Faculty and Staff Accomplishments
Each school year BCC's faculty and staff attend professional seminars and activities to enhance their ability to teach and perform their duties to their fullest. Below is a list of the activities that they have attended in the past school year.
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Humanities and Education |
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| Jose Costa | Day of Portugal Gala | State House - Boston, MA |
| Jose Costa | Opening ceremony for the Day of Portugal | Fall River, MA |
| Jose Costa | Reception for Ambassador of Portugal | New Bedford, MA |
| Jose Costa | Ceremonies of the Day of Portugal | Boston, MA |
| Ravitha Amarasingham, Melissa Cardelli | Department of Early Education and Child Care's meeting | Boston, MA |
| Rylan Brenner | Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) | New Orleans, LA |
| Julie Jodoin-Krauzyk | Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics Annual Meeting | Providence, RI |
| Larry Stephen | New England South Asian Deaf Association (NESADA) third annual Diwali and Eid banquet | |
| Larry Stephen | American Sign Language Teachers Association (ASLTA) National Conference | Tampa, FL |
| Raymond Puchot | Texas Speech Communication Association (TSCA) Conference | Texas |
| Jose Costa | International Conference on Portuguese Local Media | Azores |
| Ravitha Amarasingham | Conference call organized by ACCESS (American Associate Degree Early Childhood Teacher Educators) to discuss, document, and share best practices of ECE faculty in community colleges. | |
| Julie Jodoin-Krauzyk | Next Steps Conference: Serving the KALEIDOSCOPE of Families with Deaf and Hard or Hearing Infants | Boxboro, MA |
| Melissa Cardelli, Ravitha Amarasingham | Mass Colleges Online meeting | Mass. Bay Community College |
| Ray Puchot | 2007 National Communication Association (NCA) Annual Convention | Chicago, IL |
| Sandra Lygren | PEPNET (Post Secondary Ed Programs Network) "An Inside Look: Accommodations in the Postsecondary Classroom" | |
| Liz Alcock | First Educators' Workshop of the Society for New Communications Research | Colonnade Hotel, Boston, MA |
| Ravitha Amarasingham | Participated in Mock Trials at the Moakley Federal Court House | Moakley Federal Courthouse |
| Keith Thibault | Meeting of the Massachusetts Chapter of the Alliance for Community Media | Plymouth, MA |
| Sandra Lygren | PEPNET (Post Secondary Ed Programs Network) "An Inside Look: Creating Inclusive Environments with Universal Design" | |
| Amber Scoon | College Art Association Conference | Dallas, TX |
| Julie Jodoin-Krauzyk | RI Hearing Assessment Program's Seminar entitled "Beyond the Diagnosis: Creating Positive Environments for Children with Hearing Loss" | |
| Jill Carrico, Kent Millard, Marisa Millard | Conference for graphic design faculty: "Massaging Media 2: Graphic Design Education in the Age of Dynamic Media" | |
| Keith Thibault | Conference of the Massachusetts Chapter of the Alliance for Community Media | Waltham, MA |
| Raymond Puchot | Phi Theta Kappa Conference | Nashua, NH |
| Jose Costa | 25th Anniversary dinner of "Radio Voz do Imigrante" | |
| Jose Costa | Present at signature of the "Antero de Quental" Agreement between the LusoAmerican Foundation for Development with the University of the Azores, Amass Dartmouth, UCLA Berkley, Brown University, and BCC | Azores |
| Keith Thibault | Conference of the Video Educators of New England | Bryant University |
| Liz Alcock | Public Relations Society of America (PRSA/Southeastern New England - Media Training Workshop | WPRI TV, Providence, RI |
| Jill Carrico, Kent Millard, Marisa Millard | International conference specifically for Design educators, "Massaging Media 2: Graphic Design Education in the Age of Dynamic Media" | |
| Ravitha Amarasingham | 34th Annual Conference of the American Association for Affirmative Action | Washington, DC |
| Melissa Cardelli, Ravitha Amarasingham | Building Careers Statewide meeting | |
| Rylan Brenner | Directors Lab West, a conference for Directors of Theatre | Pasadena, CA |
| Sandra Lygren | PEPNET (Post Secondary Ed Programs Network) "iTransition" | |
| Liz Alcock | NEFDC (New England Faculty Development Consortium's Spring Conference) regarding Work-Based Learning | U Mass Amherst |
| Kathleen Hancock | New England Museum Association Exhibitions PAG Workshop "What Every Curator Needs to Know Part II: Curating in the 21st Century" | Danforth Museum of Art |
