2nd Annual DCCCD Sustainability Summit at Eastfield College on April 5
 Save the date! The 2nd annual DCCCD Sustainability Summit will address how individuals, the local business community and our educational institutions will benefit from beginning their own journey toward sustainability and adopting the concept of the “triple” bottom line (the idea that our actions must be good for people, the planet and our wallets).
In addition to a high-profile keynote speaker...
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Results of Media Use Survey May Surprise You
 Thank you to all who completed the DCCCD website mobile/online use survey. The survey’s purpose was to learn how you use your mobile phone or computer. The anonymous survey, compiled in October 2011, helps DCCCD with its communication efforts.
We learned a lot from the survey, which more than 5,000 of you took. Here are results...
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Arts & Letters Live Is a Literary Feast
 Dallas’ top literary and performing arts series is back! Dallas County Community College District is a proud community sponsor of the Dallas Museum of Art’s Arts & Letters Live. The series features award-winning authors and performers. It begins Friday, Jan. 20; it concludes in June.
Depending on the event, you might hear...
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Briefly ... Student Achievements
 El Centro College Accounting Major Is Scholarship Nominee
El Centro College student Francesca Sailale has been nominated for a Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Scholarship. She is competing with several students from the United States for the $30,000 scholarship. Sailale has a cumulative grade point average of 3.875. The accounting major has applied to transfer to the University of Texas at Dallas.
Brookhaven College Grads Make Top 25 Technologists List
Two radiologic sciences graduates...
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Ice in Forecast? Where to Find Out About College Closures
 Would you like to be alerted when DCCCD is closed due to icy weather or in the event of an emergency? You can be — just sign up for DCCCD Emergency Alerts. With this alert system, you can ask to be notified should there be an unscheduled evacuation or closure of a DCCCD campus or office because of weather conditions, utility outages, police emergencies or other hazards. It’s quick and easy to sign up.
You also have other...
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Learn More About the Field of Energy Engineering
 Are you interested in engineering — especially energy engineering? Now you have a new opportunity to learn more about the field and network with professional engineers.
Cedar Valley and Mountain View colleges have combined to form a student chapter of the North Texas Association of Energy Engineers. The association helps...
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Get a Jump on Filling Out the FAFSA
 Planning to apply for financial aid for the 2012-2013 school year? The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is now online. That means you can get started filling out the application right now!
You must fill out...
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Let Automotive Technology Fuel Your Career
 Do you like to work with your hands as well as use your head? DCCCD’s Automotive Technology program can give you the skills you need to race ahead with an automotive career.
Automotive Technology prepares you for...
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Student Success Story: Leo Carreon
 Leo Carreon always liked working on cars. But fixing them was a hobby. He’d never had a job working on cars. Then, he enrolled in DCCCD’s Automotive Technology program.
“My first day in class, I told [program director] Curt Jenkins that I’d never worked professionally on a car in my life — but he said I’d come to the right place, that that’s what they were there to teach me to do,” Carreon says. “After I’d been in the program for a couple of years, they even...
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Could you use extra money to pay for books and tuition next semester? Earning a DCCCD scholarship would certainly help. Scholarships, unlike loans, are a gift you don’t have to pay back.
