Weekly Update, April 25

Achieving the Dream coaches’ recent visit to the college resulted in several recommendations, with a top-of-the-list suggestion to increase communications between all levels of faculty and staff. Coaches also commended the college on combining orientation and student success curriculum in the Destination Graduation class, and firmly tying it to advising and making it mandatory starting fall term 2014.

Nominations are open for the annual Pastega Faculty and Classified Awards and the Distinguished Staff Award. Nominations must be received in the Institutional Advancement Office by 4:30 p.m. Thursday, May 15. Nomination forms and criteria are available online in the paperless office under Forms, Pastega and Distinguished Staff Nomination Applications (po.linnbenton.edu/forms), or by contacting Dale Stowell via email or in CC-105. Awards will be presented at fall Inservice in September.

Did you know LBCC’s graduation gowns are made from 100 percent recycled material, specifically plastic water bottles? According to Tammi Drury in Admissions, this is the third year the college has purchased the recycled gowns. The Bookstore is also implementing a new “greener” product, switching from traditional "Blue Books" for student testing to a 100 percent recycled “Green Exam” book.

Retired LBCC baseball coach Greg Hawk and his 1988 team will be inducted into the Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges Hall of Fame May 29. The 1988 LBCC team, league championship winners, will join former coach and athletic director Dick McClain’s title-winning 1971 team in the NWAACC Hall of Fame.

The following LBCC employees were recognized with 2013-2014 Longevity Awards during spring Inservice:

5-YEAR AWARDS:

Danny Aynes
Tonia Benham
Kim Boone
Glen Brumbach
Mike Budke
Sheryl Caddy
Jason Christian
Jeff Davis
Gary DeWall
Barbie DuBois
Victoria Fridley
Stehanie Kerst
Lawrence LaJoie
Nancie Meyer
James Reddan
Mike Storrs
Fred Stuewe
Bill Thomas
Jason Wells
Cathy Williams
Lynnette Wynkoop


10-YEAR AWARDS:

Rhonda Anglin
Ann Custer
Hollis Duncan
Kathy Hannahs
Barb Horn
Scottie Hurley
Sally Kohler
Patti Larsen
Twila Lehman
Bethany Pratt
Stefan Seiter
Jane Walker
Carlena Weeks


15-YEAR AWARDS:

Arfa Aflatooni
Alice Burnett
Perry Carmichael
Linda Carroll
Margarita Casas
Dodi Coreson
RJ Ehlers
Analee Fuentes
Steve Gribble
Linda Hobson
Tony Holmes
Duane Jensen
Vickie Keith
Phil Krolick
Audrey Perkins
Barb Newton Schafer
Steve Skarda

20-YEAR AWARDS:

Kathy Chafin
Sandy Corliss
Dean Dowless
Mike Lloyd
Elaine McDougal
Sue Peterson







25-YEAR AWARDS:

Mo Ableman
Kathy Body
Jack Giles
Dori Litzer
Roger Maurer
John Sweet



30-YEAR AWARDS
Mike McKinney
Patty Petzel

HONORABLE MENTIONS-OVER 25 YEARS
(no awards presented)

26 Years:
Linda Dompier
Billie Giddens
Anne Green
Vern Jackson
Lorrie Peterson
Teresa Woods

27 Years:
Margi Dusek
Janet Jackson

28 Years:
Paul Hawkwood
Kathy Withrow

29 Years:
Angie Klampe

31 Years:
Mary Sue Reynolds

32 Years:
Polly Hainz
Russ Rinker

34 Years
Ron Sharman
Jay Widmer

36 Years:
Teresa Patterson

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)