New names for Learning Lab & Special Needs Office

The Learning Lab is having an identity crisis!  Not really. We are simply changing our name to one that better reflects our departmental mission and goals. As of July 1, 2014, the Learning Lab’s name will change to the Center for Academic Success. Also as of July 1, 2014, the Special Needs Office will change its name to Accessibility Services. Please note that the academic support services currently offered within these areas will NOT be changing.

Attention faculty:  The make-up testing area’s email address has changed! If you wish to email copies of tests to be proctored in our department, please send them to castesting@llcc.edu.

We appreciate everyone’s patience and support as we make the transition to these new names. We also ask that you keep an eye out for any documents or other communication pieces within your respective departments that may need to be updated.  Please contact Julie Clevenger at 786-2365 with any questions.

In the News

Lisa Collier, associate vice president, Enrollment Services, was featured in this WICS story about student loan debt and financial literacy.

Jessica Ingold, youth services coordinator, was interviewed by FOX-55 at the site of College for Kids in Jacksonville. The interviews will air today between 7-9 a.m.

Welcome Jessie Blackburn!

Blackburn, Jessie

Jessie Blackburn has joined the Center for Academic Success (Learning Lab) as the new Academic Success Professional.  She can be reached at 6-2396 or jessie.blackburn@llcc.edu.  Welcome Jessie!

Thank you Welcome Week Volunteers

Thank you to all the Welcome Week volunteers who greeted and assisted students in the A. Lincoln Commons this week.  Volunteers provided directions, handed out Student Planners and answered a multitude of questions creating a great start for students’ successful semester at LLCC!  Welcome Week staff and volunteers were: Chris Barry, Cynthia Maskey, Amee Kesky, Rose Raikes, Sandy Bonn, Barry Lamb, Jacob Deters, Judith Nichols  Lynn Whalen and Diane Clark.

–  Mary Bonn, Public Relations & Marketing Assistant

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Welcome Samuel Bras!

Braf, Samuel

Samuel Bras has joined the ITS department as the new Systems Administrator I.  Samuel will be located in the lower level of Menard Hall, room 0043, and can be reached at 6-2262 or samuel.bras@llcc.edu.  Welcome Samuel!

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Weight Watchers to host Open House this Thursday

Weight Watchers hopes again to bring its At-Work Series to LLCC.  To showcase the program and online tools, a Weight Watchers Team Leader and current at-work members will host a Salad Social Open House on Thursday June 12th.  This will be held in Menard Room 2215 beginning at 11:45 AM.  All ingredients will be provided for you to have a healthy salad and learn more about Weight Watchers’ programs.  Contact Kim Elder at 62214 if you have any questions.

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EHST Safety Tip of the Month

The June safety tip brought to you by the Environmental Health & Safety Team:

Cardiac arrest is the abrupt loss of heart function which can cause death within minutes. Each year nearly 360,000 cardiac arrests occur outside of a hospital with over 80 percent of those happening at home.
The American Heart Association (AHA) lists the following as signs of cardiac arrest:
– A sudden loss of responsiveness
– No normal breathing

Click HERE to learn what to do if these signs are present and find more resources about responding to cardiac arrest.

Construction Update

I’d like to bring you up to date on a project that we will start shortly.  It is a project to tuck point and repair the masonry on Sangamon Hall, Menard Hall and Cass Gymnasium.  It is funded by Capital Renewal Funds and is being monitored by the Capital Development Board.  At the moment, we don’t have a defined schedule but we should start within the next 30 days.  When the schedule is developed, I will be sharing it with all of you.

This project will be loud, at times, and there will be times when certain entrances may be temporarily blocked.  As always, we will try to keep you posted about the schedule, the work and the impact that it may have on all of us.  I will know more in the upcoming days, after the bid has been awarded and I’ve had a chance to sit down with the contractor.

As usual, please feel free to contact me at 786-9605.

Thank you.

Hugh Garvey, Asst. VP Construction

This week at LLCC

Monday, June 9 – Summer session begins/Welcome Week
– Girls basketball camp begins (June 9-12), 9-11 a.m., Cass Gym

Tuesday, June 10 – Trutter Museum hosts Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce’s “Good Morning Springfield,” 7:30 a.m., Trutter Center
– Dean of Arts & Humanities Open Campus Forum, 2:30-3 p.m., Robert H. Stephens Room

Wednesday, June 11 – Dean of Arts & Humanities Open Campus Forum, 2:15-3:15 p.m., Robert H. Stephens Room

Trutter Museum hosts Chamber’s “Good Morning Springfield”

trutterThe Philip and Mary Kathryn Trutter Museum will host the Chamber’s “Good Morning Springfield” Tuesday, June 10 and you’re invited to stop by. The breakfast gathering begins at 7:30 a.m. at the Trutter Center and provides guests an opportunity to network and connect with community partners and friends. As a Chamber member, college faculty and staff are welcome to attend. Admission is $3 per person. Please stop by, connect with other Chamber members, and visit the Trutter Museum’s latest exhibit which celebrates Phil Trutter’s 100th birthday his work and love of art.