The limited cafeteria menu options, restricted hours of operation, and the time it takes to get a meal create challenges for students and staff to get their nutritional needs met while on campus. Presently, the Friendly Kitchen, a local nonprofit organization, provides UCCâs food services. The organization also prepares and Read more…
Editor’s Note: The following story has been updated to correctly differentiate between the PACE grant and the Rural Male Project. UCC has launched two new programs to obtain and retain enrollment. One of these programs is a Rural Male Project led by Jacob Whisler, the Umpqua work based learning coordinator Read more…
Many staff and students are still having trouble connecting to the internet even though campus just finished putting in additional and more powerful wifi access point devices and upgraded to higher speeds with increased power. These Access Point devices, also known as AP devices, act as a communication hub between Read more…
âBetter FAFSA, Better Futureâ touts itself as a âre-engineeringâ of the FAFSA process. The interactive article below explores these changes, as well as four major concerns raised by students, parents and spouses.
Campus has new staff on campus in the Health, Nursing and Science Center, HNSC. Lace-Ann Rowe, assistant professor and forestry program director, Lisa Edens, anatomy and physiology professor and Andrea Thompson, full time nursing faculty are our new staff. Lance-Ann Rowe Rowe comes from a long line of people who Read more…
Health and human performance professor Rod Snook retires this summer from the full-time position heâs held for 37 years. Snookâs office walls are plastered with three decadesâ worth of photographs, articles and other physical commemorations of the innumerable student and personal accomplishments heâs brought about throughout his career. Assistant to Read more…
Much of UCCâs staff has spent years, if not decades, working directly with students, often more for the desire to help than the paycheck. Since many students rely on staff and facultyâs help and care, retirements and job changes make strong impressions when the inevitable times of change come. Some Read more…
Much of UCCâs staff has spent years, if not decades, working directly with students, often more for the desire to help than the paycheck. Since many students rely on staff and facultyâs help and care, retirements and job changes make strong impressions when the inevitable times of change come. Some Read more…
Much of UCCâs staff has spent years, if not decades, working directly with students, often more for the desire to help than the paycheck. Since many students rely on staff and facultyâs help and care, retirements and job changes make strong impressions when the inevitable times of change come. Some Read more…
Much of UCCâs staff has spent years, if not decades, working directly with students, often more for the desire to help than the paycheck. Since many students rely on staff and facultyâs help and care, retirements and job changes make strong impressions when the inevitable times of change come. Some Read more…
Much of UCCâs staff has spent years, if not decades, working directly with students, often more for the desire to help than the paycheck. Since many students rely on staff and facultyâs help and care, retirements and job changes make strong impressions when the inevitable times of change come. Some Read more…
When students need help, they seek out an instructor, advisor or administrator. But behind the scenes are some additional important leaders with influential roles in UCC operations. These leaders are the UCC Board of seven elected officials including Twila McDonald, Melvin “Bud” Smith, David Littlejohn, Erica Mills, Guy N. Kennerly, Read more…
Human Services students give back With salt and pepper hair, a broad white smile and a deep gravely voice, 62-year-old George Humphrey is what is known as a nontraditional college student. In UCCâs Human Services department, Humphrey is one of many nontraditional students hoping to give back to the recovery Read more…
UCC’s new three-year strategic âdoingâ plan, recently presented by President Rachel Pokrandt, takes a three-pronged approach to prosperity: increase opportunity, increase value and focus on the future. âUCC will thrive,â writes Pokrandt; âWe proved our ability to change during the pandemic. Let’s harness that ability and speed. The time is now. We Read more…