November 2005:
Number 499
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REMINDER: Priority registration begins Nov. 29
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Spring classes start Tuesday, Jan. 17, so enroll early to avoid the rush! Registration will be available online or by phone from 8 a.m.-11 p.m. daily.
Priority Registration
Schedule
(Based on hours completed at Collin)
50 hours+ Tues., Nov. 29
30 hours+ Wed., Nov. 30
10 hours+ Thurs., Dec. 1
One hour+ Fri., Dec. 2
Everyone Sat., Dec. 3
Download e-schedule:
www.ccccd.edu/eschedule.
Register online:
www.ccccd.edu.
Register by phone:
Collin/Dallas counties
469.452.2222
Rockwall County
469.757.2222
All others
1.877.COLLIN1
A newsletter for the students, faculty and staff of the Collin County Community College District. Published monthly. For information or submissions, call 972.758.3849. Cougar News welcomes student and faculty submissions. Next deadline: Nov. 11. All submissions are due by 5 p.m. on the due date. Photos cannot be returned. Text should be emailed to mrobinson@ccccd.edu or sent on disk. Please submit copy that is proofed, edited and saved in Word format. Cougar News staff: Lisa Vasquez, director; Mark Robinson, editor; Marcy Cadena-Smith, contributor; Sydney Portilla-Diggs, student correspondent; Stephanie Hall, student correspondent; Nick Young, photographer; Layout by Publications
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Faculty and Staff News
Faculty and Staff News
 In Summer 2005, Addison Wesley publishing company contracted mathematics professor Raja Khoury to write PowerPoint slides to accompany Thomas’ Calculus, 11th edition textbook. Professor Khoury’s work is now complete and will be bundled with every instructional textbook to be used at every college and university across the world. Collin students are currently using this textbook in Math 2413, Math 2414 and Math 2415.
 Carolyn Jones, financial aid/VA coordinator, has been named to the board of the Texas Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (TASFAA). The TASFAA board represents all Texas financial aid offices and is the voice for policy decisions at the national level. Board members are elected by all members across Texas including representatives from lending institutions, universities and community colleges.
 Hospitality professor Brooke Brantley has written a series of articles for The Dallas Morning News. The first of his columns appeared Sept. 28 in the Taste section.
John Dolan, associate faculty member in the Communications and Humanities Division, won silver medals in the 50- and 100-meter dashes at the 2005 Texas Senior Olympic Finals in Austin Sept. 24.
Continuing Education instructor Pauline Hudel-Smith’s design was chosen as the cover for the Neiman-Marcus Christmas catalogue cover. She teaches How to Start a Graphic Design Business, part of the new Graphic Design Certificate.
College News
District 66 State Representative Brian McCall delivered a state resolution that commemorated the college’s 20th anniversary. The ending of the resolution said: “RESOLVED, That the administrators, faculty, staff, students, and alumni of Collin County Community College be heartily congratulated on the occasion of that institution’s 20th anniversary and that CCCC be honored for making possible a brighter future for countless Texans.”
The college received a Carl Perkins curriculum development grant for the third year in a row in the Engineering and Emerging Technologies division. This grant will help develop curriculum for computer forensics. The college will work with Texas State Technical Institute, North Harris-Montgomery (Tomball) Community College, Del Mar College, Southwest Texas Jr. College and Lamar Institute in this effort.
The Collin Writing Centers hosted a successful fall meeting and mini-conference of the North Texas Writing Centers Association (NTWCA) at the Preston Ridge Campus Sept. 23. The purpose of the organization is to provide regular opportunities for Writing Center professionals to meet to exchange ideas, methods and research in the field. Speakers included Collin's Peggy Vera, director of the Online Writing Lab, who presented "Writing Consultation: Making the Move from On-Site to Online."
Collin won several awards from the National Council for Continuing Education and Training (NCCET), an organization that provides leadership in the areas of continuing education, workforce development and distance learning. Steve Hardy, associate vice president of Continuing Education and Workforce Development, won the 2005 Leadership Award for the South Central region of NCCET. Regional Leadership Awards are given to those who have had significant impacts on CE and workforce development programs over sustained periods of time. Collin also won two national Exemplary Program Awards from NCCET. Exemplary Program Awards recognize techniques or products that improve the success of CE or workforce development classes. The Business Solutions Group won for its “Balanced Scorecard Approach to Service Evaluation.” Continuing Education won for its “SchedWare Database for Planning, Managing and Marketing Continuing Education Classes.”
The Consumer Health Information Center located at the learning resource center at the Central Park Campus received an Express Consumer Health Outreach Award from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine South Central Region for its project titled “Health Information Project for Collin County.” The project entailed the center working with the McKinney Memorial Public Library to host free workshops for members of the community showing how to find health information. Student News There was a 21.8 percent increase in attendance at the 2005 New Student Orientation sessions from last year. In total, 814 new students attended including 606 at Spring Creek Campus, 137 at the Preston Ridge Campus and 71 at Central Park Campus.
Student News
Mary Millicent, 2005 Collin graduate, received a full scholarship from Southern Methodist University for the fall semester. The Allen resident plans to major in civil engineering and was a member of Phi Theta Kappa at Collin.
The Collin Theatre Department recently announced its scholarship recipients for fall 2005. The recipients are Vanessa Bellew, Brandon Borders, Margaret Carlson, Jason deGraauw, Melissa Farmer, Kayri Heisz, Melissa Holder, Dylan Inserra, Jennifer Jefferies, Matthew Johnson, Brian Kinkade, Amy Kleefisch, Alexandra Leafu, Shawn Lundy, Ryan Maffei, Will Meyman, Teresa Mlcak, Brittany Noll, Colleen O’Connor, Julie Painter, Kayla Parker, Jason Ralph, Thomas Renner, Elizabeth Robinson, Michael Salimitari, Gretchen Schmoker, Chris Taylor, Michael Tuck, Alex Wade, Christa Watson, Jared Winter and Christopher Yaple.
Collin tennis player Tobias Virdhage won the singles championship at the Southwest JUCO Tennis Tournament. Virdhage and teammate Ignacio Murgier earned at-large berths to the Small College National Championships in Fort Meyers, Fla. at Florida Gulf Coast University.
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