April
Happenings
at Montgomery College
For MC Alumni and Friends
In this issue:
- Become
an advocate for MC by
e-mailing state and local officials
- Annual
Fund needs your support
- MC Alumni
Association hosts landscape design seminar for members
- MC's
Germantown Campus celebrates 25th anniversary
- Montgomery
College Holocaust Commemoration features musical celebration
of life
- Arts
Institute hosts World Arts Festival
-
Takoma Park Capital
Campaign –
register your Safeway card to make donations without spending
any extra dollars of
your own
-
Aristocrats comes to Parilla Performing Arts Center
- Community Conversations Town Meeting to
focus on the Language of Ethnic and International Conflict
- MC Alumni Association seeks nominations for
outstanding alumni award
- Montgomery
College develops emergency preparedness plan
-
Student Art Exhibition opens on Rockville Campus
- Help MC's future through planned
giving
- MyMC now available for
alumni
- Employment Opportunities
at Montgomery College
Click on any of the links below for more
information.
Now you can become an advocate for Montgomery College!
Just go to
http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/legislative/ and
all the information you'll need to become an effective voice for MC will be at
your fingertips! Budget times are tough, and MC is not immune to state and
county cuts, so your help is needed now more than ever. Let your voice be
heard and help MC continue to provide the same excellent academic services
that it has provided for the past 57 years.
Your letters and e-mails do make a difference! If you have
any questions about advocacy for the College, contact the MC Alumni Office,
alumni@mc.cc.md.us
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Can we count on your support? Please make your donation
today.
Largest
on-line donation in month of April will win four tickets to Orioles game!
We have a new contest for on-line
donors! The largest on-line gift during the month of April, 2003
will win four (4) tickets to a home game (at Camden Yards) of the Baltimore
Orioles vs. the Detroit Tigers. The game will be played on Wednesday, May 7,
starting at 3:05 p.m. Seating will be in a lower field box location between
home plate and the dug out along the first-base line. Winner will be notified
on May 1, 2003.
Your Annual
Fund support has never been more critical than it is
today. Montgomery College has recently learned that the major state
and county reductions we have been anticipating for some time are upon us.
This devastating blow to our funding comes at a time when our enrollment is
growing at a phenomenal rate.
If you would like to do what you can to improve this difficult situation, the
annual fund is the place to direct your gift. Your Annual Fund
donation will send immediate assistance to where the need is greatest, such as
urgent scholarship relief, funds for state-of-the-art equipment and
technology, building renovation needs, faculty/curricula enhancements, and
other critical programs. These are the very areas that are facing the dire
consequences of the recent budget cuts.
We need an additional $40,357
if we are to reach our annual fund goal of $96,875 by June 30, 2003. We count
on you to
show your
support of the College by donating to the Annual Fund.
To make your tax-deductible* donation to the Annual Fund
today, click here:
*The
Montgomery College
Foundation is a 501(c)(3) charitable
organization, and all contributions are tax-deductible to the fullest extent
as provided by law.
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Principles of Landscape Design
A landscape can be welcoming, exciting, relaxing, and/or fascinating. This
workshop moves beyond how gardens look and explores how it feels to be in
them. Learn to define how spaces feel, learn how you prefer it to feel,
and learn how to create that kind of space with trees, shrubs, terraces,
walls, or decks. Bring a pencil and your vision!
Space is Limited, Preregistration Required (Deadline: April 10,
2003)
When: Saturday, April 12, 2003, 9:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Where: Germantown Campus, Montgomery College
How to register: Call 240-567-5378
by April 10, 2003
For disability-related accommodations, call 240-567-5378 (or for TTY/TDD
301-294-9672) at least one week prior to the event.
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Montgomery College's
Germantown Campus celebrates its
25th anniversary of academic excellence this
year! A number of events and activities are being planned to celebrate this
milestone now through October, 2003. The first classes were held on the
Germantown Campus on October 21, 1978, and to mark that occasion in 2003, a
full-day of events have been planned for October 21. On
May 22, a Campus meeting will begin at 10 a.m. and will be followed by a
dedication of a Commemorative Garden; after that a picnic and softball game
will start at 12 p.m. All alumni are invited to both events. All Germantown
Campus alumni will be invited to attend MC's Commencement Ceremony on Friday,
May 23, and a special table will be set aside in the area of the food tent for
Germantown Campus alumni to meet and reminisce after
the commencement ceremony concludes. To view a schedule of upcoming
events and activities, click here:
http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/Departments/gt25th/.
For more information about 25th Anniversary events, contact Ms. Diane Cockrell
at 240-567-7849 or e-mail to
dcockrel@mc.cc.md.us.
