The Golden Key
A newsletter for chapter advisors, chapter officers, and regional officers.

How will your chapter implement the Satellite Seminar Series?

Across the country, chapters are busy making plans to implement the Satellite Seminar Series. We caught up with a few of them, and here’s what they had to say about what they have in store for the 2003 Series.

The chapter at Tallahassee Community College in Florida will use their subscription to the Satellite Seminar Series as a networking tool. Advisor Jeb Blackburn says that their sister chapter at Keiser College Tallahassee Campus will join them on campus for the seminars. Local high school students have been invited, and the college’s pre-nursing and dental hygiene students will also participate in the seminars. Currently, the chapter is discussing with the college administration the possibility of offering a one-hour credit honors seminar based on the Series. Blackburn says, “The Satellite Seminar Series has been a great asset to our chapter’s implementation of the Honors Study Topic. The Series has provided the opportunity to open discussions with faculty and administrators regarding the infusion of the study topic into the curriculum. It has also allowed us fellowship with our own members as well as inviting our sister chapter at Keiser College to join us for the seminars. There just isn’t a down side to having the Series.”

New York Regional President Donna Johnson says her chapter at Monroe Community College built their honors programming around the Satellite Seminar Series. “We invited eight other chapters, including our two sister chapters. We provided food including healthy snacks. Each night we had an expert from campus open and close the evening with a pre- and post-seminar discussion. Everyone who came was very impressed! We also have been videotaping the seminars for the past few years, and offering them to the various departments for use in their classes,” says Johnson.

Kayt Conrad, advisor at Kirkwood Community College in Iowa, says in previous years their chapter invited high school students, community members and students on the campus. “We had faculty members from the college lead discussions after each seminar. Last year, we invited the high school honor students and our own students in the health sciences as well as the rest of the college. Having the faculty members lead discussion after each seminar seems to really make a difference in attendance and in how the series is perceived overall,” says Conrad.

Dan Bailey, advisor and 2003 Faculty Scholar, says his chapter at Ashland Community College in Kentucky used the Series as a service outreach opportunity in their community. “Our chapter met with members of the Kentucky Homeplace Program staff. We showed the Seminar Series video to the group and had a discussion of the material presented in the tape. The Kentucky Homeplace Program is sponsored by the University of Kentucky’s Center for Rural Health and covers a seven-county area in the service area of our college. The program is designed to work with families who live in underserved rural areas to provide them with information and services related to better health care,” says Bailey.

In addition to their outreach to the community, the chapter also took the Series to several classrooms on the Ashland Community College campus. Classes including sociology, ethics and social problems were shown videotapes of various broadcasts that were followed with an exchange of ideas in classroom discussions.

Build upon these ideas to use the 2003 Satellite Seminar Series as your chapter’s own outreach tool. Still haven’t subscribed to the Series? It’s not too late. See the information below for details on last-minute subscriptions.

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