Collaborative Music Ensembles Spring Concert

Palo Alto College’s
Fine & Performing Arts/Speech Communication Department presents
“The First Ever”
Collaborative Music Ensembles Spring Concert featuring
Jazz Ensemble
Mariachi Palomino
Conjunto Palo Alto
PAC Choir

PAC Performing Arts Center Theater
Thursday, April 29
7 p.m.
Free and open to the public

SGA "Fun"draiser at Chili's

The PAC Student Government Association is conducting a “FUN”draising Night at the Chili’s, located in South Park Mall, tomorrow, Thursday, April 28 from 11 a.m. to close.

Simply dine at Chili’s and bring the flier in this post, and Chili’s will donate 10 percent of your bill to SGA.

SGA plans to use the funds raised at this event to assist the Haiti’s Children Rescue Mission.

Graduation Festival

As the Spring semester winds down and students prepare for final exams, there’s a contingent of students that are looking forward to PAC’s 24th annual Commencement Ceremony being held at the Municipal Auditorium, Thursday, May 6 at 7 p.m.

Making this event special is the possibility that this will be the largest group of students participating in the Commencement Ceremony. Last year’s record of 288 students looks like it will be easily toppled as more than 400 students have made a commitment to participate in this year’s Ceremony.

Tomorrow, Wednesday, April 28, PAC will host “Graduation Festival” in the Student Center Annex from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. This festive event is designed to give graduating students a “one-stop” location for picking up their cap and gown, tickets to enter the Municipal Auditorium for family and friends, and a parking pass.

Graduation Festival will also include tables for representatives selling graduation rings and invitations, along with representatives from four-year universities providing information for students to continue their academic journey. The Center for Academic Transitions will make available PAC’s new Alumni Coordinator and Career Services staff.

The Office of Student Life will be providing salsa, meringue and cumbia music, along with refreshments consisting of pan dulce, donuts, cookies, kettle corn, coffee, juice, water and soft drinks. They have even worked out a deal with Maverick Cleaners (1952 SW Military Drive) to steam press graduation gowns for $1.99!

For more information on Graduation Festival, please call the Department of Public Relations at (210) 486-3880.

Graduation Festival

Don't forget tomorrow's Graduation Festival: Students participating in the Commencement Ceremony at the Municipal Auditorium on Thursday, May 6, need to pick up their cap and gown, admittance ticketes and parking pass in the Student Center Annex tomorrow from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

PAC Activities

Dr. Guzmán has just been made aware of a scheduling conflict regarding two events at PAC this afternoon. In an effort to allow as many people as possible to attend each event, the President has requested that the time and location for her Town Hall Meeting to be changed.

Here is this afternoon’s schedule adjustment that will allow you to attend both events:

STEM Speakers Series featuring
Mark Robert Waldman
Topic: How Spirituality Changes your Brain
Today at 3:15 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center Recital Hall, room 190
This event is scheduled to end at 4:15 p.m.

President’s Town Hall Meeting featuring
Dr. Ana M. “Cha” Guzmán
Today at 4:15 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center Theater
This event is scheduled to end at 5 p.m.

Faculty and Staff attending are encouraged to bring their personal belongings so that they may leave for home immediately after the Town Hall Meeting. Plenty of parking is available in the Performing Arts Center.

PAC Music Ensembles Spring Concert

PALO ALTO COLLEGE
Fine & Performing Arts/Speech Communication Department
presents

MUSIC ENSEMBLES SPRING CONCERT
Featuring the PAC Jazz Ensemble, Mariachi Palomino,
Conjunto Palo Alto & the PAC Choir

THURS - APRIL 29, 2010 @ 7pm
Performing Arts Center
Free and open to the public

For Info: 210.486.3205

Building Closures

The Palomino Center, and the Counseling and Support Services Center (CSSC) will close at 5 p.m., on Thursday, April 22 and will re-open at its regular time on Monday, April 26.We apologize for any inconvenience.

