Dee Krueger, director, LLCC-Taylorville, was interviewed by WTIM Monday, June 17, about Juneteenth activities, registration for fall classes and LLCC’s upcoming summer open house event for prospective students interested in starting or restarting college or training for a new career.
Members of LLCC’s Black Student Union participated in Springfield’s annual Juneteenth Unity Parade on Saturday. Read about the parade on WMAY.
Dr. Matt Schownir, professor of history, recently spoke to the Kiwanis Club of Springfield, about the emerging role of AI in education.
Want to create a report in ZogoTech but just don’t quite remember where to start? Need a refresher on stacking filters in Navigator to get the right group of students? Have questions on a PowerBI Dashboard?
LLCC Institutional Research and Effectiveness staff are available during dedicated drop-in hours on Tuesday, 8:30-9:30 a.m. Stop by MCTR 2215, and bring your questions or requests. We look forward to seeing you!
Those with a need to meet virtually should contact IRE for a Teams meeting link.
LLCC’s Open House is tomorrow, June 18 from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. This includes the main campus and Outreach Centers in Jacksonville, Litchfield and Taylorville.
We are pleased to inform you that the technical issues affecting May vacation accruals have been resolved. All accruals have now been processed correctly.
Thank you for your patience and understanding. If you have any further questions, please contact HR@llcc.edu.
Chris Edmonds, program director, construction trades, was interviewed by WICS June 12 about the Girls in Construction camp, a partnership between LLCC, O’Shea Builders and the YMCA, offered through LLCC College for Kids
The 2024 Dick Dhabalt Athlete of the Year Award at LLCC went to Grant Pohlman of Carrollton, with men’s baseball, and Marley Smith of Auburn, with women’s basketball.
The LLCC Dick Dhabalt Athlete of the Year Award recognizes annually one LLCC male athlete and one female athlete. The award was established in February 2015 in honor of Mr. Dhabalt, former athletic director, head men’s basketball coach and faculty member, and acknowledges his dedication to education, athletics and students at LLCC.
Opal Lee is called the grandmother of Juneteenth. She began walking state to state in 2016 to draw the attention of lawmakers, to have the date declared a federal holiday. Congress passed legislation declaring it so. President Biden signed the bill into law on June 17, 2021. Read more at Mental Floss.
Make plans to celebrate Juneteenth Freedom Day at LLCC on June 19, 2024, with the second annual Freedom Walk at 8:30 a.m. Each day before the celebration, the LLCC Juneteenth Committee will share a fact about this historic day.
Register to attend The Interface of Global Poverty, Inequality, and Social Justice, virtual workshop, Aug. 5-9, presented by the Midwest Institute for International Intercultural Education
This workshop will explore the interface of global poverty and inequality and global implications. What are the major factors impacting poverty and inequality? How poverty and inequality have evolved in the past several decades and are the prominent proposed solutions? How can social justice co-exist with poverty and inequality?
All accepted participants (limit of 15 teaching faculty) will be offered $1,500 or $2,000 stipends to develop a curriculum module based on some aspect of the workshop theme and then present it in a future MIIIE Conference in 2025 or 2026. The 15 faculty will be accepted on a “first-come, first-served” basis.
Application and registration forms can be found on the Midwest Institute for International Intercultural Education website.
For questions, please contact Rihab Sawah.
Autism touches the lives of many of our staff across all of the LLCC locations, and at times it can be a difficult thing to navigate. A new Employee Resource Group has been formed to help employees connect, ask questions and share resources with each other! If you have children, family or identify yourself on the spectrum and would like to be added to the Teams group, please contact Kim Alexander or Rachel Duff.