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Clark State Community College Board of Trustees member Andy Bell has been appointed to the Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT) Finance and Audit Committee for 2018. Bell has also served as chairperson of the Finance Committee for Clark State, Wittenberg University and the Global Impact STEM Academy. He has been attending ACCT meetings and conferences and considers it one of the best professional trade associations. This year, Bell was honored with the Maureen C. Grady Award for Special Achievement and recognized as Champion of Clark State.
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Clark State Community College will hold a Board of Trustees meeting on Tuesday, November 21, 2017, beginning at 5 p.m. in the Sara T. Landess Technology and Learning Center Boardroom on the Leffel Lane Campus in Springfield.
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Clark State Community College will welcome Ryan Burgess, director of the Ohio Governor’s Office of Workforce Transformation, to the Springfield campus on Tuesday, November 21. The Office of Workforce Transformation identifies business needs, aligns training to meet those needs and connects businesses and workers. Director Burgess leads initiatives to ensure the development of a skilled and productive workforce in Ohio.
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Clark State Community College will hold an open house for the newly renovated dining and seminar rooms on the fourth floor of the Brinkman Educational Center in downtown Springfield. The space will be used for internal and external meetings, trainings and events. The public is invited to attend the open house for a tour of the fourth floor dining and seminar rooms from 1 – 2:30 p.m., Wednesday, November 29.
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Beginning in the Spring of 2018, Clark State Community College military veteran students will have the option of utilizing funds from the Ohio College Opportunities Grant (OCOG) for housing and living expenses. For students attending year-round at public community colleges, OCOG funding can be considered when a student has used all of their annual Pell grant funding. Clark State currently serves 142 United States military veteran students, 19 active military students, 31 National Guard or Reserve students, 88 dependents and 40 military spouses.
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Clark State Community College President Dr. Jo Alice Blondin will serve on the keynote plenary panel at the American College Testing (ACT) Workforce summit in Austin, Texas. Leading workforce development credentialing experts, including Blondin, will discuss the importance of incorporating credentials that measure and validate competencies and skills mastered into educational programs of studies. Clark County just became the second county in Ohio to receive the “Workforce Readiness” designation from ACT.
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The Clark State Community College Performing Arts Center will present ELF The Musical, Thursday, November 9 at 7:30 p.m. Based on the beloved holiday movie, ELF The Musical is the hilarious tale of Buddy, a young orphan child who mistakenly crawls into Santa’s bag of gifts and is transported back to the North Pole. Unaware that he is actually human, Buddy’s enormous size and poor toy-making abilities cause him to face the truth. With Santa’s permission, Buddy embarks on a journey to New York City to find his birth father, discover his true identity and help New York remember the true meaning of Christmas.
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Clark State Community College will commemorate Veterans Day with various campus activities next week including the display of 2,000 United States flags at the Springfield, Beavercreek and Bellefontaine campuses. The POW/MIA flag will be raised at the Springfield Leffel Lane campus. Clark State Community College will be closed Friday, November 10 in honor of Veterans Day.
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Clark State Community College now officially occupies an airplane hangar at Springfield-Beckley Airport Business Park. The Ohio Center of Precision Agriculture Hangar was dedicated at a ceremony held on Tuesday, October 31. The hangar at the airport will be utilized for a variety of projects all related to the use of unmanned aerial systems (UAS). The hangar will also be outfitted with a small, state-of-the-art computer lab.
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Clark State Community College will hold a Board of Trustees retreat on Thursday, November 2, 2017, from 8 a.m.-3:30 p.m. in the fourth floor dining room at the Brinkman Educational Center, 100 South Limestone Street in downtown Springfield.
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Clark State Community College will welcome the inaugural class of Champaign County Scholars and the 14th class of Champion City Scholars with induction ceremonies to be held this week. The Champaign County Scholars Program will induct 17 students, and the Champion City Scholars Program had a record number of applicants this year, and 45 qualified students will be inducted into the program.
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The Clark State Performing Arts Center invites you to come kick up your heels and enjoy a high-energy performance of Broadway’s award winning Kinky Boots on Thursday, November 2. Eighties music artist sensation, Cyndi Lauper, wrote the music and lyrics for Kinky Boots. Executive director of the Clark State Performing Arts Center Adele Adkins said for her, Kinky Boots is as close to a “perfect musical” as possible.
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Clark State Community College will hold a career informational event for students interested in the expanding field of Judicial Court Reporting (JCR) on Saturday, October 28. The Judicial Court Reporting program is a completely online program. An associate degree is earned upon completion, and Clark State has a 100 percent job placement upon completion.
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Clark State Community College has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Community College Alliance for Agricultural Advancement and the Natural Resources Conservation Service. The five-year MOU is in accordance with the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act. It encompasses organizations that share the common goal of ensuring quality education and training of field practitioners to enhance the natural resources stewardship in concert with agricultural productivity.
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Clark State Community College and Miami Valley Adapted Sports (MVAS) will host a Wheelchair Basketball event at Clark State on Thursday, October 26. The MVAS Raptors basketball team will compete against teams made up of students, faculty, staff and community members. Wheelchairs will be made available to students interested in participating in the basketball game. Refreshments will be served and raffle items will be available. Proceeds and all donations will benefit MVAS.
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Former Clark State Community College Vice President, Marsha Bordner, will appear at Clark State alongside her husband, Tuskegee Airman Harold Brown, this month to discuss their autobiography, “Keep Your Airspeed Up: The Story of a Tuskegee Airman.” Brown and Bordner will speak at 3:30 p.m. Monday, October 23 at the Hollenbeck Bayley Creative Arts and Conference Center in downtown Springfield. The community is invited and admission is free.
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Clark State Community College will hold a Board of Trustees meeting on Tuesday, October 17, 2017, beginning at 5 p.m. on the fourth floor of the Brinkman Educational Center on the Downtown Campus in Springfield.
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Clark State Community College will host the 10th annual Volley for the Cure on Wednesday, October 18 in the gymnasium on the Leffel Lane campus in Springfield. Teams from Clark State, Bobby Fisher Distributing and Assurant will participate in Volley for the Cure. All monies raised will be donated to the Breast Cancer Endowment Fund of Clark County.
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Clark State Community College will welcome Black Violin for their second performance at the Clark State Performing Arts Center this Saturday, October 14. Black Violin offers a unique blend of hip-hop and classical music that reaches audiences of all generations. The performance will feature musicians from the Springfield Symphony Youth Orchestra and Urban Strings, a Columbus-based youth orchestra.
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Project Scare-A-Crow, an annual fall tradition, returns to Clark County on Friday, October 6. Assisted by professional artist Sherry Ringler, Project Jericho families will design 21 traditional scarecrows. Project Scare-A-Crow began seven years ago when Project Jericho created an art program that had families create scarecrows together. Last year Project Jericho partnered with National Trail Parks and Recreation District to create a larger scarecrow exhibit that was opened to the public.
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