Adam Watkins, dean of arts and communication, explains how LLCC’s integrated media design program is turning student’s visual creativity into rewarding careers, in this essay published in the State Journal-Register.
Dr. Laurel Bretz, associate vice president of continuing, corporate and professional education, spoke on WTAX Monday morning about the LLCC College for Kids summer lineup.
College for Kids at LLCC will offer more than 60 programs this summer from June 10-July 25 thanks to new and continuing partnerships. Most programs will be held at the Springfield campus, 5250 Shepherd Rd.
New this year are theater camps for grades 1-8. There are three camps — Introduction to Theater, Auditioning for Theater and Introduction to Production, which includes backstage elements like set and costume design.
Girls in Construction, a career exploration camp (grades 9-12), is a partnership with O’Shea Builders and the YMCA. It will include meeting women in the construction industry, tool safety and hands-on building experience with a project at the YMCA soccer fields. Additional career exploration camps will feature electrical circuitry, construction and health care careers.
College for Kids (grades 1-8) also has camps covering a variety of interests, including art, yoga, culinary, science, space exploration, LEGO®, archaeology, journalism and web design.
Space for camps is limited; early registration is recommended. Dates, times, grade-level categories and registration can be found at www.llcc.edu/summer-CFK or by calling 217-786-2432.
In this week’s Epicuriosity 101 column, “Passover 2024: Blame it on the moon,” for the State Journal-Register, Jay Kitterman, culinary and special events coordinator, dives into the meaning behind the culinary traditions of Passover.
April is Community College Month. Academy of Lifelong Learning member and LLCC alumnus James Hall, walks us through his community college memories and how LLCC is still a resource for learning. Read his Senior News and Times essay titled, “Lifelong learning through LLCC.”
LLCC Human Resources is advertising for a program assistant, community education. Full details on this and all other open positions can be viewed on the HR employment page.
WCIA Meteorologist Jacob Dickey interviews Laurel Bretz, assistant vice president of continuing, corporate and professional education as he highlights LLCC’s community education program on WCIA’s morning show Wednesday. Watch the news clip on WCIA.
Jeff Gardner, program director, diesel technologies, and LLCC students, Colton Decker and Erik Keeton were interviewed by Roland Machinery for an internal video Roland is producing on LLCC’s Diesel Technologies program.
In “It all started with a mother’s patience,” this week’s Epicuriosity 101 column in the State Journal-Register, Channing Fullaway-Johnson, culinary coordinator, LLCC Community Education, explains how our favorite foods are often tied to special memories.
In this week’s Epicuriosity 101 column in the State Journal-Register, Chef Specialist Joshua Dineen explains the origins of pot au feu in “Pot on the fire.”
Last week, Jay Kitterman, LLCC culinary and special events consultant, took us behind the scenes of a Jewish Deli in the “The deli” for the State Journal-Register.
Join us today at the annual Lincoln Lecture.
“Abraham Lincoln and the Making of the American West” will be presented by Jacob K. Friefeld at 9 a.m. in the Trutter Center on the LLCC campus. The presentation will also be available via Zoom (https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89790657720).
Friefeld will discuss Lincoln’s legacy in the West and the Homestead Act of 1862, enriching the conventional story of who settled the West. He will explore how the Homestead Act can be seen as one of the most important social policies ever enacted in the United States and that it worked in combination with the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th and 14th Amendments to give Black Americans an opportunity to own land after the Civil War.
There is no charge to attend, and refreshments will be served.
Friefeld is the director of the Center for Lincoln Studies at University of Illinois Springfield. His new book, “The First Migrants,” tells the story of Black Americans who left the South between 1877 and the Great Migration and went west seeking land and freedom. His first book, “Homesteading the Plains: Toward a New History,” examines the Homestead Act of 1862.
LLCC Outreach Centers in Jacksonville, Beardstown, Taylorville and Litchfield also plan various Lincoln-themed activities to commemorate Abraham Lincoln’s birthday.
Dr. Laurel Bretz, assistant vice president, continuing, corporate and professional education, authored Sunday’s article in the State Journal-Register on the free digital literacy classes LLCC and AT&T are partnering to provide in order to help bridge the technological divide for older adults.