College News - Week of Oct. 10

Christy Stevens (center) leads a discussion with
K-12, LBCC and OSU educators.

Educators from six local high schools, LBCC, and OSU held a joint meeting for the first time to identify learning outcomes for practicum classes. Students who want to become teachers take these classes as a pre-student teaching experience. The classes can be taken at the high school, community college or university level. The group initiated the process of identifying common learning outcomes for college practicum classes, called cadet teaching at the high school level. Christy Stevens, director of the Valley Coast Partnership for Student Success and LBCC faculty member, co-facilitated the meeting with Carol McKiel, director of LBCC High School Partnerships. Additionally, the team is identifying course content and course delivery with a specialized focus on math instruction - a goal of the Valley Coast Partnership. LBCC students may enroll in a special math practicum class spring term.

LBCC won a $10,000 student scholarship video contest held by College Scheduler, the software used to help students create their term schedules. Rob Priewe and the LBCC Advising Committee organized a video testimonial about how our students use College Scheduler, which was filmed and edited by LBCC student and aspiring videographer, Andrew Walpole. College Scheduler voted on the top three video submissions, and our college won in a random drawing of the top three. The Advising Committee and the college Foundation will work on how best to distribute the scholarship funds.
LBCC’s video submission: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93UKIRaGKoY 

Final drawing video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4cmUJsE3-I

Campus High School Programs has moved to the Career and Counseling Center. Program advisors are Larry Anderson and Tiffany Madriaga. Liliane Moynihan is support staff and Lynne Cox is managing. The High School Partnerships Program, under the direction of Carol McKiel, will remain upstairs in Takena Hall. Campus High School Programs is one way for high school students to take college classes. High School Partnerships includes College Now and Perkins, and focuses on partnerships with local schools to promote student development, college-readiness, pathways from high school to college, and student progression and completion.

LBCC’s baseball team will play its last non-conference scrimmage game Sunday, Oct. 12 against Everett Community College at 10 a.m. at OSU's Goss Stadium. Coach Ryan Gipson has a current team roaster of 33 players, with 40 percent of the players from the local area, per the initial contract agreement with the college. The team will begin its first conference season play in the spring.

LBCC Baseball Team 2014-2015

LBCC’s Foundation received a grant for $10,300 from the Oregon Cultural Trust to produce an original play, titled “Bridges,” which focuses on the lives, experiences and challenges of Latino families living in Independence, Oregon. Inspired by a request from Independence Mayor John McArdle, the play will be produced by LBCC theater instructor Tinamarie Ivey over the next year.

The college will host three information forums, open to the public, to explain the projects that will be funded by passage of Bond Measure 22-130. Below are conceptual drawings of the projects. The drawings will also be available at the forums. Forums will be held: Tuesday, Oct. 21, 5:30 p.m., Albany campus, Calapooia Center building, room CC-103; Wednesday, Oct. 22, 5:30 p.m., Benton Center, room BC-107; and Thursday, Oct. 23, 5:30 p.m., Lebanon Center Annex Building. The Samaritan campus drawing shows the LBCC Health Occupations Center building directly behind COMP-Northwest (the building is unmarked in the drawing). The ATTC drawing shows the Heavy Equipment/Diesel training building on the left.

Benton Center additions.

LBCC Health Occupations Center behind COMP-NW, in Lebanon.

ATTC in Lebanon, with Heavy Equip/Diesel building on left. 

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

Weekly Update, September 5

John Rehley

Carol McKiel

John Rehley has joined the college as manager of Printing and Mailing Services. John came to LBCC after working at Mid-Valley Newspapers for nearly 30 years. While at the newspapers, John worked in a variety of positions including distribution, press, accounting, IT, circulation and prepress. He has two degrees from LBCC: an associate's in automotive technology and associate's in graphic communication. John and his wife of 16 years live in Corvallis. He enjoys spending his free time with his wife and two grandchildren, and hiking and fishing.

Carol McKiel joined the college in July as the new director of High School Partnerships. Carol comes to us from Lane Community College, where she served as director of the TRIO STEM program. She has a bachelor’s in elementary education from Indiana University, a master’s in student personnel services from Northeastern State University, and a PhD in education leadership from Oregon State University. Originally from Indiana, Carol and her husband moved to Oregon six years ago and reside in Monmouth. They have a daughter and son, and a new grandson who lives in Texas, and who Carol says she is learning to bond with via Skype. Carol also enjoys gardening and bicycling.

Institutional Research has created a new database designed to access to enrollment data. The new Enrollment Management Pulse (EMP) system gives you access to up-to-date information on LBCC's current headcount, FTE, tuition revenue and more. You can even drill down to specific course types or departments. Visit www.linnbenton.edu/emp to check it out.

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)