Linn-Benton Community College

If you missed the President’s Winter Forum on Thursday, Jan. 14, President Hamann covered several interesting topics, including the rollout of a new college budget model, which will be presented at the Board meeting Jan. 20. The new model will provide information to the board on college needs, and then guidance on how to go about funding those needs - a slightly different approach from the current budget model. A solution to the Benton Center parking and expansion project will also be presented at the board meeting. The project is projected to provide an additional 268 much-needed parking spaces at the center, along with an additional 20,000-square-feet of instructional space. President Hamann also shared that at the end of this year the college will no longer be part of Achieving the Dream, but will move instead to the new Guided Pathways partnership, which includes 30 community colleges nationwide. The new partnership will provide support for initiatives already developed in part ...

Nominations are being accepted through April 1 for the Linn-Benton Community College Distinguished Alumni Award. The award is open to former LBCC students who have demonstrated outstanding accomplishments in their profession or through service to their community, and who have completed at least 36 credits at LBCC. Applications are available online at www.linnbenton.edu/distinguished-alumni. Nominees will be honored at a reception held May 7. For more information or to pick up a nomination form, contact Dale Stowell, executive director, LBCC College Advancement, at 541-917-4784. 

Mitch Coleman Ethan Bergman Ethan Bergman and Mitch Coleman received Distinguished Alumni Awards from Linn-Benton Community College at a ceremony held May 8. Bergman, an Ellensburg, Washington resident who grew up in Salem, is an associate dean of professional studies and professor of dietetics and sports nutrition at Central Washington University. He earned an associate degree with a focus in biology and zoology from LBCC in 1972, and went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in biology from Eastern Oregon University, a master’s in biology from the University of Oregon, a master’s in interdisciplinary studies from Western Oregon University, and a doctorate in nutrition from Washington State University. Bergman has made substantial contributions to his field through his teaching and research work in the area of school meal research, and has written grants to fund research on the health effects of school lunches on children, the effects of caffeine on calcium levels of...