| Sandra Lygren | Northeastern University Program Assessment Seminar | |
| Kathleen Hancock | New England Museum Association Exhibitions PAG Workshop "Your Vision and Their Mission: Exhibit Programming Within the Parameters of the Parent Institution" | Montserrat College of Art Gallery - Beverly, MA |
| Sandra Lygren | Several Workshops offered by Video Relay Service provider for interpreting: "LIGAGO (Let it Go and Go On," "Treasure Each Caller," "Developing Resilience for Sign Language Interpreters," "Mentor the Mentor" | online |
| Larry Stephen | World Federation of the Deaf Congress | Madrid, Spain |
| Larry Stephen | Pan American Deaf Sports Game | Valencia, Venezuela |
| Liz Alcock | Media training workshop | WPRI-TV, Channel 12 - East Providence, RI |
| Larry Stephen | International Deaf Club of Massachusetts (IDCM) potluck socials | |
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Behavioral and Social Sciences |
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| Nancy Lee Wood | Consortium for the Advancement of Teaching, Learning and Scholarship | U Mass Dartmouth |
| Nancy Lee Wood | Southeastern Regional Planning and Economic Development District (SRPEDD) (Futures Task Force Member) | Taunton, MA |
| Gloria Cabral | RIACF (Rhode Island American Culinary Federation) meeting | Narragansett, RI |
| Gloria Cabral | RI Cake Club meeting | |
| Phyllis Wentworth | New England Teachers of Psychology meeting | Connecticut |
| John Caressimo, Gloria Cabral | American Culinary Federation Officer's Meeting | |
| Gabe Pereira | Participated in a Civil War Forum | Brown University |
| John Caressimo, Gloria Cabral | Chef of the Year Dinner | Abbey Grille - Fall River, MA |
| John Tormey | RI Funeral Directors Annual Convention | |
| Gloria Cabral, Carri Tarpey-Nepini | Private class, along with ten cake decorators from Massachusetts and Rhode Island, taught by world-renowned cake designer Toba Garrett | BCC |
| Gloria Cabral | American Culinary Federation Board of Director's meeting and the RIACF (Rhode Island American Culinary Federation) monthly educational meeting | |
| Gloria Cabral | Cake decorators of Rhode Island meeting | |
| Gabe Pereira | Civil War forum | |
| Gloria Cabral | Skills USA annual Fall advisor's dinner | Marlboro, MA |
| Gloria Cabral | International Cake Exploration Society of Massachusetts meeting | Saugus, MA |
| Gloria Cabral | Rhode Island American Culinary Federation monthly meetings | |
| Gloria Cabral, John Caressimo | ACF (American Culinary Federation) meeting on the rules and regulations of the RI Board of Health and a presentation by the Contessa Shrimp Company | |
| Gloria Cabral, Tammy Duarte | Mass. I.C.E.S. (International Cake Exploration Societe) meeting | Sturbridge, MA |
| John Caressimo, Gloria Cabral, Suzanne St. Amour, Carri Tarpey-Nepini | New England Hotel Restaurant and Food Show | |
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Business and Information Management |
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| Diana Yohe | Massachusetts Teachers Association Annual Meeting | Boston, MA |
| Diana Yohe | National Education Association Pre-Convention meeting | Westborough, MA |
| Priscilla Grocer | BATEC (Boston Area Advanced Technological Education Connections) retreat | |
| Janelle Arruda, Sil Ferreira, Priscilla Grocer | Ethical Hacking Course at BATEC | Boston, MA |
| Diana Yohe | MCCC Fall Conference | Worcester, MA |
| Raymond Steele, Mike Vieira | Microsoft ReMix 2007 event | Boston, MA |
| Victoria Revier, Eloine Vieira | Massachusetts Business Educators Association (MBEA) Conference | Natick, MA |
| Phoebe Blackburn, Carol Garand, Cecil Leonard | Rhode Island Association of Accounting Professors meeting | Warwick, RI |
| Carol Martin | Association of Records Managers (ARMA) meeting | Smithfield, RI |
| Cecil Leonard | Royal Bank of Scotland economy forum | Manchester, NH |
| Priscilla Grocer | An event sponsored by BATEC to examine curriculum across the colleges and work on equivalencies | |
| Pauline Leduc | Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity (AHDI) Webinar on the topic of "Text Expanders: A Must for the Modern Medical Transcriptionist" | |
| Priscilla Grocer | IT Forum sponsored by BATEC at Staples | |
| Cecil Leonard | Royal Bank of Scotland-Citizens and Bank of China conference | |
