Linn-Benton Community College

Governor John Kitzhaber and the Oregon Community College Association will honor two Linn-Benton Community College students as part of the OCCA All Oregon Academic Team.   Alisha Haskett, networking and systems administration major from Sweet Home and Willard W. Hucks III, accounting technology major from Albany, will be honored at a luncheon with the Governor April 22. Both will receive a plaque from the OCCA and a $1,000 scholarship from Oregon State University, where they plan to transfer to earn a bachelor’s degree after finishing at LBCC. The Oregon Community College Association, in partnership with Phi Theta Kappa, recognizes outstanding students yearly from Oregon’s community colleges through the All Oregon Academic Team awards.

Volunteers are needed to facilitate small group training sessions held at Linn-Benton Community College for students in varied medical fields. No medical experience necessary. Students from Linn-Benton Community College, CompNW Medical School and Oregon State University will work together in small, interdisciplinary group sessions, including students in the fields of pharmacy, medical assisting, nursing, public health, physician and veterinary science. Volunteer facilitators will help students work through real-life case scenarios during each session. Sessions are designed to help students learn to communicate and work together across their varied medical disciplines. A free information session, including facilitator training, will be held Thursday, Sept. 26 from 9 a.m. to noon at LBCC’s Albany campus, 6500 Pacific Blvd. SW.   Sessions will be held from October through April, for approximately 15 hours of volunteer time needed. No medical e...

OSU President Ed Ray, left, and LBCC President Greg Hamann sign a Memorandom of Understanding to implement the Reverse Transfer agreement, the first of its kind in the state. LBCC and Oregon State University took the first steps today to implement a program to award transfer students with a “reverse transfer” associate’s degree. The program, known as the Reverse Transfer Degree program , will allow students who are dually-enrolled through the LBCC/OSU Degree Partnership program to be awarded an associate’s degree from LBCC, even though they did not finish their degree here. Here’s how it works: Say you’re an LBCC student taking classes at both institutions, and you decide that you have enough LBCC credits to fully attend OSU. You accomplished what you set out to do at LBCC, but you did not actually “finish” your two-year degree. Academic advisors at OSU and LBCC will carefully track your progress, and when you have met the requirements for an LBCC associate degree...