Month: March 2018

Twelve area students named to honor roll, dean’s list at Emporia State University

Twelve students from Bonner Springs, Kansas, and Kansas City, Kansas, were named to the honor roll and dean’s lists for fall 2017 at Emporia State University.

To qualify for the university honor roll, students earned a minimum 3.80 semester grade point average in at least 12 graded hours.

To qualify for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences dean’s list, students earned a semester grade point average that puts them in the top 10 percent of all students enrolled in full-time undergraduate work within the college and have a cumulative 3.5 GPA for all Emporia State courses.

Students from this area include:

Josh Barnes of Bonner Springs, Kansas, university honor roll and The Teachers College dean’s list.
Katelyn Cochran of Bonner Springs, Kansas, university honor roll and The Teachers College dean’s list.
Haley Lohmann of Bonner Springs, Kansas, university honor roll and College of Liberal Arts and Sciences dean’s list.
Hannah Baughman of Kansas City, Kansas, university honor roll and The Teachers College dean’s list.
Rachel Castro of Kansas City, Kansas, university honor roll and College of Liberal Arts and Sciences dean’s list.
Lacy Davison Symmonds of Kansas City, Kansas, university honor roll and The Teachers College dean’s list.
Cathleen Grissom of Kansas City, Kansas, university honor roll and The Teachers College dean’s list.
Joshua Hall of Kansas City, Kansas, university honor roll and The Teachers College dean’s list.
Raymond Horvat of Kansas City, Kansas, university honor roll.
Meghan Rice of Kansas City, Kansas, university honor roll and The Teachers College dean’s list.
Megan Sheckells of Kansas City, Kansas, university honor roll and College of Liberal Arts and Sciences dean’s list.
Jeneice Waters of Kansas City, Kansas, university honor roll and The Teachers College dean’s list.

KCK man injured in I-70 accident

An injury-accident was reported on westbound I-70 near 18th Street at 8:06 a.m. Wednesday, March 21, according to a Kansas Highway Patrol trooper’s report.

A Buick car was westbound on I-70 when it tried to avoid a collision, according to the trooper’s report. The vehicle lost control, struck the median barrier wall, spun around and struck the outside rock wall, before coming to a rest, the trooper’s report stated.

The driver, a 37-year-old Kansas City, Kansas, man, was injured and was taken to a hospital, according to the trooper’s report.

CTE, Intercultural Center to hold critical issues panel on opioid crisis

by Kelly Rogge, KCKCC

Kansas City Kansas Community College’s Center for Teaching Excellence and the Intercultural Center are holding a Critical Issues Panel on the Opioid Crisis this week.

“The Opioid Crisis” is from 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. March 22 in Room 2325 on the KCKCC Main Campus, 7250 State Ave. The event is free and all students, faculty and staff as well as community members are welcomed to attend. Faculty planning to bring a class should contact the CTE at [email protected]. The panel is sponsored by the Critical Issues Committee, the CTE and the KCKCC Intercultural Center.

The panel will feature three individuals who will speak on the Opioid Crisis:
• Kevin Steele, coordinator of KCKCC’s Criminal Justice Program
• Scott Wheeler, program director for Behavioral Health Group
• Susan Whitmore, president and CEO of First Call, an Alcohol-Drug Prevention and Recovery program

Michael James, coordinator of KCKCC’s Addiction Counseling Program will serve as the panel’s facilitator.

“I hope that people will gain an understanding of the complexity of the topic,” said Dr. Jelena Ozegovic, faculty director of the Center for Teaching Excellence. “This was why the committee felt it was important to recruit panel members that can represent multiple perspectives. Additionally, there will be two presenters from the community who will be able to provide information about local resources.”

This will be the CTE’s first presentation focusing on the Opioid Crisis in the United States. The second, an academic Symposium titled “Addiction and the Opiate Crisis,” will be from 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. April 10 in Room 2325. James will lead an academically informed discussion of the cycle of addiction with specific focus on the opiate/opioid epidemic.

“The difference between the Academic Symposium and the Critical Issues panel is that the Symposium is a more in depth presentation, grounded in academic research, about the topic,” Ozegovic said. “The Critical Issues Panel is a more informal event in that panel members are asked questions by the facilitator, and they will each be given an opportunity to answer. Panel members represent a variety of disciplines and will discuss the topic as it relates to their area of expertise. Thus, we have a perspective from criminal justice, the treatment community and a medical perspective.”