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The Award-Winning DCC KNIGHTLY NEWS • October 16, 2019

by Tyree Ferrante, DCC Tutor

On October 10, 2019, Danville Community College celebrated National Tutor Appreciation Week by honoring its 26 peer and professional tutors. The evening kicked off with Dr. Violeta Howard, the new Tutoring Center Coordinator, welcoming the tutors, tutees, and friends who were in attendance. Before sitting down to dinner, Christopher Ford, the Director of Learning Resources and Distance Learning, described the importance of those being honored: “The Tutoring Center wouldn’t be able to run without the tutors. You’re the ones who make the face-to-face contact with the students. When the students think of the Tutoring Center, they associate it with the tutors.” 

Ford then took the time to honor two special guests: Letitia Lunsford and Linda Hudgins. Letitia Lunsford had worked as the Tutoring Center Coordinator for seventeen years and had recently vacated the position for one in the Testing Center. The tutors gathered around the very humbled Lunsford, presented her with a plaque and card, and stood for pictures. She was the “life blood of the Tutoring Center,” stated Ford. “She took over, running the place by herself. She was really devoted to the Tutoring Center and helping students.” Linda Hudgins, a seventy-one-year-old professional tutor employed by the Tutoring Center for twenty years was also honored. “She was the one person who has ever insisted the building be open on a Saturday to work with students,” stated Ford. Lunsford took the time to read a few comments from Hudgins’ former tutees. One particular comment summarized her tutees’ sentiment towards her:

“Linda was very patient with me, even with things that I should have known. She was always on time and available to help me on my subject six days a week…Without her help a lot of the Accounting students would have failed the subject. We are fortunate to have her at DCC.”

Are you planning to apply to the nursing program at DCC?

The Kaplan nursing entrance test will be offered during the month of October in the LAC. Make your plans now!

No appointment necessary.

Call the DCC Nursing Department at 797-8422 or 797-8512 for more information.

If you are a DCC student, this resource is for you! Learn more and download the Navigate mobile app by clicking here.

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Tutoring Works:

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Needing some assistance in some of your classes?

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Wishing that you could get better grades in your classes?

Come to the Tutoring Center, located in the Learning

Resources Center. Call us at 434.797.6432.

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New at DCC – Customer Satisfaction Surveys. We want to draw your attention to posters in various areas of the campus asking you how we are doing. Your feedback really does matter to us! The posters share two ways to take the Customer Satisfaction Survey.  

We want to find out what we are doing well and what may need to be improved.  Customer Satisfaction Surveys are available for:

Did you get an email or letter to join Phi Theta Kappa? Do you want to be eligible for scholarships at major universities across this country? Do you want the opportunity to learn about scholarly topics and engage in community and college service projects with a great group of people? Then you need to join the Upsilon Phi Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa!

Contact an advisor or officer to find out who we are and what we can do for you! We have bulletin boards and display cases in the Temple and Taylor Buildings. Packets are on Ms. Vickie Taylor’s office door at 121E Taylor Building and Ms. Sherry Gott’s office door at 111 Temple Building. 

We meet on the first and third Thursdays of each month at 11:00 a.m., Taylor Building. During meetings we have speakers, videos on our Honors Study topic, and games related to the topic. Come by and check us out! Our next meeting is Thursday, October 17.

AmeriCorps Service Members will be providing a series of workshops at DCC for the remainder of October.

The public is welcome to attend any number of these scheduled workshops.

Have you heard about iGrad? It is a free resource for DCC students to learn about and get daily tips on financial literacy and how to manage money. Don't let the price tag undermine its value to you--you should definitely check out DCC's iGrad today!

Highlighting this month:

Business – administration, management, and entrepreneurship

If you want to request other new materials, we have a handy form for that.

danville.libwizard.com/f/bookreq

The safety of our students is at the forefront of our minds as we strive to give you the best experience possible during your time at the college.

To that end, the college would like to take this opportunity to remind you of our policies regarding on-campus emergencies and weather-related closures or delays.

In order to ensure you have the most up-to-date information available, please take a moment to sign up for   DCC Alert . This is the college's first line of communication to let you know when something has happened that affects you such as a closing due to a weather event.

You can also keep up with information about the college on   DCC's Facebook page :  www.facebook.com/dccpr

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AmeriCorps Workshop: Starting Your Job Search | October 29

TEACH Club Trunk or Treat | October 31

Halloween Festivities at the Student Center | October 31