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About your personal information

Why fill out your information page?

    Unlike four-year schools and universities, DVC (and most other community colleges) have not in the past kept track of alumni. In order to have an active alumni group, obtain follow-up information about what happened when alumni left DVC, and enable valuable networking among alumni and current students, we need to get current information from you.

Information sharing preferences
Preferences as to use of your personal information can be made on your personal data page (accessed from the "You are Important to Us" page)

    Networking - If you will or have already entered a transfer school or any career in which you use any of your science, then current students and alumni would appreciate your checking "Yes" here. You may specify what contact information is provided. This network has been used to give to transferring students a list of friendly faces at their new institution. It also gives students someone to talk with when exploring career ideas and provides networking opportunities for alumni. In the past year, two alumni got jobs through the network. To currently make the system more effective, more people need to update their records.

    Currently the manner of using the network database is low tech. Users must inquire via an instructor who knows them (see the "Talk to Us" page for some email addresses). The database is not made directly accessible to students or alumni. DVC science faculty may request access.

    Science Alumni Directory - You may opt to be included or not in a directory in case we do one in the future or in case you have a class correspondent who wants to set up an email list to allow your class to communicate with each other. You can choose what contact information to include.

    Campus Alumni Association - If you check "Yes" here, your information will be shared with the campus alumni association if one is formed. Otherwise the information will be maintained (if possible), as it is currently, by someone in the DVC science program. DVC campus alumni association formative efforts have begun, but the association has not yet begun to have events or newsletters or benefits yet. You will be informed when things start happening.

    Those people who have already given permission to have personal information shared with a campus alumni association were once put on a list to receive the quarterly campus newsletter, the DVC Review. We hope you will enjoy the newsletter. However, if you receive the DVC Review and would like your name to be removed from the mailing list, please contact Grant Cooke, Director of Marketing, Media Design, and Public Relations, either by mail or email gcooke@dvc.edu

What else will the personal information be used for?

    The information in the Science Alumni Database will be used for contacting you about DVC science alumni activities, asking for alumni responses (last year we were looking for local alumni interested in paid DVC tutoring opportunities) or providing other DVC information. It is unlikely that we would be contacting you more than a few times a year. Science instructors may use it to send notes. It may also be used for preparing summaries in which individuals are not listed by name (such as: how many of our alumni transferred, etc.). These summaries give valuable feedback and help promote our program.

What will the personal information not be used for?

    We will not sell or give your personal information in the Science Alumni database to commercial interests for marketing purposes.

If you are in our database and didn't enter the information yourself, where did we get your name?

    Most of the names and contact information came from alumni forms you filled out and gave to us at the end of a science class at DVC. Others came from science instructors you had shared information with and who would like you to be a part of this group. Other information was provided by other alumni or other sources.

    (To check whether your name is in our database, go to "You are Important to Us", enter your last name in the box after "How do I know if I have a file already?" and search.)

Removing your name from our database if you don't want to hear from the DVC Science Alumni group.

    We would hope that you enjoy maintaining contact. It is unlikely that we will be mailing or emailing you more than a few times a year. However, if you would like your name removed from our database, email scialums@dvc.edu requesting deletion at the next available opportunity. You will then not receive further contact from us unless by accident we get your name from another source (since we are always trying to find more alumni). You may add your name back into our database via the Web or mail at any time.

 

    Any changes or further clarification will be posted here. Please send any feedback or suggestions to klong@dvc.edu