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• Congratulations 2008 CSCC Award Winners!
  
  Senior Scholar - Debra D. Bragg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  
  Dissertation of the Year - Gabrielle Gerhard, University of Washington
  
  
• MEMBER VOLUNTEER REQUEST. Please return attached form ASAP.
  
  Are you interested in volunteering your time to the CSCC? As a member, you have the opportunity to get involved! Attached to this email (and soon on our website) is a form that you can print, fill out, and return to the CSCC administrative office:
  
  John Marfield
  Council for the Study of Community Colleges (CSCC)
  c/o UCLA Graduate School of Education
  3127 Moore Hall, Box 951521
  Los Angeles, CA 90095-1521
  
  In preparation for the 2009 CSCC Conference in Phoenix, you can volunteer to sit on the program committee, review proposals, mentor newcomers at the conference, or work as an on-site host. Other CSCC volunteer opportunities include: helping with the CSCC reception at the ASHE Conference; writing an article for the CSCC newsletter; sit on the committees for CSCC dissertation of the year, emerging scholar, service, and grants awards. Also, please indicate if you have interest in becoming a CSCC board officer or leader in the future.
  
  NOTE: Those who are interested in volunteering for the 2009 CSCC Conference Program Committee, please return the form by June 1, 2008.
  
  
• Message from CSCC President, Trudy Bers
  
  The 50th CSCC Conference, held in Philadelphia April 4-5, 2008, was a great success. One hundred and forty colleagues joined together for research presentations, roundtable discussions and exceptionally lively hallway conversation. Our first plenary session featured a video reviewing the Council and key events in our history, followed by small group discussions about current and emerging issues (and a cake with the CSCC 50th anniversary logo on top). Pam Eddy will be compiling results of the discussions. Our second plenary featured Estela Bensimon, professor of higher education at the University of Southern California, who talked about how scholarly and practitioner research, together, give a fuller picture of student experiences and success than either approach can do alone. Using examples from her research at Long Beach community college, she illustrated how important it is to talk with students and to observe the offices that provide student support services.
  
  Next year's CSCC conference will be in Phoenix, AZ, April 2-4. Bev Bower, from Florida State University, is the new CSCC president-elect and will chair the conference.
  
  A final note: I was privileged to work with an exceptional program committee and thoughtful proposal reviewers; we received many strong proposals. This is what makes our conference special. Thank you to everyone.
  
  Trudy Bers
  CSCC President
  
  
• 2008 Conference - Final list of presentations posted
  
  
• Important note from Dr. Marilyn Amey
  
  There are two documents on the CSCC website to which I want to draw your attention. Both are going to be important for full participation at the Business Meeting at our upcoming annual conference... (read entire note)
  
  
  • Revised Operating Guidelines
  • Nominations Profiles of Candidates
  
  
  
• Spring 2008 Newsletter
  
  The CSCC Spring 2008 Newsletter is now available for online viewing.
  
  You must have Adobe Acrobat to read it (download Acrobat for free).
  
  


Updated 04/24/2008