Category: Education

Community invited to participate in KCKCC strategic plan development

by Kelly Rogge, KCKCC

Kansas City Kansas Community College is holding a series of public forums this year as the college begins its Strategic Plan development process.

Strategic planning is a process higher education institutions and other businesses use to set long term goals and priorities, according to a spokesman. It is a way to focus on where resources and funding should be used to ensure long term success for the college. Many times, the mission and vision statements are also included in this process so that they align with the strategic plan as well. Strategic plans are revisited every few years to ensure goals and objectives are current.

Student and community forums will be held on Thursday, Oct. 25, on the KCKCC main campus, 7250 State Ave. These will be at 7:30 a.m., 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. Each of these sessions are open to everyone in the campus community as well as in Wyandotte and Leavenworth counties. The purpose of these forums is to get input on the college’s mission and vision statements, according to a spokesman.

An additional set of student and community forums will be held on Nov. 1 at the Dr. Thomas R. Burke Technical Education Center, 6565 State Ave. These will be at 7:30 a.m., 1 p.m. and 6 p.m.

Throughout the 2018-2019 academic year, there will be additional forums as KCKCC continues through with the Strategic Development Plan process. For more information, contact Michael Beach, KCKCC’s chief financial officer at 913-288-7645 or by email at mbeach@kckcc.edu.

KCKCC to raise scholarships for future dual and concurrent high school students

by Kelly Rogge, KCKCC

Plans are underway for Kansas City Kansas Community College’s first Scholarship Craft Fair, which will help raise money for high school students wishing to take dual and concurrent courses at the college.

The Craft Fair will be from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13, in Upper Jewell on the KCKCC Main Campus, 7250 State Ave. There is no entrance fee for the event, and the public is welcome to attend.

The Craft Fair was created to raise scholarship funds to give to future KCKCC high school students in dual and concurrent enrollment classes, which are often held at the student’s home high school.

Mary Kobe Peterson, high school partnership coordinator at KCKCC; Lindsey Bruns, high school partnership admissions specialist at KCKCC and Andrica Wilcoxen, director of student activities, recognized a need to assist students who would like to attend college while in high school but did not have the funds. With the help of a community member, Vicki Davis, the committee put everything in place.

“I thought this would be a fun way to raise funds and also involve our community,” Peterson said. “We hope to make this a bigger event as we grow.”

KCKCC serves 13 high schools in the Wyandotte and Leavenworth county area. The Concurrent Enrollment Partnership Program provides secondary schools with the opportunity to expand their curriculum by scheduling KCKCC courses in conjunction with their regular class offerings. Students have the advantage of taking their classes at the high school.

Courses taught at the high school have identical course content to that of courses being offered at KCKCC and are evaluated by an instructional dean at the college before being implemented at the high school. Faculty are evaluated and must meet the same criteria as instructors who teach on campus.

Due to financial need, many high school students and their families struggle to come up with the funds to take college courses. KCKCC wants to provide a solution to help students and their families by providing scholarships for these students to attend KCKCC. All funds raised from the Craft Fair will go directly to the Dual-Concurrent Students Scholarship fund.

There will be more than 30 vendors selling items for the holidays as well as Kansas City Chiefs items, food and more. The most important part of the Craft Fair is that all of the proceeds go to help future KCKCC Dual and Concurrent High School Students.

Students interested in participating in the Concurrent Enrollment Partnership Program may contact their high school counselor for additional information and details on the enrollment process.

For more information on the Scholarship Craft Fair, Contact Peterson at 913-288-7324 or by email at mkobe@kckcc.edu.

KCK residents receive degrees from Rockhurst

Several Kansas City, Kansas, residents received degrees in the spring from Rockhurst University, Kansas City, Missouri.

The candidates for degrees from Kansas City, Kansas, included:

Christiana Alvey, Bachelor of Arts, Psychology and Criminal Justice, Summa Cum Laude
Morganne Appl-Culp, Master of Occupational Therapy, Occupational Therapy
Dylan Clark, Master of Business Administration, Dual MBA with MSBIA
Dylan Clark, Master of Science in Business Intelligence and Analytics, Dual MSBIA with MBA
Maria Garcia, Bachelor Science in Business Administration, Business Administration and Communication
Kennedy Hernandez, Bachelor of Science, Biology, Magna Cum Laude
Long Ho, Bachelor Science in Business Administration, Business Administration
Coyote Kishpaugh, Bachelor of Arts, Psychology
Ernesto Marquez, Master of Business Administration, MBA
Thataw Moo, Master of Education, Master of Education
Sarah Nichols, Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Nursing
Niall O’Neill, Master of Business Administration, MBA
Jessica Raya, Bachelor Science in Business Administration, Business Administration and Spanish
David Shields, Master of Science in Business Intelligence and Analytics, Dual MSBIA with MBA
Ann Toy, Non-Degree, Data Science/Business Intelligence Graduate Certificate.