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Greetings and Happy April to you all.
I want to begin by thanking classified professionals, faculty and administrators for your hard work and dedication to the College. As we have moved back into familiar routines, we appreciate and recognize how important face-to-face interactions are to our community. The ability to have in-person meetings, schedule lunch with friends, and travel to conferences are things we both have missed and are things we are trying to learn to do within the new context and reality.
The fall and winter terms went quickly but we accomplished a great deal. We continue to make strides in achieving our institutional goals and our efforts have resulted in recognitions for the great work that happens here at Moreno Valley College. We have been recognized for our service to Veterans, student civic engagement, as well as apprenticeship programming, and external grant support continues to come to the College to assist us in enhancing services and offerings for our remarkable students. Moreno Valley College excellence was recognized at the annual Moreno Valley Chamber of Commerce Awards Banquet, where we received the award for Organization of the Year.
As we move to the halfway mark of our spring 2023 term, and towards a well-deserved spring break, there is an air of excitement about Moreno Valley College. We invite the new classified professionals, faculty and administrators who have joined the College to help us expand and improve services and support to our students. We maintain focus on the goals of equity and social justice and are excited to explore the potential partnerships with our business and civic organizations as we seek to expand the reach and impact of the College throughout our service area. We also continue to work on creating clear pathways for student success and being effective in operations and careful stewards of institutional resource.
The dedication to students, the community and each other will serve us well as we continue to advance the mission, stature and reputation of Moreno Valley College.
With respect and admiration,
Robin Steinback, Ph.D.
President, Moreno Valley College
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Hansen Selected as College’s Classified Employee of the Year
Noelle Hansen has been selected as Moreno Valley College’s Classified Employee of the Year.
Hansen serves the College as its webmaster and is responsible for maintaining the institution’s website, web-connected services, social media, and enforcing and developing standards for branding, web and accessibility. She has worked for Riverside Community College District as a classified employee since 2016.
She is a Moreno Valley native, having graduated from Moreno Valley College in 2014. She went on to complete her bachelor’s degree at California State University, Fullerton and will start a master’s program at California State University, San Bernardino this coming fall.
“I'm very honored by this recognition,” Hansen said. “Being a community college student and now an employee has allowed me to see both sides, and it has given me a deep appreciation for the work we do. RCCD has made an impact on me both professionally and personally: I’m the second generation of my family to attend an RCCD school and both my mother and my oldest sister also went on to work in higher education.”
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Grayson Receives the Margaret Hill African American Community Service Award
Micki Rechelle Grayson, director for the Office of TRIO Programs at Moreno Valley College, received the Dr. Margaret Hill Service Award on February 9 during the Moreno Valley Unified School District Black History Celebration at the Moreno Valley Conference Center. The award celebrates student and educational advocacy.
Hill was a community activist and longtime San Bernardino City Unified school board member who first began teaching at San Bernardino High School before moving into administration.
Grayson, who has worked for the Riverside Community College District since 2013, works with middle school through and college level students from first generation backgrounds. Moreno Valley College has four TRIO programs — Student Support Services, Educational Talent Search, Upward Bound Math and Science, and Upward Bound.
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RCCD Foundation Receives a Tail of the Whale Grant in Support of MVC’s TRIO Programs
The Riverside Community College District Foundation, in support of Moreno Valley College’s TRIO Programs, received a $50,000 grant from the California Coastal Commission.
The monies will be used to expose middle school and college students to career marine and coastal pathways. Participants will also learn about marine stewardship, engage in related service learning projects, and take field trips to the coast. The program called "C" to Shining Sea will run until April of 2025 and provide students from low to moderate income, historically underrepresented, and disproportionately impacted communities to connect to college and career choices while creating a collaborative culture of citizens as change agents committed to increasing awareness of conservation, climate change, and clean California coasts.
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College Celebrates Dolores Huerta and Cesar E. Chavez with Scholarship Breakfast
Moreno Valley College’s María del Rocío Alvarez de Pacheco, Ph.D., delivered the keynote for the College’s annual Dolores Huerta and Cesar E. Chavez Scholarship Breakfast.
Before becoming a professor, Pacheco was a farm worker, a parent scholar, a graduate from an adult school, a first-generation college student, a Dreamer, a Puentista, a peer mentor, and a social justice activist.
Jesús M. Holguín was awarded the College’s Dolores Huerta and Cesar E. Chavez Legacy Award. Holguín, a supporter of public education, was the recipient of the Moreno Valley College Dolores Huerta and Cesar E. Chavez Legacy Award. Holguín has been a member of the Moreno Valley Unified School District Board since November 2002 and is currently a member of the Riverside Community College District Foundation Board of Directors, serving as its treasurer, and chair of the Finance Committee.