| Cecil Leonard | Rhode Island Foundation donor presentation re: diverse community support activities and endowment fund investment strategies. | Providence, RI |
| Carol Martin, Carol Mello, Craig Watson, Janelle Arruda, Igor Kholodov, Sil Ferreira, Mike Vieira | Demonstration of Myitlab, Microsoft Office 2007 (an on-line training and assessment solution for students | online |
| Carol Garand, Phoebe Blackburn | Teachers of Accounting at Two-Year Colleges Conference | San Antonio, TX |
| Priscilla Grocer | BATEC (Boston Area Advanced Technological Education Connections) leaders meeting | |
| Craig Watson | 2-day training seminar on Microsoft Vista and Office 2007 | |
| Diana Yohe | Webinar on "Bringing the Powerful tools of Vista to Your Classroom" | online |
| Diana Yohe | Webinar on "Microsoft Business Certifications for Office 2007" | online |
| Mike Vieira | Roundtable Discussion with Gregory Bialecki, Undersecretary for Business Development on the Defense Technology and Homeland Security Industry in Massachusetts. | General Dynamics - Taunton, MA |
| Paul Robillard | Week-long Six-Sigma Green Belt training | Lockheed Martin, Marion, MA |
| Phoebe Blackburn | Demonstration of MyLab Software by Pearson Publishing | |
| Phoebe Blackburn, Susan LaPanne, Ron Santos, Bob Koohy, Janet Berube, Jack Gregory, Annette Normandin, Cecil Leonard, Carol Garand | Training session for the new accounting software package from Thompson (ThompsonNOW) | |
| Priscilla Grocer | NSF / ATE and AACC Conference | Washington, DC |
| Priscilla Grocer | BATEC curriculum development seminar | Middlesex College |
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Health Sciences |
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| Kristine Bishop-Chapman | American Dental Education Association Program Director's Meeting | Santa Anna Pueblo, New Mexico |
| Kristine Bishop-Chapman | Northeast Regional Board of Dental Examiners Annual Session | Orlando, FL |
| Trisha Cloutier | RI Pediatric Dentistry Mini-Residency presented by the RI Department of Health | |
| Kristine Bishop Chapman | Annual Session of the Rhode Island Dental Hygienists' Association | |
| Cynthia Silvia | Group of Professional Personnel meeting | |
| Cynthia Silvia | Skills Competency Workshop | Sturdy Memorial Hospital |
| Trisha Cloutier | Two Phase Treatment, the Importance of Early Orthodontic Intervention | |
| Johanna Duponte, Susan Martin | American Occupational Therapy Association annual Program Directors meeting | Providence, RI |
| Paulette Howarth | Served on planning committee for the American Society for Microbiology Region I meeting | Boston - Harvard School of Medicine Conference Center |
| Sharon Pero, Nancy Evans | Invitational Nursing Educational Summit Conference | JFK Library, Boston |
| Lisa Azar, Trisha Cloutier, Lynne Byers, Kristine Bishop Chapman, April Lavoie, Suzanne Parent | Continuing education program | |
| Vicki Revier, Angela Tiebout, Lisa Wright | Continuing education workshop on Electronic Medical Records | White's of Westport |
| Lynne Byers | Annual Meeting of the New England Dental Society | |
| Kristine Bishop Chapman, Suzanne Parent, Lisa Azar | Workshop: "Current Topics in Nutrition" | |
| Lynne Byers, Joanne Clancy, Trisha Cloutier, Israel Helfand, Kristine Bishop Chapman | Presentation to faculty members by Wendy Bebey, RDH, BS at a "Lunch and Learn" | |
| Sharon Tilton | Commission on Massage Therapy Accreditation Workshop | Savannah, GA |
| Sharon Tilton | On-site Reviewer Certification | Savannah, GA |
| Sharon Tilton | Council of Schools Leadership Conference | Savannah, GA |
| Sharon Tilton | Marketing/Retention | Savannah, GA |
| Sharon Tilton | Teacher Support/Appreciation Education Workshop | Savannah, GA |
| Trisha Cloutier | RI Dental Hygienists' Association meeting | Lincoln, RI |
| Trisha Cloutier | Completed a continuing education program "Qualifying Candidates for Whitening" | |
| Cynthia Silvia | Board meeting for the Visiting Nurse Association of Southeastern Massachusetts Group of Professional Personnel | |
| Trisha Cloutier | Emergency Medicine in Dentistry | |
| Trisha Cloutier, Lynne Byers, Kristine Chapman, Pamela Colaneri | Renaissance in Local Anesthesia | |
| Paulette Howarth | Northeast Branch American Society of Microbiology and MA Department of Public Health dinner meeting | |
| April Lavoie, Suzanne Parent | Continuing education program "Instrument Sharpening" | |
