Rancho Santiago Canyon College District Hires New Trustee

by Raul Rodriguez, PhD - Chancellor of the RSCC District

A Special Board Meeting was held last night to address the vacancy in Trustee Area #3 created by the resignation of former Trustee Lisa Woolery.  The Board interviewed three candidates during the meeting and selected Ms. Arianna P. Barrios to fill the vacancy.  Ms. Barrios was sworn in as the provisional appointee in Trustee Area #3 and will serve until the term ends on December 7, 2012.  The new Trustee for this area will be elected in the November 6, 2012 election.

Ms. Barrios has over 20 years experience in marketing and communications and has served as a communications consultant for non-profit, for profit and educational organizations, including several school districts across Southern California.  As sole owner of Barrios & Associates, Ms. Barrios consults with clients across the country.  A dedicated member of the community, Ms. Barrios has served in a number of volunteer positions with local organizations including the Orange Unified School District, YWCA of Central Orange County, HomeAid Orange County and is currently a member of the Board of the Community Foundation of Orange.  Ms. Barrios is an educator at heart, having worked in the classroom as a substitute teacher for the Orange County Department of Education.

Please join me in welcoming Ms. Arianna P. Barrios to the Rancho community.  We look forward to working with her as a member of the Rancho Santiago Community College District Board of Trustees. 

Raúl Rodríguez, PhD

Chancellor

Rancho Santiago Community College District

2323 North Broadway, Suite 410

Santa Ana, CA 92706-1640

714-480-7450 office

714-796-3915 fax

rodriguez_raul@rsccd.edu

 

Congratulations to Joshua Tatman, PLS 8858

From left: Greg Sebourn, Board Pres. Brian Conley, Joshua

Tatman, and Santiago Canyon College Pres. Dr. Juan

Vazquez, Ph.D.

Joshua Tatman, 23, of Lake Forest is one of the youngest licensed professional land surveyors to ever earn his license.

PLS 8858 (that's his state license number) was honored by the Rancho Santiago Community College District Board of Trustees at last night's Board meeting.  Josh is one of our Instructional Assistant at Santiago Canyon College where he acts as mentor, lab tech, and tutor for the nearly 200 land surveying students that attend classes each year. 

Josh is also a surveyor at OC Survey (a.k.a. the Orange County Surveyor's Office) where he works on boundary projects. 

Josh has earned several land surveying certificates from Santiago Canyon College and hopes to continue his education at Cal State Fullerton and earn a business degree.  Josh also hopes to become a Certified Federal Surveyor, or CFedS.

Congratulations to Joshua Tatman, PLS 8858!!!!

Trig Star 2011 - Trabuco Hills High School On Top

And the winners of the 2011 Trig Star High School Competition are...

Third Place- Gabriel Hahr, Trabuco Hills High School - $200
Second Place - Uma Rajpurkar, Trabuco Hills High School - $300
First Place - Kavan Zommers, Trabuco Hills High School - $500

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR ORANGE COUNTY TRIG STARS!!!

2011 OC-CLSA Trig Star Event - Saturday - March 12, 2011

Orange, CA.- High school students and interested parents from throughout Orange County are invited to attend Trig Star, a fun day of activities designed to introduce young people to well-paying careers in land surveying and mapping sciences. The event will be held on Saturday, March 12, from 9:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at Santiago Canyon College in Orange. Students can win cash and prizes in the trigonometry competition and the Land Surveyors Challenge.

Trig Star has attracted hundreds of students from Orange County high schools making it the largest of its kind in California. This year’s prizes include cash awards of $500, $300 and $200 for first, second and third place in the high school trigonometry competition. Winners in the Surveyor’s Challenge will receive gift certificates, and one grand prize will be awarded.

Trig Star is sponsored by the Orange County Chapter of the California Land Surveyors Association (CLSA) and is part of a nation-wide competition of the National Society of Professional Surveyors. The event is facilitated by Vital Link of Orange County. Additional sponsors include the Caltrans Foundation and the Professional Engineers in California Government.

For more information or to register for Trig Star, please contact Vital Link Orange County at (949) 646-2520 or e-mail Kathy@vitallinkoc.org.

Santiago Canyon College is a public community college, part of Rancho Santiago Community College District. It serves the residents of Anaheim Hills, Orange and Villa Park. The college provides education for
academic transfer and careers, courses for personal and professional development, and customized training for business and industry.

Rape at Santiago Canyon College - UPDATE

UPDATE:

I contacted Sgt. Dan Adams at Orange PD to see if there was anything new to report on this rape.

Below is the text from his message:

The alleged victim disclosed the information confidentially to staff at the campus and pursuant to the Clery Act they were required to report it to our department. Unfortunately, the alleged victim in this case did not want police involvement. Therefore, without cooperation from a victim it is nearly impossible for us to conduct an investigation of this nature. As far as I know there was nothing on surveillance video from the area as well.

I have not heard of any other reported rapes in that area.

I hope the victim will come forward and talk to police.  If you know anything about this case, please contact Sgt. Dan Adams at 714-744-7448  or dadams@orangepd.org. 



Checking my email this morning I found the following:


From: Weispfenning, John
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2010 11:45 AM
To: # All SCC Email Users
Subject: CAMPUS SAFETY BULLETIN
Importance: High

On Wednesday, May 12, a student disclosed to an SCC administrator that a rape occurred in an SUV located in parking lot #3 on the SCC campus at approximately 10:30 p.m. on April 28, 2010. The suspects are identified as two males.


Campus administrators notified the Orange Police Department of the report.

SCC Safety has increased its patrols and recommends the following:
· Be aware of activity and those around you
· Use a “buddy” system to get to your vehicle, especially in the evening
· Report parking lot problems (burned out lights, etc.)
· Report suspicious activities

SCC CAMPUS SAFETY 714-628-4730

John Weispfenning, Dean and Public Information Officer
Santiago Canyon College
Orange, California 92869
714-628-5030

Hundreds Gather for Trigonometry Competition at Santiago Canyon College

March 20, 2010
Trig Star 2010 attracted hundreds of high school students and their parents from a dozen Orange County area schools. Also in attendance were Santiago Canyon College students. What could possibly compel these students to wake up early on a Saturday morning to take a trigonometry exam? How about $500 and scholarship opportunities! Winners walked away with $500, $300, and $200 for first, second and third place respectively. The college students took the same exam but were competing for their own prizes in the same amount of money. Exams were scored immediately following the exam by a dozen volunteer proctors. The event closed out with the announcement of the winners of Trig Star and an exciting competition known as the Surveyor's Challenge. The winners of the Surveyor's Challenge walked away with $50, $30, and $20 awards for measuring angles and distances and then applying trigonometric principles to their measurements to determine the size, shape, and area of certain features on campus. A grand prize was also handed out. The Garmin eTrex Legend H, worth about $150, went to the overall Surveyor's Challenge winner, Vallentino Leanarduzzi, a Santiago Canyon College Survey/Mapping student.

Numerous industry leaders were on hand to recruit and educate visitors about land surveying and mapping.  The primary sponsor, the Orange County Chapter of the California Land Surveyor's Association (OC-CLSA), donated nearly $6,000 to make the event a success.  Other sponsors included the Port of Long Beach, California State University at Fresno's Geomatics Engineering, Psomas, Johnson-Frank, RBF, the County of Orange's Geomatics/LIS Division, Professional Engineers in California Government (PECG), Santiago Canyon College's Career Education, and me.