On Saturday, Nov. 2, John Paul Jaramillo, professor, English and humanities, was awarded the Springfield Area Arts Council’s 2024 “Individual Literary Artist” Mayor’s Award for the Arts.
Category Archives: Awards/Recognitions
John Paul-Jaramillo nominated for a Mayor’s Awards for the Arts
Congratulations to John Paul Jaramillo, professor, English, for receiving a nomination for the 2024 Mayor’s Awards for the Arts, in the category of Individual Literary Artist. The awards ceremony is Nov. 2.
Lisa Clanton recognized by NACADA!
Congratulations to LLCC Student Success Coach Lisa Clanton for recently earning a National Academic Advising Association (NACADA) micro credential in online academic advising. Thanks for continuing to pursue professional development to better assist our students, Lisa!
LLCC Tik Tok named 2024 Medallion finalist
Congratulations to Sarah Frey, LLCC website and social media coordinator, and the entire PRM team for being named a finalist for the 2024 Medallion Award for Social Media Page from the National Council for Marketing and Public Relations (NCMPR). NCMPR Medallion Awards recognize outstanding achievement in design and communication at community and technical colleges in NCMPR’s seven districts. Gold, silver and bronze winners will be announced at the NCMPR district conference at the end of September.
Are you following Lincoln Land Community College on Tik Tok? You can find us @lincolnlandcommunitycollege. While you’re at it, follow LLCC on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn!
Congratulations to John Paul Jaramillo
Professor of English and author, John Paul Jaramillo, received Honorable Mention for the 2024 Rudolfo Anaya Best Latino Focused Fiction Book Award for his novel, “Carlos Montoya – A Novel.” Congratulations, John Paul!
PTK reigns as a Gold Star Chapter for 11 years!
LLCC’s Alpha Epsilon Kappa chapter of Phi Theta Kappa took home the hardware at the PTK Regional Conference and Honors Institute convention, held here at LLCC at the end of May.
Read about the chapter’s 11-year streak as a Gold Star Chapter and the various chapter and individual awards.
Congratulations PTK!
Congratulations to the 2024 Dick Dhabalt Athletes of the Year
The 2024 Dick Dhabalt Athlete of the Year Award at LLCC went to Grant Pohlman of Carrollton, with men’s baseball, and Marley Smith of Auburn, with women’s basketball.
The LLCC Dick Dhabalt Athlete of the Year Award recognizes annually one LLCC male athlete and one female athlete. The award was established in February 2015 in honor of Mr. Dhabalt, former athletic director, head men’s basketball coach and faculty member, and acknowledges his dedication to education, athletics and students at LLCC.
Congratulations to ICCTA Award Winners and nominees from LLCC
Congratulations to LLCC alum Brice Huddleston, retired Colonel, U.S. Air Force, recipient of the Illinois Community College Trustee Association (ICCTA) statewide Distinguished Alumnus Award. Samantha Enz, secretary, LLCC Board of Trustees, was also honored at the banquet with a Trustee Education Award.
Matt Shaver, professor of integrated media design, was recognized as a nominee for the Outstanding Full-Time Faculty Member Award.
Congratulations to Kristin King
LLCC Respiratory Care offers congratulations to Kristin King, MHS-CDS-RT, RRT, adjunct instructor, on her successful completion of her master’s degree from the University of Missouri. On top of earning her master’s degree, Kristin also completed a college teaching certificate. Congratulations, Kristin!
Milestone Nursing Class Receives Their Pins
Congratulations to our nursing students who received their pins Saturday! With 68 students in participation, this was the largest class to be pinned in the history of this program. Several of the pinner’s at Saturday’s ceremony are alum of the LLCC ADN program, it was nice to welcome them back for this full circle moment. To this year’s graduating nurses, we celebrate you and your accomplishments!
Entire 2024 LLCC Nursing cohort, prior to the pinning ceremony.
Taking the Florence Nightengale Pledge.
A pinning ceremony is a symbolic welcoming of newly graduated or soon-to-be graduated nurses into the nursing profession. Students are pinned by an honored nurse of their choice. The ceremony is concluded with an alumni of the program taking stage to lead the new nurses in the “Florence Nightingale Pledge” while nurses in attendance are also invited to stand and recite pledge.
Outstanding Traditional Student recipient was Jackie Romer and Outstanding Transition Student recipient was Dustin Davenport.
