February 2003

The Community College of Baltimore County Online Newsletter
 
 
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  • Origins of Hip-Hop Focus of Chancellor’s Lecture Series
    At the 2003 Chancellor’s Distinguished African-American Lecture Series on Feb. 6 at CCBC Essex, linguistics expert Jon Abdullah Yasin will explain how the roots of Hip-Hop are based in the oral traditions of African slaves.

  • LET THE GAMES BEGIN!
    CCBC Launches New Digital Gaming Program
    This semester CCBC Essex is offering the first two courses, Basic Game Programming I and Mathematics for Game Development, in its new game development education program leading to a degree in Simulation and Digital Entertainment.

  • Faculty Exchange Enriches Art Program
    This month CCBC Catonsville reaps the benefits of a faculty exchange program that the Art department established with the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana, Cuba. Professor Carlos Alberto Rodriguez, head of the Ceramic department of the Instituto Superior de Arte, is visiting the campus for a one-month residency.

  • SIMON Says, Students Can Access Information Online
    What’s in a name? A strong identity, according to the initiators of a contest to name CCBC’s online student information database. And, a strong name is exactly what they got when they selected CCBC Essex student Franklyn Howell’s winning entry.

  • Black History Month Gets Early Military Sendoff
    Faculty, staff and students at CCBC Catonsville are well aware that Black History Month is celebrated in February. However, they also know that exploring and celebrating various cultures throughout the year makes the campus a stronger learning community. With that in mind, CCBC Catonsville saluted African-Americans in the U.S. military during a special series late last year.

  • Financial Aid Employees Honored
    The Delaware-District of Columbia-Maryland Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators recently recognized two CCBC Financial Aid staff members for excellence in their professions: Elaine Sweeney, Financial Aid division secretary at CCBC Dundalk, and Margaret Bowler, Financial Aid counselor at CCBC Catonsville.

  • Theatrical Production Garners Place at Kennedy Center American College Festival
    The CCBC Essex production of Othello aka The Other was one of only eight college and university productions chosen for presentation at the 2003 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Regional Festival. Held at the University of Maryland, College Park, approximately 200 college productions vied for this honor.

  • World Trade Center Relic Finds Home
    Less than two years ago, the twisted piece of rust-covered steel I-beam on display at CCBC Dundalk was part of the framework supporting one of New York City’s World Trade Center towers. Now it is a relic, a tangible piece of history that has found a permanent home at CCBC Dundalk.

  • CCBC Eye-opener Ads are all About Convenience
    CCBC’s Continuing Education and Economic Development (CEED) division, with the help of Strategix Advertising, Inc., has kicked off a new campaign to enhance the branding of the college and reinforce the message that CCBC is the clear choice for continuing education classes and training.

  • Seminar Helps Florists Weed Through Thorny Business Issues
    A floral business development seminar at CCBC Dundalk in January was just the place for shop owners – or those who aspire to be – to cultivate ideas and reap advice on how to put more “green” in their pockets.

  • CCBC Employees Show True Spirit of Giving
    Faculty, staff – and even students – throughout CCBC responded to the 2002 United Way Campaign call in impressive numbers, this year pledging $32,029.10 in support of community health and human service programs.

  • External Diploma Program Moves to New Quarters
    CCBC’s External Diploma Program (EDP) made a major change on Jan. 6 when it moved from its Rosedale site to CCBC’s 431 Eastern Boulevard location. The program had outgrown its small space that housed nine staff members who handle student assessments for more than 250 students at any given time.

  • Violence Prevention Summit Packs the House
    The room was nearly filled to capacity as people poured in to CCBC Catonsville’s Violence Prevention Summit to discuss solutions to the epidemic of violence that’s exploding not only regionally but nationally. The summit, held late last year, drew more than 100 people to campus.

  • Car Raffle to Raise Scholarship Money
    What a deal: support student scholarships and perhaps win a new car at the same time! This golden opportunity to do good and win big is available through the purchase of a ticket for CCBC’s Toyota ECHO Student Scholarship Raffle.

 
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  • Fulbright Scholar Brings A Touch Of Europe To CCBC Essex
    Inquisitive, outgoing and receptive to new ideas, Frauke Woitsch is exactly the type of person that U.S. Senator William J. Fulbright must have had in mind when he proposed The Fulbright Scholar Program in 1945. Woitsch, a professor visiting from Chemintz, Germany, came to CCBC Essex in September 2002 as a Fulbright Scholar.

  • Dance Student Wins Scholarship to Julliard
    CCBC Essex student Morvarid Shahbazi has won a full scholarship in dance to the internationally renowned Juilliard School. She is one of only 238 women and 238 men from throughout the world selected to attend this prestigious school in Manhattan, N.Y.

  • Vietnamese Instructor Shares Story of War-time Courage
    CCBC’s non-credit Foreign Language program is filled with diverse cultures and stories from both students and faculty alike. This spring, CCBC offers a course in Vietnamese that is taught by an instructor who has more than the language to share with her students. She has quite an amazing story.

 
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