Starfish Award Presentation at PACfest

PACfest 2010

It’s time for PACfest 2010!!!

Join Dr. Guzmán,
Miss Fiesta,
Miss Fiesta Teen Queen,
The Charro Queen,
And the
Military Ambassadors
At the
11 a.m. Opening Ceremonies
by PAC Stage (next to EO Building)
(I’m sure there’s going to be medals!!!)

Here’s the band line-up:

PAC Stage
10:45 a.m. Mariachi Palomino
11 a.m. Opening Ceremonies
11:30 a.m. AudioMouth
1 p.m. The New Tattoos
2:30 p.m. River City Kings
4:30 p.m. Cactus Country
6:30 p.m. Conjunto Palo Alto
7:30 p.m. David Lee Garza y Los Musicales

Palomino Stage
1 p.m. PAC Jazz Power Trio
2 p.m. Soul Congress
3 p.m. Goodnight Ether
4 p.m. Reecluse
5 p.m. VonArmy
6 p.m. The Court Jesters

David Lee Garza to Headline PACfest 2010

Texas Tornados cancel PACfest performance;
Augie Meyers to receive kidney transplant

David Lee Garza y Los Musicales to headline PACfest 2010

Augie Meyers, the heart and soul of the Texas Tornados, has received the message he has been longing to hear—a kidney has been found that will enable him to undergo the transplant operation he needs to improve his quality of life and stop the dialysis treatments he has been undergoing since last year.

According to David Lloyd, a TG2 Artists agent representing the Texas Tornados, Meyers received the news Sunday evening, and the operation has been scheduled for Wednesday, which has caused the Texas Tornados to cancel their performance at Palo Alto College’s PACfest 2010 event.

“While we’re disappointed that the Texas Tornados will not be performing at PACfest, we’re happy to know that Augie’s wait on the kidney donor list has come to an end and that he will soon be in good health,” said Dr. Daniel Rodriguez, a PACfest coordinator. “The college joins all his fans in wishing him a successful operation and we’re looking forward to Augie producing great music in the future.”

Filling the headline band spot on the PACfest musical roster will be David Lee Garza y Los Musicales.

Other bands performing on two musical stages are AUDIOMOUTH, Cactus Country, River City Kings, Goodnight Ether, Von Army, Soul Congress, the New Tattoos, and the Court Jesters.
PACfest will be held in the campus courtyard on Thursday, April 22. The event begins at 11 a.m., and ends at 9 p.m.

With the cancellation of the Texas Tornados, PACfest officials have decided not to collect a parking fee at the event.

Approximately 60 food and arts & crafts vendors will be participating in PACfest. Vendors include student and community groups, and have a cross-section of cultural, social and nutritional offerings. Other concurrent activities taking place throughout the day include children’s educational area, agricultural and nutritional areas, and a car show.

Miss Fiesta will join Dr. Ana M. “Cha” Guzmán, PAC President, in officially opening PACfest. Other Fiesta royalty will show up throughout the day to hand out medals and meet with the public.

For more information on PACfest 2010, please give Dr. Rodriguez a call at (210) 486-3125.

Congratulations, Rosie Castro

Rosie Castro, Coordinator of the Center for Academic Transitions, will be honored at the “Honoring Mothers Celebration Luncheon” sponsored by the Family Violence Prevention Services, Inc., at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, May 5. According to the FVPS website, “Rosie Castro is not only a political activist who sought change for civil rights and women, she is also a tireless advocate for education for those minorities who are less likely to have access to a college degree.”

Marberry Awarded Firefighter of the Year Honors

Marberry Awarded Firefighter of the Year Honors

Bennie Reed Marberry Jr., was one of three emergency responders recognized at the 20th District American Legion Law and Order Banquet at Alamo Post No. 2, April 10. The post gives the awards annually to recognize the San Antonio firefighter, police officer and paramedic of the year. Marberry, who began teaching exclusively for PAC’s EMS program in 2006, was recognized as the Firefighter of the Year.

