My Day - My 500 Words D13

My day sated out with a sick baby. When I went to get my daughter out of the shower she was crying. She had spent the entire night coughing. She did not sleep well and was not in a good space. Poor thing! I got her back in bed and my husband said that he would stay with her. I gave her a kiss bye and she felt warm. When I checked her temperature she had a 103 fever. I gave her medicine, kissed her again, and headed to work. I hated to leave her. She is five and is such a big girl but when she gets sick I remember how little she still is.

I got to work and started my morning in meetings, one with my supervisor to go over work assignments. There are a lof of projects on our list of things to do. The second meeting was a management team meeting with our division. We did updates from the different areas. We spent a good time of our time taking about onboarding another community college. My community college is the biggest in the state. We have over 90,000 per year. The college that will come under us as they become an official college has 2,000. We have just transitioned two colleges who received accreditation by the state. We were making a list of the things we need to do and the questions that must be answer before the contract is signed.

After lunch I headed to another campus for the last meeting of the day. I am part of a committee that is putting together a one stop center. The aim of the one stop is to have an area where students can visit self-help computers to conduct student business with over the shoulder help if needed. The center opened on December 30^th and many students have been using the computers. They are learning to navigate the portal and conduct college business such as paying their bill and ordering parking permits on their own. It is taking the teaching how to fish approach. We have three other centers that will be opening district-wide. The next is due to open summer 2014. We have been in this committee for over a year. I think most of us are worn down. The two hour meeting seemed to draw on. I personally had spaced a few times during the meeting. I am taking over this committee for the next center so I need to have the energy for the next center rollout.

This will be a great opportunity. While a lot of the work had already been done since we rolled out the first center there is still a lot of work to be done on the next campus. There are new stakeholders to bring together and get them through the process. In the next campus there has been a lot of remodeling to the space where the center will be. It will give the campus a new feel and a new way of directing students. Thais will be different from the first campus. It is an exciting time for the college and for student services.