Weekly Wrap-up

As part of college redesign efforts, the five newly named divisions became official July 1. Organizational charts will be posted online as soon as key positions are filled. The new division names, and the deans, are as follows:

• Healthcare, ELearning & Media Division, (and Virtual College Division), Ann Malosh, dean
• Science, Engineering & Math Division (SEM), dean TBA
• Arts, Social Sciences & Humanities Division (ASSH), Katie Winder, dean
• Business, Applied Technology, & Industry Division (BATI), Dan Lara, dean
• Academic Foundations Division (AF), Sally Moore, dean

Carol McKiel has been named as the new director for High School Partnerships. Carol comes to us from Lane Community College, where she served as the TRIO STEM director. Carol will continue to sustain, expand and develop a comprehensive range of high school-to-college programs for area high schools. She begins her new position July 22.

For the past 10 months, Tammi Drury, LBCC degree evaluator, has been working on a statewide project called the “Oregon Win-Win Initiative,” which seeks to find students who earned community college credits, but were not awarded a degree or certificate. Sponsored by a grant from the Lumina Foundation, the project is a collaboration between Oregon’s 17 community college’s, Oregon Workforce Development, and the Oregon University System to identify former students who qualify for an AAOT and award it retroactively, or to identify students who are academically short 9-12 credits of earning their AAOT and hopefully have them finish. Starting with a list of 510 former students from the past 10 years who earned 90 or more credits at LBCC, the college was able to award 43 of the students with degrees. Tammi plans to travel to Washington DC July 29-31 with Oregon’s Win-Win team representatives to take part in a conference on the project. Read more about Project Win-Win at http://www.ihep.org/projectwin-win.cfm

The summer High School Career Academies, for high school students in grades nine through 12, wrapped-up last week with workshops held in Drafting/Engineering Graphics, Machine Tool, Mechatronics, Welding and Performing Arts. Students received hands-on, interactive experiences in each academy, and all but one was held for free. The number of students participating in each academy was:

• Drafting/Engineering Graphics – 19 students
• Machine Tool – 7 students
• Mechatronics – 9 students
• Performing Arts – 40 students
• Welding – 11 students

The LBCC Road Runners American Cancer Society Relay for Life team raised a record $5,632.54, surpassing the team’s goal of $5,000 and putting them at the Gold fundraising level. Go Road Runners! (team members list at: http://relay.acsevents.org/site/TR?fr_id=50436&pg=teamlist, click on the team name)