Banner Registration Schedule Fall 2010

Fall 2010 Schedule for Banner Registration (to begin June 14, 2010)

Beginning with the Fall 2010 semester, Alamo Colleges will be using ACES (Alamo Colleges Education Services), our new portal system, for registration and all communication with students. Students will be using Self Service to register once they are admitted to the colleges and permitted to sign up for fall classes.

Fall registration begins June 14, 2010. Through a Time-Ticketing staggered start process, students will have a start date for registration based on their total number of hours earned. Once a group is allowed to begin registering, the process will remain open through the end of the registration process. Some groups of students may be registered by college advisors and will not be assigned a time ticket. Examples of these groups are Dual Credit Students, Gateway and Early College High School students, and Virtual College students.

The Time-Ticketing groups and start dates are shown below. Students can begin registering on date shown for their group (which is based on total hours completed - as reflected in the Banner system.

Groups Dates
Students with 46+ hours June 14, 2010
Students with 31 – 45 hours June 15, 2010
Students with 16 – 30 hours June 16, 2010
Students with 0 – 15 hours June 17, 2010

From June 18th going forward, all students will be able to register for Fall 2010 courses on any day or time.

General Student Banner Information
Students should make a habit of checking their Alamo Colleges e-mail each week for important messages from various Alamo Colleges offices (Financial Aid, Records, Registration, Billing, etc.). Your Alamo Colleges e-mail is the official method of communication for you to receive information about financial aid, admissions, registration, student billing and other official notifications.

Additional information regarding access to the ACES portal and for Fall registration will be available on the Alamo Colleges web sites.

PAC Town Hall Meeting April 27

Dear Faculty and Staff,

Dr. Ana M. “Cha” Guzmán
Cordially invites you to a
PAC Town Hall Meeting
Tuesday, April 27
3:30 p.m.
Fine Arts Building
Lecture Hall 109

ACCD.EDU to ALAMO.EDU

Dear Students/Faculty/Staff:

In April 2009, Alamo Colleges began the process of changing the domain name from ACCD.EDU to ALAMO.EDU. We successfully launched the new domain ( http://alamo.edu ) and email address (username@alamo.edu) in October 2009.

Since October 2009, we have been diligently working with college webmasters and IT professionals to ensure a smooth transition by supporting both ACCD.EDU and ALAMO.EDU. In order to do this, we applied for and received the maximum extension from EDUCAUSE – the governing body for .EDU domain names. The extension allowed us to maintain both domain names for 12 months from our initial registration of ALAMO.EDU with EDUCAUSE on April 12, 2009. We appreciate everyone’s cooperation and patience in making this transition as smooth as possible.

As a result, on or shortly after Monday, April 12, 2010, EDUCAUSE will deactivate the ACCD.EDU domain from Alamo Colleges. Please ensure that all of your external links, bookmarks, and saved Alamo Colleges web pages utilize the ALAMO.EDU domain. In addition, please remind your contacts outside of Alamo Colleges to use the email address ending in ALAMO.EDU when sending email to you. This is extremely important because links will not work and mail will bounce back to senders outside of the colleges.

Please feel free to contact me or your college IT personnel for questions or assistance.

Thank you,
Kenny Patterson
Client Services Manager
Alamo Colleges District ITS

Alamo Colleges Blog Site

Alamo Colleges Launch Blog on mysanantonio.com

The Office of Communications coordinated the launch of the Alamo Colleges' PR Team login MySA.com’s City Brights: Alamo Colleges

This section of their website is viewed by 1000’s of readers every day. The college PR offices and the Office of Communications will share blog writing duties.

