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NOVEMBER 2020 EDITION

RT BWELCOME TO

CONTENTS COMMUNITY

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

“I was excited to be back on campus! Little
did I know it would feel like an episode
from The Twilight Zone. I’m glad to be back

but it definitely has a
weird vibe now.”

Jonathan Torres

Program Manager,
Outreach and
Recruitment

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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
stepped up during these students each academic year. The award from
preparations, especially our
facilities department who the Department of Education is for $261,000
went above and beyond to
make sure that LSC-Tomball annually and will help fund personnel, student
was ready and safe for our
return. services and supplies, plus cultural and campus

trips. The grant supports

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 ed on LSC-Tomball’s campus.
Six sessions over one semester
LSC-TOMBALL CULTURE challenge faculty and staff to
look at themselves and others,
While most colleges and dinator III, joined together to often in deeply emotional and
universities are hiring a conceive, design and imple- conflicting ways. The program
for-profit business to present ment, perhaps the first ever, is now in its second cohort.
diversity, equity and inclu- home grown DEI certification
sion certification (DEIC), tailored to the faculty of their (DEIC)
LSC-Tomball took matters campus. Their inaugural cer-
into its own hands. Janie tification program was ac-
Filoteo, Ph.D. Sociology, tually an experiment. They
and Rene Arnold, Profes- were trying out techniques
sional Development Coor- that had never been attempt-

Dr. Janie Filoteo Rene Arnold “We thought the best way to address certification
on our campus was to really bring it home and
Professor, Sociology Professional Development Coord III make it special to LSC-Tomball. Every college has its
own culture, so Diversity, Equity and Inclusion looks
6 different depending on the campus environment.”

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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.
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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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OF LOVE The CALL of the Timberwolf - November 2020

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 Special Topics in Honors sections
opinion in it than most of the others. to support our students, such as a
Portfolio Scholarship and Transfer
Care to add anything? class, as well as a Leadership
Development section. Our Honors
I will be doing some more webinars College Leadership Coordinators have
in the coming months. Keep an eye created a Leadership Speaker Series,
out for them! for which they have invited speakers
from campus and the community to
ARNING speak on issues related to leadership
in the workplace. We organized
a mentoring system for incoming
honors students, so they have a way
of connecting to each other and
receiving support. 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. Additionally,
the Undergraduate Research Day
will be online, so presenters will also
receive additional training in delivering
high quality 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 when you work with
conversation because, as someone who was
Dr. Filoteo puts it, “pop trained differently. It
culture matters.” When was funny the number
Netflix announced a reboot of times Sean would
of the ABC family-friendly say, ‘Yeah, we don’t
show from the 1990s, do that in rhetoric’ to
Sabrina the Teenage Witch, something a sociologist
but in a darker, scarier, would consider.” When
format, Tiffee and Filoteo asked about this, Tiffee
knew they needed to chime responded, “Yeah, we
in. The result was an article in don’t do that.”
the peer-reviewed Journal of
Popular Culture titled “Yearning Dr. Sean Tiffee Dr. Janie Filoteo Filoteo and Tiffee teach a
for Yesteryear: Nostalgia and
the Politics of Sentimentality in Professor, Speech Professor, Sociology combined class of two Honors
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.”
[Click the photo to access the article] sections of EDUCH and are using
Both agree that the process
of research and writing is spectacular teachers, like Janie, the paper and their experience to
rewarding, but Tiffee notes, do incredible research as well.” help teach writing and the research
“It was the collaboration that The two would meet twice a week process as part of the Fear and
really made the whole project to write, edit, and compare notes Horror Learning Network. They are
worth it. We all work with from what they observed from the continuing their collaborative work
such amazing people and it’s series. “It was really interesting to and have a new project that they
especially satisfying to see write with someone from a different hope to have completed by the
discipline,” Filoteo said. “Sociology end of the Fall semester.

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

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The CALL of the Timberwolf - November 2020

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. Dr. Angela Bayer,
Patrick Gilbert and Clark Friesen went through the Rearch
and Development process and, as an online chapter, the new Director of Pharmacy
chapter began its inaugural year during the Fall 2020 semester. Technology, received
NSLS is a natural fit with LSC-Tomball’s Center for Civic Engagement the Texas Health System
especially for its potential to help students become leaders. Pharmacists (THSP)
Pharmacy Technician’s
Clark Friesen “We felt that we could offer additional Award at their 2020
Professor, Speech connections through our existing virtual conference. Only
programming, including guest speakers, one person per year
experiential learning and the Net Impact for the state of Texas is awarded this recognition for
program and our student members could “Demonstrating exemplary accomplishments which
take it farther with our Civic Engagement foster the advancement of patient care and/or the
Internship Program.” profession of pharmacy.” It is important to recognize
that one of LSC-Tomball’s adjuncts, Ann Marie
The chapter’s co-founding faculty members recognized the Paradowski, was also a recipient of this award
alignment with Dr. Lee Ann Nutt’s four values at the college: in 2015. That means faculty from LSC Tomball’s
learning, leadership, community and connection. Providing Pharmacy Technology program have won this award
Extraordinary Experiences for students is a core priority. twice in 5 years. We’re super proud of them!

“So far we have had over 300 students [LEARN MORE]
accept the invitation to sign up and
we hope to have at least 25 students Robbie Richard Rogers
complete the program this semester.” Accepted
Into Select
Dr. Patrick Gilbert Leadership
Professor, Governent Development
Program
The National Society of Leadership and Success is the nation’s largest
leadership honor society and collegiate leadership development Only 30 applicants are accepted into the annual
program and the only program of its kind to have earned leadership training program sponsored by Leadership
accreditation for its programming. NSLS differentiates itself from North Houston (LNH). The curriculum includes
traditional honor societies in that students must complete a leadership leadership skills training designed to strengthen
development program in order to become inducted. The curriculum a leader’s ability to achieve personal goals and
offers students the opportunity to develop many in-demand skills such contribute to the success of their organization.
as leadership, communication, and team building. 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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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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