Friday, May 13, 2011

SACS Visit

As part of our Fifth-Year Interim Report with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACS COC), new off-campus sites that have been reported to SACS COC since our last reaffirmation will be visited next week.  A committee of six peer evaluators from community colleges in the southeast will visit Rock Hill High, Northwestern, South Pointe, Lancaster, and York Comprehensive to validate that the resources and services offered through our dual-enrollment offerings are adequate.  The Committee arrives on Monday, May 16 and will begin their high school tours on Tuesday morning.  The visits at the high schools will entail interviews with the high school dual-enrollment coordinator, media specialists, faculty, and students.  On Tuesday afternoon, they will visit our campus to interview additional personnel.  If you see them touring our campus, please make them feel welcome.  If you have questions about the visit, please contact our Accreditation Liaison, Jacquelyn Nesbitt (jnesbitt@yorktech.edu).

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

One Week to the 2011 Graduation!

Next week, 404 students will participate in the York Technical College Commencement. Michael Brezillac will represent the 2011 graduating class by providing a welcome at the ceremony. Recipients of the President’s Award for Students, being recognized during the ceremony, include:

Michael Thomas Brezillac, Arts and Sciences
Jodi Lynn Turner, Business and Computer Technology
Olga Krasnov, Health and Human Services
Richard Thomas Childers, Industrial and Engineering Technologies

In addition, the following nominees for the President’s Award for Instructional Excellence will be recognized:

John McGill, Arts and Sciences
Gwen Wilson, Business and Computer Technology
Sandra Farley, Health and Human Services
Mike Zavinski, Industrial and Engineering Technologies

I urge all of you to make plans to attend the ceremony on Tuesday, May 10 at 7 p.m. at the Winthrop Coliseum. Watching our students walk across the stage is our greatest reward; knowing that we played a part in helping them achieve their goal.