President's Office

Messages from Interim President Bernadine Chuck Fong

2022-2023

Winter

• 3/27/2023 17 months and not counting….
• 3/20/2023 Some reflections for you to ponder and understand the legacy of Foothill
• 3/13/2023 An Open Letter to our tenure committees and their candidates
• 3/12/2023 Open on Monday and.....15 and 5
• 3/10/2023 Shelter-in -place, please
• 3/8/2023 Scholarship Readers Needed
• 3/6/2023 Women’s History Month: Celebrang Women Who Tell Our Stories
• 2/27/2023 2023 Best Community Colleges in America -congratulations to us!
• 2/27/2023 Thoughts for Black History Month
• 2/21/2023 Message from one of our students --donations for Turkey earthquake relief
• 2/13/2023 Fake News revisited
• 2/10/2023 FW: Chat GPT Staff/Admin Survey. Feb. 13 deadline
• 2/6/2023 Celebrating Black History Month: Who is Annie Davis or Emmett Till, or St. Elmo Brady? And celebrating a Foothill Grammy Award winner!
• 1/30/2023 "What not to say in a TSA line….”
• 1/26/2023 Do you know what happened in 1567? Do you know about ChatGPT? Do you know Foothill is represented in the Grammys, Wheel of Fortune, and in Marshall Scholars? Do you know we are the most beauFful community college ever built?
• 1/23/2023 Will the San Francisco 49ers beat the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday?
• 1/17/2023 Sense of belonging and growth mindset work about to launch
• 1/13/2023 I have a dream....
• 1/9/2023 Happy New Year and Happy Lunar New Year

Fall

• 12/12/22 Extending the work to Saturday....
• 12/8/22 Background information about our Family Engagement Institute (FEI) and next steps
• 12/6/22 Welcome to Foothill College
• 12/5/22 Snow update and what's new on the horizon....
• 11/29/22 It's Snowing....The Cultural and Traditonal Holidays in December - SAVE THE DATE DEC. 7TH NOON
• 11/28/22 In a time of uncertainty…remember the horses and Back to the Future
• 11/18/22 An important message from FEI, our Family Engagement Institute
• 11/14/22 Will the next president be ready for us
• 11/8/22 Honoring our Veterans
• 11/8/22 An Open Letter to our Tenure Candidates and their Committees as you go through our process
• 10/30/22 Annual report to the College and Happy Halloween!
• 10/21/22 Halloween Contest Flyer
• 10/21/22 10 Days and Counting: Halloween Contest!!!
• 10/16/22 Undocumented Student Action Week
• 10/16/22 Creating a sense of belonging
• 10/15/22 Global Experiential Learning
• 10/9/22 David Yeager's slides on belonging and growth mindset
• 9/29/22 MISSION (I’M) POSSIBLE COUNCIL (MIP-C) CHARTER
• 9/29/22 MISSION (I’M) POSSIBLE COUNCIL (MIP-C) Governance Group Guidelines
• 9/29/22 Five Ingredients for CAOs and Faculty
• 9/29/22 9/22/22 Curtain rises at 8:45 am, Smithwick Theater, so don't be late
• 9/26/22 Masking for classes and meetings - clarification
• 9/26/22 Graduate Seminar
• 9/26/22 Fall Quarter launching!
• 9/25/22 Masking for classes and meetings
• 9/22/22 Opening Day Program: Back to the Future
• 9/22/22 Curtain rises at 8:45 am, Smithwick Theater, so don't be late

Summer

• 9/19/22 Competing priorities in the first day week of classes
• 9/18/22 WELCOME AND FALL QUARTER BEGINS SEPT. 21ST!
• 8/22/22 Back to the Future begins the week of Sept. 21, 22, 23
• 7/29/22 Violet Trailer

2021-2022

Spring

• 6/23/22 State of the College 2022
• 6/17/22 Juneteenth!
• 6/11/22 My apologies....
• 6/8/22 Call for longevity recipients and event reminder for all faculty, staff, admnistrators
• 6/6/22 "June" and a call for.... 2nd attempt
• 6/6/22 Stanford Programs Depts with Foothill College Collaborations
• 5/31/22 Foothill @ Stanford, inaugural class
• 5/25/22 Yesterday and now today….
• 5/16/22 An urgent message from President's Cabinet
• 5/11/22 We’re in a horse race….
• 5/5/22 Our new governance council - an introduction
• 4/27/22 Foothill is ....coming back
• 4/18/22 Open invitation to review draft of partial Presidential Search announcement
• 4/15/22 As we welcome spring...!
• 4/14/22 In Person Office Hours and Services for Spring Quarter
• 4/13/22 Foothill College Governance and Decision Making Model
• 4/13/22 Governance Group Guidelines
• 4/13/22 New Governance Model
• 4/6/22 Resilience
• 4/2/22 Spring Break! and Program and Schedule for Flex Days, April 4-5

Winter

 

• 3/24/22 Spring Break! and Program and Schedule for Flex Days, April 4-5
• 3/16/22 An alarming event on our campus
• 3/14/22 In recognition of Women's History Month and....
• 3/14/22 An Open Letter to our Faculty Search Committees
• 3/8/22 Come join us for an on campus mystery!
• 3/3/22 Cause for celebration: our first fully on-campus, in-person event!
• 3/1/22 Re: Ukraine and Russia
• 3/1/22 Addendum to our Book Report
• 2/28/22 Ukraine and Russia
• 2/28/22 Honoring Jean Thomas during Women's History Month
• 2/22/22 "Book Report"
• 2/15/22 Why we are here....
• 2/12/22 Another "re" assignment
• 2/10/22 An Open Apology for an Open Letter
• 2/8/22 "re" in a word...and African American Heritage Month and more
• 2/1/22 An Open Letter to our Tenure Review Committees and a student's testimonial
• 1/31/22 “What you know today, can help what you do tomorrow, but not what you did yesterday.”
• 1/24/22 Making a Comeback.....
• 1/19/22 Message from the Wildlife Center of Silicon Valley
• 1/18/22 Thinking of our own
• 1/10/22 Important Updates for On-Campus Faculty and Staff
• 1/4/22 Update on the Omicron variant, following the Chancellor’s email
• 1/2/22 Health Officer Order December 28 2021

Fall

 

• 12/29/21 Update and reminder on our health and vaccination guidelines and protocol for Winter quarter
• 12/17/21 Winter Q Student Screeing
• 12/09/21 Wishing you...
• 12/06/21 Energy from Friday and some thoughts about our colleagues, our boundaries, and our future
• 11/22/21 Covid update
• 11/22/21 Values, Vision, and Governance
• 11/22/21 The holiday season….
• 11/19/21 Invitation to our Dec. 3rd Celebration and Holiday Party at the Campus Center!
• 11/14/21 An Open Letter to the Foothill faculty, staff and administrators
• 11/8/21 Communiqué #1

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