August
Happenings
at Montgomery College
For MC
Alumni and Friends
Please forward this e-mail to anyone
that you think would enjoy receiving it. We try to reach as many Montgomery
College alumni and friends as we can, and your
forwarding this e-mail helps us do just that!
In this issue:
- Alumni Association honors Former
Congresswoman and MC Professor Connie Morella
- Help is
needed with student recruitment for fall, 2003 semester
- Send us your Class Notes for
Insights magazine
-
Insights magazine survey
-
Fall 2003 course offerings now online
- Annual Fund needs your
support
- MC Alumni Office needs volunteers
-
Potomac Review Spring/Summer issue available
- Now you can help support the Takoma
Park Campaign just by shopping
- Transfer
your four-year school's credits back to MC to get your associate's
degree
- Employment Opportunities
at Montgomery College
Click on any of the links below for more
information.
The
Montgomery College
Alumni Association hosted
a special dinner-theatre event on the
Rockville Campus
to honor former U.S. Congresswoman and MC Professor
Connie Morella on
Sunday, July 20. Over
200 people enjoyed a special MC Summer
Dinner Theatre performance of Hello, Dolly! Nearly
$30,000 has thus far been raised
to endow a scholarship at MC in Connie Morella's name. To view photos from the
event, go to:
http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/news/hottopics/helloconnie.html. If
you'd like to make a contribution to the Connie
Morella scholarship endowment, contact the
MC Alumni Office at 240-567-5378. You
can make a donation over the phone using your Visa or MasterCard, or you can
mail a check, made payable to the Montgomery College Foundation, to the MC
Alumni Office at 900 Hungerford Drive, Ste. 200, Rockville, MD 20850.
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The Montgomery College
Office of Admissions,
Records, and Registration is
requesting help from
MC alumni and friends in
contacting students who were enrolled this past spring at MC, but haven't yet
registered for the coming fall semester. Enrollment is down somewhat for the
fall semester, and the Office of Admissions
,
Records
, and Registration is trying to
boost enrollment to meet projections, which, of course, affects MC's funding.
What you can do to help
All the Office of Admissions, Records,
and Registration is asking is that
each volunteer to take some names of students and contact them by phone
to encourage them to register for the fall semester. We will be happy to
provide a script for any volunteer who
would like one, as well as a list of names and phone numbers to contact. You
would need to identify yourself as being from a
volunteer for Montgomery College, encourage them to register for fall,
and ask if they need any help or information. If the do need any help or
information, you would then take their name and number and pass it on to
either the Alumni Office or one of the student recruiters at MC, who would
then contact the student to assist them. You can make calls from you home or
office, and each call should only take a few minutes at most. Even if you're
going on vacation in the next few weeks, you can still take some names and
call when you get back. Registration for fall is continuing from now until the
start of classes on September 2.
This is a
great opportunity for
alumni
and friends of the College to reach out on a very personal level to
current students and let them know how important it is for them to continue
their studies at MC.
If you can help by calling these students, then
please either e-mail the MC
Alumni Office at
alumni@montgomerycollege.edu
or call the Alumni Office at 240-567-5378,
and we'll get you a list of names to call.
As always, your help and support
are greatly appreciated by
MC President Dr. Charlene Nunley and the
MC Board of Trustees in ensuring that MC
stays at the forefront of community colleges nationwide.
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The
MC Alumni Association
wants to hear from you! Send us photos and/or updates
on your career or your life (marriages, kids, etc.) and we'll be sure
to include them in the Class Notes section of
Insights
magazine, the official magazine for
Montgomery College
alumni and friends. You can send your updates to: Class Notes, c/o Montgomery
College Alumni Association, 900 Hungerford Drive, Ste. 200, Rockville, MD
20850, or e-mail them to:
alumni@montgomerycollege.edu .
Be sure to include your graduation year at MC, or the last year that you
attend MC.
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magazine! Take our survey online, go
to:
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If you're interested in starting a
career in nursing, you can attend an information session on
Wednesday, August 6 from 5–6 p.m.in
room 122 of the Nursing Science Building on the Takoma Park Campus. Call the
Nursing office at 240-567-1344 for more information, or go
to:
http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/Departments/nursing/admissions.html.
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URGENT! URGENT! URGENT!
Did you know that Maryland’s community colleges
are expected to be the fastest-growing segment of higher education, and that
community colleges in some regions are bracing for a 50 percent
increase in enrollment in the next decade?
Yet state
support for higher education continues to
significantly decline.
What can this mean to the future of
Montgomery College?
- Increased tuition and fees
- Inability to hire sufficient faculty and
staff needed in a growing institution
- Inadequate space and course availability to
meet a booming student population
- Students having to go outside of the state
to receive a college education
The current economic climate brings the impact
of charitable giving to an urgent level for colleges
and universities. We ask that all Montgomery College alumni show
their support –by making a gift of any size– to the annual fund today. We are
counting on your help!
To make your tax-deductible* donation to the Annual Fund
today, go to:
Good deed for the day!!
Please forward this email to anyone who you think may be interested in
supporting Montgomery
College. Thank you for your help!
*The
Montgomery College Foundation
is a registered charitable 501(c)(3) organization,
and all contributions are tax-deductible to the fullest extent as provided by
law.
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The Montgomery College Alumni Office
is in need of volunteers who are computer-literate for data
entry. You can volunteer anytime during our regular office hours, Monday thru
Friday, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. If you can spare some time on a regular basis, then
please contact the Alumni Office at 240-567-5378 or e-mail to
alumni@montgomerycollege.edu.
We're located at 900 Hungerford Drive, Ste. 200, Rockville, Maryland.
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The Spring/Summer issue of the regional
literary journal
Potomac Review is now
available. You can get more information on this twice-yearly publication
featuring works by contributing writers, artists, and photographers from
across the Potomac Basin region and beyond, including subscription information
and rates, by visiting the Potomac Review's website:
http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/potomacreview/index.html.
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Now you can easily support the
Takoma Park
Campus Capital Campaign by
shopping at Safeway. Simply
register with
http://www.escrip.com
and
3% of your grocery purchases at Safeway will go directly to the
Campaign. Your Safeway card and other credit and debit cards must be
registered each year and you can register 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. The campaign runs from October to May, so please
register your cards early!
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
http://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
any
Safeway or call 240-567-1311 for an application.
To learn more about the program,
go
to:
http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/alumni/tpcampaign.html