Legal Services Update

LEGAL SERVICES WEBPAGE: http://www.alamo.edu/district/legal/contracts.htm

Good Afternoon, All:

This is to let everyone know that Legal Services has updated its consultant and professional services form. It is now two different forms depending on the services that you are purchasing. The short form, with which most of your are familiar, is titled “Agreement for Professional and Consultant Services” and should be used for (and this is stated on the cover page of the form document) for short-term or event specific professional or consulting services rendered to Alamo Colleges. Examples of appropriate uses for this form are listed on the cover page of the document along with directions for processing the contract.

Additionally, we’ve created a new form, titled “Services Agreement” and should be used for professional or consulting services rendered to Alamo Colleges which are for a long term or of a substantive nature. Examples of appropriate uses for this form are listed on the cover page of the document along with directions for processing this contract.

These two forms, along with other forms, can be found on the Legal Services webpage cited above. I recommend that you always pull your forms from the webpage (in lieu of saving the form in your directory) in case we have minor updates that do not warrant a mass email notification. The forms on the webpage are the current versions and everyone is expected to use current versions of the form agreements. Often we receive agreements from the campuses in forms from 1, 2 or even 3 years ago. Please advise and remind anyone who is initiating contractual agreements that they should consult the Legal Services webpage for the current forms. If we do not have a form that fits your need, please contact our office and we will assist with drafting an agreement with you.

Please always keep in mind that forms are just that – a form. They will not address every situation perfectly. Any revisions need to be processed through our office. Additionally, when any form is in Word format, and “unlocked” you MUST use “track changes” when filling in blanks and making any proposed revisions.

We appreciate your cooperation. Please feel free to call us with any questions or concerns. Please forward this email to any faculty or staff that may have a need to use these forms.

Thank you.
-Retha
Retha E. Karnes, J.D., B.S.
Associate General Counsel
Office of Legal Services
Alamo Community College District
201 W. Sheridan, C-8
San Antonio, Texas 78204
Tel: (210) 485-0059
Fax: (210) 485-0058
rkarnes1@alamo.edu

Book Review: Matterhorn

Please click on the link to view a review on "Matterhorn" which appears in today's San Antonio Express-News: Matterhorn

PAC Women's Volleyball

Congratulations to the PAC women’s volleyball team for their recent participation in the AE NIRSA Volleyball Nationals. PAC was the only 2-year school in a field of 80 club sport teams from around the nation. After a rough start to the tournament losing their first three matches on day 1 to Texas A & M University, University of Dayton, and Augustana College respectively, PAC bounced back on day 2 to defeat Southern Illinois and University of North Texas before dropping a close match to Eastern Washington University. On day 3, PAC was eliminated in a close match by Duke University.

The students pictured above are from left to right:
Front row: Erica Valdez, Jessica Rodriguez, and Yvette Torres
Back Row: Marlinda Medellin, Olivia Sanchez, Amber Mata, Krista Hinojosa, and Alyssa Flores
Not pictured: Coach Ruben Calderon


John S. Libby III
Palo Alto College
Intramural Specialist/Women's Basketball Coach
210-486-3135 Office
210-486-3126 Fax
210-621-4099 Cell
jlibby1@alamo.edu

An Invitation from SLHW

Sarah Cortez

An invitation from the Society of Latino and Hispanic Writers of San Antonio:

Greetings,

There are two pieces of information I would like to share with you.

Our monthly meeting of the Society of Latino and Hispanic Writers of San Antonio will be this Monday, April 12 at the Barnes and Nobles, San Pedro Crossing, at 7:30 p.m. We have 10 fellow writers who have signed up to share with us up to 5 minutes of their written works! This is our quarterly "Cinco Minutos with You" event that always unveils interesting stories and gives writers the opportunity to receive feedback on the stories they have written.

Please make every effort to attend what promises to be an enjoyable evening!

