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CONGRATULATIONS Bernadette!!

Dr. Bernadette Flynn Low named 2008 Outstanding College Teacher

Dr. Bernadette Flynn Low, English Professor at CCBC Dundalk, was awarded the fourth annual Outstanding College Teacher of the Year by the Dundalk Chamber of Commerce at ceremonies held at Martin's Eastwind, Thursday, April 24, 2008.

In addition to a monetary award, Bernadette received a gift basket filled with gifts and certificates from Dundalk area merchants and businesses.

CCBC had two oustanding nominations for the award and fellow nominee Karen Olson was also recognized.

Bernadette's husband, retired CCBC faculty member John Low, and her son were present at the event along with several CCBC faculty and administrators.

Vice President of Instruction, Dr. Mark McColloch, introduced Bernadette who then gave an acceptance speech filled with happy memories of her experiences at CCBC Dundalk, especially the one in which she met her future husband, John.

Bernadette was recognized for her contributions to the college and community, specifically her work on the Middle States five year report, her work on the upcoming CCHA 2008 regional conference, and her pioneering work in distance learning.

In addition to being an outstanding teacher, Professor Low has made more than two dozen contributions to professional reference sources and has written reviews for the Maryland Poetry Review.

Awards were given to four teachers from thoughout the Dundalk region: Ann J. Ricey from Bear Creek Elementary, Louis Rizzi from Sparrows Point Middle, Russel Lingner from Sparrows Point High School, and Bernadette Flynn Low from the Community College of Baltimore County.

Author: F. Scott Black, Department: The School of Liberal Arts

CONGRATULATIONS SIFE !!!

CCBC SIFE Wins Big At The Regional Competition!

On Tuesday, April 8, 2008, the Community College of Baltimore County Students In Free Enterprise Team (CCBC SIFE) traveled to Philadelphia, PA to compete in the SIFE Region 8 competition. The CCBC SIFE Team won three awards. The CCBC team won the Rookie of the Year Award, the Spirit Award and the First Runner-Up trophy.

In total, 30 colleges were in attendance. Colleges and universities at the competition represented the states of Texas, Missouri, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Maryland. CCBC was one of only 4 community colleges at the event.

Students In Free Enterprise is a nonprofit organization that gives all students the tools to learn the free enterprise system in a real working situation. SIFE challenges students on more than 800 college campuses nationwide to take what they are learning in the classroom and use their knowledge to better their communities. SIFE is not limited to business majors. In fact, non-business majors tend to benefit the most!

SIFE is a global organization active in more than 40 countries. SIFE is funded by financial contributions from corporations, entrepreneurs, foundations, government agencies and individuals. Working in partnership with business and higher education, SIFE establishes student teams on university campuses. Guided by faculty advisors who are named Sam M. Walton Free Enterprise Fellows in honor of the late Wal-Mart founder, SIFE Teams establish a variety of community outreach programs that teach free enterprise. SIFE is fundamentally premised on the basis of service learning – by giving back to the community, students and citizens learn and benefit.

Under the guidance of Professor Larry Aaronson, the Director of the CCBC Enterprise Institute, the CCBC SIFE Team was formed in September 2007. Dr. Kathleen Gandy, Program Coordinator for Accounting, is the Sam M. Walton Faculty Advisor. CCBC SIFE currently has more than 100 members. Membership is absolutely free, and even when a student graduates, they stay connected as “SIFE Alumni.”

Throughout the academic year, SIFE teams conduct projects. The CCBC SIFE Team completed more than thirty projects and forged more than twenty on- and off-campus partnerships during the 2007-2008 school year. SIFE projects must address one of five educational topics: Market Economics; Success Skills; Entrepreneurship; Financial Literacy; and, Business Ethics. CCBC SIFE Team projects this year included teaching concepts such as budgeting and wealth building via a financial literacy lecture series; helping new and existing companies to grow through marketing consultation and Internet web design; developing and hosting a Civility Symposium; and, helping numerous non-profit organizations such as the League of Dreams and Catonsville High School’s "Catonsville Goes Coastal.” Additionally, CCBC SIFE helped budding entrepreneurs get their plans off the ground by sponsoring the “Getting Started As An Entrepreneur” lecture series and by providing business plan development help. CCBC SIFE is particularly proud of their involvement with this year’s 7th Annual CCBC Women’s Expo.

The CCBC SIFE Team is grateful to many people and organizations. In particular, the SIFE Team would like to thank the CCBC Public Relations Office, the Catonsville campus Office of Student Life, the CCBC Enterprise Institute and the Catonsville chapter of the American Association for Women in Community Colleges.

Author: Kathleen Gandy, Department: Professor of Accounting, BSSSWE

Authors amongst us!!

Congratulations to 5 authors in the English Department!

Five English department faculty recently published their works. They are:

Evan Balkan - "Vanished: Explorers Forever Lost"

Brooke Bognanni - "Morning Glories"

Jo Darden-Obi - "Finding Dignity"

Kim Jensen - "The Woman I Left Behind"

Monica Windley Walker - "In a Class by Yourself: Seven Keys to Prepare Yourself Spiritually for College"

We are proud of the recent publishing accomplishments and extend our congratulations.

The School of Liberal Arts celebrated these successes with a reception in honor of the authors on Friday, April 11, 2008 on the Essex campus. The reception was followed by the Creative Writing Forum and was a "a well-deserved tribute to an accomplishment which brings pride and prestige to the English Department, the School of Liberal Arts and CCBC."

Hooray for the CBC Network Technology Students

CCBC Network Technology Students Place First in 3rd Mid-Atlantic Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC)

Nine schools, 139 undergraduate and graduate students and 20 faculty members, representing two- and four-year schools from Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. competed on January 12th and 19th in the 3rd Mid-Atlantic Regional Collegiate CCDC qualifying rounds. The top two teams from each qualifying round competed in the 3rd Mid-Atlantic Regional CCDC.

The CCBC student team of Becki Dorffner, Kessely Korboi, Matt Streb, Matt Wines, Justin Wray, and Jeff Yates placed first overall. The other participating teams in the Regional CCDC included James Madison University, George Washington University, and Towson University.

CCBC will go on to represent the Mid-Atlantic region in the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition in San Antonio, Texas April 18-20. CCBC is the first community college in the country to qualify for the National CCDC.

Faculty advisor: Casey W. O'Brien

Author: Casely W. O'Brien, Coordinator, Networking and Support (Eastside), School of Applied & Information Technology

CONGRATULATIONS To Our Justice folks !!!

CCBC’s Chi Delta Epsilon Chapter of the American Criminal Justice Association

Students and faculty from CCBC’s Chi Delta Epsilon Chapter of the American Criminal Justice Association participated in their first regional conference in November, 2007 in Bristol Virginia. This was a unique experience for both faculty and students as both groups studied together to prepare for both student and professional level competitions. The effort paid off as all team members brought home at least one award each.

First place winners in the Crime Scene Investigation Professional Division was the three person team of Professors Rob Richick, Michelle Jones, and Meisha McGuire-Grimes. Students Sharday Lamback, Daron Seivers, and Wanda Smith won third place for their team effort.

Professor Meisha McGuire-Grimes and student Sharday Lamback each won second place in the physical agility competition in each of their respective age/gender groups. In the Juvenile Justice Academic Category: Professor Michelle Jones won first place and Professor Meisha Grimes won third place in the Professional Division . Daron Seivers won first place and Lamont Cephas won second place in the student division.

Author: Michelle Jones, Department: School of Justice