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PEOPLE AND PLACES: Illumination Project will continue to shine with new grant award
Photos and Story by James Hill
The PCC Grants Office has announced that the Hoover Family Foundation has awarded the PCC Foundation a one-year, $4,500 grant to support the Illumination Project. 
The Illumination Project is an innovative student leadership program designed to address issues of tolerance, diversity, and respect for all people in the PCC academic community and the community at large through interactive community performances. During the last two years, the Illumination Project reached over 3,000 people with 54 performances and provided 40 Student Educators with year-long support and education.
Located at Sylvania, the Illumination Project has performances scheduled at Sylvania, other PCC locations, and in the community through spring term. For more information, contact Jeannie LaFrance, Illumination Project director, at 503-977-8149.
Sylvania hosts bond measure forum
As the college looks toward the future and the potential of going for a bond issue in the next couple of years, the Sylvania Campus is having discussions across the college to help frame the work that might be undertaken. Sylvania Campus will host a bond measure forum from 3 to 5 p.m. on Tuesday, March 21 in ST 101. All staff, faculty, and students are invited to participate in these discussions.
The forum will examine the following questions to guide the discussion: 1) What will excellent teaching and learning look like in 15 years? 2) What will excellent student services and support look like in 15 years? 3) Who will our students be in at years, and what will their learning and support needs be? 4) Who will our faculty and staff be in 15 years and what will they need to engage in and support excellent teaching, learning and student services? Please encourage as many people as possible to attend these forums.
NPR reporter visits Gateway to College program
Neva Grant (right in photo) of NPR visited with one of PCC’s Gateway to College graduates, Tonya McGonigal. Grant spent two days visiting PCC’s Alternative Programs with special focus on Gateway to College students. She is doing a four-part series on poverty and is exploring education as vehicle out of poverty. There will be a piece on Morning Edition toward the end of March featuring PCC’s Gateway to College program. When the program airs, it will also be up on NPR’s website along with pictures. I’ll keep you posted.
Hill hired by Mt. Hood Community College
Paul Hill, interim Sylvania Campus president, has been selected to assume the position of Vice President for Student Learning at Mt. Hood Community College. This is an important new position for Mt. Hood Community College and reports directly to the college President, Robert Silverman.
Hill has served PCC for five years. He came to PCC as the Dean of Instruction and following the retirement of Alice Jacobson, he served as Interim Campus President, a position he has held since December 2004.
“I want to personally thank Paul for his dedication to me and to PCC and for his commitment to students and their success,” said PCC District President Preston Pulliams. “During his tenure he has been an invaluable member of my cabinet and a respected colleague. Paul will be missed here at PCC and we wish him the best as he pursues new challenges at Mt. Hood.”
Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day at PCC
This year Sylvania Student Government is hosting a St. Patrick’s Day Celebration in the upper CC Mall on Friday, March 17 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. There will be festivities including face painting and Celtic henna tattoos, a children’s craft table, green refreshments and music by Heather Alexander, a local singer who specializes in traditional Irish music.
Meet the Artist event at Sylvania Campus
Linda Hummer will share her journey and inspirations from childhood to being a student leader at PCC, onto obtaining a master’s degree from Portland State University and her college teaching career. She will speak from 10 to 11 a.m. on Friday, March 17 in the Little Theatre at Sylvania Campus.
As she battles cancer, Hummer continues to develop her artistic gift. Just meeting her and hearing her story gives one pause to celebrate each day of life. Her inspirational artwork will be for sale and autograph.
About James Hill
James G. Hill, an award-winning journalist and public relations writer, is the Director of Public Relations at Portland Community College. A graduate of Portland State University, James has worked as a section editor for the Newberg Graphic... more »