The SOUTH ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT —
"[The] blog he developed was something that made the district better." - Tim Jemal, SOCCCD BoT President, 7/24/23
...“Grow up,” he said, injecting some more language that wouldn’t fly in public broadcasting. “You’re not children anymore. I didn’t mind explaining photosynthesis to you when you were 12. But you’re adults now, and this is an actual crisis; got it?”
Nye took to [John] Oliver’s show to teach his audience about global warming and its possible solutions — namely, the Green New Deal and carbon pricing (in his words, “when something costs more, people buy less of it. Safety glasses off. That’s it.”).
Nye appeared to endorse the trademark legislation proposed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), telling lawmakers they needed to do something and chiding those who have said the Green New Deal is prohibitively expensive. As he spoke into the camera, the globe continued to burn.
“There are a lot of things we could do to put it out,” he said. “Are any of them free? No, of course not. Nothing’s free, you idiots.”
His harsh tone surprised some — one viewer wrote on Twitter that he “just heard Bill Nye swear and it’s blowing my mind.” Another observed, “Global warming is so bad that it now has Bill Nye the Science Guy cursing us out to fix it.”
Even [John] Oliver, as his show ended, gasped, “I think we’ve all broken Bill Nye.”....
Normally the only contingent faculty career that could bring me to tears was my own, but the latter stages of The Adjunct Underclass: How America’s Colleges Betrayed Their Faculty, Their Students, and Their Mission by Herb Childress had my eyes filling sometimes with sadness, sometimes tinged with anger.
In earlier times that anger might’ve been rage, and more plentiful than the sadness, but there is a passage in the latter third of the book that struck me as true and I could not muster the necessary emotional resistance to be angry, rather than sad:
“There will always be teachers, sure. But the idea of ‘the faculty’ is as dead as the idea of coal; it’ll carry on for a while because of sunk costs and the gasping demands of those still left in the industry – but really, it’s gone.”
Looking back through my posts on this site I see a clear evolution in my own attitudes towards these issues. Early on I see someone eager to fight the trends, attempting to rally opinion around shared values and mutually beneficial goals.
Eventually, I came to realize that tenure was already dead. In fact, for most of us, it had never been alive…. (continue)
UCI Chancellor Gillman speaks at IVC 2017 Commencement
UCI faculty and staff received an email from Chancellor Howard Gillman on Monday, written in response to the shooting at the Poway synagogue. It begins:
"Last Saturday – the final day of Passover – hate visited the
Chabad Poway synagogue during morning worship service. In the wake of the
ensuing gunfire a life was lost, several people were wounded, and many more
traumatized. Like the mass shooting at the Pittsburgh Tree of Life synagogue
last October, this attack was a hate crime motivated by anti-Semitism, which is
dramatically on the rise in the United States and around the world.
One hate crime is one too many. It is troubling that so many
faith communities have been affected by hate. Some of these attacks span from
arson at a mosque in Escondido, to a temple defaced in Irvine, to three
historically Black churches burned in Louisiana. Such attacks – and others –
have a common purpose, namely to terrorize the targeted community and divide
our society.
It is critical that we stand together as a diverse campus
community while supporting those communities most directly affected by acts of
hate..."
After directing readers to on-campus resources and programs affiliated with UCI's Confronting Extremism Initiative, Gillman, a featured speaker at IVC's 2017 commencement concludes:
"I also urge our faculty in relevant disciplines to increase teaching and research on the rise of white nationalism and violent extremism in our region, our country, and around the world..."
It was, quipped red Emma, inspiring enough to forgo early retirement and keep teaching.
It was, of course, an example of forward-thinking leadership in a time of growing crisis.
Outside the Chabad of Poway Synogogue. The shooter, a high achieving nursing student at CSU San Marcos, had no history of violence and legally purchased the AR-type assault weapon used in the attack. The only indication the assault was imminent was an online manifesto he published shortly before.
Meanwhile, Turning Point USA seems to have established a regular presence at Saddleback College and has begun outreach efforts at IVC. Some of the materials used and distributed by them include:
When asked about the nature of Turning Point USA, the O.C. Human Relations Commission directed Rebel Girl to this article on the Southern Poverty Law Center website:
Read it and uh, weep. Or shake your head and sigh. Or do what Chancellor Gillman suggests: teach it.
That's all for now, folks. Isn't it enough?
Sending this one out to Gary.
No, that THAT Gary, the anonymous one who lacks the courage of his convictions because perhaps they are not really convictions but something much more sordid, you know what she means? Geez, an anonymously sourced paper wouldn't be acceptable in higher education anywhere but Rebel Girl guesses we are going for the lower education bar here. Oh well. Anyway, Rebel Girl means that other Gary, her most brilliant friend and recently departed. She loved him and Gary, he loved some Jonathan Richman.
Up here at the college with the inexplicably permanent president—17 years and counting—we notice things. For instance, we notice that we almost never see President Roquemore, and when we do see him, it's some kind of photo op designed to make him look good. Somehow, every story or blurb or pic that they bomb us with seems to be an opportunity to present HIM. See him, smiling. See him presenting a prize. See him receiving a check. See him saying stupid and clueless things.
Click, click, click. Make America Great Again.
Stern
Lately, we've been hearing good things about brand spankin' new President ELLIOT STERN down there at Saddleback College. He was bound to be better than that "hookers and drugs" fella they had before, and, sure enough, he seems like a big improvement. Unlike Roquemore, who's pretty scarce, Stern's all over the place, and he's highlighting the achievements of OTHERS. We haven't seen much of that up here in Irvine.
Here's a case in point. Below are the reports each president offered at the last board meeting (see agenda).
We'll start with Roquemore's IVC report. It's all about Roquemore, as per usual. Me me me.
It's followed by Stern's Saddleback report.
Very different, wouldn't you say?
"Not me. Check out what these folks have been doing!"
...It’s a topic that several presidential candidates, led by Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, have hammered recently as they travel the campaign trail, spurred by a report that 60 Fortune 500 companies paid no federal taxes on $79 billion in corporate income last year. Amazon, which is reported to be opening a center in an abandoned Akron mall that will employ 500 people, has become the poster child for corporate tax avoidance; last year it had an effective tax rate of below zero — receiving a rebate — on income of $10.8 billion.
“Amazon, Netflix and dozens of major corporations, as a result of Trump’s tax bill, pay nothing in federal taxes,” Mr. Sanders said this month during a Fox News town hall-style event. “I think that’s a disgrace.”... (Continue reading)
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MICHAEL REAGAN, SON OF RONALD REAGAN, TO SPEAK AT IVC APRIL 26
IRVINE, CA—April 9, 2019 – Michael Reagan, the eldest son of former President Ronald Reagan will speak at a special event at Irvine Valley College (IVC) on April 26, 2019 from 12:30 – 1:30pm in the IVC Performing Arts Center.
This event is being hosted by IVC’s Guaranteed Accounting Program, GAP4+1, as a part of the annual Business Leader Speaking Series. The event will benefit students in the Guaranteed Accounting Program (GAP4+1), a collaboration between IVC and the Mihaylo College of Business and Economics at California State University, Fullerton (CSUF).
Reagan’s one-hour talk is entitled “Success Comes from Failure,” in which he will cover how his personal failures have resulted in his success….
FOR INFORMATION:
Diane Oaks, Executive Director of Marketing Irvine Valley College