| Colleen Berg, Nancy Moxon, Gail MacDonald | Annual Meeting and Program of Massachusetts/Rhode Island League for Nursing. Topic: "Evidenced-Based Nursing Practice" | Sutton, MA |
| Johanna Duponte | American Educational Research Association | New York, NY |
| Lynne Byers | Continuing education program "Enteral Sedation and Local Anesthesia" at the Connecticut State Dental Association Meeting | |
| Trisha Cloutier, Lynne Byers, Kristine Bishop Chapman | Program on "Teaching Methodology" | |
| Trisha Cloutier, Lynne Byers, Kristine Bishop Chapman, Joanne Clancy | Having a Smooth Site Visit by Demonstrating Compliance with American Dental Association Commission of Dental Accreditation Standards | |
| Lisa Wright | Medical Assisting Educator Forum "Delivering Highly Customized Learning Solutions for Medical Assisting Programs" | Albany, NY |
| Lisa Wright | National convention of the American Association of Medical Assistants | |
| Paulette Howarth | Clinical Laboratory Educators Conference | Savannah, GA |
| Pauline LeDuc | Symposium of the Northeast Association for Documentation Integrity | Portland, ME |
| Renee Cardinal | Online Western Schools course "Caring for Patients with Musculoskeletal Disorders" | online |
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Mathematics, Science, and Engineering |
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| Greg Sethares | Four 4-hour Math CONNECT meetings | Cape Cod Community College and Bridgewater State College, BCC |
| James Corven | Conference on "Enriching the Academic Experience of College Students" | University of Michigan |
| Linda Hutchison | WEPAN (Women in Engineering Program & Advocates Network) Annual Conference | |
| Vijay Raja | Northeastern University's Cooperative Education Conference | Boston, MA |
| Jerry LePage | Delegate at the National Education Association meeting | Philadelphia, PA |
| Vijay Raja | Northeastern Bio-Manufacturing Center and Collaborative - Bio-Manufacturing Engineering Workshop for High School Teachers | Community College of Rhode Island - Warwick, RI |
| Vijay Raja | Council of Academic Division Administrators (CADA) Retreat | Essex, MA |
| Vijay Raja | Northeastern Bio-Manufacturing Center and Collaborative - BIOMAN 2007 Conference and Workshop | New Hampshire Technical Community College, Portsmouth, NH |
| Linda Hutchison | Gateways to Southcoast meeting | |
| Meghan Abella-Bowen | National Career Pathways Network Annual Conference | Louisville, KY |
| Elaine Previte | New England Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges (NEMATYC) fall dinner meeting | Worcester, MA |
| Robert Rak, Anthony Ucci, Meghan Abella-Bowen, Linda Hutchison | NSF / ATE SMART Grant Principal Investigator's Conference | Washington, DC |
| Elaine Previte | American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC) annual conference | Minneapolis, MN |
| Meghan Abella-Bowen, Debbie Fiore | Marine Science and Technology Business Opportunities Forum | Advanced Technology & Manufacturing Center (ATMC) |
| Mary Cass | Web Seminar "Technical Programs: Here to Stay or Too Expensive to Maintain?" | |
| John Majkut | Conference on Marine Industry Technical Training (COMITT) Conference | Fort Lauderdale, FL |
| Mary Cass | Roundtable Discussion on the Manufacturing Industry in Massachusetts with other local industry, local politicians, UMass and BCC staff | |
| Mary Cass | Automation Workshop | Mohawk Valley C.C. |
| Robert Rak | Breakfast with Van Jones, eco-visionary "Urban Employment and Development Opportunities in Green Environment" | Whites of Westport |
| Robert Rak | Meeting on the Coal Gasification Process to be used at the Somerset Station | Somerset, MA |
| Elaine Previte | NEMATYC (New England Mathematics Association of Two-Year Colleges) board meeting and several 4-hour CONNECT meetings | UMass Dartmouth |
| Elaine Previte | MCO Conference | Lowell, MA |
| Elaine Previte | NEMATYC (New England Mathematics Association of Two-Year Colleges) fall dinner meeting and Board meeting | Worcester, MA |
| Mimi Kugler | Biomonitoring conference presented by the National Laboratory Training Network | |
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Lash Center for Teaching and Learning |
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| Karl Schnapp, Elaine Previte | ePortfolio Conference | Framingham State College |
| Elaine Previte | Perkins Five-Year development committee meetings/workshops | |
| Elaine Previte | Perkins Five-Year development committee meetings/workshops | |