Secondly,

Winning Author, Poet and Editor, Sarah Cortez.
www.poetacortez.com

Sarah Cortez, a friend of the Society of Latino and Hispanic Writers of San Antonio, will be attending the Texas Library Association Conference in San Antonio. She would like to visit with us, so we have organized a dinner with Sarah and we hope that you can come and join us!

Wednesday, April 14 at 6:30 p.m.
La Paloma Blanca Mexican Restaurant
www.palomablanca.net
5800 Broadway Street San Antonio, TX 78209-5259(210) 822-6151

In order to make reservations, we would like to get a headcount by Tuesday April 13. Please let Bertha Jacobson at bjacobson@swbell.net know if you are planning on attending as soon as possible--of course, we will each be responsible for paying for our own meal.

Note: Sarah facilitates and edits anthologies that have been well received nationwide. This is a wonderful opportunity for a writer to meet with an editor who has a proven track record of publishing anthologies that gives beginning writers an opportunity to be read. This is a definite, do-not-misss opportunity to meet with an experienced writer and editor in a relaxed, social setting and get valuable advice on writing and publishing.

Tito Puente Jr

There's a lot of activity going on in the Executive Office Building and the Performing Arts Center as we prepare for tonight's Scholarship Gala honoring the Four Compadres and featuring the musical talents of Tito Puente Jr.!

Our theater seats 400 patrons and as of a few minutes ago we were at 385 guests!

PAC Faculty Advising Days

FACULTY ADVISING DAYS
APRIL 13-30
STUDENT CENTER ANNEX
Mondays – Thursdays
11 a.m. – 2 p.m.
5 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Fridays
11 a.m. – 2 p.m.

NO FACULTY ADVISING
APRIL 21-23
APRIL 28

Deadly Approaches for Faculty Senate Nominations

FACULTY SENATE OFFICER NOMINATIONS

Nominations for 2010-2011 Faculty Senate offices close

at 5:00 PM on Wednesday, April 7, 2010.

The offices are as follows:

President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer
Parliamentarian

Persons seeking the office of President must be tenured;

those seeking the other offices can be tenured or tenure-track.

The term of office is one year.

You may self-nominate by sending an e-mail to the Faculty Senate Secretary, Dorothy Ulcak, at dulcak@alamo.edu

All who seek to serve and serve are greatly appreciated by your peers.

PAC Cell Phone Collection Drive

Chi Alpha Epsilon National Honor Society, Gamma Epsilon Chapter will be sponsoring a Cell Phone Collection Drive during the month of April. Please consider donating your retired cell phones to one of the following locations:

• Palomino Center (next to water fountain)
• General Education (GE) building (next to first floor elevator)
• Science, Social Science & Workforce Center (SWF) (next to first floor elevator)
• Student Center (outside the bookstore)
• Library (first floor)
• Counseling Center

For additional information, please call 486-3340.

Resume Writing Workshop

Resume Writing Workshop
Wednesday, April 7
11 a.m.
Center for Academic Transtions

Please RSVP to 486-3124

Learn how to make a professional resume

that will awe your future employer!

PAC Library Closed

The Palo Alto College library
will be closed
Friday, April 2, through

Sunday, April 4,
in observance of the Easter Holiday.

We will resume our regular hours on
Monday, April 5, at 7:45 a.m.

PAC Student Government Elections

ATTENTION STUDENTS
IT’S ELECTION TIME!
RUN FOR OFFICE!

STUDENT GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Application Deadline
Friday, April 9
Pick Up/ Drop Off at Student Activities, SC 110

Requirement Criteria:
• Must maintain an overall 2.75 GPA
• Have a completion rate of 65%
• Be enrolled in at least 6 college credit hours
• Participate in the Student Leadership Institute

Mandatory Campaign Meeting
April 14 , 11am or 5pm
Student Activities Rm. 110

Palomino Center Construction Update

The North Entrance of the Palomino Center will be closed Thursday, April 1, so that contractors can stain the concrete. Signs will be in place to redirect student traffic to other entrance ways to the building.