LLCC Information Technology has placed new technology in the Robert H. Stephens Room. This is replacing the existing computer, projector and screens. If you regularly use the technology in this room or are just interested in seeing what is new, there will be two open house sessions to choose from. Please stop in any time during either session.
The LLCC Foundation is currently accepting scholarship applications for the 2020-2021 academic year. Please encourage students considering or planning to attend LLCC beginning in fall 2020 to apply. The deadline to apply is March 1, 2020.
LLCC Foundation scholarships are available for first-time and continuing students who will be enrolled full or part time at LLCC. Many of the scholarships are open to students in any program of study, with the average award being approximately $1,000 per academic year. Only one application form is needed to apply for all scholarships. Students submitting a complete application are considered for all available scholarships for which they are eligible.
The online application is available at www.llccfoundation.org/scholarships. An active LLCC email address is needed to apply for these scholarships. Prospective students should first complete a college admission application at www.llcc.edu (click on the blue “Apply” icon) to receive this email address.
For more information, contact Michelle Burger, LLCC scholarship program and alumni services coordinator, at michelle.burger@llcc.edu or 786-4502.
Save the date! On April 17, 2020, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., LLCC will be the host site for the Exploring OER: Access, Adoption and Application conference. This one-day conference for higher education faculty and staff is sponsored by Illinois Community Colleges Online (ILLCO) and Network of Illinois Learning Resources in Community Colleges (NILRC). The keynote speaker will be Abbey Elder, Iowa State University open access librarian, and author of “The OER Starter Kit.”
Brighten someone’s day. Say, “Thank you! Great job!” by nominating that person for a Key or Unique Demonstrations of Outstanding Service (KUDOS) award by today, Dec. 3! Nominate a colleague by filling out the online form. (Please use the Chrome or Firefox browser when completing this form.) KUDOS certificates will handed out on Dec. 10.
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.
Prospective graduates must submit a graduation application to LLCC Student Records by the deadline for the term in which all graduation requirements will be completed.
NOTE: Applying for graduation is separate from signing up to participate in the annual commencement ceremony. There is a separate sign up in March for the commencement ceremony held each May
Graduation applications for fall 2019 were due Monday, Dec. 2. If a prospective graduate has not already done so, they should submit one immediately. Students can apply for graduation on WebAdvisor or Logger Central, download the graduation application or pick up a copy in LLCC Student Records in Menard Hall on the Springfield campus and at other LLCC locations.
Please have them contact LLCC Student Records at 786-4956 or by email at records@llcc.edu if they have any questions.
The LLCC Choir will perform “Viva America,” a free concert in conjunction with the UIS Choir, tomorrow, Dec. 4, at noon in the UIS Student Union Ballroom.
The LLCC Honors Recital featuring LLCC music majors in end-of-semester performances will also take place tomorrow, Dec. 4, at 7 p.m. in Menard Hall, Room 2250, LLCC-Springfield. The recital is free and open to the public.
Faculty, staff and community members – learn how you can join the college’s band and choral groups for the spring 2020 semester through LLCC Community Education.
To all of my LLCC family:
On Nov. 16, my life was turned upside down and changed forever when my daughter Jenna, her best friend Holly, and Jenna’s paternal grandparents, Bill and Jackie, were taken in an automobile crash in Montgomery County. The past two weeks have been a nightmare, and it’s one that I can’t wake up from.
The only thing making this better is the acts of kindness shown to me and my family.
Thank you doesn’t seem to be enough. I probably won’t ever get around to preparing thank you notes, so I hope this reaches all of those who’ve helped out in some way. The flowers, visits, cards, meals, gift cards, emails, gifts, memorials, monetary donations and so many more acts of kindness have been incredible. And I am so appreciative to all of you who made the trip to Vandalia and/or to Jenna’s Springfield Celebration of Life. So many members of the LLCC faculty and staff have been so kind, and most I don’t even know. I appreciate you all. If you ever got to be around Jenna, you were the luckiest of all.
Claire Gordon, professor of communication, you have truly been my angel for coordinating the effort to see to it my students in all eight classes were taken care of. Thank you also to all those who have filled in for me. It hasn’t been an easy task I’m sure.
Jenna loved coming with me to campus. She loved the summer sports camps and kids college. She especially loved her cooking classes, and the recipe she learned here for homemade salsa was one of her favorites. I had hoped she would come here for two years and play basketball or volleyball or both. I had hoped she could learn from Tara Walk and Randy Rue since she had planned to study crime scene investigations and hoped to be a forensic pathologist. So many hopes.
And Tara Walk, thank you. You helped start the roadside memorial for me. It’s something I couldn’t begin, and you said yes when I asked for help. Thank you.
If you are all the praying kind or could simply send the most awesome of good vibes, we will take them. Holly’s family needs them. Holly was the youngest of three children and her family is devastated. Jenna’s dad Randy needs them. He’s lost his daughter and his parents. Our daughter Brandy needs them. She is headed back to her graduate physician’s assistant program today at the University of Dayton. She has three tests to take this week to keep on track. She begins clinical rotations in January. She’s lost her little sis and her grandparents. My heart aches for her.
And then there’s me. I feel like my role in everything that’s happened in my life has been the caregiver and the helper. I’m the one trying to fix things for everyone. I can’t fix this. But I know that all of your prayers and good vibes have kept us all going the last two weeks. Thank you for everything.
In honor of Jenna, would you please be kind to everyone? Say I love you. Mend broken relationships. Give hugs. Don’t take anyone for granted. Live with intention. Don’t waste a day. And above all, choose to say nothing but words that are loving and full of kindness.
I will end this with Jenna’s own words that she submitted in her last assignment for a class. It was a project about herself.
“It is important for people to show their appreciation for others’ good deeds because people should be appreciated every once in a while for being good to the community.”
Thank you.
Brenda Baptist Protz, professor of communication
Michelle Burger, scholarship program and alumni services coordinator, won the city-wide On My Own Time People’s Choice award for her photography entry, “Primpin’ Ain’t Easy.” Congratulations, Michelle!
OMOT is a program of the Springfield Area Arts Council. The purpose of OMOT is to help local businesses, agencies, educational and medical institutions identify and celebrate the artistic talents of people they employ.
Misty Hagstrom, 786-2466, misty.hagstrom@llcc.edu
Lindee Hall, 786-2409, lindee.hall@llcc.edu
LLCC Community Education is seeking highly motivated faculty, staff and community members who are interested in teaching topics of personal interest, current trends and/or subject expertise.
Please submit your fall 2020 course proposals by Friday, Dec. 13, 2019 at www.llcc.edu/teaching-proposal.
If you are interested in sharing your time and talents as a community education instructor, please consider the following applicant criteria:
For additional information or to discuss class ideas, email Laurel.Bretz@llcc.edu or call 786-2430.
An open forum will be held today, Dec. 2, from 2-2:45 p.m. in Menard Hall, Room 2207 with the first of three candidates for the dean of natural and agricultural science position. Please attend if possible.
Below are the dates, locations and times for the remaining forums.