Archive for April, 2008
Time to Shine: VP to go bald after RCHS seniors earns over $2 million in scholarships
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Earlier this year, David Canine, Vice President of Educational Transitions and Deputy Superintendent of Richland Collegiate High School of Mathematics, Science and Engineering (RCHS), challenged the class of 2008 to get more than $1 million in scholarship offers. If successful, he promised to shave his head.
The seniors met and exceeded the challenge, collecting over $2 million in scholarships from various in-state and out-of-state colleges and universities, both public and private. On May 12, Canine pays up by going bald for the cause.
The class of 2008 will be the first graduating class of RCHS. The charter school was formed in the Fall of 2006 for area students to complete their last two years of high school at Richland College, earning both college credit and their high school diploma.
Who: Richland Collegiate High School
What: Deputy Superintendent David Canine gets his head shaved as a result of RCHS seniors earning $2 million in scholarships
When: 3 p.m., May 12
Where: Richland College – East Breezeway
12800 Abrams Road
Dallas, TX 75243
Published by Anitra Cotton on April 30th, 2008 tagged Award/Honors, Events, Richland Collegiate High School | 1 Comment »
This week’s RLC update
Institutional Effectiveness - The Thunderducks soared this week at the Malcolm Barldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA) Quest for Excellence Conference, White House-sponsored 2007 Award Ceremony, and 20th Anniversary MBNQA Gala. RLC President Steve Mittelstet helped kick off the national celebration with 20th Anniversary best wishes from the public and private K-16 education sector. Vice President Kay Eggleston was a Special Topics co-presenter with Cargill Corp. and Bronson Healthcare on Applying for the Award. Planning, Research and Institutional Effectiveness Dean Fonda Vera and Directors Gloria Washington and Bao Huynh represented RLC/DCCCD and the education sector throughout the conference. In a national academic research study of high-performance institutions, Dr. Mittelstet was interviewed for 4 1/2 hours regarding Richland’s performance excellence model, with specific interest in how RLC’s deployment of sustainable community building throughout its operations and curriculum might help infuse all seven MBNQA categories more explicitly with expectations of sustainability’s triple bottom line: social equity and justice, economic sufficiency, and healthy environment. In Dallas, immediately prior to the conference, RLC hosted leaders of Yale College, recipient of the Welsh Quality Award, exploring potential partnerships in performance excellence and joint curriculum, similar to that between RLC and Saratov State University.
Community and Economic Development - Richland Humanities hosted its Fifth Annual Carnival of Steel and Caribbean Steel Band Music Festival on April 19. Hundreds of community members enjoyed inspiring performances by the Richland Steel Band and World Drumming Ensemble, the Midwestern State University Caribbean Steel Band, the Plano Sr. High School Pan Cats, the North Garland High School Steel Band, the Shields Elementary School Steel Band (Red Oak, TX), the Krum Texas High School Steel Band, and a professional group called Island Groove. The day-long outdoor festivities concluded with a Caribbean Carnival costume parade. The festival was directed by Joe Perea, Richland’s Director of Instrumental Studies, and assisted by numerous Richland music student and Emeritus volunteers.
Student Success - Richland Chronicle Photo Editor Tambra Sanders recently won Best of Show in the Photography Department’s Student Photo/Imaging Exhibition. In addition, Tambra and Tasleem Khan won Third Place in the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association (TIPA) Two-Person Photo Essay live competition on April 3, competing against junior and senior photojournalism majors from every major public and private university in Texas. While at the TIPA convention in College Station, Tambra was elected TIPA’s parliamentarian.
Employee Success - At last week’s National Conference on Sustainability for Community Colleges, Richland’s Chief Sustainability Officer David Henry, GREENRichland Co-chair Eddie Hueston, and Academic Enrichment Dean Carole Lester led a session entitled GREENRichland: Building Sustainable Local and World Community. David also served on a panel with Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) Director Walton and Lane Community College President Spilde on the national beta test for the AASHE STARS (Sustainable Tracking, Assessment, and Rating System), in which Richland and the DCCCD District Offices are participants. Dr. Mittelstet — serving as the national director for the Wingspread-hosted initiative co-sponsored by the Continuous Quality Improvement Network, League for Innovation, AACC, and CCSSE, entitled Sustainable Community Building: A 21st-Century Vision for Community and Technical Colleges — networked with leaders of these groups in advancing this multi-institutional partnership initiative.
Richland Collegiate High School (RCHS) seniors Megan Erickson and Melanie Weller and RCHS junior Katie Bierschenk were three of the 12 members of Richland’s Alpha Alpha Xi Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa who recently journeyed to the 90th Phi Theta Kappa International Convention in Philadelphia to bring home top honors in a number of categories. As President of the Texas Region of Phi Theta Kappa, Katie is also believed to be the first dual-credit and youngest Phi Theta Kappa regional officer. RCHS PTA President Fred Henley and the fund-raising and planning committees, hosted RCHS’s first junior-senior prom this past Saturday at the Texas Woman’s Museum in Fair Park. Principal Kristyn Edney, Deputy Superintendent David Canine, Superintendent Mittelstet, and the entire RCHS staff helped PTA volunteers chaperone the festive event.
Published by Jenni Gilmer on April 28th, 2008 tagged Award/Honors, Phi Theta Kappa, Richland Collegiate High School | Comment now »
Richland College to host “Stop the Presses,” a documentary screening on Monday
WHAT: “Stop the Presses: The American Newspaper in Peril,” documentary film screening followed by Q&A with filmmakers
WHO: Filmmakers, Mark Birnbaum and Manny Mendoza
WHEN: 2-4 p.m., April 28
WHERE: Sabine Hall - Room S-103
HOSTED BY: Richland College Broadcasting Club and KDUX Web Radio
WEBSITE: www.stopthepressesdoc.com
DALLAS - What will become of the American newspaper? The ready availability of news around the clock, particularly on the Internet, is combining with Wall Street’s demand for growing profits to threaten this important American institution. What’s at stake is the role of the journalism in a free society? Many American newspapers have seen advertising revenues plummet, printing costs rise, readership decline and shareholders increasingly unsatisfied with their financial returns. Newspaper management reacted with cuts: involuntary layoffs and voluntary buyouts. Papers are not only deciding how large a staff they can now afford but also how to deploy it in a shifting world of 24-hour cable news, Web sites aimed at every niche and TV-enabled telephones.
Journalist, Manny Mendoza has 30 years experience with newspapers across the country, including 14 years experience as an arts and entertainment critic with The Dallas Morning News. He currently works as a television columnist with ReZoom.com and is co-producing and promoting the documentary film “Stop the Presses.”
Filmmaker, Mark Birnbaum has created documentaries that have probed, celebrated and exposed people to places and personalities all over the globe. His films cover topics ranging from politics and religion to sailboat racing and salsa dancing. Birnbaum has received numerous gold medal film festival awards and is the recipient of the prestigious George Foster Peabody Broadcasting Award.
For additional information, please contact Meg Fullwood at 972-761-6859 (Mon/Wed) or by e-mail at mfullwood@dcccd.edu.