LLCC is hosting the sixth annual College Prep Summit today from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in A. Lincoln Commons. The event gives area high school juniors and seniors an opportunity to see what college is like firsthand and to learn more about the college experience and how they can prepare to attend.

LLCC Retention and Student Success is partnering with Springfield School District 186 and the Illinois Student Assistance Commission to offer the event. Representatives from various colleges and universities in Springfield and the surrounding area are participating.

Throughout February, LLCC has been celebrating African-American History Month with various events that share the theme “Celebrating Our Strengths While Overcoming Our Challenges.”

Today is African-American Food and Vendor Day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in A. Lincoln Commons. The event features free samples of African-American food, displays exhibiting the wares of African-American entrepreneurs and “Saxophone and African-American Poetry Improvisations” performed by LLCC retired business law professor and jazz musician Virgil Rhodes, J.D.

LLCC has been named “Best College or University” in the SJ-R Readers’ Choice Awards for two years in a row, and we’d like to continue the trend. Cast your vote for LLCC in the “Services” category!

Melissa Franzen, student development professional, was awarded a $1,000 grant from the Schultz Foundation for Advancing Counseling. LaCleta Hall, board secretary and founding board member of the Schultz Foundation, presented Melissa with her award on Feb. 23. The grant will be used for professional development in cognitive behavioral training. Congratulations!

The James S. Murray Gallery currently features the work of Arkansas artist LaDawna Whiteside. The exhibit “Animal Architecture/Landscape Empathy” is on display until March 8. The James S. Murray Gallery is open Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the upper level of Menard Hall.

LaDawna Whiteside’s projects are based in abstraction. Pursuing an alternative sublime, Whiteside chronicles this place and time, focusing on landscape topography and animal architecture. Line by line, she considers space and layers within a ritual in making marks. Her drawings reflect the transformation from individual fibers into cloth.

Read more about Whiteside, LLCC’s James S. Murray Gallery and its exhibits at www.llcc.edu/james-s-murray-gallery.

Several years ago, LLCC began a concerted effort to reduce printing with the “Think before you print” campaign. Dr. Charlotte Warren and Cabinet recently reaffirmed the college’s commitment to encourage employees to reduce printing and use of copiers wherever feasible.

Remember that 500 sheets of paper = an estimated 2-6% of a full-grown tree.

Here are some paper-use reducers:

• Always print double-sided
• Set smaller margins and use smaller type sizes
• Reuse your scrap paper
• Save digital copies only, whenever possible

The LLCC Arts and Humanities Department will host a free film and discussion series this spring entitled, “Through a Different Lens: Cultural Perspectives through Film.” The first film showing will be of “Masaan” on Thursday, Feb. 22.

“Masaan” (2015) – Set in the holy city of Varanasi, this film tells a story of four lives that intersect along the Ganges — a low caste boy hopelessly in love, a daughter ridden with guilt, a hapless father with fading morality and a spirited child yearning for a family, longing to escape the moral constructs of a small town. Masaan means “crematorium,” symbolically significant as the sacred waters of the Ganges witness the cycle of death and rebirth.

The film series will be held on select Thursday evenings from 6-9 p.m. in the Trutter Center, hosted by Ashley Green and Paul Van Heuklom, professors of English and Joseph Hoff, professor of Spanish. In addition, the Trutter Museum will have culturally relevant artifacts from the Trutter collection on display in the reception area. Film series attendees are encouraged to come early to enjoy the art and history prior to the film showings.

Read about additional films in the series.

The LLCC Arts and Humanities Department will host a free film and discussion series this spring entitled, “Through a Different Lens: Cultural Perspectives through Film.” The first film showing will be of “Masaan” on Thursday, Feb. 22.

“Masaan” (2015) – Set in the holy city of Varanasi, this film tells a story of four lives that intersect along the Ganges — a low caste boy hopelessly in love, a daughter ridden with guilt, a hapless father with fading morality and a spirited child yearning for a family, longing to escape the moral constructs of a small town. Masaan means “crematorium,” symbolically significant as the sacred waters of the Ganges witness the cycle of death and rebirth.

The film series will be held on select Thursday evenings from 6-9 p.m. in the Trutter Center, hosted by Ashley Green and Paul Van Heuklom, professors of English and Joseph Hoff, professor of Spanish. In addition, the Trutter Museum will have culturally relevant artifacts from the Trutter collection on display in the reception area. Film series attendees are encouraged to come early to enjoy the art and history prior to the film showings.

Read about additional films in the series.

The LLCC Arts and Humanities Department will host a free film and discussion series this spring entitled, “Through a Different Lens: Cultural Perspectives through Film.” The first film showing will be of “Masaan” on Thursday, Feb. 22.

“Masaan” (2015) – Set in the holy city of Varanasi, this film tells a story of four lives that intersect along the Ganges — a low caste boy hopelessly in love, a daughter ridden with guilt, a hapless father with fading morality and a spirited child yearning for a family, longing to escape the moral constructs of a small town. Masaan means “crematorium,” symbolically significant as the sacred waters of the Ganges witness the cycle of death and rebirth.

The film series will be held on select Thursday evenings from 6-9 p.m. in the Trutter Center, hosted by Ashley Green and Paul Van Heuklom, professors of English and Joseph Hoff, professor of Spanish. In addition, the Trutter Museum will have culturally relevant artifacts from the Trutter collection on display in the reception area. Film series attendees are encouraged to come early to enjoy the art and history prior to the film showings.

Read about additional films in the series.

The summer and fall 2018 payment plan flier to provide students is now available. To order printed copies for your area, please complete a public relations and marketing KBOX ticket. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact Robin Ackman at 786-2762 or robin.ackman@llcc.edu. Thank you!