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: January 12 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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College News
Collin received a $211,715 grant from the North Central Texas WorkForce Board (NCTWB). This grant, funded through the NCTWB Employee Development Fund, will benefit three local companies forming the “Process Engineering Training Consortium”: All Metals Fabricating, Inc., in Allen; Holland USA, Inc. in Wylie; and Manner Plastics L.P. in McKinney. Employees of these companies will receive training in Lean Six Sigma—the application of lean techniques to increase organizational speed, while combining the tools and culture of Six Sigma to improve efficiencies and focus on customer issues. This is the 5th grant Collin has received from the North Central Texas WorkForce Board since 2003.
More than 250 faculty and staff attended Professional Development Week workshops Nov. 14-18. Workshops included interaction management, thunderbolt thinking, motivating others, identify theft, prescription for success, customer service, project management, campus safety and introduction to Centra.
The Collin Foundation has met the Hoblitzelle $120,000 challenge grant. This grant helps support the Centers for Excellence in Healthcare. In addition, the Foundation has received a new $30,000 award from the Hillcrest Foundation. This is the first grant from this Dallas-based foundation, which was established by the prestigious Caruth family.
According to Collin’s SECC District Chair Debra Lamb, $26,082 was pledged by Collin employees for this year’s 2005 State Employee Charitable Campaign.
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