05.01.18

Financial Aid Self-Service is going live today

LLCC’s Financial Aid Self-Service is going LIVE today, May 1! Financial Aid Self Service is a tool in Colleague that allows for students and staff to have user-friendly access to the student’s financial aid information.

Some of the features include:

  • Checklist of steps in the financial aid process that shows what the student has completed and the steps that still need to be taken
  • List of outstanding documents needed with hyperlinks to those documents
  • Award notification and printable award letter
  • Award letter history
  • Notification and full explanation of a student’s Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) status
  • Federal Shopping Sheet
  • Loan history at LLCC and other institutions
  • Ability to accept loans online and to adjust the requested loan amount

For more information or to see a demonstration, please contact Shanda Byer, financial aid director at shanda.byer@llcc.edu.

05.01.18

Nominate a colleague for KUDOS yet today

KUDOS: Key or Unique Demonstrations of Outstanding ServiceKey or Unique Demonstrations of Outstanding Service award nominations are being accepted through today, May 1. Nominate a deserving colleague by filling out the online submission form. Please use the Chrome or Firefox browser when completing this form. The KUDOS awards will be announced May 10.

The KUDOS awards are an informal way to recognize the special contributions — small and large — made by faculty and staff that create the positive environment that is LLCC. Brighten someone’s day. Say, “Thank you! Great job!” by nominating that person for a KUDOS award!

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05.01.18

Tickets available for LLCC Theatre’s “Revenge: Treasure Island” on May 11-13, 19 and 20

LLCC Theatre in collaboration with Cutlass Artists will present the world premiere of “Revenge: Treasure Island” on Friday through Sunday, May 11-13, and Saturday and Sunday, May 19 and 20, at 8 p.m. The performances will be staged in the lower level of Sangamon Hall South.

“Revenge: Treasure Island” was written by Mark Hardiman, LLCC professor of theatre, who is also directing. This original play is the swashbuckling sequel to “Treasure Island,” a theatrical adaptation by Hardiman of the book by Robert Louis Stevenson.

This sequel takes place years after Jim and crew return to England. Jim and his wife are threatened by pirates who kidnap their daughter, Alexandra, and take her back to Treasure Island for the remaining cache of gold buried there. Jim and his family join forces with the famous buccaneer, Long John Silver, and a French pirate, Anne Dieu-Le-Veut, to pursue the pirates and rescue Alexandra. Heroic women save the day.

Tickets must be purchased in advance as no tickets will be sold at the door. Seating is extremely limited for this special event. Tickets may be purchased at www.cutlassartists.com. General admission is $15, seniors are $12 and students with ID are $7.

“It is fantastic to see this production come to life,” Hardiman says. “We are staging it as a particularly intimate and intense experience. Our audience will sit just inches from this exciting adventure.”

05.01.18

Open interviews for peer tutors today, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Now hiring peer tutors for fall 2018 - open interviews, no appointment needed. Tuesday, May 1 and Wednesday, May 2 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the LLCC Center for Academic Success in the lower level of Sangamon Hall (under the library). Qualifications: 3.0 or higher GPA, enrolled in six hours, successfully completed 12 hours college credit. For more information, contact Jamie McCoy at 786-2845.Open interviews for fall 2018 peer tutors are being held today from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the LLCC Center for Academic Success. Please refer qualified students (3.0 or higher GPA, 12+ college credits earned, plan to enroll in six hours for fall, great personality) to attend the open interview session today. Tutors are needed for all subjects areas!

05.01.18

Today’s Academic Innovation and eLearning Workshop

LLCC Academic Innovation & eLearning is offering the following workshop today, May 1 from 10-10:30 a.m. in S0119. It will be led by Andy Mitkos, learning management systems coordinator:

Using Blackboard Reporting and Statistics to Improve Student Success

What can Blackboard tell you about your course and your students? Using the built-in statistics tools and Retention Center, Blackboard reports can tell you how and when your students are interacting with your course materials and content. This workshop will also address all the different areas of Blackboard that collect student data, as well as a discussion on how to interpret the data and use it to improve student success.

Register for this session at http://bit.ly/2CFWYfN.

Note: Current online faculty participating in the Online Proficiency Program can receive one point for successful completion of this workshop.

05.01.18

Free cybersecurity seminar today at 6 p.m.

LLCC is offering a cybersecurity seminar, “Is Your Wireless Safe?”, today, May 1, at 6 p.m. in Logan Hall, Room 1140. The event is free and open to the public. Attendees will learn how to protect their home wireless systems. Also, they’ll learn about safety when out using public Wi-Fi at their favorite coffee shops. Register for this event.

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05.01.18

LLCC Honors Recital May 2 at 7 p.m.

The final performance of the 2017-18 LLCC Recital Series will feature music majors and advanced hobby musicians in the Honors Recital tomorrow, May 2 at 7 p.m. It will be held in Menard Hall, Room 2250. The recital is free and open to the public.

The program features a wide variety of instrumentalists and vocalists. Featured students in the Honors Recital are Dave Bourland, clarinet; Lydia Clark, piano; Zack Fedor, guitar; Violet Goossens, mezzo-soprano; Rachel Hooker, clarinet; Kristen McCubbin, soprano; Emily Miller, mezzo-soprano; Jeff Milner, percussion; Raquel Montemayor, soprano; Emily Ramey, soprano; Ben Rempfer, piano; Molly Richard, piano; and Emily Slightom, mezzo-soprano.

05.01.18

K-9 demonstration tomorrow

The criminal justice K-9 demonstration originally scheduled to take place last week will now be held tomorrow, May 2. It will take place in the grassy area in front of Menard Hall at approximately 12:30 p.m. LLCC community members are welcome to watch the demonstration.

04.30.18

Nominate a deserving colleague for KUDOS

KUDOS: Key or Unique Demonstrations of Outstanding ServiceKey or Unique Demonstrations of Outstanding Service award nominations are open through tomorrow, May 1. Nominate a deserving colleague by filling out the online submission form. Please use the Chrome or Firefox browser when completing this form. The KUDOS awards will be announced May 10.

The KUDOS awards are an informal way to recognize the special contributions — small and large — made by faculty and staff that create the positive environment that is LLCC. Brighten someone’s day. Say, “Thank you! Great job!” by nominating that person for a KUDOS award!

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