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The annual Montgomery College Holocaust Commemoration will
feature a musical celebration of life, with Cantor Joseph Ness of Beth El
Temple of West Hartford, Ct., on Tuesday, April 8, at 7 p.m. in the Music
Recital Hall of the Music Building on the Rockville Campus. The performance is
free and open to public. For more information, click here:
http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/news/pr03-27.html
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The Arts Institute of Montgomery College
will host a two-day "World
Arts Festival," a celebration of music,
visual art, film, dance, literature, and storytelling featuring workshops,
lectures, and performances by internationally recognized musicians, artists,
dancers, scholars, and writers. The festival will be held Friday, April 11 and
Saturday, April 12 at the College’s Rockville Campus. All events are free and
open to the public. For more information, call 240-567-5030 or e-mail to
davery@mc.cc.md.us. For more information about the Arts
Institute of Montgomery College, contact Professor James Brown at 240-567-7644
or e-mail to
jlbrown@mc.cc.md.us
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Now you can easily
support the
Takoma Park Campus Capital Campaign by shopping
at Safeway, simply register with
http://wwwescrip.com
and 3% of your grocery purchases at Safeway will go directly to the
Campaign. Other credit and debit cards can be registered at their
secure site so purchases from additional merchants will add to the balance.
Merchants such as Spiegel, Eddie Bauer, the Sharper Image and Office Max are
among the many who participate in this program.
Proceeds from these purchases will go to
an Endowment to assist students by
providing scholarships, books, uniforms, physical examinations for certain
programs, and daycare needs. By
registering your cards, when the card is scanned, a percentage of the sale
will electronically be sent to the Takoma Park account.
To register, go to the website at
www.escrip.com. The
Takoma Park Capital Campaign group
ID# is 150239498. The website
will guide you through the sign-in process.
It
doesn't cost you one penny over what you already pay for your groceries.
eScrip makes the contributions from their merchants. If you don't have a
Safeway card, you can pick up an application at the customer service desk at
Safeway or call 240-567-1311 for an application.
To
learn more about the program, click here:
http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/alumni/tpcampaign.html
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The
Aristocrats is coming to the
Parilla Performing Arts Center
April 23 - 27. Shows on April 23 - 26 are at 8 p.m.,
and the performance on April 27 will be at 2 p.m. Tickets are $8 for general
public, and $6 for students and senior citizens. For more information,
contact the PAC box office at 240-567-5301 or e-mail to
boffice@mc.cc.md.us
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How do
words, symbols, and rhetoric used by politicians and the press shape our
perceptions of a conflict? This question and more will be addressed at
Montgomery Colleges’ 5th annual "Community Conversations
Town Meeting," entitled: "Creating the Enemy: The Language of Ethnic and
International Conflict." The forum will be held on Tuesday, April 22,
from 6:30 p.m. at the Takoma Park Campus, Commons Building cafeteria (lower
level). It will explore the effects of language on citizens in times of
conflict.
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In these
uncertain times,
Montgomery College
has developed an emergency preparedness plan
that will help guide students, faculty, staff, and visitors to MC in the event
of an unplanned occurrence that effects one or more campuses of the College.
To learn more about the new plan, click here:
http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/news/emergency/
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The annual
Student Art Exhibition at the
Rockville Campus will begin on April
28 and run through May 14 in the
Art Gallery
located in the Paul Peck Art Building. The opening
reception is scheduled for April 28, 6-8 p.m. For more information, call
240-567-5115, or e-mail to
kmccroha@mc.cc.md.us
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Take
Note.....There are still some certainties in today's fluctuating financial markets. A
Planned Gift to Montgomery College will not only provide a
solid financial investment to a donor but also
guarantee a future of opportunities to
Montgomery College students. Planned
gifts may be
directed toward the support of scholarships, program and faculty development,
capital improvements, and many other educational enhancements. Gifts of this
nature help ensure that Montgomery College will continue to provide
educational opportunities to all who seek them regardless of financial status. At
the same time, such gifts can provide a donor with many financial benefits
such as charitable tax deductions and fixed annual payments. To learn more
about planned giving options, please
call the Director of Development at Montgomery College, Ms. Kayran Moore at
240-567-7493.
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We now have
a new web portal called My MC available for all current and former
students, faculty, and staff. Through My MC, you can check your
personal records, catch up on events going on around the College, and even
register for classes.
Here's how:
To login to My MC you will need to know two
things:
1. Your My MC ID
and
2.
Your PIN number. Your PIN is a 6-digit number or
your date of birth (in MMDDYY format) if never before changed
through the
Montgomery College Secure Site Login.
Finding your My MC ID
Follow these directions for getting your My MC ID:
1. Back at the login page, click on the Find Your My MC ID
link. A small window will appear.
2. Enter your Student ID, which is your Social Security No. (or
MC-issued student ID) in the first box.
3. Enter your 6-digit PIN. Again, your PIN is a 6-digit number
or your Date of Birth (in MMDDYY format) if never before
changed through the Montgomery College Secure Site Login.
4. Click on the Get My MC ID button; a
window will open displaying
your My MC ID
Logging In
Once you have your
My MC ID and
PIN number, return
to My MC login page at
http://mymc.montgomerycollege.edu. Please keep this information for future
reference. If you need further assistance, please call the
MC
Response Center at (240) 567-5000, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday - Friday.
Once you're into the system, take a look at
your information for accuracy and any other data that you care to share with
us. Let us know how you like the
system by e-mailing us at
alumni@mc.cc.md.us.
Please note: My MC is only available to current and former students, faculty,
and staff of the College.
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