| Elaine Previte | ATLAS workshop | |
| Karl Schnapp | Northeast Regional Computing Program (NERCOMP) Conference | Providence, RI |
| Elaine Previte | College Readiness Workshop | Meditech, Canton, MA |
| Elaine Previte | Mass DoHE conference on new mathematics courses to be offered for Elementary Education majors | Framingham State College |
| Elaine Previte | NEMATYC (New England Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges) Conference | Springfield Technical Community College |
| Karl Schnapp | Conference on ePortfolios | LaGuardia C.C. - Long Island City, NY |
| Elaine Previte | Dress for Success presentation | |
| Elaine Previte | CONNECT Math conference | Mass. Maritime Academy |
| Elaine Previte | Mass. DoHE meeting on math for elementary education majors | Worcester State College |
| Elaine Previte | ATLAS conference | Museum of Science, Boston |
| Elaine Previte | Mass. Colleges Online Conference | Lowell, MA |
| Elaine Previte | American Mathematics Association of Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC) Statistics Workshop | Cape Cod Community College |
| April Bellafiore, Diane Forand | NERCOMP conference focusing on instructional technology | Providence, RI |
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Center for Developmental Education |
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| Ron Weisberger | Conference on Student Graduation Rates | Framingham State College |
| Jan Baptist | Council for Opportunity in Education's 2007 Annual Conference titled "The College Access Revolution" | Chicago, IL |
| Michele Almeida | Technical assistance training sponsored by the MA DOE and the Institute for Community Inclusion | |
| Susan Boissoneault, Karen Sheehan, Sally Gabb, Jean Myles, Cindy Poore-Pariseau, Lizabeth McDonald, Ron Weisberger, Denise DiMarzio, Mary Anne Quick, Pat Weisberger, Diane Desmarais, Denyse Wilhelm | Webinar on Retention | CITE Lab |
| Beth Whitehead, Ron Weisberger | Focus Group Publisher's Review of a new developmental writing textbook Stepping Stones: A Guided Approach to Writing Sentences and Paragraphs | Boston, MA |
| Liz McDonald | Assessment and Transition Counselor | Holyoke Community College |
| Diane Manson | 42nd annual TESOL/Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Convention. The theme of the international convention was "Building Communities of Practice, Inquiry and Creativity" | New York, NY |
| Patricia Weisberger | Online Legislative, Regulatory and Budget Management Training for Student Support Services personnel. | online |
| Beverly Dery | Conference on Visual Challenges entitled "Focus" | Holiday Inn, Taunton, MA |
| Debra Bacon | Two New Bedford community events: "Organizing to Reduce the Dropout Rate in New Bedford" Meeting, and the "Year Up Way - Empowering Urban Youth to Reach their Potential" conference | New Bedford, MA |
| Bev Dery | Workshop on ADHD entitled "Is It Sensory or Is It Behavior?" | |
| Cindy Poore-Pariseau | Teleconference on Universal Design for Learning (UDL) sponsored by PEPNet | |
| Linda Mulready, Sally Gabb | Day-long conference on retention titled "Preparing Students to Succeed in College" | U Mass Boston |
| Lizabeth McDonald, Jean Myles | 6-week-long online training covering many aspects of tutoring including designing a specialized tutoring program, rights and responsibilities of tutor and tutee, and managing an orientation program for new tutors | online |
| Randi Korn | Workshop on freshmen experience | U Mass Dartmouth |
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Co-Operative Education |
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| Peg Curro, Nicole Heaney, Kristie Almeida, Zelia LaGarde | Seventh Annual SouthCoast Hospitals School-to-Career Breakfast | Tradewinds Restaurant @ BMC Durfee High School |
| Peg Curro | Annual meeting of the Greater New Bedford Workforce Investment Board 9WIB) | |
| Peg Curro, Debra Lyne | Ad Astra Training | BCC |
| Peg Curro, Debra Lyne | Banner Training | BCC |
| Peg Curro | 10th Joint Conference of the New York State Cooperative Education and Experiential Association / New England Cooperative Education and Field Experience Association | Saratoga Springs, NY |
| Peg Curro | Legislative Breakfast | White's of Westport |
| Peg Curro | ATLAS Project Introductory Workshop | |
| Peg Curro, Zelia LaGarde, Kristin Almeida | Connecting Activities Conference | College of the Holy Cross |
