Has it really been 50 years? In short: yes and no. This is the fiftieth issue of “The Mainstream,” which led us to assume we had been in operation for 50 years, but upon examination of the archives we have discovered that student publications started in 1968. The miscounting has Read more…
Editor’s Note: This story has been updated to respect the privacy of an unnamed student and more accurately reflect the creative origins of the boat project. The Engineering Club hopes to make a splash with their spring term project: a collaborative, interdisciplinary boat race, utilizing the creative prowess of students Read more…
FAFSA faces another last-minute delay to early March, five months past usual deadline Though the FAFSA’s “soft launch” has already had a explosive beginning, the turbulence is not yet over: the Department of Education has again delayed FAFSA applicant data, this time until “the first half of March.” This continues Read more…
Thirty-five out of Oregon’s 36 counties are considered child care deserts. Douglas County is one of them. From early 2020 to 2022, Douglas County’s child care access issues increased in severity: now, less than 10% of infants and toddlers have access to child care, according to a 2023 report from Read more…
Wanting to celebrate locally this holiday season? Check out this list of events — featuring concerts, markets, parties and more — all located within Douglas County. Shows, concerts and recitals Shopping, workshops and markets Festivals, parties and Christmases Meet and greets: Santa, The Grinch
Standing outside a capitol building, two strips of duct tape were slapped across communication studies instructor Christina Ballard’s mouth — another two to her chest, holding up a sign: “The power of symbolic speech is that it conveys a special message.” This was in 2012, after Wisconsin — where Ballard Read more…
“Better FAFSA, Better Future” touts itself as a “re-engineering” of the FAFSA process. The interactive article below explores these changes, as well as four major concerns raised by students, parents and spouses.
Despite summer’s cybersecurity attack — which shut down campus for a week and required a complete restart of all online systems — fall term’s financial aid repayments were doled out on-time, in accordance with the department’s new deadline. Refund checks were successfully mailed out early to students on Friday, October Read more…
Health and human performance professor Rod Snook retires this summer from the full-time position he’s held for 37 years. Snook’s office walls are plastered with three decades’ worth of photographs, articles and other physical commemorations of the innumerable student and personal accomplishments he’s brought about throughout his career. Assistant to Read more…
Five paid internship opportunities through the USDA are reserved this summer for UCC students: facility and civil engineering technician positions, facility and water/wastewater system crew member and botany intern. Science instructor Bryan Benz, current natural resources, science and temporary forestry program coordinator, recently sent out applications to several qualifying students Read more…
Starting September 2023, UCC plans to offer an educator-focused bachelor’s degree program in partnership with George Fox University, a private nonprofit institution based in Newburg, Oregon. Scot Headley, dean of instruction for transfer and general education, states the program’s necessity: “There’s a severe teacher shortage in Douglas County.” “There is Read more…
ASUCC officer Anthony Gordon holds many titles: UCC special events technician, public relations officer, archival videographer and merit award theater student. This coming summer, “UCC graduate” will join that list. (See previous “Mainstream” article featuring Gordon.) Since fall term, Gordon’s work has involved designing the lighting effects for three UCC Read more…
UCC’s new three-year strategic “doing” plan, recently presented by President Rachel Pokrandt, takes a three-pronged approach to prosperity: increase opportunity, increase value and focus on the future. “UCC will thrive,” writes Pokrandt; “We proved our ability to change during the pandemic. Let’s harness that ability and speed. The time is now. We Read more…
Queerness exists in all things: it specters every spectrum. As an umbrella term and historical slur now largely reclaimed by its community, “queer” is and can be used to refer to people who fall under the LGBTQIA+ acronym in a short and summative way. Kat Grammon, a queer theater major Read more…