Academic Senate

NORTHEAST GLENDALE ? Dysfunction and persistence are mainstays in Greg Perkins? responsibilities at Glendale Community College. He is a counselor for economically disadvantaged and undocumented students. They are endlessly hopeful, he said, so much so that despite his warnings, many students enroll in certificate programs that require Social Security, proof that is unattainable for the undocumented. ?These kids, they are Americans as far as they?re concerned,? Perkins said.

Charter cable topic of "Larry Zarian Forum" Craig Watson, vice president for communications at Charter Communications, and city of Glendale spokesman Ritch Wells will be guests on the "Larry Zarian Forum" at 7 p.m. Thursday on Charter Communications Channel 26. Topics will include the reshuffling of Charter channels and costs. The call-in number for the live show is (818) 547-3668. Students honored by college faculty Two Glendale Community College students were honored with Glendale Community College Faculty Awards for Academic Excellence.

Joyce Rudolph NORTHEAST GLENDALE -- Economics Professor Mark Maier, the recipient of the 15th annual Distinguished Faculty Award at Glendale Community College, will give a presentation at 1 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 18, in Kreider Hall. In his talk, "Are You Smarter Than a Monkey? Learning About the Stock Market and Other New Ideas," Maier will use a theory of stock market investing and his own investigation of classroom learning to look at how we learn new ideas.

Memorial service set for GCC professor A memorial service will be held for former psychology professor Jeanne Cunningham at Glendale Community College on Thursday, April 29, at 2 p.m. in Kreider Hall, followed by a reception in the Los Robles building. Cunningham passed away March 21 at her home in Westlake Village with her four children present. She moved to Westlake Village after she retired from the college in 2001. She had been a longtime Glendale resident. Starting out as a GCC student in the adult re-entry program, Cunningham went on to earn a bachelor's degree from California State University, Los Angeles, and her master's degree from USC. She began teaching part-time at Glendale Community College in 1973 and full-time in 1977.

Darleene Barrientos Contrary to popular belief, Glendale Community College math Professor Sid Kolpas does get more than three hours of sleep at night. It's hard to believe, considering 57-year-old Kolpas typically spends 12 hours a day on campus. His weekdays start with a 7 a.m. calculus class. Kolpas's daily schedule is subsequently consumed with his duties as vice president of the Academic Senate, director of the college's Alliance for Minority Participation scholarship program and coordinator of the monthly science lecture series.

Tuesday is the start of the first five-week summer session. But it is not too late to register for the second summer session, which begins July 3 and ends Aug. 4. Telephone registration for the second session will be held June 5 through 29 for new students. Continuing students and those who submitted their applications for admissions early were given the opportunity to enroll during priority registration. Classes are $11 per unit for those who have lived in California for at least one year.

Jackie Conley Jeanne Cunningham, former psychology professor at Glendale Community College, died March 21 at her home in Westlake Village. She was 79. "She was very independent," said her son, Donald Cunningham. "At a time when not a lot of women attended college, she went as a single mom." In 1966, Cunningham started out in the Adult Re-Entry program at Glendale Community College and went on to earn bachelor's and master's degrees. She taught for the college for 28 years.

Scholarships of $1,000 each were presented to four exceptional students at the annual Glendale Community College Faculty Institute Day event. Anna Sarukhanyan of Glendale is this year's recipient of the Homemaker Academic Award from the Glendale Community College Academic Senate. The scholarship was established by the late Jeanne Cunningham, a longtime psychology professor at the college. The $1,000 award is presented to a student functioning as a homemaker with dependent children while attaining academic excellence at Glendale Community College.

Longtime Glendale Community College professor and administrator Ron Harlan, credited with establishing the biology majors program and championing a Baja field station, is retiring after nearly 33 years on the job. Harlan, 61, bid farewell to colleagues and students Tuesday with a science lecture titled “A biologist reflects on our life and times.” “I really enjoy interacting with students,” Harlan said as he reflected on his career....

