To: CSUF - Irvine Campus Faculty Colleagues
Irvine Valley Faculty Colleagues
From: Susan M. Cooper, Ed.D.
Dean, Irvine Campus
Welcome to spring semester 2012!
By now many of you are familiar with our campus after we celebrated our first year at 3 Banting. New additions to the campus include food trucks in the front of the parking lot from 3:00 - 8:00pm each night, a Counseling and Psychological Services Office in Room 147, a newly opened Career Center in Room 146, and a brand new Nursing Simulation Lab in Room 150 with the Nursing faculty office nearby. This newly constructed lab will resemble the Sim Lab on the Fullerton Campus that has several adult and child beds. The Irvine Campus Sim Lab will have 3 patient beds. Also new to the second floor is the PRactical ADvantage Communications lab room in 220. This will be an agency created by the College of Communications in which students enrolled in Public Relations and Advertising can interact with real clients. Don't forget to check out the Fitness Center near the front lobby.
Automobile parking is in front of, to the side and rear of our building. Please display your CSUF or IVC decal beginning the first day of classes. Do not park in the 1 Banting. They require a different decal. Please do not park in the spaces designated for the food truck. Motorcycle parking is on the side nearest the far patio in specially marked stalls and bike racks are in the rear of the building. Please remind your students that their cars will be towed without warning if they park in the lots belonging to our neighbors. You will be sharing office space with several other professors so please be considerate of the desk, wall shelves and file cabinet spaces. We have ample seating for students available in the lobbies, kitchenettes and in the second floor hallway. Smoking is permitted in the rear of the building near the bike racks. Café Latte is located on the first floor of 1 Banting and accessible from the patio. Rick serves breakfast and lunch items as well as beverages. Our bookstore also has sandwiches, salads, some frozen foods, treats and drinks. IVC and CSUF students can purchase their textbooks and course materials in our bookstore. An ATM is located in the front lobby.
You can come to the front window and get your office assignment with a key. This will give you access to the mailroom and the faculty/staff lounge as well. You will also be given a copy code as well as a voice mail code. Copy machines are located in the first floor mailroom and the second floor faculty lounge. Your copy limit is 1500 copies on floor 1 and 1500 copies on floor 2. Please do not exceed this limit for the semester. I urge you to post your handouts in Blackboard or Moodle to lessen the effect of the copy limit. You can also create course packs with one of our local vendors who are listed on our web page in the Faculty Corner. Please do not require your students to travel to Fullerton to obtain their texts or course packets. Your office will have supplies and a telephone list of numbers on the Irvine Campus. You will receive a key to your classroom only if it is a lab or other room that must remain locked when not in use. Please check your mailbox regularly on the first floor for announcements and packages.
If you are eligible for, and intend to request mileage, please complete all the forms needed with Marilyn Conklin or Kellie Padilla, my assistants, as soon as possible. The monthly mileage forms must be submitted within 30 days of travel or they will not be accepted by the VPAA office. If you need assistance in learning the technology in your classroom which includes Elmo Document Cameras, Epson Brite Link data projectors with laser pens, and racked equipment in the instructor's podium, please call x1610 and ask for Mo or Johnnie. They or one of their student assistants will help you. If you sign out a laser pen for the data projectors from them, it must be returned at the end of the semester. A charge of $50 will be incurred if the pen is not returned. We also have Scantron and Par-Score machines in the second floor lounge area.
We intend to schedule professional development classes in Room 121 through the Faculty Development Center. Student rosters for your classes can be printed from your Faculty Center in Titan Online.
We will have periodic evacuation drills to prepare us for an emergency, earthquake, etc. You should escort the students to the corner of Banting and Barranca and have the students take all of their personal belongings with them. We encourage you to include a paragraph in your syllabus about Services to Students with Disabilities as well as your policies on attendance. I encourage you to take attendance on a daily basis. This will enable you to determine in an emergency, who is present and who is not. It will also establish attendance for those students who are receiving VA or other financial aid. If your students require disability assistance or you have any questions about these services, please contact Robert Flores at x1658.
Please give Marilyn Conklin or Kellie Padilla (located in Office 125) your office hours as well as your personal information form. This will give us emergency contacts in case of any problems. Please also inform Kellie/Marilyn (x1604) and the front desk (x1601) if you must be absent from class for any reason. This will allow us to give an early notice to your students if you have not already alerted them by e-mail.
Best Wishes to you as we begin our second year in the Irvine Spectrum!