrina the Teenage Witch, was funny the number
but in a darker, scarier,
format, Tiffee and Filoteo of times Sean would
knew they needed to chime
in. The result was an article in say, ‘yeah we don’t
the peer-reviewed Journal of
Popular Culture titled “Yearning do that in rhetoric’ to
for Yesteryear: Nostalgia and
the Politics of Sentimentality in something a Sociologist
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.”
would consider.” When
Both agree that the process
of research and writing is asked about this, Tiffee
rewarding, but Tiffee notes,
“It was the collaboration that responded, “Yeah, we
really made the whole project
worth it. We all work with don’t do that.”
such amazing people and it’s
especially satisfying to see Filoteo and Tiffee teach a

Sean Tiffee Janie Filoteo combined class of two Honors
Professor, Speech Professor, Sociology sections of EDUCH and are using
[Click the covers to access the article]
the paper and their experience

spectacular teachers, like Janie, to help teach writing and the
do incredible research as well.” research process as part of
The two would meet twice a week the Fear and Horror Learning
to write, edit, and compare notes Network. They are continuing
from what they observed from the their collaborative work and have
series. “It was really interesting to a new project that they hope to
write with someone from a different have completed by the end of the
discipline,” Filoteo said. “Sociology Fall semester.

and Communication Studies are VIEW TRAILER
similar, but the differences become

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LSC-TOMBALL ANNOUNCES NEW LSC-Tomball Pharmacy
STUDENT ORGANIZATION Tech Wins Statewide
Award...Again!
The drive that brought a National Society of Leadership Success
(NSLS) to LSC-Tomball began in February 2020. Patrick Gilbert Angela Bayer,
and Clark Friesen went through the RDA process and, as an
online chapter, the new chapter began its inaugural year during Director of Pharmacy
the Fall 2020 semester. NSLS is a natural fit with LSC-Tomball’s Technology, received
Center for Civic Engagement especially for its potential to help the Texas Health System
students become leaders. Pharmacists (THSP)

Clark Friesen “We felt that we could offer additional ›Pharmacy Technician’s
Professor, Speech connections through our existing
programming, including guest speakers, Award at their 2020
experiential learning and the Net Impact virtual conference. Only
program and our student members could one person per year
take it farther with our Civic Engagement for the state of Texas is awarded this recognition for
Internship Program.” “Demonstrating exemplary accomplishments which
foster the advancement of patient care and/or the
The chapter’s co-founding faculty members recognized the profession of pharmacy”. It is important to recognize
alignment with LSC-Tomball President, Dr. Nutt’s, four values at that one of LSC-Tomball’s adjuncts, Ann Marie
the college: learning, leadership, community and connection. Paradowski, was also a recipient of this award
Providing Extraordinary Experiences for students is a core priority. in 2015. That means faculty from LSC Tomball’s
Pharmacy Technology program have won this award
“So far we have had over 300 Patrick Gilbert twice in 5 years. We’re super proud of them!
students accept the invitation to sign Professor, Governent
up and we hope to have at least 25 [LEARN MORE]
students complete the program this
semester.” Robbie Richard Rogers
Accepted
The National Society of Leadership and Success is the nation’s largest Into Select
leadership honor society and collegiate leadership development Leadership
program and the only program of its kind to have earned Development
accreditation for its programming. NSLS differentiates itself from Program
traditional honor societies in that students must complete a leadership
development program in order to become inducted. The curriculum Only 30 applicants are accepted into the annual
offers students the opportunity to develop many in-demand skills such leadership training program sponsored by Leadership
as leadership, communication, and team building. North Harris (LNH). The curriculum includes leadership
skills training designed to strengthen a leader’s
ability to achieve personal goals and contribute
to the success of their organization. Rogers leads
LSC-Tomball’s Extended Learning Center which helps
students become independent learners by providing
tutoring and other academic support services.

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COMMUNITY Continued from page 5

› on-one support to students in Contact: ›
typical college classes and
degree programs who need Lone Star College-Tomball
to adjust to the higher levels Office of the President
of expected independence in 281-357-3755
those courses.
Email
The TRHF Health and Science Lonestar.edu/Tomball-President
Equipment grant, awarded
through the LSC Foundation Follow Dr. Lee Ann Nutt on Twitter
will provide $101,840
in funding for the Surgical @NuttsForTomball
Technology labs to purchase
equipment for student skill Published by
development. For the Nursing labs, the grant will go LSC-Tomball College Relations Department
toward purchasing and upgrading manikins, a birthing
manikin, a birthing bed, and IV infusion pumps. Jennifer Richardson
Director of Communications & Media
[email protected]

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