It’s time to RAPS it up! End of Year is Near

The end of the 2022/23 fiscal year is just around the corner! The Business Office and Contract & Procurement Office are requesting your help to ensure the timely processing of orders and payments of all 2022/23 POs and Travel Requests. Please keep the following in mind when ordering items from vendors: Please review all of your department’s open purchase orders (PO) and Travel Requests (TR)....

April 25 – May 12, 2023 News Roundup

Candidates vie for seats on Rogue Community College board: The Daily Courier – May 4, 2023 Elect Long to Grants Pass School Board: The Daily Courier – May 4, 2023 Keep nonpartisan boards free of partisan politics: The Daily Courier – May 2, 2023 10 candidates pursuing 4 seats up for election on Grants Pass School Board: The Daily Courier – May 2, 2023 Catalyst...

We are Ospreys mural contest

RCC Seeks Mural Contest Entries from Community Members

Jackson and Josephine counties – A region-wide competition to design and install “We are Ospreys” murals on each of the three Rogue Community College (RCC) campuses is now open for entries. Students, RCC employees and community artists are invited to participate. The theme for the project is “Spread Your Wings at RCC.” According to Elizabeth Butler, the RCC marketing department staff member leading the project,...

Portrait of Michael Surgeon

Teacher’s lesson: Building community is key to student success

Michael Surgeon has always wanted to teach.   Right out of high school, he knew he needed to start higher education — but the nearest university was too expensive, so he turned to community college. “I definitely made the right choice,” Michael says. “RCC was the place where I developed as a student. Erika Giesen and Verne Underwood really kept me on track in the humanities.”...

Laura

From learning English to digital design, RCC student draws a new path for her future

Laura Quintero Antón is a person who cares about her community. During the 2020 Almeda Fire that decimated Talent, she served as a translator for Spanish-speaking residents who lost their homes. Laura was able to provide this service because she is a native Spanish speaker who learned English in Rogue Community College’s English Language Acquisition (ESL/ELA) program. Now, just six years after moving to Southern...

PTSD awareness month

June is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Awareness Month

Providing Information, Resources, and Support  By Shelly Hohl, LPCRCC Counselor  In 2010, the U.S. Congress declared June 27th PTSD Awareness Day highlighting the importance of bringing awareness to the invisible scars this disorder can cause.  The National Center for PTSD has since declared the month of June for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Awareness.  The designation is designed to help raise awareness about the disorder and...

RCC's Outstanding Citizen Award: Health Care Heroes

RCC bestows Outstanding Citizen Awards on regional health care heroes

Rogue Community College faculty and staff joined together at their annual college inservice gathering to honor five regional health care organizations.  The employees of AllCare Health, Asante, La Clinica, Providence and Siskiyou Health Center were recognized as RCC’s Outstanding Citizen 2022 awardees. “Exceptional times call for exceptional responses,” said RCC President Dr. Cathy Kemper-Pelle. “As a symbol of tremendous respect for those working on the...

TRIO March Madness

TRIO EOC offers help with FAFSA

The TRIO Educational Opportunity Center (EOC) is hosting March Madness! Anyone who fills out a new TRIO EOC participation form and meets with a TRIO staff will be given a $20 gift card to the RCC Ambassador Bookstore (while supplies last; up to 100 gift cards available). Click here to sign up! All our services are free! The TRiO EOC program helps with exploring programs...

Introducing Itskut and Shakshak

GRANTS PASS — Evergreen Federal Bank unveiled the latest addition to its BearFest family today (Oct. 22, 2021) in honor of Rogue Community College’s 50th anniversary. The studious bear, hunched over a book, is accompanied by an osprey pal — the college mascot — with a common interest: “How to Fish.”  The Confederated Tribe of the Siletz Indians participated in naming the pair. Itskut, the...

Portrait of Jeff Lang

Lang appointed to RCC Board

The Rogue Community College Board of Education at its Sept. 21, 2021 meeting appointed Central Point banker Jeff Lang to serve as an interim member of the board. Lang will represent Zone 3 of the RCC District, generally described as northwest Jackson County including Central Point, Gold Hill, Rogue River and Sams Valley. The interim appointment runs through June 2023. The Zone 3 position was...