Classes for winter quarter begin Jan. 7. Registration is taking place now. The college will be closed Dec. 24 - Jan. 1, for best results register before the break.
Student Services staff are available for registration from 8am until 8pm, Monday - Thursday and 8pm - 4:30pm on Fridays. You may call the Student Services office at 740.568.1930 to schedule an appointment.

If they can be of help, let them know - and hope to see you on campus for the winter quarter!

Creative sparks fly when Linda, Judy, Lindsay and Georgene want to create student centered space. Realizing that some students spend morning, noon and night on campus, we decided they needed some “home” space. Having a student lounge in desperate need of a makeover (see illustration no. 1), we put our heads together and came up with illustration no. 2! Stop in and see our newly renovated space.

In our continuing series on cultural awareness and values, this month we are featuring Slovak Christmas traditions. Growing up in a traditional Slovak/Hungarian family south of Cleveland was quite an experience. I never discussed food with kids because they couldn't’t pronounce what my mother cooked! I did not have cornbread until I was 26 and in 1977, I presented my family with their first ever pecan pie!

Our traditions were very evident during the holidays. I loved when the teachers would ask students to share their holiday traditions. It was sad that students even back in the “old days” didn't have many traditions to share. Christmas Eve was the focus of our celebration. My mother had already spent weeks cleaning and baking pastries like kolaces filled with nuts, poppy seed or lekvar (prune butter) as well as bobalky (raised dough sweetened with honey and sprinkled with poppy seed) and date bars. I always enjoyed preparing the basket for the Christmas Eve dinner. We gathered the oplatky (white wafers), garlic (to ward off demons), honey (to insure sweetness in our life), nuts, rice (for bounty through the year), dried figs, apples and of course, candy and chocolate! The mushroom, sauerkraut and potato soup would be simmering on the stove. When darkness arrived, the table would be set and my brother and sisters would be in high anticipation of the night’s events. My father would say prayers in Hungarian. (Unfortunately, he did not translate them and they are lost.) My father would share a piece of his oplatky and we would eat a piece with honey.  All the foods in the basket were sampled. Red wine (the children mixed it with ginger ale!) completed the evening’s feast. The dishes were not cleared and all leftovers and scraps were to be burned and not put in the trash. After supper, we headed for the Christmas tree and opened our presents.
Please stop by the library and share some of my cultural traditions!

Washington State Community College will become a path for seamless transfer to Ohio University, this official announcement to be made here, Friday, Dec. 7 at 10 a.m. between the institutions.
The pilot program builds on transfer alliances, establishing a bridge of programs that will:

• Ensure courses potential transfer students take at Washington State are eligible for transfer credit at OU
• Offer those students academic and financial counseling
• Make them eligible, upon earning 30 hours of academic credit or an associate degree, for automatic transfer to OU

According to Ohio University, those who applied to the Athens campus for the upcoming fall term (2008) in the following term (2009) they will be guaranteed admission if they were originally ineligible, IF students follow these guidelines:

• Reside in one of the 16 counties listed (which includes Washington, Morgan, Monroe, Noble and Athens)
• Go to one of the participating colleges, including Washington State Community College, and take 10 hours per quarter from an approved course list (general education courses)
• Maintain a minimum 2.5 grade point average,
• Send a copy of their class schedule to OU admissions at the beginning of each quarter,
• Washington State sends a transcript to OU as soon as spring quarter is completed,
• Washington State sends a transcript at the end of fall quarter as progress report,.

This is a pilot program, extended to students in 16 counties, attending on of the 5 community colleges or OU regional campuses. For students who are already attending Washington State and plan to transfer to OU, the admissions office is announcing an application fee waiver (this is separate from the dual admissions program, but being announced at the same time).

Washington State Community College announces those students who have achieved the academic honor of President’s and Dean’s List for the Fall 2007 quarter. President’s list is achieved by carrying a minimum of 12 credit hours and attaining a grade point average of 4.0 for the quarter. Dean’s list is achieved by carrying a minimum of 12 credit hours and attaining a grade point average between 3.5 and 3.99 for the quarter.

CLICK HERE TO VIEW LIST

Deadline: January 2, 2008

Clothing retailer Talbot’s ( http://www.talbots.com/ ) has  announced the launch of its 11th annual Talbot’s Women's Scholarship Fund, a program that awards college scholarships to women  wanting to attend college later in life.
Sponsored by the Talbot’s Charitable Foundation, this unique  scholarship fund annually awards five $10,000 scholarships and  fifty $1,000 scholarships. The fund was created to fill a void  in scholarship programs, which typically make awards to traditional college students.
Eligible applicants are women currently residing in the United  States who earned a high-school diploma or GED at least ten years ago; are currently seeking a degree from an accredited two or  four-year college, university, or vocational-technical school; and have at least two full-time semesters or twenty-four credits  remaining to complete their undergraduate degree.

 The deadline for entries is January 2, 2008, or until one thousand eligible applications have been received, whichever happens  first.

 Applications for the 2008 Talbot’s Women's Scholarship are available at the Talbot’s Web site.