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There’s a growing harsh truth to the tale of the “starving college student,” and Rogue Community College (RCC) students are no exception. Nearly three-quarters of RCC students who responded to a 2019 survey indicated they had experienced food or housing insecurity within the previous year. Regional wildfires, coupled with COVID-19 impacts, have increased the crisis dramatically even as RCC continues to respond with innovative programs...
A quorum of the Rogue Community College Board of Education will be attending the RCC Finance and Audit Committee meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2021. The meeting is scheduled to begin at 3 p.m. via Zoom. All board members have been invited to attend. A comprehensive 2020-21 audit presentation will be provided by Eide Bailey, LLP and the Monthly Financial Statements will also be discussed....
Need to brush up on basic skills or work toward earning your GED diploma? Rogue Community College’s Illinois Valley Learning Center in Kerby is opening for in-person study during winter term. The RCC Adult Basic Skills (ABS) program has offered online classes since spring 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Illinois Valley Learning Center, located in the Kerby Belt Building at 24353 Redwood Highway,...
The Rogue Community College Board of Education has posted an announcement seeking applicants for the position of chief executive officer, moving the search for the college’s seventh president into the next phase. President Cathy Kemper-Pelle earlier this year announced plans to retire at the end of June 2022. Applications for the presidency are being accepted through RCC’s job page at schooljobs.com, with screening set to begin...
The Rogue Community College Board of Education established a 20-member Presidential Search Advisory Committee at a special meeting on Oct. 5. The committee will assist the board and a consulting search firm in screening candidates to become the college’s seventh president. President Cathy Kemper-Pelle earlier this year announced her plans to retire at the end of June 2022. The committee is comprised of RCC District...
Rogue Community College President Cathy Kemper-Pelle was recently appointed to a three-year term on the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) Commission on Economic and Workforce Development. Kemper-Pelle’s term on the commission runs through June 2024. The AACC is a nonprofit advocacy organization representing nearly 1,200 two-year, associate degree-granting institutions, including public and private colleges and technical schools. The group works at the national level...
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...
Rogue Community College is welcoming new and returning students back to school this fall with a pair of Welcome Day events from 9 a.m. to noon Sept. 15 at the Redwood Campus in Grants Pass and Table Rock Campus in White City. The fun and informative events are aimed at helping students meet RCC faculty and staff and complete college business prior to the first...
GRANTS PASS — The Rogue Community College Small Business Development Center, which has assisted thousands of emerging and growing local businesses since 1984, is slated to move from downtown Grants Pass to the Redwood Campus in January 2022. “RCC is committed to utilizing our resources in ways that enable us to continue to support our students, clients and community, which is why we are relocating...
The Rogue Community College Board of Education is seeking applicants to fill an interim seat on the board representing Zone 3 of the RCC District in Jackson County. The appointee will replace Shawn Hogan who did not seek re-election. Hogan, vice president of engineering for Linx Technologies, was elected to the board in 2017 and served as board chair for 2020-21. Four seats on the...