RECOGNITION APPROACHES

Birthday Card from the College PresidentPresident Steve Mittelstet sends each employee a specially designed electronic greeting on their birthday. The e-card isinteractive and delivered via e-mail.

Birthday Card from Information Services & College RelationsEach year the Information Services Office creates an employee birthday card thatincludes a small commemorative item. In the past, greetings such as “You’re astar,” accompanied a specialty pen. Other itemsincluded stress balls, custom door hangers andThunderduck Post-It™ notes. This year, in the spirit ofsustainability, we’re offering a recycled cardboard pen that’s attached to a cardfeaturing a haiku poem as a birthday wish.

Celebrating youWe also honor our earth

Finding harmony.

A Happy Birthday haiku for

Roy Bond

This birthday pen is made from recycled card stock and sustainable wooden chips.

From all of us in Information Services.

Employee Engagement at Richland College

Longevity AwardsThe Exalted Order of The Snowy White Fillet celebrates employee longevitystarting with 10 years of service with recognitions for every five subsequentyears. Inductees into Snowy White Fillet are honored at an annual luncheon.

Honored employees receive:• 10 years: Richland medallion and the 10-year pin• 15 years: 15-year pin• 20 years: Choice of a tree on campus with a commemorative plaqueinstalled at its base with the Latin inscription, “Notatu Dignum” (of worthynote) and the employee’s name, and the 20-year pin• 25 years: Crystal box with Richland logo• 30 years: Framed photograph chosen from Multimedia Program and the 30-year bronze plaque displayed in Crockett Breezeway• 35 years: Engraved brick installed in Labyrinth Arbor walkway and anengraved brick for personal presentation• 40 years: Engraved marble bookends and a second engraved brick installedin Labyrinth Arbor walkway.

President Steve Mittelstet, left, honors Ron Clark for 40years of service to Richland College and the DallasCounty Community College District.

The recipients of the 2007-08 Innovation of theYear Award – ThunderBbolt Training project.

The Thunderducks start the parade, complete withceremonial regalia, from Alamito Hall.

Thuy Anh Nguyen of the Multicultural Center wasnamed the April 2008 Outstanding Employee.

EMPLOYEE RECOGNITIONEmployee of the Month & Innovation of the Year ParadesA staple of our awards approach is the “employee parade” for recognitions, such as Employee of the Month and Innovation ofthe Year. Employees parade across campus in ceremonial regalia, gathering additional employees and students along the way,to the recipient’s location. The honoree is joyfully declared and receives gifts such as movie passes, a plant, a parking pass,and a coveted Thunderduck mug. These recognitions are reported in the ThunderBridge newsletter to employees and friends.

EMPLOYEE RECOGNITION (cont.)Excellence in TeachingThis award recognizes the contributions of instructors in these categories: Full-Time Faculty, Adjunct Faculty, ContinuingEducation Faculty, and Others Who Teach. The Excellence in Teaching awards are presented at Richland’s annualConvocation. To honor the nominees, the RLC Instructional Television crew makes a full video production featuring eachnominee. The video is shown at Convocation to honor and recognize our beloved colleagues. The Excellence in TeachingAward winner is nominated for the DCCCD Miles Production Award for Full-Time Excellence in Teaching and the MinniePiper Stevens statewide award.

Professional Support Staff Employee of the YearTo recognize the work of Richland’s Professional Support Staff, the PSS Full-Time Employee of the Year Award and PSS Part-Time Employee of the YearAward are given annually. The winner of each college award is nominated forthe Districtwide PSS Employee of the Year Award. Nominees are selected onthe basis of outstanding job performance; interpersonal relationships; serviceto the college and District; special awards, honors and community service;and professional development.

Administrator of the YearOutstanding administrators are nominated annually on the following basis: thepositive effect the nominee’s leadership has on his/her work group, the college,and/or the District; the nominee’s contributions to the development and successof students and staff; how the nominee is a role model/mentor for others at RLCand/or in the community; the nominee’s contribution to RLC’s culture; and how

the nominee has exercised initiative and/or taken risks to continuously improve the college’s services. The Administrator of theYear award is presented at Richland’s annual Convocation. Campus winners are nominated for the District level award.

