2026 Employee In-Service Week

2026 In-Service Community Sessions

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September 15

Time Location Title Presenters
9-10:30am Zoom Empowering Student Leaderscanceled heidi.sickert@pcc.edu
wilson.nitunga@pcc.edu
grapp@pcc.edu
9-11am Sylvania HT 205 PCC Benefits Open Enrollment kim.searcy@pcc.edu
leslye.jubb@pcc.edu
rachel.caliramirez@pcc.edu
mischell.vineyard@pcc.edu
10-11am Sylvania HT 211 Clearing the Air on Indoor Air Quality at PCC cheryl.arpan@pcc.edu
kevin.crowley@pcc.edu
patrick.danforth@pcc.edu
gary.sutton@pcc.edu
10-10:30am Rock Creek BLDG7 110 The Learning Organization Paradox: Building a Culture of Learning Behind the Curtain chelsey.lynne@pcc.edu
10-11am Cascade CH 205 and Zoom What is PCC doing about GenAI in the classroom? afreed@pcc.edu
10-11am Southeast TABOR 100 and Zoom Plain Language Is Just Good Business melanie.deleon@pcc.edu
anette.hassold@pcc.edu
11am-12pm Cascade CH 201 Narcan Training ellen@projectredinitiative.org
11am-12pm Rock Creek BLDG7 112 and Zoom Empowering Every Pathway: Building Impactful Financial Aid Plans abel.delacruz@pcc.edu
11am-12pm Cascade CH 203 Reflection & Exploration: The Building of Interpersonal and Institutional Legacies (with a twist!) marvin.sadler@pcc.edu
11am-12pm Zoom Keeping PCC Safe, Secure, and Prepared: College Operations Updates for Faculty and Staff joshua.petersmcbride@pcc.edu
kloberge@pcc.edu
lorraine.churchill@pcc.edu
charisse.loughery@pcc.edu
12-1pm Zoom Public Employees and Election Activities stephen.arthur@pcc.edu
alyson.kraus@pcc.edu
1-1:30pm Sylvania HT 205 Inclusive Excellence in Practice: SY HT Locker Area Tour cici.ross@pcc.edu
mae.stephenson@pcc.edu
rt.tougas@pcc.edu
2-3pm Zoom All Aboard! Planning Inclusive and Accessible Events and Meetings jennifer.gossett@pcc.edu
phyllis.petteys@pcc.edu
2-3:30pm Cascade CH 201 and Zoom Shared Governance Taskforce Share-Out amina.saseyi@pcc.edu
karina.bjork@pcc.edu
Comms Faculty and FDC
3-4pm Sylvania HT 211 and Zoom Understanding Historical Barriers To Contemporary Native American College Success jacob.hutchins@pcc.edu
3-4pm Zoom Awesome POSM: Preparing for Online Schedule Meetings paul.montone@pcc.edu
vicki.jeffries@pcc.edu
gretchen.gebhardt@pcc.edu
shawna.randall@pcc.edu
3-4pm Zoom Paws for Inclusion: Service Animals at PCC jennifer.gossett@pcc.edu
phyllis.petteys@pcc.edu
shaun.williams1@pcc.edu

