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This week’s RLC update
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Institutional Effectiveness - Four administrators from South Texas College in McAllen, Texas, recently spent the day meeting with key Richland staff members, benchmarking successful technological initiatives including Richland’s Registration Pager System, Who’s Next software, and intervention programs targeting students on academic suspension and financial aid probation. Oscar Lopez, Richland Dean of Admissions, Advising and Registration, and Cindy Berry, Director of Academic Advising, hosted the representatives from the Admissions, Registrars and Advising offices of STC.
Community and Economic Development - In partnership with the GISD, Garland Association for Hispanic Affairs, and Richland’s Community Outreach and Financial Aid departments, Richland’s recent Financial Aid Fair assisted 35 families in completing financial aid forms online. This event augmented the 50+ families assisted at another RLC Financial Aid Fair held last month.
Student Success - Richland student Keome Rowe earned the Congressional Award Gold Medal and will be presented with the medal by U.S. Senators Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn and U.S. Rep. Sam Johnson on June 19 in Washington, D.C. The Congressional Award is a public/private partnership created by Congress to promote and recognize achievement, initiative, and service in America’s youth. The Congressional Award provides a unique opportunity for young people to set and achieve personally challenging goals that build character and foster community service, personal development, and citizenship.
Employee Success - Richland Art Gallery Coordinator Randall Garrett recently built a solo installation as part of NFO-XPO, an art fair in Chicago. Randall has curated, performed, and shown work in Texas, Miami, New York, Puerto Rico and Chicago, most recently performance and installation work in 2007 at artist-run spaces “Polvo” and “Motherland. ” Two Richland College adjunct art faculty members are currently exhibiting works at Dallas galleries. Simeen Ishaque’s “Babelating” has a collaborative installation with artist Diane Sikes at the 500X Gallery. “Babelating’s” mixed-media, site-specific anti-war commentary and Keith Williams’ “Ambient Scenes,” using figures, animals, objects, and landscapes to create surreal narratives, recently opened at the South Side on Lamar’s Janette Kennedy Gallery. Fred Sweet, Richland 3-D Art Coordinator, and his advanced ceramics students Nathan Portnoy and Mark Westbrook recently participated in a special weekend clay and kiln wood-firing workshop in Edom, Texas, through a collaboration between the ceramics departments of Richland, Tyler Junior College, and Montgomery College in Conroe.
Richland faculty are working in close collaboration with Richland Collegiate High School (RCHS) juniors this week to help them succeed in both their Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills testing and final week of college class review. The state of Texas requires all 11th grade students to take and pass exit-level examinations in English, mathematics, science, and social studies, during mandated testing dates throughout the state, in order to be eligible to graduate from high school. RCHS juniors and their instructors are collaboratively meeting the challenge of simultaneously succeeding in rigorous high school requirements and college-level course work.
Published by Jenni Gilmer on May 8th, 2008 tagged Arts, Award/Honors, News, Richland Collegiate High School | Comment now »
Richland to host its 25th Annual Literary Festival featuring renowned poets and composers
World-renowned poet, painter, composer and translator Alvaro Cardona-Hine will be the keynote speaker for the 25th Annual Richland College Literary Festival, Feb. 26-28. The three-day series of events includes:
Tuesday, Feb. 26
Alvaro Cardona-Hine, 9:30 a.m., F108
Readings of original works by RLC students, 11 a.m., F108
Poet Jonathan “GNO” White, 7 p.m., C140
Wednesday, Feb. 27
Poet Jerry McElveen, 10:10 a.m., F108
Poet and translator Susan Briante, 11:15 a.m., F108
Poet Joe Stanco, 7 p.m., S116
Richland College Theatre’s “Guys and Dolls,” 7:30 p.m., F102
Thursday, Feb. 28
Poet and essayist Sheryl St. Germain, 9:30 a.m., F108
Author Shin Yu Pai, 11 a.m., F108
Readings of original works by RLC faculty members, 7 p.m., C140
For more information, call 972-238-6194.
Published by Anitra Cotton on February 20th, 2008 tagged Arts, Events, News | Comment now »
This week’s RLC update
Community and Economic Development - Richland’s African American Read-In 2008, Read, Believe, Achieve, & Succeed, sponsored by Richland’s African American Connection Organization and SPAR, featured successful guest author Sheliah Caddell-Dennis and a host of readers, poets, and vocalists who performed for a Performance Hall full of Richland students, faculty, and staff, as well as a DISD E.D. Walker Middle School teacher, her 65 students, and a DISD central office official. Congratulations and thanks go to Richland African American Read-In event planners Janice Bell, Tacia Dillard, Bobbie Harrison, Sandy Hawkins, Alisa Jones, Wilfred Manyango, Tanisha Shorter, Tameika Williams, and Bethany Wright for planning the inspiring event.
Student Success - Congratulations to Richland freshman student athlete and Garland native Tony Bishop who was named NJCAA Division III National Basketball Player of the Week, January 20-26.
Employee Success - Former Richland Thunderduck Basketball Coach Chester Story has been selected to be inducted into the Texas Association of Basketball Coaches (TABC) Hall of Fame. Under Coach Story’s leadership, Richland’s 1999 Thunderduck Basketball Team won the Division III National Championship, and he shaped the lives of thousands of student athletes during his 42 years as a head coach.
Institutional Effectiveness - Richland has recently hosted a number of benchmarking activities on performance excellence. Northeast Texas Community College’s (NTCC) Vice President of Instruction and Student Development, accompanied by eight members of NTCC’s Strategic Planning Committee, spent February 8 exploring Richland’s approaches to strategic planning, employee culture, and professional development. February 9-15, Richland hosted a visit from Jonathan Cartmell, Director of Standards and Performance at Yale College, Wrexham, North Wales, representing both Yale College and Forum (the Welsh equivalent of DCCCD, with 23 colleges across Wales), to investigate excellence in leadership and the long-term use of the Baldrige Award process in embedding a “Quality” culture.
On February 7, Leadership Garland Class XXVII visited Richland for their Education Day Program, which included a campus tour to observe student services processes and a meeting with faculty in Richland’s new Interactive Simulation and Game Technology program. The visitors also heard presentations on Richland’s new LEED-Platinum Science Building, LEED-Gold Garland Campus, Corporate Services training opportunities, Emeritus Boomer ReBoot program, and Collegiate High School.
Richland Collegiate High School (RCHS) Senior Zachary Howard recently learned he has been accepted to junior status at Baylor University and received a $20,000 merit scholarship. In addition, the list of RCHS seniors being admitted to junior status at The University of Texas at Austin (U.T.) continues to grow to include Lauren Anderson, Stephanie Herd, Charles Manion, Tony Nguyen, Justin Pham, Caitlin Taylor, and Melanie Weiler. Caitlin Taylor has just been notified that she is a National Merit Finalist, which entitles her to a $13,000 scholarship. Having already been accepted to the College of Biomedical Engineering at U.T., Caitlin has also been notified of her acceptance in U.T.’s Cockrell School of Engineering.