Jean Sharon Griffith Student Development Leadership AwardThe award for student service excellence, renamed the “Jean Sharon Griffith Student Development Leadership Award” afterthe untimely death of Vice President for Student Development Sharon Griffith in 1987, recognizes a person who or a teamwhich exemplifies the personal characteristics, exhibits the leadership qualities, and makes the kinds of significant contri-butions to the development of students and student success that Sharon did. The award, given at the campus level andthen to a Districtwide winner, recognizes those individuals or groups who will “tell the truth” in spite of the consequenceswhile remembering that we must also “warm the hearts” of our students and colleagues. The Jean Sharon Griffith award ispresented at Richland’s annual Convocation.

CROSS-CUTTING COUNCIL STRUCTUREThe Council for Community Building was formed in Fall 2002 and is designed along with the Council for Teaching andLearning to enhance ongoing college-wide communication among all divisions and work groups in Richland’s large, com-plex organization. Each of these councils sponsors a recognition program, as detailed below.

The Council for Community BuildingThis council functions as a forum to offer input and feedback on major issues and policies within the institution. Council membership iscomprised of representatives from various student groups and from all employee classifications and departments throughout the college.The college president and vice presidents are invited to attend the council meetings and take an active role in the work of the Council.Any member of the Council may be contacted for agenda items for future meetings.

The mission of the Council for Community Building (CCB) is to establish open lines ofcommunication among all those who have a stake in the success of Richland Collegeto develop ideas, strategies and measures to improve Richland’s learning environment.

Student Wall of HonorThe CCB recognizes and celebrates Richland’s former and current students thathave made unique contributions to Richland and our community. At a ceremonyheld each semester, honored students receive a framed photo with their stories onthe Wall of Honor located in Crockett Hall.

President Steve Mittelstet, left, celebrates with PSS Part-Time Employee of the Year Victoria Glass and PSS Full-Time Employee of the Year Phil Key.

President Steve Mittelstet, left, congratulatesStudent Wall of Honor recipient Alhaji F. Saccoh.

CROSS-CUTTING COUNCIL STRUCTURE (cont.)Fifteen Minutes of FunThe CCB provides fun breaks that last only 15 minutes, so that all staff andfaculty can find time to attend. They are scheduled on different days andtimes just after classes end, so that all faculty, staff and students can partici-pate at least once or twice per semester. The Council provides a sign to alldivision heads for their doors to close the office and invite others to attend(giving the time, date, place and description of the event). Fun break activitieshave included kite flying, parachute activities, finger painting, bubble blowing,hula hoop contests, paper airplane making and more.

The Council for Teaching and LearningThe Mission of the Council for Teaching and Learning is to support and enrich the learning cultures, climates, and con-texts throughout Richland College.

The Council for Teaching and Learning (CTL) functions as a forum to promote excellent teaching and learning practices. Italso recommends enhancements to the teaching and learning environments, and creates and nurtures links between allthose who support the teaching and learning process.

Members of the Richland College community are invited to attend the Council meetings and take an active role in the workof the Council. Employees also may contact any member of the Council for Teaching and Learning for input or information.

Featured Teaching and Learning PracticesCTL sponsors a program that promotes Featured Teaching and Learning Practices at Richland College. This program recog-nizes individual faculty members and shares their innovative and successful teaching practices with the Richland learningcommunity. Featured faculty members are invited to present their practices to their peers as part of Richland’s faculty andstaff development program.

OPEN-MEMBERSHIP COLLEGE COMMUNITIES

Richland’s UncommitteeThe Uncommittee is an interdisciplinary reading-discussion group(s) for Richland employees committed to the value of integrat-ed learning as a “humanizing process.” There is no discussion leader; all participants are equally responsible for coming to thesessions prepared to participate with questions, observations, comments. Although literary criticism and analysis are legitimateactivities in certain academic settings, these activities are not the purpose of the Uncommittee. Uncommittee discussionsfocus more on synthesis, rather than analysis, and more on the impact of the readings on the readers as human beings.

