College News -Week of Dec. 5

Statistics for Linn and Benton Counties are out for Oregon’s 40-40-20 initiative, which is to ensure that of all adult Oregonians, 40 percent have earned a bachelor’s degree or higher, 40 percent have earned an associate’s degree or post-secondary credential, and 20 percent have earned a high school diploma, modified high school diploma or the equivalent of a high school diploma by 2025. Statistics from the American Community Survey from 2011-2013 for our district show, for Oregonians 25 years or older: 10 percent of Linn County residents and 7 percent of Benton County residents have earned an associate's degree; with 17 percent of Linn County residents and 51 percent of Benton County residents earning a bachelor’s degree or higher. See the full Better Know Your Data Roadshow video on 40-40-20 at: http://www.linnbenton.edu/faculty-and-staff/hr-safety-and-other-services/institutional-research/better-know-your-data/data-roadshow

The LBCC RockSat-C Team has been selected for funding through the NASA Oregon Space Grant Consortium’s Student Research Award Program. The $8,000 award will be used to purchase supplies for the team to participate in the RockSat-C 2015 program. LBCC’s team, consisting of 11 students in various branches of engineering and physics, had its first Critical Design Review teleconference with their mentor at the University of Colorado this week, resulting in their project being approved for competition. Computer science faculty member and RockSat team mentor Parker Swanson wrote that the team’s project will provide a robust challenge for the students as they move ahead. Their project will be launched on a rocket, along with other team projects from across the country, in June 2015. Among the teams that Parker knows of, only one other is from a community college, with the rest being from four-year institutions. LBCC’s team participated in RockSat for the first time last year, launching data-gathering instruments about 100km into space from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. 

LBCC's Thanksgiving Food Drive raised $4,899.93 and furnished 121 boxes for students and staff in need. The Food Drive Committee would like to thank the LBCC community, which came up with some great ways to help, including: Lebanon and Sweet Home Centers ran a competition between the classes, getting students involved; the STEM division ran a competition between areas, raising money and food; the Hot Shot Cafe donated their tips; Miriam Edell's horticulture students helped collect food around campus, then sorted and counted the food; Leta Howell's son, a Boy Scout, and Amanda Kleiver's son, a Young Marine, collected change; and many individuals including Classified, Faculty and AAWCC members contributed money and manual labor. Thank you!

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Writer/Editor: Lori Fluge-Brunker, Communications Specialist, College Advancement