PR 2006 Mar U3

Faculty, Staff and Student News from Shelton State

- The Shelton State Community College chapter of Circle K brought home several awards from the annual Alabama District Conference.  The awards included: Alabama District Scrapbook Award – Third Place; Alabama District Committee Awards to Laura Meherg and John Sturdivant; Distinguished Club President Award to Sierra Fladstoll; Distinguished Club Vice President to Lauren Wheat and the Ruby Award recognizing 120 to 179 hours of community service to Sierra Fladstol and Lauren Wheat.

            Shelton State’s Circle K, with Deborah J. Grimes, Director of Library Services as advisor, has been conducting a year-long project called “Friendly Fridays,” where they go to an elementary school on Friday afternoons and work with students.

- Julia Chancy, Adult Education Project Literacy Coordinator, Tommy Taylor, Dean of Student Services and Fran Turner, Director of Adult Education, wrote an article that was published in NISOD Innovation Abstracts (Innovation Abstracts Volume XXVIII Number I, Service Learning Benefits All by Chancy, Taylor, and Turner.)  The article describes the mechanics of the Service Learning partnership between the Shelton State Community College Adult Education Department and the University of Alabama College of Education.

- An article in the “Program Profile” section of the March 2006 Nontraditional Students Report featured the partnership between Shelton State Community College’s Adult Education Program and the Workforce Development Center.

- Dr. Milady Murphy, Founder and Director of The Wellness Center at Shelton State Community College, will be honored by The Chair Academy as a recipient of the 2006 International Exemplary Leadership Award at the Academy’s 15th Annual International Conference April 19-22, 2006.

The National Community College Chair Academy Institute for Academic Leadership Development (The Chair Academy) was created to advance organizational leadership globally and is committed to excellence and continuous improvement in providing training to organizational leaders.

- Students from the Department of Music at Shelton State Community College gathered on February 24-25 at Huntingdon University in Montgomery for the state auditions of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS). Of more than 250 students from colleges and voice studios, Shelton State was the only community college participating.

Thirteen Shelton State singers participated in the competition, and eleven were selected for the semi-finals. Five of the eight semi-finalists in the women’s musical theater category were from Shelton. Shelton State had a third-place winner, a second-place winner, and two first-place winners. Glinda Blackshear is the director of the Shelton State Singers.