{"id":8021,"date":"2016-05-09T12:05:23","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T16:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/new-student-orientation-open-forums-scheduled\/"},"modified":"2016-05-09T12:05:23","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T16:05:23","slug":"new-student-orientation-open-forums-scheduled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/new-student-orientation-open-forums-scheduled\/","title":{"rendered":"New Student Orientation open forums scheduled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A message from the New Student Orientation Task Force:<\/p>\n<p>The New Student Orientation (NSO) Task Force is charged with evaluating the orientation process from the students&#8217; perspective and providing recommendations to improve the student experience. (See the <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/presidents-february-report-to-the-board-of-trustees\/\" target=\"_blank\">Campus Chronicle post<\/a> describing President Matonak&#8217;s creation of the task force.)<\/p>\n<p>We welcome input consistent with our charge and invite the campus to comment during several open forums scheduled in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p>There are two options for commenting:<br \/>\n1. Attend one of the public open forums by selecting a date and time convenient to you.<br \/>\n2. If you are unable to attend, submit comments via an online form. Comments will be read aloud by a task force member during a designated period during one of the open forums.<\/p>\n<p>A five-minute comment period will be provided or 650-word written statement may be submitted. Additional forums may be scheduled if the requests for comment exceed the allocated times available in the three open forums.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Open forums are scheduled on<\/strong>:<br \/>\n<strong>Monday, May 16 from 11 a.m. &#8211; 1 p.m.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Friday, Sept. 9 from noon &#8211; 2 p.m.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Monday, Sept. 12 from 2 &#8211; 4 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All forums will be held in the Marvin Library Learning Commons multipurpose room (MRV235) and are open to the campus community. Those attending may bring a brown bag lunch or beverage.<\/p>\n<p>Individuals may request time to speak at the May 16 open forum or provide comments which will be read on their behalf. Use this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/r\/HMJHLJJ\" target=\"_blank\">online form<\/a> to request a comment time or to submit comments:\u00a0<strong>Requests for comment (in person or written) at the May 16 forum must be received by noon on Friday, May 13<\/strong>. Schedules to comment at the September forums will be made available soon.<\/p>\n<p>The task force co-chairs will report on the group&#8217;s progress to the President and at Academic Senate meetings with the intention of completing recommendations in Fall 2016. Updates will be posted in the Campus Chronicle. (Meeting minutes are attached <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Combined-Minutes.pdf\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>David Clickner and Ann Geisendorfer, Co-chairs<br \/>\nDoug Baxter<br \/>\nJudy DiLorenzo<br \/>\nJennifer Eaton<br \/>\nBrenda Hazard<br \/>\nMatt Howe<br \/>\nDennis Kennedy<br \/>\nJohn Meehan<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Mon, 09 May 2016 12:05:23 +0000 by\u00a0d.gardner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A message from the New Student Orientation Task Force: The New Student Orientation (NSO) Task Force is charged with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}