Longtime Glendale Community College professor and administrator Ron Harlan, credited with establishing the biology majors program and championing a Baja field station, is retiring after nearly 33 years on the job. Harlan, 61, bid farewell to colleagues and students Tuesday with a science lecture titled “A biologist reflects on our life and times.” “I really enjoy interacting with students,” Harlan said as he reflected on his career....

GLENDALE — Faculty associations and college superintendents are jostling to make last-minute additions to a bipartisan bill that's expected to pass the state Legislature and alter how students transfer from community colleges to universities, officials said. The Student Transfer Achievement Reform Act would require college officials to establish uniform degree requirements that advocates say would make transferring from a community college to a four-year university much simpler.

NORTHEAST GLENDALE ? Positive perceptions of the Glendale Community College Board of Trustees among campus stakeholders increased by 29 percentage points, according to a survey released last week. The survey measured employees? perception of campus leadership, governance and performance from fall to spring 2009. Positive opinion of the superintendent/president increased by at least 21 percentage points, according to the survey. ?The community survey is also a reflection of the mood on campus,?

NORTHEAST GLENDALE ? Dysfunction and persistence are mainstays in Greg Perkins? responsibilities at Glendale Community College. He is a counselor for economically disadvantaged and undocumented students. They are endlessly hopeful, he said, so much so that despite his warnings, many students enroll in certificate programs that require Social Security, proof that is unattainable for the undocumented. ?These kids, they are Americans as far as they?re concerned,? Perkins said.

SOUTHEAST GLENDALE ? The Glendale Community College Board of Trustees took its first major step Monday toward rebuilding campus trust following a breakdown in relations among faculty, staff and board members under the former chief executive. A report by two state academic organizations revealed early this year a climate of distrust among college stakeholders because some groups felt left out of decision-making processes for issues directly affecting them. The dynamic was a historic shift at the college, where faculty, staff, administrators and trustees had developed a system of shared governance that had become a statewide model, President/Supt.

NORTHEAST GLENDALE — Glendale Community College President and Supt. Audre Levy was singled out in a report by state academic organizations as a source of growing mistrust and division between faculty members, administrators and trustees, teachers said Monday. The report, commissioned by Levy and the college’s Academic Senate, zeroed in on the president’s leadership and communication styles as sources of dissension, faculty members said. Trustees referred to the findings last week when responding to questions about the administration during a candidate forum, where incumbent Anita Quinonez Gabrielian defended Levy as a “very capable person” but added that the Board of Trustees and the college’s chief have had “a stressful relationship.

“Genes: A Guide to Human Prehistory” will be presented by 2008 Glendale Community College Distinguished Faculty Award winner Eric Johnston at noon Thursday in Kreider Hall. Johnston has been an anthropology instructor at the college since 1992. His lecture will cover the tools that genes provide for understanding the distant human past, the movement of populations to the far reaches of the Earth and how this information influenced archaeology and physical anthropology.

Scholarships of $1,000 each were presented to four exceptional students at the annual Glendale Community College Faculty Institute Day event. Anna Sarukhanyan of Glendale is this year's recipient of the Homemaker Academic Award from the Glendale Community College Academic Senate. The scholarship was established by the late Jeanne Cunningham, a longtime psychology professor at the college. The $1,000 award is presented to a student functioning as a homemaker with dependent children while attaining academic excellence at Glendale Community College.

Charter cable topic of "Larry Zarian Forum" Craig Watson, vice president for communications at Charter Communications, and city of Glendale spokesman Ritch Wells will be guests on the "Larry Zarian Forum" at 7 p.m. Thursday on Charter Communications Channel 26. Topics will include the reshuffling of Charter channels and costs. The call-in number for the live show is (818) 547-3668. Students honored by college faculty Two Glendale Community College students were honored with Glendale Community College Faculty Awards for Academic Excellence.

AWARDS PRESENTED TO FACULTY AND STUDENTS The fall semester at Glendale Community College is now underway, and late telephone registration will continue through Sept. 13. Before the first day of the fall semester on Wednesday, events for faculty and staff were held, which included presentations of scholarships to students and a luncheon honoring a faculty award recipient. Two scholarships, sponsored by the Academic Senate and the Homemaker Academic Award, were presented during the Faculty Institute Day program on Tuesday.