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Institutional Effectiveness - This week at Richland College, DCCCD Board Chair Jerry Prater welcomed 26 interns participating in the first week of the Council for Resource Development (CRD) Class of 2008 Specialist Training Program. Participants represented 13 states from North Carolina to Washington and included four new DCCCD CRD interns from Brookhaven, Cedar Valley, and Richland. The second week of the intensive two-week training program will be hosted in Washington, D.C. Thunderducks Debbi Richards and David Canine are serving as training co-chairs, in cooperation with Planning Team members Sandy Hawkins and Shellie Heard from Richland and Theresa Roffino from LeCroy. The Richardson Chamber of Commerce, Garland Chamber of Commerce, Workforce Solutions for Greater Dallas (formally WorkSource for Dallas County), and DCCCD Foundation each sponsored a lunch during the first week of the training program.
Community and Economic Development - A solo exhibition of new photography celebrating the culture of Saratov, Russia, is on display in the Brazos Gallery through March 15. The exhibition, entitled Gennadiy Savkin: Sister City Saratov, features a selection of color photographs by Russian artist Gennadly Savkin, depicting the life, landscape, architecture, people, and cultural beauty of his home city, Saratov, during all four seasons of the year. Saratov is a sister city to Dallas. The exhibit is sponsored by Richland’s Humanities Division and World Languages, Cultures, and Communications Division.
Student Success - Thirteen Richland clay arts students and their art instructor, Fred Sweet, donated 93 handmade bowls to the Empty Bowls annual luncheon at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center on Feb. 22. The event drew more than 1,500 guests who enjoyed soups, bread, and desserts from North Texas restaurants and food purveyors served in handmade bowls donated from artists across the Metroplex. The event raised $116,000 to fight hunger in North Texas.
Employee Success - On March 4, Boston-based Powderhouse Productions was in Dallas filming footage at Richland for a new show on the History Channel similar in format to “How Things Work” or “Modern Marvels.” The episode being filmed was about steel and included footage of the Richland Steel Band, under the direction of Richland Instrumental Music Director Joe Perea, as they performed authentic music and demonstrated building and tuning processes of Caribbean steel drum instruments.
Richland Collegiate High School (RCHS) is one of two high schools selected by Marlow Industries to offer students an opportunity to work for the company as engineering and research assistants. Two to four RCHS juniors will be selected to work full-time during this summer, part-time during their senior year, and full-time during the summer after their graduation. Students who complete the program and plan to study engineering or science will receive scholarships for their final two years of college, as well as summer jobs with Marlow Industries. The company hopes to expand the program to address its ongoing need for skilled engineers and scientists. Founded in 1973, Marlow Industries, an early Richland Corporate Services custom training client and a 1991 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recipient, is a local thermoelectric cooler manufacturer.
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