The Uncommittee's reading list for 2007-08 was The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls; Generation Me: WhyToday's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled – and More Miserable Than Ever Before by Jean M.Twenge; Three Tales by Gustave Flaubert; Faster: The Acceleration of Everything by James Gleick; The Secret Life of Beesby Sue Kidd; The Two Cultures by C. P. Snow and Stefan Collini; and Teaching the Trees by Joan Maloof.

GREENRichlandGREENRichland is a group of employees and students who believe in shared responsibility for the natural envi-ronment and in the potential for a community college to make that responsibility real, accessible, and reward-ing. GREENRichland partners with all Richlanders to develop and implement an action plan for movingthe college onto a path of environmental sustainability and for inviting others onto that path.

GREENRichland envisions a college community for which environmental sustainability is a way oflife for staff and students, a benchmark for decision makers, an emphasis for educational programs,and a catalyst for collaborative global partnerships.

GREENRichland’s mission is to lead and learn with students, colleagues, and global partners indeveloping practices, policies, programs and partnerships that promote a robust natural environ-ment and an abundant quality of life for future generations.

Students and employees take a joy break with a para-chute and a beach ball during Fifteen Minutes of Fun.

OPEN-MEMBERSHIP COLLEGE COMMUNITIES (cont.)

Center for Renewal & Wholeness in Higher Education (CRWHE Headquarters)CRWHE’s predecessor organization – the Center for Formation in the Community College, which later became the Centerfor Formation in Higher Education (CFHE) – was launched by generous funding from the Fetzer Institute, sponsored bythe League for Innovation in the Community College, and headquartered at the District Office of the Dallas CountyCommunity College District (DCCCD).

In spring 2008, a group of CFHE Distinguished National Advocates met in Taos, New Mexico, andrecommended that CFHE programs be continued in a broader organizational context to coincidewith a more comprehensive impact on the mission of higher education. The CFHE became the

Center for Renewal & Wholeness in Higher Education (CRWHE). Beginning in August 2008,CRWHE is headquartered at Richland College and is supported by the DCCCD and the

League for Innovation in the Community College.

The vision of the CRWHE cultivates communities that serve, where the balance ofbeing and doing is honored and the essence of healthy relationships to self, others,and the earth is sustained. The mission is the formation of whole people which isprerequisite to the transformation of whole organizations that strive to form wholecommunities.

Center for Renewal &Wholeness in Higher Education

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ON CAMPUS

Scott Dunn andRicky Hoyle fixing the fountain and Michael Chamberlin in the lake fixing the fountain!

All ballots are in and counted for ourEmployee of the Quarter

Fourth Quarter (June - August 2008)

Congratulations to Austin Longacre, Irrigation Technician II, as the Facilities Services Employee of the Quarter. Thanks for a job well done!

District Human Resources has notified that the Ad Hoc Job Evaluation for Austin Longacre was approved effective 06/09/08. Mr. Longacre's new job title isIrrigation Technician II.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Congratulations on completing the 10-Hour OSHA Class!

TOP LEFT: Mike Hau, Anson Ngo, Jone TsouMichael Brantley, Hong Tran and Terrick Tu.

BOTTOM LEFT: Roberto Manzanares andRon Woodson

FACILITIES SERVICES’ EMPLOYEE OF THE QUARTERThe most recent Employee Satisfaction Surveyshowed that Facilities Services staff desired morerecognition for their work. To respond to theseemployee’s needs, a Facilities Services Employeeof the Quarter award was created. The award isannounced and celebrated in the FacilitiesServices Newsletter and at the annual FallConvocation.

The text below, from the June 2008 Facilities Services Newsletter, is also in the image at leftin the “Congratulations!” box:

Employee of the QuarterFourth Quarter (June - August 2008)Congratulations to Austin Longacre, Irrigation Technician II, as the Facilities ServicesEmployee of the Quarter. Thanks for a job well done! District Human Resources has notifiedthat the Ad Hoc Job Evaluation for Austin Longacre was approved effective 06/09/08. Mr.Longacre's new job title is Irrigation Technician II.

Source: Campus Quality Survey, 98,00,02,05,07

Target Range > 3.15 - 3.50Performance = 3.43% of max. target range = 98.00%