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Babaloo and T-Bone: RESPECT-A-Lecka-Hi
Shawnee Community College hosted the interactive children's rock show "Babaloo and T-Bone: RESPECT-A-Lecka-Hi" on Tuesday, February 23rd in the Educational Center. Babaloo and T-Bone mixed songs, stories, mass drumming, bean-bag bopping, and |
other types of controlled musical mayhem to entertain hundreds of children from throughout the college district who attended the event.
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Lights! Camera! Action!
SCC Instructor Tim Frizzell’s stage craft class work to pull together the stage scenes and props for the upcoming presentation of High School Musical 2.
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SCC Automotive Technology Students Attend Chicago Auto Show
Shawnee Community College automotive technology instructor Clyde Shafer and several SCC students attended the Chicago Auto Show 2010 earlier this month. The show is the nation's largest auto show, held in the McCormick Place complex.
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Annual Foundation Auction Draws Record Number
SCC President Dr. Larry Peterson along with SCC Foundation President Buddy Walls welcomed a record number at the annual SCC Foundation Auction on Saturday. And by the time the evening was over, the attendance wasn’t the only record breaking event.
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Shawnee Community College Keeps Looking UpWhen it comes to student enrollment, Shawnee Community College keeps looking up. The college announced today that its spring semester numbers rose slightly higher than 14 percent.
The spring semester climb follows a fall semester jump that was the fourth largest in the state at 21 percent. And all of this is being accomplished in the poorest and most rural community college district in the state.
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Students Learn Salsa Dancing at SCC
Egyptian High School and SCC Spanish Students joined salsa dance instructor Daniel Jackson of Cypress for a morning of Salsa dancing in the Educational Center located on the SCC main campus on February 10th.
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SCC Students Participate in Accounting Challenge
Several Shawnee Community College students participated in the SIU Accounting Challenge in February. Students were tested on their knowledge of basic and advanced accounting principles. Shawnee Community College sophomore Brandon McElmurry from Pulaski won 1st place and was awarded a $500 SIU scholarship.
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Shawnee College Host Venue for
SIU's 32nd Annual
Big Muddy Film Festival
Shawnee Community College will be one of many host venues for Southern Illinois University’s 32nd Annual "Big Muddy Film Festival." A film/photography workshop will be held on Wednesday, February 24 at 6:00-9:00 PM, as well as a series of independent films on Saturday, February 27 at 8:00-11:00 AM. Both the workshop and screening will be held in the Educational Center on SCC’s main campus in Ullin, IL.
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Homecoming Set for February 27th
Shawnee Community College welcomes alumni and community members to Homecoming 2010 on Saturday, February 27th. The Lady Saints host Spoon River College at 2 p.m. Following the women’s game, the Saints take the floor at 4 p.m.
The homecoming dance will follow the men's game in the Cafeteria.
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2010 WYSE Academic Challenge
Shawnee Community College hosted the annual Illinois Worldwide Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE) Academic Challenge February 4th. The WYSE Academic Challenge is an opportunity to challenge the area's brightest high school students in the subject areas of biology, chemistry, computer science, engineering graphics, English, mathematics, and physics...
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Automotive Students Pay Tribute to SCC’s Clyde Shafer
While the decade was coming to a close in the summer of 1979, a new era was beginning at Shawnee Community College. That summer, Clyde Shafer took was charged with building an automotive technology program, and build it, he did...
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Enter ICCTA's Paul Simon Essay Contest
The Illinois Community College Trustees Association is coordinating the 2010 Paul Simon Student Essay contest, which provides a $500 scholarship to the Illinois community college student with the winning essay titled "How My Community College Has Changed My Life."
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You're From Where?
Students come from far and wide to attend Shawnee Community College, enhancing the institution's diversity and campus experience.
A record spring enrollment brought students to SCC from 78 different communities or Zip Codes. Students like Austin Jackson of Kennett, Mo., the hometown of rock music sensation Sheryl Crow.
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SCC Financial Aid Dept. Can Assist with your
Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)
for Fall 2010 - APPOINTMENTS REQUIRED!!! |
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Science Now a Criminal's Biggest Fear
There was a time when the only thing a criminal feared was a law enforcer's gun.
But those days are gone - and as strange it at may sound - law enforcement's greatest weapon may be the microscope.
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Enrollment at Shawnee Community College is at an All-Time High.
Figures released today show a six percent increase in the college's spring enrollment over last year, which puts student headcount at 2,592. But this number does not include dual credit courses - which have not yet been counted - or late start classes, which begin February 8.
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SCC Fitness Center in Anna Keeps Them Young and Healthy
At age 68, Frank Keedy believes he may be in the best shape of his life.
Keedy, a Union County resident, flexed his muscles (literally) while working out inside the fitness center at Shawnee Community College's Anna campus.
"I told my wife (Kathy) that these biceps are getting to the size of watermelons now," Keedy laughed. "She disagrees."
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Senate Candidates in Southern Illinois
Don Patton, vice chairperson for the Shawnee Community College Board of Trustees, attended a private reception at the Carbondale home of Sheila Simon (daughter of the late US Senator Paul Simon) where all of the Democratic candidates for US Senate gathered Tuesday.
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SCC AG & Natural Resources Student of the Year Speaks at SCC
Marie McCann, a 2009 Shawnee Community College graduate, just completed a 5 month internship as part of the Global Vision International organization.
Wednesday, she shared her story with Kevin Rhodes's Conservation of Natural Resources class.
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SCC Offers Text Notifications Through Saints Alert
The Saints Alert service is provided to notify students, faculty and staff by email or text message of campus closures due to weather or other emergencies. Parents and other friends of SCC are also invited to sign up.
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Southern Illinois Community Colleges Concerned about Funding...ICCB Offers Suggestions to Alleviate Pressure
Eight community colleges from throughout Southern Illinois came together Monday with one common concern: state funding.
Officials from the area’s community colleges were joined by a number of state lawmakers who offered a sympathizing ear but little optimism for the near future.
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New Year Off to Good Start at Shawnee College
The new year got off to an exciting start at Shawnee Community College with preliminary numbers showing another significant jump in enrollment as the spring semester nears.
In addition, SCC students who attend classes at the Ullin campus, will have the opportunity to exercise in a new state-of-the-art fitness facility, which was just completed over the holiday break. More... |
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