Softball Team going to Nationals

2014 SoftballThe Loggers softball team defeated  Patrick Henry twice (11-1, 3-0) on Saturday in a District playoff to advance to the 2014 NJCAA Nationals in Clinton, MS! Their first game is Wednesday at 3:30. GO LOGGERS!

Congratulations to our recent New Online Faculty Program participants:

These LLCC Faculty members completed a 14 week online and hybrid program that has been designed to prepare them to teach online.  Several of the participated attended a reception in the ITDE office and received their New Online Faculty program Certificates of Completion from Jennifer Elliott, ITDE Instructional Designer.

Janice Badgett, Ph.D. Nick Ferreira John Freml
Eric Helms Diane Liesen Janice Lovekamp
Brent Mason Timothy McKenzie Deborah Moldenhauer
Maria Ray William Roseberry Cindy Smock
Colin Suchland, Ph.D. Jan Szoke

NOF Group(pictured left to right – Tim McKenzie, Cindy Smock, Janice Badgett Ph.D., Jan Szoke, Diane Liesen, Colin Suchland Ph.D., Janice Lovekamp, and Jennifer Elliott) 

Online Ordering Now at Subway!

Skip the line and order online at Subway! Go to http://order.subway.com on a computer or mobile phone and place your order now! Create an account to save your favorite store (5250 Shepherd Rd) and even your favorite sandwiches! Orders are ready in just 15 minutes.

In the News

BtownThe front page of the Sunday, May 11 Jacksonville Journal Courier featured a photo of LLCC Beardstown’s entry in the “Arts in the Park” event and two LLCC students, Brittany Hayes and Kayla Ford.

Jolene Adams of the Culinary Institute demonstrated Green Citrus Smoothies on WICS Midday yesterday. Here’s the recipe!

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Interested in adding your photo to Email and Lync?

With LLCC’s large number of employees, it is hard to know and recognize every co-worker, especially if you are a new employee! LLCC’s Outlook  and Lync accounts have the ability to include your photo in the emails you send within the LLCC system. If you would like to have your photo included in your internal email (email sent to others with an LLCC account, not to outside recipients) and appear in Lync instant messenger:

  1. Email a head and shoulders, business appropriate photo of yourself to AddMyPhoto@llcc.edu. Your photo will be added to your email account within several days.
  2. Need a head and shoulders photo of yourself? The Public Relations and Marketing (PRM) Office in Menard Hall can assist. Please call Rose at 6.2218 to schedule a brief (less than five minutes) appointment, or stop by PRM between 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
  3. If PRM has already taken a head and shoulders photo of you, it is in our files.  Please email rose.raikes@llcc.edu and she will send it to you.

Finals Week at LLCC

It’s finals week at LLCC!

BOOK BUYBACK is today-Thurs., 8:30-5, Friday 8:30-4 in the Bookstore. Buyback at Jacksonville, Taylorville, Litchfield and Beardstown will be Tuesday-Thurs., 9-5.

Student Life will be offering free massages Monday and Tuesday, 10am-2pm in A. Lincoln Commons for those who sign up in the Student Life Office.  Also, the Shape Up Club will be in A. Lincoln Commons Monday through Thursday, 9am-2pm with Brain Food!

Adult Education will conduct its annual Celebration of Success ceremony Wednesday, May 14. The evening begins with music by the LLCC Big Band at 6 p.m., followed by the ceremony at 6:30 p.m. in the Student Union of Menard Hall.

A reminder that  the combined retirement reception for David Laubersheimer, dean of Arts and Humanities, and Glenda Thomas, assistant to the dean of Arts and Humanities, will be Thursday, May 15, 2 to 4 p.m. in the Trutter Center.

Commencement will take place on Friday, May 16 at 7:30 p.m. at the Prairie Capital Convention Center in Springfield.  For details, click HERE.

In the News

Karla Martin, LLCC’s outstanding graduate, was the subject of this story, “Non-traditional student is LLCC’s outstanding graduate,” including comments from Dr. Paul Hudson, professor of business, in the Sunday, May 11 State Journal-Register.

The LLCC baseball team was featured in a WICS and FOX 55 profile May 11 and 12. Coach and Athletic Director Ron Riggle was interviewed. The team finished its regualr season with a pair of wins and are now 40-15 on the year, the most wins in a single season record. Regional play begins Thursday.

The LLCC softball team was featured in an SJ-R story. The Lady Loggers defeated Patrick Henry twice (11-1, 3-0) in Hendersonville, Tennessee to advance to the 2014 NJCAA Nationals in Clinton, MS (May 14-17).  The Loggers have a 50-14 record.

Dr. Judy Jozaitis, vice president, Workforce Development and Community Education, and John Mitchell, program coordinator, Workforce Development, were interviewed May 9 for a FOX-55 and WICS story on creating a pipeline of workers through workforce training programs.

LLCC at White Oaks Mall’s Indulge

Indulge event 

Nancy Sweet, culinary operations manager, and Jolene Adams of the Culinary Institute demonstrated recipes and gave samples to the crowd at the Indulge event for women at White Oaks Mall May 8. Terri Hinrichs, recruitment coordinator, represented the college at the event also.

A&H Retirement Celebrations

balloon_retirementToday from 2-4 p.m., the Arts & Humanities Department is hosting a retirement celebration in the James S. Murray Gallery for four faculty retirees: Jeri Buckner, Mary Fortner, Theresa Kanoza, Jean Ladendorf and Bill McCall.

Thursday, May 15, 2 to 4 p.m. in the Trutter Center is the combined retirement reception for David Laubersheimer, dean of Arts and Humanities, and Glenda Thomas, assistant to the dean of Arts and Humanities.