LLCC Financial Aid would like to thank the LLCC Foundation, PRM, Student Life, Quiznos, Robin Ackman, Shawn Allen, Ximena Arroyo Estrada, Andrew Blaylock, Shanda Byer, Carissa Dubois, Kelly Ellis, Dr. Lesley Frederick, Seth Jacobs, Rashawn Jones, Brandon Lewis, Susan Mendenhall, Sarah Scheufele, Wes Treadwell, Lindsey Weihmeir and Thomas Whalen for helping us with our successful FAFSA Fiesta event on Oct. 1. There were over 60 students who attended the event and worked to complete their 2020-2021 FAFSA.
In the news
Sean Keeley, culinary specialist, is the author of today’s Epicuriosity 101 column in the State Journal-Register, “Premium idioms.”
Quiznos closing early today
Quiznos, in the lower level of Menard Hall, will be closing early on Wednesday, Oct. 9, at 3 p.m. so all Quiznos staff may attend the 15 under Fifteen awards ceremony where they are being recognized.
Chemistry Club bake sale today
The LLCC Chemistry Club will be having a bake sale today, Oct. 9, from 10 a.m to 1 p.m. in A. Lincoln Commons. Stop to get tasty treats and support the Chemistry Club!
PACE survey opens today
As a reminder, the college is administering a climate survey, the Personal Assessment of the College Environment (PACE), this fall. It opens today, Oct. 8, and will be available through Friday, Nov. 1. You will receive an email invite from the National Initiative for Leadership and Institutional Effectiveness (NILIE) to take the survey.
The survey is conducted every three years to provide data on perceptions of the college environment and to help inform continuous quality improvement initiatives. Your participation is important and appreciated!
– Campus Climate Team
First onsite wellbeing assessment and flut shot clinic today
LLCC is offering two opportunities to participate in an onsite wellbeing assessment and flu shot clinic today, Oct. 8, and Wednesday, Oct. 23 from 7-11:30 a.m. in the Trutter Center. This event is open to all LLCC benefit-eligible employees and their spouses. For those employees and their spouses who are enrolled in a LLCC health insurance plan, the wellness screening (and flu shot for those participating in the screening) is free! All benefit-eligible employees who participate in the wellness screening will receive a $50 Visa gift card – just for participating!
To register for the onsite wellness screening and/or flu shot, open the screening guide emailed on Sept. 13 for login/registration instructions. Please note that there is a separate registration for the wellness screening and the flu shot. If you would like to do both, please be sure to register for both. When registering for a flu shot, you may be asked to enter a job code. If that should happen, please log out of the website, shut down your browser and then go back in. You should no longer see a request for a job code and can begin the registration process for the flu shot.
Not available on Oct. 8 or Oct. 23? Select “Physician Screening” when registering for the wellbeing assessment, and follow the instructions for having your physician conduct the screening instead. If you have your physician conduct the screening and fax the results to CHCWellbeing by Oct. 31, benefit-eligible employees will also receive the $50 Visa gift card incentive for participating remotely!
If you have any questions, please Nicole Ralph at nicole.ralph@llcc.edu or 786-2342.
Inclusivity Series presentation Oct. 23
Save the date! The first speaker in the Inclusivity Series, Dr. Penny A. Pasque, will be presenting on “Understanding Implicit Bias and Identifying Action Strategies Toward Change” on Oct. 23 at noon in the Student Union. The event will include a 60-minute keynote at noon, followed by a 30-minute activity at 1 p.m. Registration for the event is requested.
Implicit bias refers to the attitudes or stereotypes that affect our understanding, actions and decisions in an unconscious manner. Implicit bias exists around race, ethnicity, gender, national identity, disability or any social identity. This interactive session will explore your own social identities and, focusing on race, define and explore the complexities of implicit bias for yourself, students and colleagues. The event will address how implicit bias shows up on community college campuses and work toward tangible action strategies toward change.
Dr. Pasque is a professor in educational studies and associate director of qualitative methods in the Office of Research, Innovation and Collaboration at Ohio State University. In addition, she is editor of the “Review of Higher Education,” which is considered one of the leading research journals in the field. Her research addresses complexities in qualitative inquiry, inequities in higher education, and disconnections between higher education and society. She utilizes qualitative methodology as well as studies qualitative methodology. Pasque’s research has appeared in approximately 100 journal articles and books. She is currently the primary investigator for 1) the National Study on Women in Higher Education and Student Affairs since 2008 2) the Epistemological Injustice in Graduate Education research project with Leslie Gonzales, 3) Researching Educational Diversity – The Decolonizing Indigenous Research Team (RED-DIRT).
Congratulations to The Lamp!
The LLCC student newspaper, The Lamp, won first place in the John M. Ryan Best of Show at the Illinois Community College Journalism Association’s fall 2019 conference at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois. The award is given to the community college with the single best issue of any student newspaper.
The judge wrote: “The most editorially robust paper among the entries. This paper provides readers with an appropriate mix of hard news, features, photography and sports. The writing and editing are strong, allowing reporters to breathe life into stories while staying true to journalistic standards. The papers designers provide a solid mix of traditional presentation and looser, more inviting and provocative publications. A quality publication in all aspects.”
Left to right: Tess Peterson, Tim McKenzie (advisor), Quinn Brown, Regina Ivy (editor-in-chief), Austin Sanderfield, Ryan Scott, Paul Watson and Cameron Boyer
Tim McKenzie, professor of journalism and humanities, is pictured with the seven Lamp staff members who attended the two-day conference at EIU, where they learned from journalism educators and professional journalists, such as an editor from the Chicago Tribune. They also heard from the director of the Illinois Press Foundation, Jeff Rogers, who is overseeing the creation of a news bureau in Springfield to cover state government. He talked about how non-profits are finding a place in the traditional for-profit media landscape.
Quiznos closing early Wednesday, Oct. 9
Quiznos, in the lower level of Menard Hall, will be closing early on Wednesday, Oct. 9, at 3 p.m. so all Quiznos staff may attend the 15 under Fifteen awards ceremony where they are being recognized.
“The Walk of the Immigrants” tomorrow in Student Union
LLCC Student Life welcomes Saul Flores (philanthropist, photojournalist and speaker who is nationally recognized for his social impact projects) to share his presentation, “The Walk of the Immigrants,” tomorrow, Oct. 9, noon-1 p.m. in the Student Union (note: this is a change of location). This event is part of the Student Life’s Soup and Stories series.
Flores spent three months walking, hitchhiking, and sleeping on the ground and in hiding places. His journey began in Ecuador and ended in Charlotte, North Carolina. In three months, he walked 5,328 miles through 10 countries and nine border crossings to document how grueling and dangerous the journey of immigrants to the United States can be and to raise money for an elementary school in Atencingo, Mexico.
In this presentation, Flores speaks about how as a North Carolina State University senior, he took the “walk” in the summer of 2010. Student audiences get the opportunity to relive “The Walk of the Immigrants” along with Saul and create a deeper understanding of the struggles, hardships, joy and hope that immigrants experience on their journey.