Charter Chatter - Q209 - Issue #2

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New Student Orientation

For all you new students who have registered for classes at Charter College please join us for Orientation Night. Time will be 6PM to 7PM with snacks and refreshments to be served. During this orientation you will be able to hear more about your designated programs, meet many of the staff members, receive a more detailed tour of several campus departments, and be able to ask questions. Please RSVP and confirm your seat to your admissions representative. Call 277-1000 if you have any questions.

Orientation Schedule:

For Business, Accounting, & Construction Mgt
Tuesday, June 9th @ 6PM
For Medical Assisting / Coding & Billing:
Wednesday, June 10th @ 6PM
For Technology and Criminal Justice students:
Thursday, June 11th @ 6PM

Do you have everything you need?

  1. Your class schedule
  2. Your books
  3. Scrubs and Shoes (Medical students only)
  4. Charter College ID Card

If you still need any of these please call your Admissions Representative directly or the front desk at 277-1000

Remember, all classes start on Monday, June 16th!

Dean’s List for Quarter 1, 2009

Epiafnia Afusia, Juanito Aguilar, Terri Alexander, Janet Allen, Esthermari Alvarez, Brett Ard, Susan Ashley, Rita Bachand, Cindy Baril, Becky Barney, Jackyline Batin, Noel Batin, Amber Bean, Terri Beans, Margaret Bell, Jennifer Bercier, Jesse Berg, Chuol Both, Blaine Boyle, Danniell Bradley, April Brink, Cassandra Brown, Gail Buenaflor, Jane Bulaong, Elizabeth Burns, Laura Carlson, Candida Carter, Yazmin Cash, Mark Caudy, Kelin Chaitan, Sharon Cherrette, Michelle Childress, Rachel Chuitt, Sylvester Clark, Desaree Coleman, Xenora Collins, Danny Compton, Breena Conlin, Alfredo Corona, Rachel Corona, Lorena Cosio, James Crowell, Thomas Cupp, Angelina Dahl, Stephanie Dalman, Sue Darby, Brandy Davis, Reed Dean, Marilyn Delara, Nakisha Demings, Shawn Dollahite, Michelle Edelen, Marcella Edwards, Larry Edwards, Shelly Ehlers, Ramona Fagafaga, Tiffani Farrow, Kimberly Felipe, Lattie Fernandez, Melenaite Finau, Tammi Fletcher, Gayle Flowers, Heather Foster, Dale Franklin, Lori Freeman, Wendy Fries, Melody Fuller, Kazia Gilbertson, Aimee Goldstein, Gerald Goodwin, Zara Greene, Kiris Grist, Casey Groh, Amber Gullickson, Crystal Guyll, Nida Hale, Cathleen Hall, Joseph Hankins, Matthew Hansen, Angela Harris, Alshukri Harris, Alfred Harvin, Mardee Haskin, Eryn Hatcher, Veronica Hauenschild, Ray Hebert, Tisha Henderson, Robert Hernandez, Shannon Hiett, Georgjeana Hilbish, Melissa Hillmer, Maurice Hines, Jennifer Hoban, Linda Hodge, Veronica Hoffman, Justin Holt, Izabella Howard, Damien Hradowsky, Franklin Hundley, Brittany Irby, Wilfred Ivanoff, Britin Jackson, Chollada Jarupakorn, Johnathan Johnson, Samantha Johnson, Traci Jones, Casey Jones, Yabonet Kabia, Jino Kak, Philip Kelley, Rebecca Kennedy, Frank Kerr, Tina Ketah, Kirsten Kirk, Joanna Knight, Cindy Knott, Gina Lamoureaux, Michael Lane, Sharon Lane, Brandie Lange, Allan LaRose, Jacqueline Lee, Robert Lekity, Cerkez Lena, Arsim Lena, Shanti Lloyd, My Lo, Juan Lopez, Tiffany Lugo, Ginger MacLellan, Veronica Macy, Carmi Asia Malabanan, Carmen Markovich, Annamarie Martin, Shannon Masneri, Suilin McAllister, Newly McCoin, Jacqlyn McCrea, Adam McDonald, Jamie Meister, Wayne Miller, Alfred Mills, Lul Minyik, Marcia Mistry, Nasheca Mitchell, Amber Mobley, Leola Monteiro, Stacey Montgomery, Austine Monzon, Tara Moore, Ann Moquete, Culley Morrow, Lyndy Moulton, Regina Muai, Makeesia Mullins, Jennifer Mullins, Shannon Murphy, Michelle Murrills, Efraim Natal, Marilyn Neck, Frederick Ned, Amy Newball, Berenda Newlin, Shannon Nicely, Nathan Nimmo, Michelle Nobile, Elsie Norback, Vanessa Ochoa, Erin Oliver, Henry Olympic, Vanessa Ortiguerra, Elizabeth O'Toole, Corry Overstreet, Shannon Paisano, Su Pang, Shawna Paquin, Eisenhower Pascual, Desiree Pell, Joseline Perez, Russell Peterson, Somphane Phaymany, Samuel Phillips, Savanna Pifer, Hanmi Pounds, Lawrence Powell, James Proch, Gloria Quezada, Kathleen Ranel, Deana Ray, Mary Reff, Andrea Reft, Shellene Revis, Carmina Rivera-Leal, Nicole Rogers, Victoria Ross, Kao Saetern, Matthew Saiz, Hazel Salvador, Ellen Sanchez, Darlene Sanele, Marietta Santos, Vicky Scheideman, William Schlader, Ann Schlemmer, Stacy Schneider, Yulia Schultz, Jittima Scott, Racheal Settje, Jasmine Sexton, Jolene Sharpe, Michele Shelley, Mary Silvious, Katherine Smiley, Inez Smith, Glenna Smith, Tasha Smith, Michael Solano, Lacy Spohnholz, Michelle Spoo, Angel Stanley, Roxanne Stein, Tamara Stepanoff, Jolene Steve, Rodney Stevens, David Stroud, Blessed Tamayo, David Tapey, Mareta Tauanuu, Cody Tendick, Khemphet Thammavongsa, Andrew Theobald, Christina Thorne, Sierra Tisega, Cathy Tuck, Mona Lisa Tulimasealii, Magdalyn Tuuaga, Bambi Tyree, Seng Vang, Jennifer Vasko, Donna Vessey, Agnes Vidal, Jhoanna Camille Villena, Matthew Walso, Brittany Ward, Rebecca Weatherby, Benjamin Wiederstein, Carla Williams, Brenda Williams, Andrea Wilson, Kenyatta Wilson, Cody Woodard, Teena Woscek, Jessica Wright, Matt Yadon, Liberty Yingling, Joe Young, Mirela Zakrzewska.

