Michael J. Kaiser, VALIC sr. financial advisor, will be on campus today, March 6, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the VP Conference Room. He will be on site for 30-minute account reviews to help employees understand options and new enrollments. To register go to my.VALIC.com/seminars and enter registration code 2206SPR11AA.

Michael J. Kaiser, VALIC sr. financial advisor, will be on campus Wednesday, March 6 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the VP Conference Room. He will be on site for 30-minute account reviews to help employees understand options and new enrollments. To register go to my.VALIC.com/seminars and enter registration code 2206SPR11AA.

Thank you for all the comforting messages, cards and memorials following the passing of my dad. I appreciate all of the support from my LLCC friends and family.

Diane Liesen, program director, neurodiagnostic technology

Please accept our sincere thanks to everyone who contributed to our programming and for your continued support in making this year’s African-American History Month a success. The assistance you provided was much appreciated, and we look forward to celebrating African-American History Month in 2020!

We are honored to again be nominated for Best College/University and Best Trade School in the SJ-R Readers’ Choice Awards. You can still cast your vote for LLCC through March 3!

Lisa Lofgren’s print exhibit “what is was” is on display in the James S. Murray Gallery through March 7. The public is invited to view the exhibit weekdays from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and attend a reception on Tuesday, March 5 from 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Lofgren’s work is informed by her role as a mother of a two-year-old and how it has affected her studio practice. She describes it as once deeply contemplative, but now fractured by the unstructured play required in raising a young child.

“The solution I have found to this conflict is the ability to work back into works started six, eight, 10 years ago and find resolution in entirely different ways than I would have discovered then,” explains Lofgren. “I am in conversation with a collection of old friends, unified by my present voice and embracing intuitive play.”

Lofgren is a printmaker, educator and founder of the community printmaking and papermaking facility Together Press in coordination with cometogetherstudios in Bloomington. She is the registrar and office coordinator for University Galleries of Illinois State University and an adjunct instructor at Heartland Community College. She earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wyoming and a master’s degree from Illinois State University.

LLCC is celebrating African-American History Month during February with the theme “Still: We Rise as the Journey Continues.” The month’s culminating activity, African-American Food and Vendor Day, takes place today from 10 a.m.-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. The LLCC African-American History Month Committee and LLCC Student Life are event co-sponsors.

We extend our condolences to Vickie Ward, administrative assistant to the interim dean, business and computer technology, on the passing of her father, Wendell Sitze on Feb. 24. Visitation is from 9 a.m. until the time of funeral services at 11 a.m. tomorrow, Feb. 28, at the Pawnee Assembly of God Church. Burial will follow at Horse Creek Cemetery in Pawnee. Curry Funeral Home in Pawnee is serving the family. Read the obituary.

The LLCC Board of Trustees will meet Wednesday, Feb. 27 at 5:15 in the R.H. Stephens Room. Read the agenda.

LLCC is celebrating African-American History Month during February with various events. The theme for this year’s observance is “Still: We Rise as the Journey Continues.”

Activities continue today with:

• “Without Us?” showcasing extraordinary and noteworthy inventions of African-Americans, 9-11 a.m., A. Lincoln Commons.

Read about additional events throughout the month.