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Hi, good morning.
Welcome to Cuyamaca College.
I'm Mark Zacovic.
I work here as the president of the College.
We're one of two colleges in the
in the Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College District
located here in East San Diego County.
We did something special here at the college
that I want to share with you.
We recently had our comprehensive visit for
reaffirmation of our accreditation.
And the year before that,
while we were writing our self-evaluation,
we wanted to make sure that people here at the college
knew as much as they possibly could
and were as prepared as they possibly could be
for both the writing of the self-evaluation
and the visit.
Well thanks to the ACCJC and their online
Accreditation Basics course
we were able to turn that into our own MOOC
here at Cuyamaca College.
And here a MOOC stands for Mini Open Online Course.
We had participation in this initiative across
the district and across the college.
We had faculty, staff, students, administrators,
board members, and even friends over in district
services who took the time to take the online course.
They were able to print out their certificates
and brought them to our office so that
we were able to create
the Cuyamaca College Accreditation Wall of Fame.
153 people participated in this initiative and it became
a really big deal here at the college to have your
certificate on the wall.
It brought the college together in the
process of reaffirmation of accreditation
and brought us together as a college community.
I just want to take the time to thank
each of the 153 people who produced a certificate
and took the course,
and that participated in the initiative,
and to thank them for
doing so and to thank them for the work
they do every day in support of student success
here at Cuyamaca College.
Thank you.