News briefs: April 18, 2013

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Assessment conference on April 19

The third annual Regional Community College Assessment Conference will take place on April 19 from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and is open to registered faculty and staff.

The focus of the conference will be “Assessment Matters.” Susan Hatfield, assessment coordinator and professor of communications studies at Winona State University, will be the speaker for this session.

The first Regional Community College Assessment Conference took place at the college in 2011.

Natural history museum to be opened in Overland Park 

The Museum of Prairiefire is currently under construction on 135th St., between Nall Ave. and Lamar Ave. in Overland Park, Kan.

This 580 million dollar project began in Jan. 2013, when developer Fred Merrill heard that the American Museum of Natural History in New York was hoping to expand.

The museum of Prairiefire will have many permanent fossils and artifacts, including a cast of a Tyrannosaurus rex from the one in New York. It will also host several traveling exhibitions in the years to come.

The director of the new museum, Linda Segebrecht, taught high school science for ten years and has been involved in expanding and creating educational programming and curriculum.

The museum is scheduled to open in April 2014.

‘Kansa’ artwork on campus to be dedicated 

On April 25, an internationally known artist, Stan Herd, from Lawrence Kan., will be at the college for the dedication of his “earthworks” artwork entitled “Kansa.” This artwork uses the land as a canvas and plants as paints.

The dedication will take place at 2 p.m. by the artwork outside the Horticulture Science Center (HSC). Herd will speak along with director of the Kansas Studies Institute, James Leiker, the college’s president, Terry Calaway and the chair of the Board of Trustees, Melody Rayl.

The event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served after the dedication on the terrace of the HSC.

Free College Day 

On April 20, the college is hosting “free college day” where faculty and staff have volunteered to teach over 200 classes at no cost to the public.

These classes range from culinary practices such as homebrewing beer to scientific classes about solar storms and how they affect the earth.

Most classes start at 1 p.m., 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. and last about 45 minutes.

The deadline for web registration is April 18. Walk-up registration on the day of the event will be allowed but seats cannot be guaranteed if sessions are full.

Compiled by Hannah Davis, hdavis18@jccc.edu

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