Memorandum
Date:
March 15, 2001
To:
Board of Regents
From: Jane A. Karas, Vice-President
Flathead Valley Community College
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The Flathead Valley
Community College Foundation announced that FVCC students Zachary John Smelker
and Nathan P. Faulconer have each been awarded the Michael John Laabs
Scholarship, funded by Art Ortenberg and Liz Claiborne in memory of Mike Laabs.
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The Service Learning
program at FVCC is offering junior high age youth the opportunity to attend
Youth Leadership Camp on the FVCC campus during spring break. There is no
charge for this camp and it is sponsored by FVCC, local businesses and
individual volunteers in partnership with volunteers from the FVCC Service Learning
program.
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FVCC Art Instructor,
John Rawlings, and two of his students won the Whitefish Carnival’s Snow
Sculpting Contest with their “Big Fish” sculpture. They won an all expenses paid trip to the National Snow Sculpting
Contest.
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FVCC dedicated the Interstate Workforce Training Lab on
February 6th. The lab was made a reality with a contribution of
$25,000 to the major gifts campaign, “Connecting to the Community’s Future,” by
the First Interstate BancSystem Foundation, and allows FVCC to better meet the workforce
training needs of local businesses.
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FVCC has applied to
use the $250,000 award from the U.S. Department of Education to provide
professional development to rural community college and tribal college faculty
in developing on-line courses.