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In This Issue

• President’s Corner: A Time for Everything • Classified Staff Professional Development Week a Success • CoA Students Study KT Boundary Impact Layer in Southern Colorado with Stanford

Geophysicist Norm Sleep • Marketing & Outreach Workshop Completes Summer Leadership Series • Volunteers Still Needed to Build Playground at CoA in July • Make Your Splash!

President’s Corner: A Time for Everything CoA Family, I apologize for the lateness in this announcement, but I wanted to inform you that I have accepted an appointment as Superintendent/President of Palomar College in San Diego. The delay in notifying all of you was due to the process at my future institution. This appointment is a homecoming and will be an opportunity for me to spend more time with my mother during this time in her life. As I contemplated accepting the offer, it was difficult as I reflected on all of the good work that we have done during my tenure at CoA. Together, we have done some amazing work to support our vision of student success, social justice, equity and community responsiveness. The prayers and support I have received have been such a blessing and have helped me grow personally and as a professional. Below are a few highlights of our accomplishments:

• Blueprint for Excellence- Response to Accreditation Evaluation

• Education Master Plan • Institutional Effectiveness Model Plan • Grand Opening of Veterans Resource Center • Updated Technology in Labs and Faculty and

Staff Offices • Renovations in DSPS, the Pit and Bookstore

• Beautification Campaign- Landscape and Inspirational Signage

• Enrollment Management Plan-Increased Enrollment

• The CoA Splash-Weekly Newsletter • Sexual Assault Awareness Campaign • Breaking Barriers Lecture Series • CoA Book Program- Pages for Change



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• Emergency Preparedness Training • Community Partnerships (Perforce, NPower,

Tesla, BART, AC Transit, League of Women Voters, Girls Inc.)

• CoA Promise Funding and Partnerships • President’s Roundtable • College Photo Gallery • Updated Marketing Materials (Publications

and Website) • Funding for Classified Council (Professional

Development and Classified Development Week)

• Hosted PCCD Peoples Breakfast Honoring Cesar Chavez

• Expanded PASS Funding • Recognized by CCCCO for a model Student

Equity Plan • Recipient of the City of Alameda “Extra Mile”

Award • And more...

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing, a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace. What do workers gain from their toil? I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil. — modified Ecclesiastes 3 My CoA Family, Friends and Colleagues… be happy, continue to do good work and find satisfaction in service!! Best to you all!

“Mama said there’d be days like this”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UUWkr4FUlo

Prayers and Blessings! Joi Lin Blake, Ed.D. President, College of Alameda

Photo: William Watson



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Classified Staff Professional Development Week a Success

This year’s Classified Staff Professional Development Week was held at College of Alameda from June 13-16. The week featured eight workshops covering everything from learning how to correctly do ICC (independent consultant contract) requisitions to workshops on “Leadership and Leading” and “Time Management.” There was even a workshop on "Humor for the Health of It,” which we found very beneficial to our health and longevity. Overall, the workshops were a great opportunity for growth and were packed with lots of information. Breakfast was served as well for the first three days and lunch on the last day. Also, on Thursday the day started with an open forum with the Chancellor here at College of Alameda in regards to the search for our new president. We would like to thank President Dr. Joi Lin Blake, Dean Toni Cook, Carol Molex, Shuntel Owens-Rogers, Fong Tran, Ava Lee-Pang, the Custodial Staff, Shawn Foster, Michael Duensing, Nimfa Jianoran and all those who contributed their time to make this week a success. We hope everyone who participated gained lots of valuable information and found it enjoyable. Article and graphic by La Shawn Brumfield.

CoA Students Study KT Boundary Impact Layer in Southern Colorado with Stanford Geophysicist Norm Sleep

CoA Chemistry Students Ian Stark, Armon Saffarian, Thinh Thu, Silver Alkhafaji, Stanford Professor Norm Sleep and CoA Professor Peter Olds just returned from a week of geological field work in southern Colorado. They were busy collecting 66-million-year-old KT boundary impact layer claystone (for chromite separation processing at CoA) and identifying impact earthquake-caused faults below the KT boundary. This is the asteroid or comet impact thought to have killed the dinosaurs.



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The photo on the above right shows Ian making measurements on a KT boundary truncated normal fault discovered by Norm at Long’s Canyon. The KT boundary impact layer is visible as the light banded layer underneath the massive sandstone, both of which are visible near the top of Ian’s hat.

Above: Armon and Norm observing what might be the same fault at Madrid roadcut. Silver catching her first fish in Lake Trinidad. Article and photos: Peter Olds

Marketing & Outreach Workshop Completes Free Summer Leadership Series The final workshop of the College of Alameda Student Activities Office’s Summer Leadership Workshop Series will be held next week:

June 30 at 11:00 a.m. Marketing & Outreach All faculty, staff and students are invited to join us in the Student Center, F Building. It’s free! Facebook Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/817667085030988/ We hope to see you there! Article by Fong Tran.

Reminder: Volunteers Needed to Build Playground at CoA



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College of Alameda will partner with Alameda Family Services, who was recently awarded a KaBOOM! grant, to build a playground at CoA on July 21, from 8:30 – 2:30 p.m. on the west side of campus near automotive. The sponsors (Dr. Pepper/Snapple) will be providing some volunteers and we have agreed to recruit volunteers for the July 21 Build Day as well. VOLUNTEERS ARE STILL NEEDED. We will need 175 volunteers to build a magnificent playground in one day, and that’s a lot of people! Please commit to joining us to help, and bring your friends and family members too! Staff will be released to volunteer on the playground, but must coordinate their volunteer hours with their manager. To register please fill out the following online form www.tinyurl.com/CoAKaboom2016. Questions? Contact Teddy and/or Shane, [email protected] or [email protected]. Let’s do Peralta proud! KaBOOM! is a national non-profit dedicated to bringing balanced and active play into the daily lives of all kids, particularly those growing up in poverty in America. Check out their video entitled “Play Matters”: https://youtu.be/53KOw_gbS0w Article by Mary Beth Benvenutti.

Make a Splash!

Did your students complete interesting projects last semester? Did you or a student receive special accolades for your work? Is there an upcoming event you’d like to invite everyone to? Did you attend a fantastic event that you’d like to tell us about? Send us your news so we can share it with the campus community (and beyond) in the CoA Splash! It’s easy – just send us a short article and a good photo or two and we’ll take care of the rest. Don’t forget to include the name of the writer, the photographer, and anyone who’s pictured (if possible). Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis, due by Tuesday for the Friday issue. Email us at [email protected] Past issues of the CoA Splash are available at: alameda.peralta.edu/office-of-the-president/coa-splash-newsletters/

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