The ICC Softball Team is at NATIONALS!

The Lady Cougars are playing for the national title! Their first game will be against Highland Community College (Kansas) on Thursday, May 17 at 11:30am. Download your Official Championship Bracket here!
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Tuesday, May 29
2:00-3:00 pm
East Peoria Campus, Room L422

 What you’ll hear about: A team is reviewing the student transcript request process on how we can reduce staff time, improve communication to students, reduce program costs to process transcripts, and increase student satisfaction with the process.   The team will report on the data gathered so far and their plans going forward. 

 How do you know if you should attend this Gate Review?     If you are involved in the student transcript process, assist students with this process, provide technology or other support.

 What is a Gate Review?  Gate Reviews are special meetings where faculty and staff may go to give input on projects being completed by Six Sigma teams. Everyone is invited to attend following supervisor approval. Feedback and opinions of all employees are valued.

The Diamond Dialogues program is designed to build community, enhance service and improve job skills through a non-threatening process of job shadowing and shared reflection. The process involves observation, discussion and networking, and excludes any judgment or evaluation. Participants in a “Diamond” learn about other areas of the college and best practices of staff in order to gain an enhanced knowledge and respect for the college. Participants need the approval of their supervisor. An estimation of 8 hours will be required over the 10 weeks, scheduled at the convenience of the participants.

While you will have the flexibility to work with your Diamond partners and schedule your observations, please be available for the All-Diamond sessions planned for Tuesday, May 22nd from 7:30 – 8:30 am (initial instructions for all participants with breakfast) in 209A/Tranquility Room on the East Peoria Campus and Thursday, August 2nd from 7:30 – 8:30 am (closing celebration for all Diamond Dialogues with breakfast), also in 209A/Tranquility Room. Your observations and dialogues occur within the ten weeks between May 22 and August 2.

If you would like to participate, seek approval from your supervisor and RSVP (with 2 – 3 areas/departments that you would be interested in observing) to the Teaching and Learning Center at 694-8908 or tlc@icc.edu by Wednesday, May 16th. Contact Janice Kinsinger at 694-5758 or Tami Cooper at 694-5442 with questions. Additional information can be found on the Diamond Dialogues flier.

You’re invited…

Reception for Jean Welch & Deb Buchanan
Tuesday, May 15
1 – 3 pm
Tranquility Room, East Peoria Campus

 Stop by this farewell reception to wish Jean and Deb  well as they prepares to retire from ICC.  They have been a part of our Food Service Department for the last 20-plus years.

The ICC Clinical Laboratory Technician (CLT) Students are the Second Place Winners in the Illinois State Clinical Laboratory Science Student Bowl competition at the Annual Clinical Laboratory Science Conference on April 11, 2012. Twelve teams competed at this event. The students were from both 4-year (BS degree) and 2-year (AAS degree) programs. The participating schools were University of Illinois Springfield, School of Clinical Laboratory Science of St. John’s Hospital, School of Clinical Laboratory Science of Saint Francis Medical Center, Northern Illinois University, Loyola University, Rush University, Elgin Community College, and Illinois Central College. Congratulations to the CLT students and the CLT program faculty!

The ICC Livestock Judging Team was awarded first place in the 2012 National Swine Registry Picture Judging Contest.

The team competed against 20 university and community college teams from across the nation and placed 10 classes of boars, gilts and barrows based on photographs and performance data of the animals.
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The following report on the mission, vision, and values surveys were presented to the Board of Trustees. As promised, we are now sharing the results with you.

Since fall 2011, various activities investigating the current mission, vision, and values have been used to identify the current organizational view of the mission, vision, values. The first exercise involved a “World Café” with Strategic Forum. This group discussed mission, vision, values related questions and reported their findings. The second activity was an all-campus survey on the mission, vision, and values. Any ICC employee having an ICC email was invited to participate. Individuals were reminded three times of the survey. The response rate was poor—less than 1 percent of those invited participated. Verbatim responses were analyzed using MaxQDA qualitative software. Comments were themed by the “essence” of the verbatim responses. Cheryl Fliege, PhD, completed the analysis.

Finally, all “suggested additions” were compared to the current BlueBook and the behaviors listed under each of our Core Values to determine where gaps were. read more

**New Employee Follow-up Conversations – Wednesday, May 23, 2:00 – 3:00 pm, Room 209A/Tranquility Room, EP Campus

If you joined the ICC family within the last year, we are offering an opportunity for you to get together with colleagues from various departments to reflect on your time here at ICC. This discussion forum will be an opportunity to share your experiences, as well as ask questions about your position or other aspects of ICC. The event is also a great opportunity to meet new people and network with others. RSVP to the TLC at tlc@icc.edu or 694-8908 by Friday, May 18.

**New Employee Online Training Open Lab – May 29 – 31, Room 240A/Teaching & Learning Center, EP Campus

Congratulations to Vera Yee (Health Careers) on being selected for a Nurse Educator Fellowship by the Illinois Board of Higher Education. The fellowship includes a $10,000 award.

Information provided by Wendee Guth.

Wednesday, May 9
4 – 6 pm
Room 203, Perley Building

While not an ICC employee per se, Jana has been on the ICC campus for many years in her role with the University of Illinois at Springfield (UIS) – Peoria Center. Stop by to wish Jana well as she retires from UIS.