Monthly Highlights
October 2003 Highlights
THE OREGON SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER NETWORK, a statewide educational program devoted to small business development and training and headquartered at Lane, received a $6,000 grant from the Qwest Foundation to fund training for leaders of small businesses. Grant funds will be used to create and implement an interactive, online business planning course targeted for small businesses. For more information call 463-5250.
SANDY JENSEN, part-time English instructor, won first place for the newsletter Chalkboard from the National Council of Teachers of English. Chalkboard serves the Oregon Council of Teachers of English and is distributed to elementary and secondary schools, community colleges, and universities. The award recognizes outstanding quality and variety of content, quality of writing, reader-friendly format, and English usage.
A RESOLUTION OPPOSING THE REPEAL of House Bill 2152 was passed by Lane's Board of Education at its October meeting.
KLCC EXCEEDED ITS FALL FUNDRAISING GOAL on the last day of Radiothon with $252,500 in pledges, surpassing the $250,000 goal. A total of 3,520 donors contributed. Two-thirds of KLCC's budget comes from listeners and local businesses.
LANE'S FOUNDATION AND UNITED WAY of Lane County combined their campaigns to Lane employees this fall with an October 20 kick-off. The campaign will conclude November 20.
A $398,484 GRANT WAS awarded for a Flexible Sequence Algebra program developed by mathematics instructor David Shellabarger from FIPSE, the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education. This federal grant will fund a year of planning and two years of implementation, research, and dissemination. The algebra program will create and pilot a new curriculum and teaching approach for developmental algebra. Components of the program include flexible pacing, modular instruction, and variable credit classes that maintain the structure and support of instructor-led classes. Course material is broken into two-week long modules taught sequentially. If a student fails a module he or she moves into a "trailing" section, repeats the failed module, and then continues additional modules in the appropriate sequence. Different sections overlap and start with different modules, so students can be placed more effectively, and gain course credit for individual modules as completed.
SCHOLARSHIPS OF $5,000 EACH were awarded to 24 students by the Lane Community College Foundation from the fund created by a $2 million gift from the Robert W. and Bernice Ingalls Staton Foundation two years ago. The awards were given to Jaymi Adams, dental hygiene, and Dona Grace-Campbell, nursing, both of Cottage Grove; Marsha Gabbard, nursing, of Creswell; Linda Bern, dental hygiene; Andrew Dicus, EMT/paramedic; Beverly Einstein, nursing; Sharol Foumal, community service; Jeremiah Haynes, general studies; Kristi Hottenstein, elementary education; Trisha Jensen, nursing; Darrell Judd, auto body; Nolan Kell, flight technology; Devi Mears, pre-medicine; Jeanette Park, applied mathematics; Tanya Paynter, flight technology; Patience Pontious, multimedia design; Russell Quinby, aviation maintenance; Sandin Riddle, general studies; Deborah Terrill, nursing; and Teodora Wences, business, all of Eugene; to Evan Lybarger, fabrication welding, Lowell; to Gustavo Ruiz, auto mechanics, and Karen Smith, computer technology, both of Springfield; and to Maureen Combest, energy management, Roseburg. The Staton gift was one of the two largest ever given to Lane.
Excerpted from Lane Weekly and news sources by Joan Aschim, Marketing and Public Relations, (541) 463-5591, October 2003.