September 16

Time Location Title Presenters
10-10:30am Zoom Drive2Thrive: From Participation to Persistence delinda.martinhuggins@pcc.edu
gabbi.boyle@pcc.edu
10-11am Sylvania HT 203 and Google Meet Veterans Green Zone: Building a Culture of Support at PCC christopher.brown29@pcc.edu
10-11am Zoom Coaching at PCC: Different Paths, Common Purpose gloria.bryant@pcc.edu
james.gapinski@pcc.edu
jana.daugherty15@pcc.edu
suzanne.hesse@pcc.edu
10am-12pm Zoom Building Towards Queer and Trans Equity: Foundations v.rosales@pcc.edu
10:30-11:30am Zoom Employee ADA Accommodations 101 megan.mcfarland1@pcc.edu
11am-12pm Sylvania HT 205 Utilizing The Illumination Project in your class jlafranc@pcc.edu
11am-12:30pm Zoom Supporting Student Survivors of Gender Based Violence at PCC hayley.hayes@pcc.edu
beatriz.bonilla@pcc.edu
11:30am-12:30pm Zoom Narcan Training ellen@projectredinitiative.org
11:30am-1pm Zoom PCC’s Climate Action Plan Info and Feedback Session briar.wray@pcc.edu
jade.menchaca@pcc.edu
stephania.fregosi@pcc.edu
12-1pm Cascade CH 201 From Access to Belonging: Supporting Community College Students in Education Abroad anne.frey@pcc.edu
mariah.tilman@pcc.edu
alison.garfinkle@pcc.edu
adriane.bolliger@pcc.edu
12:30-1:30pm Sylvania HT 205 and Zoom Framework for the Methodology of Veterans Services Assessment Approach matthew.blankenship@pcc.edu
1-2pm Zoom Fraud and its Impacts: How “bad actors” affect college enrollment and what we are doing about it bridget.jones1@pcc.edu
1-2pm Rock Creek BLDG7 110 and Zoom Workday Student Project amcmahon@pcc.edu
1-4pm Zoom An Introduction to Universal Design Learning by CAST for CTE courtney.gaynor@pcc.edu
1:30-2:30pm Zoom Beyond Events: Using PantherHub to Increase Student Engagement, Connection, and Success dana.bonifaciosample@pcc.edu
delinda.martinhuggins@pcc.edu
gabbi.boyle@pcc.edu
2-3:30pm Southeast SCOM 314 Be 2 Weeks Ready, a primer alyson.lighthart@pcc.edu
3-4pm Zoom Ditching Paper: How We Rebuilt Dual Credit in AODocs kate.depaolis@pcc.edu
courtney.gaynor@pcc.edu
frank.smith@pcc.edu
nereida.macias@pcc.edu
hunter.sunitsch@pcc.edu
4:30-5:30pm Sylvania HT 203 Reading the Room: Recognizing Disengagement Before It Becomes Dropout sara.bovey@pcc.edu

September 17

Time Location Title Presenters
8:30-11:30am Zoom An Introduction to Project-Based Learning for CTE courtney.gaynor@pcc.edu
9-11am Sylvania HT 311 Trauma-Informed Approaches (TIA) in Higher Education 101 emily.somervell@pcc.edu
10-10:30am Zoom Navigate360 at PCC: New Possibilities for Student Support hayden.iversontodd@pcc.edu
kelly.love@pcc.edu
10-11:30am Sylvania HT 205  We Can Always Do Better: Assessing Student Affairs Programs christian.martinezguzman@pcc.edu
10am-12pm Rock Creek BLDG7 110 Know Your IX: PCC’s Collaborative Approach for Title IX charisse.loughery@pcc.edu
caroline.bartlett@pcc.edu
1-2pm Zoom Major Governmental Changes to F-1 Students’ Status alicia.adams3@pcc.edu
rianna.robertsonlevay@pcc.edu
1-2pm Zoom Removing Barriers: A Holistic Approach to Student Basic Needs kesary@pcc.edu
christina.shafer@pcc.edu
1-4pm Sylvania HT 205 What is “Futures Thinking”? sarah.roseevans@pcc.edu
1:30-3pm Sylvania HT 211 Bro Code Decoded: Helping Young Men Become Their Best and Brightest desmond.spann15@pcc.edu
2-3pm Cascade CH 203 Where Do We Go From Here? PCC, AI, and Supporting Student Reading and Writing clandweh@pcc.edu
kim.gardner2@pcc.edu
2-3pm Zoom Beyond Accommodations: Cultivating a Culture of Inclusion at PCC kaela.parks@pcc.edu
3-4:30pm Cascade CH 210 From Enrollment to Servingness: PCC’s Journey Toward Becoming a Hispanic-Serving Institution Reflects the shift from numbers to action efrain.rivasflores@pcc.edu
arodrigu@pcc.edu
4-5pm Sylvania HT 211 Life Satisfaction, Meaning, & Higher Ed david.shultis@pcc.edu

September 18

Time Location Title Presenters
8-9am Southeast TABOR 146 and Zoom Public Safety’s Role at PCC michael.perdomohazen@pcc.edu
10-11am Zoom New Student Onboarding – transforming the student experience from Admit to Matriculation josh.laurie@pcc.edu
bridget.jones1@pcc.edu
kelly.love@pcc.edu
ryan.arditi@pcc.edu
11am-12:30pm Zoom Practical Digital Accessibility for all PCC Employees alyson.day1@pcc.edu
1-1:30pm Zoom The 4-hour Course Facelift: Transform Your D2L Brightspace Class Overnight! emma.gray15@pcc.edu