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January 2007:
Number 513
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In This Issue...
Collin, A&M sign agreement
The games return with MONOPOLY® Madness
BRIDGES links students to biomedical science
Counseling Services to present display during “16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence”
Make room for Sigma Kappa Delta
Self-injury: Help is just a phone call away
Phi Theta Kappa gives back to the community
Professor of the year, endowed chairs honored at reception
Campus dates
Student, faculty and college news
Faculty spotlight
Relationship quiz: test your knowledge
How to get your resume seen
Knowledge is power: Just the facts on HIV/AIDS
Album review: Ray LaMontagne "Till the Sun Turns Black"
Recipe of the month: Fideo con Puerco
Top 10 -- Things about spring
Quick Facts
Transfer Tip
January employee birthdays
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A newsletter for the students, faculty and staff of the Collin County Community College District. Published monthly. For information or submissions, call 972.599.3142. Cougar News welcomes student and faculty submissions. Next deadline: January 10. 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; Stephanie Hall, student correspondent; Adriana Rodriguez, student correspondent; special contributors: Heather Darrow, Sonya Flaming, John Glass; Nick Young, photography and layout.

Campus dates
All College Day will be Thursday, Jan. 4 at the Spring Creek Campus Conference Center. (All campuses will close at 11 a.m.) The schedule for this employee event is listed below:

11 a.m – 12:30 p.m.

LUNCH

Beginning Tuesday, Jan. 2, college employees can pick up gift cards for local restaurants at your campus provost’s office or from the President’s Office at the Courtyard Center. Restaurant selections are limited to a first-come, first-served basis.

 

1 – 1:15 p.m.

WELCOME

President Cary Israel

Spring Creek Conference Center

 

1:15 - 2:15 p.m.

“Healthy Living - The links to personal and professional success”

Todd Whitthorne

President and Chief Operating Officer of Cooper Concepts, Inc., a division of The Cooper Aerobics Center. Host and executive producer of “Healthy Living Radio with Dr. Ken Cooper”

 

2:15 – 2:45 p.m.

FACULTY AWARDS

Cary Israel

President

Thom Chesney

Vice President Academic Affairs

 

EMPLOYEE AWARDS

Peggy Browning, Chair

All-College Council

Doug Willis, Chair-Elect

All-College Council

 

2:45 p.m.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Stephanie Meinhardt

Office of Professional Development

"Educating All... Changing Hearts, Changing Minds"
The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Power Breakfast will be on Monday, Jan. 15. Starting at 7:45 a.m., at the Conference Center of Spring Creek Campus. Admission is free.

Spring semester classes begin on Tuesday, Jan. 16.

The Auteur Film Series, "Fools, Cons and Liars: Trickster Characters in Film," will present "Bamboozled" at 7 p.m., Monday, Feb. 19, at the Spring Creek Campus Conference Center in Plano. Seating starts at 6:30 p.m. The movie is rated R. This Spike Lee joint revolves around an Ivy League-educated African American man whose TV show idea is rejected by the network. Frustrated, he revives the minstrel shows with African American actors in black face. For more information, contact Humanities Chair Carolyn Perry at cperry@ccccd.edu.
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