Tuesday, Feb. 7 – Chahrm the Band with Ada Lou presents “A Touch of Jazz, Rhythm and Blues” featuring Crisp, Rogers with Ada Lou, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., A. Lincoln Commons.
Friday, Feb. 10 – Showcase Your Talent Karaoke Style and Voter Registration Day co-sponsored by the African-American History Month Committee and the LLCC Black Student Union, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., A. Lincoln Commons.
LLCC was named “Best College or University” in the 2016 State Journal-Register Readers’ Choice Awards and we would love to repeat that honor in 2017! Please vote for LLCC and encourage your friends and family to do so. The deadline is TODAY!
Click HERE to vote!
Blackboard Upgrade and Changes for 2017
Facilitator: Andy Mitkos, Learning Management System Coordinator
We are pleased to announce exciting changes coming to our Blackboard system. Come hear about the updates you can expect to see in our Blackboard system this spring semester and hear how these updates and changes may impact you and your students. This session is highly recommended for faculty who use Blackboard regularly for online and face-to-face classes.
Click here to register for this session
| Date | Time | Room |
| Wednesday February 8 | 1:00-2:00 pm | SGMN0119 |
Academic Effectiveness Open Lab
Facilitators: Elaine Guthals, Academic Effectiveness Manager; Pam Daniel, Curriculum Development Specialist; & Jennie O’Malley, Ph.D. Professor, Biology & Faculty Assessment Coordinator
Don’t forget, the Office of Academic Effectiveness is here to help! Open labs have been scheduled to help you with curriculum development and maintenance, assessment, and program review questions. Registrations would be appreciated, but feel free to stop by that day.
Click here to register for the session below
| Date | Time | Room |
| Thursday, February 9 | 2:00-4:00 pm | SGMN0119 |
The LLCC Student United Way is hosting a bake sale and hot chocolate bar today in A. Lincoln Commons from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. today. The funds raised from this event will support the SUW Alternative Spring Break. Stop by for a cup of hot cocoa and some treats at a sweet price!
Each semester, LLCC will test its emergency alert system called LLCC Alert. LLCC launched the new system in December. The next test will take place Tuesday, Feb. 7 at approximately 11 a.m. LLCC ALERT allows the college to communicate with you by text, phone and email in an emergency, as well as for severe weather and other closures. Current employees and students are automatically enrolled in LLCC ALERT.
If you did not do so last month, we encourage you to visit www.llcc.edu/alert and log in with your LLCC username and password to check your current contact information and manage how you receive emergency notifications. LLCC ALERT uses the information about you currently stored in the college’s Colleague system, and this information may need updating. Please add your office phone number if it is not listed, and make any other revisions needed.
Tomorrow, you will receive a test message from LLCC ALERT. You will then receive a follow-up email to make sure you received the test message.
For assistance, please contact the IT Service Desk at 6.2555 or helpdesk@llcc.edu.
Note: Updating your contact information in LLCC ALERT will NOT update that information in Colleague. To update your information in Colleague, please contact Human Resources.
Attached below is information regarding an opportunity for students to apply for a $1,000 scholarship through the Illinois Community College Faculty Association. Overall, there is not a significant number of applicants for these scholarships, so the odds are pretty good for a student to receive one. Please share with students who may be interested in this scholarship opportunity.
LLCC invites the public to its 9th annual Lincoln Lecture Feb. 13 at 9 a.m. in the Trutter Center. Commemorating the 208th birthday of President Lincoln and the 50th anniversary of LLCC’s founding, the program features a panel of Lincoln experts including Alan Lowe, executive director, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum; Kathryn Harris, president of the Abraham Lincoln Association; and Samuel Wheeler, Ph.D., Illinois state historian; with moderator John Squibb, Ph.D., LLCC faculty emeritus. There is no charge for the program.
Panelists will address the topic of “Working Together for the Lincoln Legacy” and provide a wide-ranging conversation about the 16th president’s life and the many ways organizations today are working together to keep the Lincoln legacy alive. Read more HERE.
Congratulations to these retired full-time faculty members who were granted the honorary title of “emeritus” by the LLCC Board of Trustees Jan. 25, on the recommendation of the Faculty Emeritus Committee of the Faculty Senate:
Leslie Dickson, Mary Fortner, Maria Teresa Holcomb, Art Meyer, Lyndell Robinson, Mary Wheeler
To receive this honor, retired full-time faculty must have served a minimum of 20 full-time years at LLCC, retired from LLCC and not sought full-time academic employment elsewhere, and been retired at least one full academic year. The honor also recognizes outstanding contributions from at least one of the following areas: teaching, participation and leadership in shared governance, service to the community, and advisor roles.
Just one week remains to submit nominations for the 2017 Pearson Master Teacher Award. It’s easy to do. Simply click here for the form or log into Blackboard. Again … nominations must be submitted by Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017.
For more information stop by the LLCC Foundation, Level one, Menard Hall room 1214, call 786-2217 or e-mail LLCCFoundation@llcc.edu.
LLCC is hosting the annual Worldwide Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE) Academic Challenge Tuesday, Jan. 31 beginning at 10:20 a.m. in Cass Gymnasium at the Springfield campus, 5250 Shepherd Road. An awards ceremony is being held at 1:05 p.m.
Students from 19 area high schools in the LLCC district are participating in the regional level competition. The Academic Challenge, hosted by more than 50 community colleges and universities in Illinois and Missouri, is sponsored by the WYSE office in the School of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIU-C). The regional level competition is being sponsored by LLCC, the WYSE office at UIU-C and the Capital Chapter of the Illinois Society of Professional Engineers (ISPE).