| Peg Curro, Cynthia Woolf-Boswell | ATLAS Project Curriculum Development Workshop | Lash CTL |
| Peg Curro, Nicole Heaney | CSO Round Table | Salve Regina University, Newport, RI |
| Peg Curro | New England Association Board of Directors meeting | Northeastern University, Burlington, MA |
| Holly Fitzgerald | Stress Management and Health conference | Newport, RI |
| Peg Curro | Greater New Bedford Youth Council meeting | New Bedford, MA |
| Peg Curro | Engineering is Elementary Workshop | Museum of Science, Boston, MA |
| Peg Curro, Nicole Heaney, Holly Fitzgerald, Jeff Craig | Workshop "Online Communities/Connecting to Students in their Space" | Holyoke Community College |
| Peg Curro, Kristie Almeida, Zelia LaGarde | Connecting Activities Conference | College of the Holy Cross |
| Peg Curro | Geotourism workshop | |
| Kristie Almeida, Zelia LaGarde | Conducted a Work-Based Learning Plan training for employers/supervisors participating in the New Directions Youth Summer Program. | |
| Nicole Heaney | 2nd Annual Women's Leadership Breakfast | U Mass Dartmouth |
| Nicole Heaney | St. Anne's Hospital Department of Professional Practice, Research and Development Annual Breakfast | |
| Peg Curro, Zelia LaGarde, Kristin Almeida | Youth Council meeting | Greater New Bedford Career Center |
| Zelia LaGarde | Sixth Annual Youth Summit | White's of Westport |
| Peg Curro | Wiley Training Geo-Tools: Spatial Inquiry using Web-Mapping Tools | |
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Distance Learning |
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| April Bellafiore | Framingham State ePortfolio Conference | Framingham State college |
| April Bellafiore | Making Connections ePortfolio conference | LaGuardia C.C. |
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Educational Talent Search |
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| Educational Talent staff | Early College Awareness training | Assumption College |
| Harry Harootunian, Raksmey Pen | Plato Users Group training | Holyoke Community College |
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Learning Resources Center |
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| Gabriela Adler | MCCLPHEI Annual Conference | North Falmouth, MA |
| Melanie Johnson | MCCLPHEI Annual Conference | North Falmouth |
| Gabriela Adler | SAILS Annual Meeting | Middleboro, MA |
| James Emond | Gale Web conferencing "Webinar" on Gale's Literature Resources | online |
| Gabriela Adler | Massachusetts Teachers Association Summer Conference | Williamstown, MA |
| Maryellen Pettine | SAILS Board of Director’s Meeting | Middleboro, MA |
| Robert Rezendes | SAILS Membership meeting | Middleboro, MA |
| Robert Rezendes | Massachusetts Virtual Catalog Users Group meeting | Natick, MA |
| Sai Chinnaswamy | MCCLPHEI meeting | Bridgewater State College |
| Sai Chinnaswamy | NELINET – Workshop | Bolyston, MA |
| Gabriela Adler | NEASC Workshop for Evaluators | Boston, MA |
| Robert Rezendes, Sai Chinnaswamy | Demo of the SirsiSynix self-checkout system | Dartmouth Public Library |
| Robert Rezendes, Melanie Johnson | New England Library Association (NELA) conference | Sturbridge, MA |
| Carolyn Michaud | NELINET – Annual Information Technology Conference – “Nuts & Boltsâ€ù | Needham, MA |
| Melanie Johnson | NELINET focus group on website development | Southborough, MA |
| Robert Rezendes | SAILS Circulation Roundtable | Dartmouth, MA |
| Gabriela Adler | NEASC | Manchester, NH |
| Gabriela Adler | MCCC Classification Appeals Committee | Worcester, MA |
| Patricia Hiscock, Melanie Johnson | Robert L. Cunningham Annual Bibliographic Conference | Holy Cross College, Worcester, MA |
| Bob Rezendes | SAILS "Director's Station" | Middleboro, MA |
| Patricia Hiscock, James Emond | NELINET "Rethinking Technical Services Workflows" | Southborough, MA |
| Patricia Hiscock | The Woman's Conference | Biltmore Hotel, Providence, RI |
| Carolyn Michaud | SEMLS "Rightsizing Your Reference Collection" | Wareham Library, Wareham, MA |
| Patricia Hiscock | Power Searching InfoTrac | Wareham Library, Wareham, MA |
| Patricia Hiscock | Campus Crusade for Christ Winter Conference | Boston, MA |
| Robert Rezendes, James Emond, Maryellen Pettine, Carolyn Michaud | NELINET Community College Librarian Conference | Southborough, MA |
| Melanie Johnson | SEMLS Usability Testing Workshop | Lakeville, MA |
| Gabriela Adler, Melanie Johnson | Meeting of the MCCC Classification Appeals Committee | Worcester, MA |
