RCC Employee Appreciation Week: Feb. 26 – March 1

Mark your calendars for a groundbreaking week of celebration that aligns with National Employee Appreciation Day on March 1. This new approach consolidates various annual recognitions, such as Classified Appreciation Week, Teacher Appreciation Week, Bosses Day, Administrative Professionals Day and more.    Our decision to merge these celebrations stems from valuable feedback we’ve received, including a desire for more time to connect informally with colleagues, and concerns...

Private Screening of ‘Origin’ by Ava DuVernay

The RCC Diversity Programming Board is proud to bring you a special event next month in celebration of Women’s History Month: a private screening of the film “Origin” written and directed by the talented auteur Ava DuVernay and based on the best-selling book “Caste” by Isabel Wilkerson. The screening will be held from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, March 9 at the Varsity Theatre in...

Jenzabar Important Project Update

Feb. 9, 2024 was an exciting day for the ERP implementation project. Jenzabar staff spent a week authenticating our data and returned it to us to begin our portion of the data validation. The issues identified by Jenzabar were less than we expected. This indicates that Jenzabar understands our data and that the mapping and translation tables we developed are working as expected. This achievement...

Summer of Soul Movie Screening

You might have heard of Woodstock, but did you know that same summer of 1969, New York City hosted the Harlem Cultural Festival? The huge musical celebration, sometimes referred to as Black Woodstock, featured some of the most talented Black musicians of the time, including Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone and Gladys Knight. The entire event was filmed and the footage was recently rediscovered and made...

Music as a Tool for Justice

Diversity Programming Board is proud to welcome Donovan Scribes from the Oregon Humanities Conversation Project Music as a Tool for Justice: A Reflective Conversation Liberty and justice for all? In this conversation, we’ll examine what the word “justice” means and examine how it’s applied in Oregon. With the aid of local and national hip-hop music videos and lyrics, we will examine the history of our...

Let’s Welcome Norma Pantoja

Let’s welcome Norma Pantoja, our new Admissions & Recruitment member who is also our Latino Outreach & Recruitment representative! Norma was born in California but moved to Mexico at the age of six due to her father’s illness. When she returned to California in 2001, she discovered that a language barrier and a lack of skills with electronics were major challenges for her. Years later,...

Great Colleges Employee Engagement Survey

The survey will be open until Feb. 19 We are pleased to share that we have partnered with ModernThink to administer the Great Colleges Employee Engagement Survey this year as part of their Great Colleges To Work For program. The People, Culture & Safety Division selected this survey to replace our annual employee engagement survey after careful consideration of employee feedback, and the benefits of...