Cerritos College
Teacher TRAC Program Receives Award
For
Immediate Release: February 2,
2001
NORWALK, CALIF- The
Cerritos College Teacher TRAC program was recently given the
“Outstanding Leadership Award.”
The program will receive the award on Friday, February 16,
2001 in Tampa, Florida at the Chair Academy’s 10th Annual
International Conference.
The Chair Academy was created in 1989 to
better prepare department chairs, deans, and other organizational
leaders for the complex roles and responsibilities required of their
positions, in response to needs seen at Maricopa County Community
Colleges in Phoenix, Arizona, where the headquarters for the Academy
are located today. The
Academy, which gives this award annually to similar programs
throughout the country, chose Cerritos College as the Region One
recipient. Region One
includes: California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Nevada, Idaho,
Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Hawaii, and Guam.
There are five total regions recognized
by the academy nationally.
Gary Filan, Executive Director of the Academy said the
“team’s commitment to excellence in the academic and administrative
area were formidable.”
Also saying “the team’s contributions to faculty, staff, and
students demonstrated invaluable leadership traits.”
The Teacher TRAC program at Cerritos
College includes a partnership with California State University Long
Beach that affords students the opportunity to complete a Bachelor's
degree and multi-subject teaching credential in four calendar
years. Once accepted
into the program, students spend two years in the program at
Cerritos, with an opening waiting for them in the Integrated Teacher
Education Program (ITEP) at CSULB.
The following is a list of team members
going to Tampa to accept the award: Teacher TRAC Director Sue
Parsons, Teacher TRAC Co-Director Cheryl Shimazu, Teacher TRAC
Service Learning Coordinator Geri Codd, Teacher TRAC Technology
Faculty Mentor Kent Colbath, Teacher TRAC Technology Faculty Mentor
Susan Butler, Teacher TRAC Academic Counselor Chris Sugiyama,
Teacher TRAC Academic Counselor Gloria Montenegro-Bridges.
For
information on The Teacher TRAC program, contact 562.860.2451, ext.
2212 or visit the website at http://www.teachertrac.com/.
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