As part of the event, the College honors local high school students for their community action and college students compete in an art competition.
This year’s winners were:
Lucia Gutierrez Sanchez • Moreno Valley High School
Sofia Covarrubias • Moreno Valley Online Academy
Jiovanni Fernandez • Rancho Verde High School
Xitlali Franco • Orange Vista High School
College winners were:
Artemis Jahansooz • for her piece, Woman, Life, Freedom
Mariana Barrera • abstract piece of the Grimke Sisters
Andrea Lara Jara • for her poem
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Moreno Valley College Honors Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Johnson, Scholarship Winners at Annual Scholarship Breakfast
For the first time in three years, Moreno Valley College physically hosted its annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Scholarship Breakfast. Now, in its 10th year, the event honored Cleveland Johnson, a Moreno Valley Unified School Board member, with the 2023 Moreno Valley College Legacy Award, and students in the community with scholarship awards from the speech/writing competition.
Saul Lankster, II, J.D., a foot soldier for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered the keynote address. He and the late Congressman John Lewis were arrested leading up to the iconic march across Edmund Pettus Bridge, the site of the brutal Bloody Sunday beatings of civil rights marchers during the first march for voting rights. The televised attacks were seen all over the nation, prompting public support for the civil rights activists in Selma and the voting rights campaign.
As part of the festivities, area high school and college students were honored after competing in either a speech or writing competition. This year, students were asked to share their observations or personal experiences of the Great American Divide and how they or others in the community have been affected by it. Additionally, they included how they would implement plans of reconciliation for those underserved and often undervalued populations in one of the following areas: economics, education, employment or housing.
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College Receives Grant to Establish a MESA Program
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Moreno Valley College received a five-year, $1.4 million grant from the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office to establish a Mathematics, Engineering, and Science Achievement (MESA) program. MESA has a proven track record in producing math-based graduates by providing tutoring, hands on competitions, counseling, transfer support and a community environment to students from middle school through college.
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The program is focused on increasing transfer ready academic success, teaching and learning, and locally tailored partnerships. The program will identify and serve a minimum of 125 transfer students in a declared calculus-based mathematics, engineering or science major. The college will collaborate with MESA’s college preparation programs at the local high schools and middle schools.
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College Selected as an Apprenticeship Ambassador
The US Department of Labor’s Office of Apprenticeship approved Moreno Valley College as an Apprenticeship Ambassador.
The US Department of Labor’s Apprenticeship Ambassador Initiative seeks to create a national network of employers, labor organizations, industry associations, program sponsors, educators, workforce intermediaries, community-based organizations, and other stakeholders to serve as champions for expanding and diversifying Registered Apprenticeship.
Only organizations with proven success experience with a registered apprenticeship program are eligible to become an Apprenticeship Ambassador.
The College will serve as a champion in promoting, expanding and diversifying registered state and federal apprenticeship opportunities for students to strengthen the region’s workforce, Rosalinda Rivas, director for Apprenticeship, said.
The initiative is especially interested in expanding awareness of benefits of the apprenticeships in the US for industry, employers, career seekers, educators and communities. The ambassadors will also be tasked with identifying and scaling innovative practices and partnerships to modernize, strengthen and accelerate the adoption of apprenticeships; increasing access and support for underrepresented and underserved populations, especially women, youth, people of color, rural communities, justice-involved individuals, and people with disabilities; and communicate the business case for apprenticeships as a mainstream workforce strategy for high-demand industries while creating opportunities for good jobs for all Americans across the economy.
The College is continuing to partner with local industries to expand apprenticeship opportunities for students.
Rivas said she is especially interested in developing partnerships with companies to develop industry apprenticeship hiring partners, intermediaries, community-based organizations and workforce development partners particularly in high-demand industries.
In recognition of the 85th anniversary of the National Apprenticeship Act, ambassadors from across the nation held a welcoming meeting in mid-August. Ambassadors are approved for a term of two years. |
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College Honored by the Moreno Valley Chamber of Commerce
Moreno Valley College was recognized as the 2023 Organization of the Year by Moreno Valley Chamber of Commerce at its Installation and Citizen of the Year Awards banquet. A team of classified professionals, faculty and administrators was there to receive the award. The College received a number of certificates of recognition from Moreno Valley Mayor Ulises Cabrera, County Supervisor Yxstian Gutierrez and Senator Richard Roth.
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