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 Hocking College Sponsors First Annual College Readiness Forum
On Tuesday, April 9, 2013, Hocking College sponsored the first annual College Readiness Forum with a focus on readiness in reading and writing. One of the major goals of the forum was to provide an opportunity for collaboration and sharing of ideas to better meet the academic needs of the underprepared college student.
The event took place at the Inn at Hocking College and provided a lunch prepared and served by the Culinary Arts students. More than 50 high school and college educators came prepared to discuss problems and solutions for incoming college students. A total of 14 high schools and four colleges were represented.
Presenters included Dr. Sherrie Gradin from Ohio University English Department, Deb Nickles from Ohio University Chillicothe campus, Kathy Pittman with Hocking College ABIT faculty and Tami Hartman from Eastland-Fairfield Career Center.
The event was organized by Arts, Business and Information Technology (ABIT) Dean Jeff Daubenmire, ABIT Associate Dean Sarah Parker-Clever, English faculty Sue Fletcher and Professional Development Director Linda Deeds. It also received support from Ohio University Appalachian Writing Project. Special thanks to all of the Hocking College faculty and staff that participated and helped make this event a success!
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 Hospitality Students Host Dine Across the World Event
The Hospitality Students are hosting two special menus for their International and American Cuisine test on April 23 and April 26 at the Starbrick Bistro at the Inn at Hocking College. Tickets are $8 per person, cash only.
On Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at 6 p.m., the menu will include an appetizer of Thai skewered pork with sweet and spicy sauce and caprese salad with balsamic. The entrée will consist of beef Wellington, red wine demi-glace red skin potatoes, Turkish style green beans, with a vegetarian selection of middle eastern naan with muhammara and black bean hummus and curried chick peas with cous cous. A Hungarian raspberry chocolate cream cake with vanilla bean sauce and chantilly cream will be served for dessert. For reservations on this date, please contact Chef Jason Knapp at 740.753.7609.
On Friday, April 26, 2013 at 12 p.m., the menu will include an appetizer of French onion soup and avocado and mango salad with walnuts, greens and mustard-lemon vinaigrette. The entrée will consist of apple filled pork loin, calvados with demi-glace, roasted red skin potatoes, with a vegetarian selection of Swiss chard, squash ribbons, mascarpone berry trifle, roasted red pepper hummus, garlic pita chips, vegetable filled polenta tartlet with pine nuts and balsamic. For reservations on this date, please contact Chef Douglas Weber at 740.753.7609.
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Prepare for Colleague Outage
The Hocking College Ellucian Colleague system will be down for maintenance from May 9 -13, 2013. Colleague, which includes such systems as WebAdvisor, registration processes, payment processes, leave requests and web utilities, will be unavailable.
During this maintenance window, we will move the Colleague system to a new hardware platform. To facilitate the transition, all users must log out of Colleague and WebAdvisor by 5 p.m. on May 9. Access will be restored by end of day May 13. These modifications are essential and must be completed in a timely manner. We appreciate your patience as we strive to keep our network operating optimally. |
 Commencement Reminders
Commencement will take place on Sunday, May 5, 2013. Graduates from the School of Health and Nursing will be at the 10 a.m. ceremony. The School of Natural Resources and Public Safety Services will be at 2 p.m. All other schools will graduate at the 6 p.m. ceremony. Each ceremony is expected to last about an hour. A Cinco de Mayo Buffet will be held all day at the Inn at Hocking College for $9.95 per person. Reservations can be made by calling 740.753.7601.
Important Graduation Information:
- Deans will read the graduates' names for the entire school, and faculty and staff are invited to sit in a special VIP enclosure on the Oakley-end of the Multiplex to meet, greet and congratulate grads as soon as they have received their degrees.
- Please submit any good photos from the last two years to Giles Lee for a PowerPoint presentation that he is creating for the commencement ceremony.
For more information, please contact Giles Lee at 740.753.6539 or visit the Hocking College Commencement webpage.
