SFCC Snapshot: Carlos Balladares
“Especially in this time of crisis, I value all my colleagues at SFCC, and I mean everybody, from staff and faculty to students. I value all the work that we all do there. Because of how united we are in this time of crisis, I believe that we are truly […]
SFCC Snapshot: Ondine Frauenglass
“During the campus closure, I have been involved in drafting the health and safety protocols so students who wish to complete their hands-on training can come to campus in a safe environment. These protocols follow CDC guidelines and have been adapted for Welding, Controlled Environment Agriculture (Greenhouse), and the Culinary […]
SFCC Snapshot: Steve Martinez
“About 10% of my students were having difficulty because of what was happening in their lives or access to the Internet. You think everybody has access to the Internet, but that’s not the case. I had a handful of students who called me crying, saying they couldn’t study, and I […]
SFCC Snapshot: R. Charlie Shultz
“It started when SFCC President Becky Rowley announced that we weren’t coming back to campus after spring break, so we were really thrown into transition. Right away our concern was to use the facility that we’d invested in to provide food to the community. We can’t just close down the […]
SFCC Snapshot: sj Miller
“This semester I had one face-to-face class, Theories of Teaching and Learning. The 11 students in the class were already very bonded when we went online, so we didn’t miss a heartbeat. Those relationships were already formed and going online brought us even closer. Since we were in crisis, I […]
SFCC Snapshot: Dr. Jen Breneiser
“Based on what I was hearing from my students, their schedules changed significantly when the covid situation happened. I personally didn’t feel comfortable holding them to a class meeting that they had made an obligation to before covid. Maybe their parents lost a job, or maybe they had to work. […]
SFCC Snapshot: Ian Widrick Martinez
“During this time, the biggest challenge for me has been the adjustment of balancing my work life with my school life and my student government life. I feel like they’ve all been crushed together, and I’ve had to figure out how to do my homework, my student government life, my […]
SFCC Snapshot: Natasha Farmer
“One of the biggest challenges is that many of the classes I was taking were practical classes, and it’s hard to transition those to online, although it hasn’t gone as badly as I thought it would. My instructors have been very creative. In the Wastewater Microbiology class, my instructor found […]
SFCC Snapshot: Russell Fletcher
“I am energized by being around people and that’s why I’ve always been drawn to a traditional classroom. Being in a classroom online is not the same as being in a classroom in person. When our Theories of Teaching and Learning class, taught by sj miller, went online, we met […]
