{"id":559,"date":"2014-05-19T09:40:17","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T17:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pre-production.taftcollege.edu\/tcwp\/cougaronline\/?p=559"},"modified":"2014-05-19T09:40:17","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T17:40:17","slug":"faculty-member-retiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/blog\/2014\/05\/19\/faculty-member-retiring\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Member Retiring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oldweb.taftcollege.edu\/tcwp\/cougaronline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_4912.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_4912\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-565\" src=\"http:\/\/oldweb.taftcollege.edu\/tcwp\/cougaronline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_4912-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/-zlEx_y2Jac\">Faculty Member Retiring<\/a><\/p>\n<p>by Juan Ochoa<\/p>\n<p>At the end of this month, Jeff Ross will be retiring from his work here at Taft College.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Ross has a\u00a0master&#8217;s degree in Special Education from CSUB.<\/p>\n<p>Ross started as an adjunct professor in 1976; he worked with individuals with developmental disabilities. Since 1978, he worked full-time as the Director of Disabled Student Services, Learning Disabilities Specialist, and Developmental Disabilities Specialist.<\/p>\n<p>In 1995 he started the well known Transition to Independent Living Program at Taft College. He has been working with the program for near twenty years and is now retiring.<\/p>\n<p>Ross&#8217;s future plans are to help out the Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center in Phoenix, Arizona. He plans to help build a residential facility similar to the TIL Program. When all that&#8217;s done, he has some land in Auburn, Ca.<\/p>\n<p>He has received the John Ryce Diversity Award from California Community Colleges and the Lanterman Award from CaPED to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>Considering the time he started as an adjunct professor, Jeff Ross has given thirty-eight years of service to the college. His work will always be remembered when we read about the TIL Program or look at the TIL building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faculty Member Retiring  by Juan Ochoa  At the end of this month, Jeff Ross will be retiring from his work here at Taft College.  Jeff Ross has a\u00a0master&#8217;s degree in Special Education from CSUB.  Ross started as an adjunct professor in 1976; he worked with individuals with developmental disabilities. Since 1978,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}