Don't Miss the Spring Collegewide Opening Meeting on Tuesday!

The MC community is invited to the Cultural Arts Center on the Takoma Park Silver Spring Campus on Tuesday, January 17. The Opening Meeting begins with a coffee and tea social at 8:30 a.m. in the Cultural Arts Center Lobby. The meeting presentations begin at 9 a.m. with a welcome from the Academic Assembly followed by a presentation by President DeRionne Pollard about MC's One College initiative. The Blue Ribbon Task Force on Governance will fill you all in on their progress and let us all know where we can fit into the new participatory governance system which begins in 2012-13. There will be a Staff forum, an AAUP meeting and an SEIU meeting just after these presentations. See the college calendar for times and meeting rooms for these important events: http://calendar.montgomerycollege.edu/EventList.aspx?fromdate=1/17/2012&todate=1/17/2012&display=Day&type=public&eventidn=3570&view=EventDetails&information_id=9592 Lunch will be available for purchase for $6 in the Cultural Arts Center Lobby and the Cafritz Arts Center Grand Hall at 11 a.m. A working lunch/discipline meetings will take place for faculty from 11:45-2 p.m. Faculty should consult an e-mail that has a list of discipline meeting rooms. Mark your calendars for Tuesday, January 17 at 8:30 a.m. in the Cultural Arts Center. See you there!