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Autumn Semester Tuition to Increase
As students register for autumn semester 2013, please keep in mind that an increase in tuition will be in effect. Hocking College is required to wait to determine the amount of the increase until the state budget is finalized. When the autumn semester 2013 tuition rate is set, the students will receive notification, and it will be listed on hocking.edu.
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Alumni Spotlight
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Alumnus Leads Alaskan Competitors to the Gold
Brian Northup, a native of Bidwell, Ohio, is a 2012 Hocking College alumnus from the Fitness Management program. Northup has had quite an adventure since his graduation from Hocking College. When his wife accepted a teaching job in Alaska, he had to find a unique way to utilize his skills. Living in a village of Eskimos is intensely different from roaming the hills of Hocking College.
While in Alaska, Northup was asked to coach the school's athletic teams for the Native Youth Olympics (NYO), a culturally prominent event taking place annually in Anchorage. The events are relevant to Alaskan heritage including some interesting athletic challenges like the seal hop and Alaskan high kick. See the video above for information about the NYO.
"It feels great that I'm making a difference and changing lives. This is crazy, and I love it!" Northup said in an email to Bill Finnearty, one of his former instructors at Hocking College.
The teams Northup coached trained all year for the competition. The weekend of April 5-7, 2013, Northup's team competed in a total of 10 events, broken down by gender and age groups. The junior high team placed second, while the high school team won first overall.
"My biggest satisfactions come from stories like yours. I need not tell you how proud I am of you. Keep living the dream and thank you again; this is why I teach," Finnearty replied to Northup in an email after hearing about the students' success at NYO.
After the competition, Northup was asked to coach basketball. He looks forward to working with the school's students again and continues to keep in contact with his favorite instructors at Hocking College.
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 Hocking College Hosts Ohio Youth Fire and EMS Training Academy
During the summer, the Ohio Youth Fire and EMS Training Academy will take place at Hocking College from July 7-13. The program is designed for participants ages 14-18 that are interested in a career in firefighting or emergency services.
Participants will be challenged by instructors from the Fire and Safety Services program and professionals from various fire departments around Ohio. The program will offer different modules to participants that will prepare them for future certification courses by teaching concepts in the classroom and applying their skill sets in various training exercises.
The Ohio Youth Fire and EMS Training Academy is sponsored by the Ohio State Firefighters' Associations Youth Programs Committee. For more information, please visit www.ohioyouthfire.org, or contact Vicki Miller at 740.685.1053. |
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April Board of Trustees Meeting
As a reminder, the Hocking College Board of Trustees will hold their monthly meeting Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at the Inn at Hocking College. The meeting begins at 7 p.m., an hour later than usual, due to the President's List Dinner. |
 AMVETS Honor Guard to Perform on Campus
The Logan AMVETS Honor Guard Rifle Unit will perform on Friday, May 24, 2013 at 10 a.m. at Logan Campus and perform again at 12 p.m. on the main campus in honor of Memorial Day. The performance will be held at the flagpoles at both locations. Student Aaron Pletcher, a veteran at Logan Campus, arranged the event.
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Wayne National Forest Hosts Great American Clean-Up
Keep Southeast Ohio Beautiful and Keep Ohio Beautiful are partnering with the Ohio Department of Transportation to host a Roadside Cleanup of US Route 33 in Athens County on April 27, 2013 from 8 a.m. - 2 p.m. The cleanup begins at the Wayne National Forest headquarters located between The Plains and Nelsonville, Ohio, at 7:30 a.m.
Additional activities include scrap tire drop-off for donation to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, shred day for confidential records by Information Destructive Services and disposal of prescription drugs in support of National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day.
"This is our second year hosting an event that offers volunteers an opportunity to help cleanup area roadways and offering a collection site for scrap tires. Last year, we held two events and collected almost 3,000 tires," Gary C. Chancey, Wayne National Forest Spokesman, said. "We hope the public also takes advantage of this chance to shred and recycle unwanted confidential records at no cost."
Individual or group volunteers are asked to register their team online in advance of the cleanup event or visit the Ohio Department of Transportation Adopt-A-Highway website. For more information, contact Chancey at 740.753.0862 or Michael Cooper, Athens City-County Health Department, at 740.592.4431, ext. 248.