| Gabriela Adler | MCCC Professional Staff Committee | Worcester, MA |
| Gabriela Adler | NELINET – Conference, Collection as services | Worcester, MA |
| Patricia Hiscock | New England Library Association/New England Technical Services Librarians Conference | Worcester, MA |
| Patricia Hiscock | Library of Congress Classification Part I | Southborough, MA |
| Gabriela Adler | Gender Equity, Gender Identity/Expression, and Sexual Orientation Conference | Northern Essex Community College |
| Gabriela Adler | Mass. Community College Teaching, Learning, and Student Development Conference | North Shore Community College |
| Gabriela Adler | MCCC Classification Appeals Committee | Worcester, MA |
| Patricia Hiscock | Library of Congress Classification Part 2 | Southborough, MA |
| James Emond, Robert Rezendes | ACRL NEC (Association of College and Research Libraries - New England Chapter) Conference | University of CT |
| Sai Chinnaswamy | MCCLPHEI (Massachusetts Commonwealth Consortium of Libraries in Public Higher Education Institutions) meeting | Holyoke Community College |
| Carolyn Michaud | IM in the Library training session | Lakeville, MA |
| Gabriela Adler | NELIG (New England Library Instruction Group) Conference on Information Literacy and Assessment | Providence, RI |
| Gabriela Adler, James Emond | MCCC Annual Delegate Assembly | Worcester, MA |
| Gabriela Adler, Maryellen Pettine | NELINET Annual Meeting | Norwood, MA |
| Robert Rezendes | SEMLS (South Eastern Massachusetts Library System) Interview Bidders | Lakeville, MA |
| Gabriela Adler | Professional Staff Issues Committee | Worcester, MA |
| Robert Rezendes | SEMLS (South Eastern Massachusetts Library System) Interview Bidders | Lakeville, MA |
| Maryellen Pettine | SEMLS (South Eastern Massachusetts Library System) "Understanding Massachusetts Procurement Regulations" | Lakeville, MA |
| Robert Rezendes | SEMLS (South Eastern Massachusetts Library System) Interview Bidders Site Visits | Lakeville, Franklin, Woburn and Plymouth, MA |
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Perkins Post-secondary Grant |
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| Tahais Gutierrez | Massachusetts Conference for Women | Boston Convention and Exhibition Center |
| Tahais Gutierrez, Karen Dixon | Massachusetts Community Colleges Institutional Researchers' Meeting | Quinsigamond Community College |
| Karen Dixon, Tahais Gutierrez | Perkins IV Five-Year Local Plan (Postsecondary) technical assistance session | South Easton, MA |
| Tahais Gutierrez | Math Advisement Workshop presented by Jerry LePage | BCC |
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Service-Learning |
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| Mary Zahm, Katherine Tildes | VISTA Supervisors' meeting | Tufts University |
| Katherine Tildes | VISTA training conducted by MACC (Massachusetts Campus Compact) | |
| Mary Zahm, Katherine Tildes | University/Community Sustainability Committee meeting | U Mass Dartmouth |
| Katherine Tildes | VISTA training conducted by Massachusetts Campus Compact (MACC) | |
| Katherine Tildes | Community Partnerships Workshop with other VISTAs | Worcester State College |
| Mary Zahm, Katherine Tildes | Roundtable discussion on Embedding Community Partnerships | Bunker Hill Community College |
| Katherine Tildes | Civic Engagement Workshop (AmeriCorps* VISTA) | |
| Katherine Tildes | Mass. Promise Fellows Networking Luncheon (AmeriCorps* VISTA) | |
| Katherine Tildes | AmeriCorps* VISTA Opening Day | |
| Mary Zahm, Katherine Tildes | The Intersection of Civic Engagement and College Access Conference | Wentworth Institute of Technology Boston, MA |
| Mary Zahm | Massachusetts Civic Engagement Summit | Worcester, MA |
| Katherine Tildes | Class Action Workshop (AmeriCorps* VISTA) | |
| Adam Souza | MASS forum event on communications with members of the BOLD coalition | |
| Mary Zahm, Adam Souza | Official MACC VISTA close of service event. Adam also attended the retreat | |
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Teaching American History Grant |
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| Erik Baumann | Organization of American Historians Conference | New York, NY |
| Erik Baumann | Organized and attended the New England Regional Teaching American History Project Directors Meeting | Salem, MA |
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Tech Prep |
