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…
Editor’s Note: The author has participated in previous UCC plays, one of which is discussed within the article. Although last term Kat Grammon was the only student in theater director Bart McHenry’s Acting 1 course, McHenry’s task to reboot the theater program in a post-pandemic era is slowly getting students Read more…
Dustin Cosby, newly-appointed Accessibility Services coordinator and veterans’ advisor, keeps the door to his office frequently ajar, though Cosby himself can be often seen flitting in and out in a hustle-bustle rhythm custom of his novelty to the position. Many may recognize his trademark suit-and-tie ensemble: previous to the departure Read more…
Following through; what lies in the library’s future With the awarding of a Title III Grant in fall of 2021, UCC’s Library should be in active works of renovation and revitalization of its space. However, after a year has passed, architectural plans for the library’s evolution to a proposed Teaching Read more…
Farewell, fall; welcome, winter With finals right around the corner, a night of fun could be just what students need to vet exam-induced exasperation. After that, sweeping them swiftly off their feet with a snowball to the face: here comes winter break! The gap between terms comes as a gust Read more…