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 Reminder: Art Program Presents 2013 Senior Art Exhibition
The Opening Reception for the Hocking College 2013 Senior Art Exhibition in glass and photography will be Friday, April 26, 2013 from 5 - 9 p.m. at the Hocking College Art Gallery on the Public Square. The 2013 Senior Art Exhibition is part of Nelsonville's Final Friday on the Square activities.
Eleven seniors with various art disciplines will showcase their work through May 31. The exhibit will include the work of senior glass artists Elizabeth Post, Brandi Hunt and Victoria Niemeierand; mixed media and glass student Kathryn Walkowicz; and photography students Keisha Duncan, Jason Bash, Mikki Reinmuth, Shiloh Blackketter, C.J. Auflick, Justin Collins, Joshua Kern and Alaina McLaughlin.
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Reminder: Dell Discounts Available for Students, Faculty and Staff
Dell is currently promoting their new Windows 8 systems, including touch screen notebooks and tablets. With the Hocking College discount, Dell is offering $50 off any purchase of select systems like the Dell Inspiron 15z Touch and tablets like the Dell XPS 10.
For more information on discounts and savings, please visit www.dell.com/dellu/hocking and use the following promotion code and member login to access the discount. Please enter the member identification number US126609902 and the coupon code 2NC6G00NCM??39 before May 31, 2013 to claim the coupon.
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Reminder: Upcoming Admissions Events
Prospective students will be visiting campus for our admissions events: Discover Hocking, Hocking Showcase and QuickStart. The dates are as follows:
- Discover Hocking - Thursday, April 25, Main Campus, 1:15 p.m.
- Autumn QuickStart Registration Events:
- Check-In for all Autumn QuickStarts events begins at 9:30 a.m., with the program beginning at 10 a.m.
- Tuesday, May 7 - Health & Nursing
- Wednesday, May 8 - Public Safety Services and Arts, Business and Computer Information Technologies (ABIT)
- Thursday, May 9 - Natural Resources and Hospitality
- Wednesday, May 15 - Engineering Technology (at Logan Campus)
- Friday, May 17 - All programs
Thank you for your assistance as we provide prospective students with a chance to experience a Hocking College education!
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Wayne National Forest Opens Trails for ATV Season
Wayne National Forest officially opened its trails for all-terrain vehicles (ATV) and other motorized vehicles on April 15, 2013. The forest has approximately 134 miles of ATV and off-highway motorcycle (OHM) trails, 88 miles of horse trails and 209 miles of trails for mountain bikers to enjoy.
All trail riders 16 years or older must purchase a Wayne National Forest trail permit to use the trails. Permits are not required for those under 16 years of age. However, for motorized trail riders, youth under 16 years old must be accompanied by a licensed operator 18 years or older. All motorized trail riders must have a valid state driver's license, register their vehicles with the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles and purchase a Wayne National Forest trail permit.
For more information, contact the Wayne National Forest at 740.753.0101 or visit the Forest's website. For online pass purchases, or a list of participating vendor locations, visit www.fs.fed.us/r9/wayne. |
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Mission
Hocking College provides a unique, innovative, and quality education in a supportive experience- based learning environment, preparing students for employment and transfer education opportunities, while teaching the value of lifelong learning, promoting diversity and developing citizens who are engaged in their local and global communities.
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Instructor Volunteers Time to Help Girl Scouts
On Saturday April 13, Police Science instructor Larry Hatem volunteered to help Girl Scout Troop 2275 from Hocking County earn their Secret Agent Badge. During his time with the Girls Scouts, Hatem taught the girls about crime scene procedures, taking fingerprints and cast moldings.
Hatem also set up a "crime scene" for them to collect evidence using the proper procedures he taught them earlier in the day. After their investigation, they had the opportunity to watch the 36-Hour Fire class in the burn building. The girls ended the day saying, "This was the best day ever!" and "Mr. Hatem is really cool!" Great job, Larry, and April Maffin sends her thanks for volunteering his time to help her Girl Scout troop.
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