What's in your email?

Fellow students, electronic mail exchange services inundate our lives; for both good and bad. This evolving form of communication enables near instantaneous communication with our friends, families, peers, colleagues as well as headless operations such as news-groups, forums and various other forms of Internet enabled resources. Often, your email address is associated with websites and Internet resources in order to provide access, updates and referrals. The latter is significant in that when one establishes a new account or uses their email address to gain access to a resource there are often pre-checked options to allow third-party interest to access this information which subsequently is often viewed as SPAM by end-users. This type of mail exchange is however not actually SPAM because the user has requested it and has the ability to ‘opt-out’ by un-checking these sometimes obscure subscribe elements prior to submission. For the sake of ‘opting out’ of receiving future emails one should manage their subscriptions to real world services via their account or profile of that service for clarity (Clicking ‘Opt-Out’ or ‘Remove-From’ within an email may be just telling the sender that a real person exist on the other end of the email address.) Real SPAM however is electronic mail distribution that is either systematically or methodically sent out through the Internet to its recipients with malicious or improper intent without the direct consent by the user to do so.

In order to better understand SPAM we have to first look at what is referred to as the Pay-Load or the end goal behind the spammers’ intentions. Typically, these goals are to phish private data (obtain information through response) or to misdirect one to a malicious site in order to carry out some greater exploit. The later is probably the most notable as often these messages appear to be coming from legitimate sources. Upon further investigation of the embedded hyperlinks these messages contain, the final destination is not to the site or resource the user expects or believes it to be sending them. An example of this would be: A banking institution email that shows the web address of https://www.mybank.com but behind the scenes we can see, by putting the mouse over the link and looking to the status information, this link will in actuality redirect us to https://their-fake-site.com/www.mybank.com which has been engineered to mimic your MyBanks.com website in order to pilfer your account credentials. Users should be aware also that little pieces of information phished by way of SPAM can subsequently wreck havoc on one’s financial status as well as the myriad of other complications that arise from identity theft.

As I implied, email is an ever changing process that formidably brings new benefits and exploits daily, consequently challenging us all on the expectations of its’ value and security. A friend of mine once stated that he never sends out email that he wouldn’t be willing to see posted on a public billboard. This to me is a bit of an extreme but it does provide a base-line model for personal information security for us all to consider. Here is a short list of things to consider in your daily electronic mailing processes; use secure connections to view personal/private information (HTTPS provides secure socket layer [SSL] protection while HTTP uses plain text to transfer data), vigilantly avoid redirection to non-official resources by identifying, prior to clicking, where a link will send you (only open links to online resources that you can validate through inspection or best yet, type in or use your own bookmarks to get to these resources) and lastly never give out your information unless you initiated or expect this correspondence.

In closing, there are so many obstacles to contend with when it comes to email security and the expectations of privacy, or lack thereof, that preclude us from getting the most out of our email experiences. It is up to each and every one of us to ensure that email continues to be a useful commodity in our daily lives through discernment and utilization. With that in mind: Do you use your email effectively or does it use you; what’s in your email?

Dave Shryack - student @ large

Got Questions, Suggestions or just want to Comment? Email: dshryack@chartercollege.edu
Feedback is encouraged in order to align present and future values and needs of student email services more effectively and proactively.