There are just three weeks until the FSI: At the Intersection of Teaching, Learning and Technology Conference, “Back to the Future: 25 Years of FSI,” which will be held May 17-18, 2022 in Champaign. Registration is open.
MIIIE “Climate Change and People’s Livelihoods” May 7
Midwest Institute for International-Intercultural Education (MIIIE) will host a virtual workshop on “Climate Change and People’s Livelihoods”
Saturday, May 7, 10 a.m.-noon and 1-3:30 p.m. Eastern Time. The registration fee is $25.
This workshop will examine how climate change is impacting people’s livelihoods in various parts of the world. There are useful insights from people and institutions that are trying to adapt and/or mitigate climate change in their effort to improve or at least maintain their livelihoods.
In particular, there will be presentations on:
- What is Climate Change and Why Does it Matter?
- Combatting Global Climate Change: The Limits of Legal Options
- The Interactions Among Water, Climate and Societies in a Changing Global Environment
To register, visit www.miiie.org/workshops/climate-change.
Board of Trustees to meet today
The LLCC Board of Trustees meets today, April 27, at 5:15 p.m. in the Robert H. Stephens Room. Read the agenda.
New admission application
LLCC’s new admission application is live after a lot of hard work by staff across the college! Be sure to check out www.llcc.edu/apply and look at the new application. Students are now prompted to select the appropriate application. The new primary and dual credit applications have received a major update to make it easier for students to complete the forms.
Tickets on sale yet today for PTK parking spot raffle
Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society is holding its first “Parking Spot Raffle” in over two years! The lucky winner will be able to park in the Phi Theta Kappa parking spot located near the southeast corner of Menard Hall for the remainder of 2022. Tickets are $1 each or 6 for $5, and are on sale yet today, April 27, from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. in A. Lincoln Commons. You can pay with cash or check (made out to LLCC). The winning ticket will be announced at 11 a.m. on Thursday, April 28. If you have any questions, please contact Claire Gordon, Phi Theta Kappa coordinator.
Rock the statistics: Sexual Assault Awareness Month
Sexual Assault Awareness Month educates communities and individuals about sexual assault and the actions they can take to prevent it.
Thank you for your participation in taking a pledge against the staggering national statistics of sexual assault. Watch a video of how the LLCC community is going to rock the statistics.
Don’t forget you are invited to turn up, speak up and support survivors by participating in UIS’s Take Back the Night Event on Friday, April 29 at 7 p.m. The event will start outside the Union on the UIS campus. Weather permitting, the event will include a march across campus and end with a gathering inviting sexual assault survivors to share their stories and be supported. Rain location for Take Back the Night is in the UIS Union Ballroom.
If you want to make posters for the march, arrive at 6 p.m. and join the creativity in the Student Life Center just inside the Union.
If you have any questions, comments, or need to report an incident related to sexual assault or harassments, please contact Nikki Baker, compliance and prevention coordinator, at Nikki.Baker@llcc.edu.
In the news
Sheridan Lane, director, culinary program and operations, wrote this week’s Epicuriosity 101 column on “Derby Day Spice.”
PRM has T-shirts to give away!
PRM has “very slightly imperfect” Abe T-shirts to give away, along with a few leftovers from previous events. If you would like one of these T-shirts, you may pick one up at the Information Desk in A. Lincoln Commons, or if you work off-campus, email rhilee.cochran@llcc.edu and she will put one in interoffice mail to you. (When we say “very slightly imperfect,” there may be a slight color bleed on the face or the LLCC logo is not perfectly defined.)
Here’s the current inventory. First come first served.
Abe shirts (black)
- Small – 5
- Medium – 2
- 2XL – 4
- 3XL – 1
Abe shirts (white)
- Small –25
- Large –5
“Virtual is the new reality” convocation shirts
- Small – 4
- Medium – 3
- Large – 1
- 2XL – 6
“Driven to succeed” 2021 graduation shirts
- Small – 3
- 4XL – 1
Board of Trustees to meet tomorrow
The LLCC Board of Trustees will meet tomorrow, April 27, at 5:15 p.m. in the Robert H. Stephens Room. Read the agenda.
Nominate a deserving colleague for KUDOS yet today
Key or Unique Demonstrations of Outstanding Service award nominations are open yet today, April 26. Nominate a deserving colleague by filling out the online submission form. (Please use a Chrome or Firefox browser when completing this form.) The KUDOS awards will be announced Friday, May 6.
The KUDOS awards are an informal way to recognize the special contributions — small and large — made by faculty and staff that create the positive environment that is LLCC. Brighten someone’s day. Say, “Thank you! Great job!” by nominating that person for a KUDOS award!