Community and business members from Garland, as well as officials from the Dallas County Community College District and Richland College, marked the beginning of the Richland College Garland Campus during a special groundbreaking ceremony held last week. The new facility — one of five community education campuses planned by DCCCD under its 2004 bond program — will provide both academic and workforce development classes to Garland-area residents and businesses.
The 34,000-square-foot facility will include space for classrooms, computer laboratories, a multipurpose exposition space, conference center and community-based organization offices; and three outdoor plazas facing south, toward Garland’s downtown square and nearby DART light rail station. The facility, which will be built at a cost of $12.1 million and administered by Richland College, will help educate students and support the economic redevelopment of Garland, the state’s eighth-largest industrial center.
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The RLC bookstore now carries an entire line of recycled paper products that includes everything from spiral notebooks to index cards and memo pads to mechanical pencils. The products in this line retail at the same prices as the non-recycled products. Most of the items are made from 100 percent recycled materials. The mechanical pencils are composed of over 70 percent recycled materials. To make it easier for everyone to shop green, all of these items have been put on one display at the front of the store.
Richland College faculty and students were featured in a KTVT newscast last week. Click here to view.
The T-Duck men’s soccer won its fifth NJCAA Division III national championship in the last six years on Saturday, while the women finished third in the national tournament.
Richland men’s soccer team, which was the No. 4 seed in the national tournament, opened play with a huge 1-0 shutout victory in the semifinal round over the No.1 seed and then-undefeated Union College before needing overtime to defeat Ulster County Community College (Stone Ridge, N.Y.), 1-0, in the title game.
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Faculty Appreciation Week
Dates: Nov. 11-16
Sponsored by: The Council for Teaching & Learning, Phi Theta Kappa, Teacher Preparation Institute, and SPAR
Fall Harvest Sale
Date: Fri., Nov. 16
Time: 9:30 a.m.-noon
Place: Room H110
Sponsored by: Students in the floral design class and greenhouse crop production class
Featured Teaching Learning Practice Awards
Date: Wed., Nov. 14
Time: 11:15 a.m.
Place: Crockett Hall student area
Sponsored by: Council for Teaching and Learning
15 Minutes of Fun
Date: Wed., Nov. 14
Time: 2-2:15 p.m.
Place: Alamito/Crockett Breezeway
Sponsored by: Council for Community Building
Student Wall of Honor Fall 2007 Ceremony
Date: Thurs., Nov. 15
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Place: Crockett Hall student area
Sponsored by: Council for Community Building
Fall Festival
Date: Sat., Nov. 17
Time: 10 a.m- 3 p.m.
Place: East Circle by the library
Sponsored by: RCHS Student Government
Cost: admission is a canned food or $1 for unlimited games. There will be a jump house, fire truck, food, and games
Teacher Prep Institute Information Session
Date: Thurs., Nov. 29
Time: 1-2 p.m. and 5-6 p.m.
Place: C-150
Sponsored by: Teacher Preparation Institute
Vice President for Institutional Effectiveness and Economic Development Dr. Kay Eggleston accepted the Outstanding Woman of Today award in the Education category from the Richardson Chapter of Altrusa International, Inc. at their fourth annual luncheon on October 31.
Aditi Samarth, Professor of Humanities, gave a talk last month on Diwali, Festival of Lights at the Crow Collection. Samarth spoke on the significance of Diwali from religious, cultural, social, and economic vantage points.
The Richland Chronicle won an Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker Award on Oct. 27 in Washington, D.C.
Judges select Pacemakers based on coverage and content, quality of writing and reporting, leadership on the opinion page, evidence of in-depth reporting, design, photography, and art and graphics. Pacemakers are selected by the staff of a professional newspaper in the host city of the ACP/CMA National College Media Convention.
Past accolades include:
• Pacemaker Award in 2000 and 2001 and was recognized as a Pacemaker Finalist in 2003 and 2006 as well.
• An Online Pacemaker Finalist and was the only Texas college newspaper to be recognized as a Pacemaker Finalist in both the Newspaper and Online categories
• One of only two Texas college newspapers to earn the Pacemaker, along with the San Jacinto Times of San Jacinto College.
On Sat., Nov. 3rd the Richland College Upward Bound Program in collaboration with the Plano North Metroplex Chapter, The Links, Inc. presented the Pathways To College Conference. More than 225 students and parents were in attendance. College preparation workshops were presented by RLC staff Jean Carter, Sheree Porter, and Tanisha Shorter. In addition, “Know Your Rights” was presented by Judges Thomas G. Jones, Valencia Nash, Cleophaus Steele, Jr. and Attorney Stanley Mays. The conference culminated with lunch and door prizes. The conference was spearheaded by James Spigner and Ruth Schexnayder, Education Linkage Chair, Plano North Metroplex Chapter, The Links, Inc.
Dr. Sherry Dean, Executive Dean, Humanities, was the opening keynote speaker at the 15th International Mexican Recycling Congress and Expo in Acapulco, Mexico, November 8, 2007. Dr. Dean’s address was entitled, “The Cultural Imperative of the Global Economy.” Government and business representatives from Brazil, Canada, Cuba, Spain, China, Mexico, and the United States attended the INARE conference.
Alice Fulbright
Library
Excerpt from Alice’s congratulatory note from Dr. Mittelstet:
Dear Alice:
Congratulations on being selected the Richland College Outstanding Employee for November 2007. Your award is well-deserved recognition of the exemplary service you have provided Richland College.
In your fifteen years as an Instructional Services Librarian you have served countless students at the reference desk and taught many, many classes in information literacy. Your love of those quiet repositories of knowledge known as libraries, coupled with your love of teaching and learning, add to a positive influence on those who enter Richland’s library doors. Your colleagues attest that you brighten the library with your energy, enthusiasm, and creative ideas and that you are usually the first person to volunteer to take on a new project, in spite of the heavy workload you already squeeze into your schedule. . . .
Judy Gandy
Secretary II
RCHS
Nancy Kammerer
Staff & Organizational Dev. Specialist
TOLI
To: Rosie Silva
From: Oscar Lopez
Thank you for all that you do to help our students succeed.
It’s nice to be recognized for your good efforts.
I appreciate all that you do for our staff and students.
To: Debra Lockhart (Employee Services)
From: Suzy Hogue (Information Services)
Thank you so much for your patience and understanding when helping me to figure out how to deal with issues I’m unfamiliar with. You’re always so willing to take the time to explain complicated H.R. matters to me. I appreciate your time and assistance.
Hi Bonnie (Hueston),
I wanted to thank you for your help and caring assistance with Elizabeth’s classes at Richland. She finished with 58 hrs credit (6 hrs from CLEPs) and starts this Thursday at UTD. I just thought you might want to know that she took the ACT this spring and got a 31, and based on that and her transcript from Richland, UTD has given her a full scholarship, all tuition and fees for 8 semesters. Since she has already completed so much work, she will be allowed to use the extra semesters after finishing her BA in a graduate program. She decided to major in Psychology with a minor in Criminal Justice and plans (at least at this point) to eventually go to Law School. We are so grateful to Richland for the opportunities it afforded Elizabeth. The teachers she had were great and she enjoyed (almost) all of her classes.
Richland is a great school and offers a quality education to its students.
Thanks Again,
Judy Cash
Ysidoro S. Olivo, father of Veronica Estrella, passed away Nov. 2 after a lengthy illness. A rosary held this past Tuesday evening at Castillo Mission Funeral Home in San Antonio. A funeral mass followed Wednesday at Holy Family Catholic Church with services ending at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery.
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