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| Ted Boudria | State Roundtable meeting | Worcester, MA |
| Ted Boudria | DOE sponsored Career Planning seminar | Bridgewater State College |
| Ted Boudria | Tech Prep Roundtable | Worcester, MA |
| Ted Boudria | ACTE (Association for Career and Technical Education) Conference | Las Vegas, NV |
| Ted Boudria | Photonics/Laser/Optics meeting | NE BoHE |
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Transition Program |
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| Diane Desmarais | Annual MA DOE Directors Conference | Falmouth, MA |
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Television Services |
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| Keith Thibault | Spring Conference of the Northeast Region of the Alliance for Community Media (ACM-NE) | Providence, RI |
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Upward Bound |
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| Sarah Morrell | 1st NEOA Board Meeting | E. Greenwich, RI |
| Sarah Morrell, Harry Harootunian, Raksmey Pen | Massachusetts Educational Opportunity Association conference | Worcester, MA |
| Sarah Morrell, Raksmey Pen, Harry Harootunian | Realizing the College Dream professional development training | University of New Hampshire |
| Sarah Morrell | NEOA Board Meeting | |
| Sarah Morrell | Annual Council for Opportunity in Education | Washington, DC |
| Sarah Morrell | CCLA (Community College Leadership Academy) Alumni Dinner | |
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Multiple Departments |
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| Karen Dixon, Marianne Taylor, Michael Vieira | Session on "Assessment and Accountability" | Greenfield Community College |
| Sarah Garrett, John Caressimo, Joanne Preston, Jose Costa | 20th Anniversary Gala of Prince Henry Society | |
| Gabriela Adler, Debra St. George, Karen Dixon, Sarah Garrett, Diana McGee, Elaine Previte, Raymond Puchot, Mike Vieira, Ron Weisberger, Johanna Duponte, Debra St. George | Massachusetts Community College Conference on Teaching, Learning and Student Development | North Shore Community College |
| Elaine Previte, Mike Vieira, Johanna Duponte | New England Education Assessment Network Conference | Keene, NH |
| Karl Schnapp, Elaine Previte, Johanna Duponte, Diana Rice, Ron Weisberger, Ray Puchot, Jodi Gaudiello | New England Faculty Development Consortium (NEFDC) conference | Worcester, MA |
| Peg Curro, Mary Zahm | Community Awards Breakfast | White's of Westport |
| Elaine Previte, Betsy Kemper French | College Readiness Summit | UMass Dartmouth |
| All Upward Bound program staff | COE training Webinar to prepare for Annual Performance Report for Educational Talent Search & Upward Bound | |
| Melissa Cardelli, Ravitha Amarasingham, Karen Dixon, Joanne Preston | Town Meeting/ Governor Patrick re: "Readiness Project" | Somerset High School |
| Mike Vieira, Susan Boissoneault, Elaine Previte, Ron Weisberger, Susan Boissoneault | OATSS team members attended the New England Educational Assessment Network (NEANN) conference on "Dialogues Across the Disciplines: Focusing on General Education Outcomes Across Disciplines" | UMass Amherst |
| Priscilla Grocer, Peg Curro | BATEC (Boston Area Advanced Technological Education Connections) Summit | U Mass Boston |
| Diana Yohe, April Bellafiore, Diane Forand, Janelle Arruda, Priscilla Grocer, Paul Robillard, Mike Vieira | Mass Colleges Online Conference on distance learning | Middlesex Community College |
| Diana Yohe, Paulette Howarth | Massachusetts Teachers Association Summer Conference | Williamstown, MA |
| Paulette Howarth, Diana Yohe, Jerry LePage | National Educators conference | Philadelphia, PA |
| Mimi Kugler, Melissa Hammond, Ann Marie Gomes, Jim Constantine, Mary True, Jim Corven, Paulette Howarth | Biosafety and Biosecurity Workshop | BCC |
| Gabriela Adler, Tahais Gutierrez | MaCIE Conference "Education for Global Citizenship" | Shrewsbury, MA |
| Tahais Gutierrez, Gabriela Adler, Sally Gabb | Perkins sponsored workshop: "Gender Equity" | Northern Essex Community College |
| Mary Zahm, Katherine Tildes, Susan McCourt, Jim Pelletier | CONNECT Service-Learning 2-day workshop | Hyannis, MA |
| Sarah Morrell, Harry Harootunian, Raksmey Pen | New England Educational Opportunity Association Annual Conference | Westbrook, CT |
| Mary Cass, Karen Dixon | ATLAS Workshop on teaching engineering and technology | BCC |