“Seeking Sustainability: A Culture of Community, Compassion, Connection, and Choice” was the theme of the spring semester college-wide faculty development program held recently on JCC’s Jamestown Campus.

Mike Jabot, professor of science education at the SUNY Fredonia, and Sherri A. Mason, associate professor of chemistry at SUNY Fredonia, delivered the keynote address, “Why Educate for Sustainability?”

The presentation, describing sustainability as the “ultimate liberal art,” encouraged thinking among all academic disciplines to allow humans to sustain themselves on Earth. Drs. Jabot and Mason also led a hands-on simulation titled “The Fish Game,” engaging faculty in an interactive, replicable, interdisciplinary activity combining systems thinking tools, ecological systems, and economics in a move toward a more sustainable future.

Students named to the fall 2010 part-time student dean’s list at JCC earned at least a 3.50 average, equal to a B plus or better, in six to 11 credit hours of letter-graded work. Named to the dean’s list are:    
            

The JCC Uncommoners’ production of William Shakespeare’s comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream opens March 11.

Performances are set for 8 p.m. on March 11, 12, 18, and 19 in JCC’s Scharmann Theatre.  A matinee performance will be given on March 13 at 2 p.m.         

The cast includes JCC students Michael Correy, Tyler Drew, Maeghan Farnham, Maxton Honeychurch, Maddie Schlick, and Amanda Wickmark. Also in the cast are Sonia Angeli, Kristina Benson, Lars Benson, Ian Bishop, Ashley Carnes, Noah Goodling, Raleigh Hawk, Don Hill, Pete Larson, Michael Magnuson, Nicole Pattison, Thomas Smith, and Matt Warren.

Admission prices are $7, general public, $6, area students and senior citizens, and $5, JCC Faculty Student Association members. Tickets can be purchased by calling JCC’s box office, 338.1187.
 
 

K. David Harrison, a linguist and activist for the documentation and preservation of endangered languages, will be present during the screening of the Sundance Film Festival documentary, “The Linguists,” on March 8 at JCC’s Jamestown Campus.

The program, which begins at 7 p.m. in the Student Union, is free and open to the public. Program sponsors are the Katharine Jackson Carnahan Endowment for the Arts and the college program committee of JCC’s Faculty Student Association.

“The Linguists,” produced by Ironbound Films and nominated for an Emmy in 2008, presents the efforts by Dr. Harrison and fellow linguist Gregory Anderson to locate and meet with the last speakers of some of the world’s most endangered languages.

 The sixth annual Middle School Challenge, an academic quiz bowl competition featuring teams from Beaty-Warren Middle School, Fillmore Central School, Fredonia Middle School, Friendship Central School, Otto-Eldred Central School, Ripley Central School, Sherman Central School, and Southwestern Central School, will be held Saturday, March 12, beginning at 9 a.m. at JCC’s Jamestown Campus.

Spectators are welcome to attend the matches, which will be conducted in Lenna Theatre in Hultquist Library.

Match times are: Fredonia vs. Southwestern, 9 a.m.; Ripley vs. Betty-Warren, 9:30, Sherman vs. Otto-Eldred, 10, and Fillmore vs. Friendship, 10:30.

The semifinal matches begin at 11:15 and 11:45 with the championship match expected to begin at 12:30 p.m.
 
 

Computer forensics will be the focus of a Communiversity lecture at JCC at noon and 5 p.m. on February 23.

The lectures, which had been originally scheduled for February 2, will be presented at noon and 5 p.m. in the Lenna Teleconference Theatre in Hultquist Library on the Jamestown Campus. The noon lecture will be available in the Allied Health and Sciences Center on the Cattaraugus County Campus via interactive television. The presentations are free and open to the public.

Keynote speaker Steven M. MacMartin will discuss “Computer Crime Investigation in the Criminal and Corporate World and the Role of Computer Forensics.” A senior special agent/criminal investigator with the U.S. Customs Office and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, MacMartin is also an adjunct faculty member at Medaille College.

Rehearsals are under way for the JCC Uncommoners’ production of William Shakespeare’s comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

The cast includes JCC students Michael Correy, Tyler Drew, Maeghan Farnham, Maxton Honeychurch, Maddie Schlick, and Amanda Wickmark. Also in the cast are Sonia Angeli, Kristina Benson, Lars Benson, Ian Bishop, Ashley Carnes, Noah Goodling, Raleigh Hawk, Don Hill, Pete Larson, Michael Magnuson, Nicole Pattison, Thomas Smith, and Matt Warren.                                            

A Midsummer Night’s Dream will be performed at 8 p.m. on March 11, 12, 18, and 19 in JCC’s Scharmann Theatre. A matinee performance will be given on March 13 at 2 p.m.

Students who were awarded degrees or certificates from the Jamestown and Cattaraugus County campuses in December 2010 included:

Daemen College
JCC and Daemen College have signed an agreement to guarantee admission of JCC graduates into Daemen’s physical therapy degree programs.

Students who complete JCC’s Associate in Science: Liberal Arts and Sciences: Math & Science degree can continue their studies at Daemen as pre-professional physical therapy majors. The agreement assures that JCC graduates can complete all requirements for Daemen’s Bachelor of Science in natural science and Doctor of Physical Therapy degrees in four calendar years of study.

Daemen, located in Amherst, NY, has a total enrollment of nearly 3000 undergraduate and graduate students. Established in 1947, Daemen is a private, nonsectarian, co-educational, comprehensive college.

WCA Hospital, Bradford Regional Medical Center

Internationella Engelska Skolan (IES), a Swedish-based organization operating 17 independent schools, will conduct teacher recruitment fairs in the area in February and March.

IES, with which JCC established a partnership recently, is recruiting certified, native English-speaking teachers for academic year instruction in Sweden. IES schools enroll over 9,000 students in Sweden.

Peter John Fyles, chief executive officer, and Damian Brunker, head of academics, will outline IES and its programs at 5 p.m. on February 28 at Edinboro University, at 4 p.m. on March 1 at the State University of New York at Fredonia, and at 3:30 p.m. on March 2 at JCC’s Jamestown Campus.

Parents of high school students who are taking courses through JCC’s College Connections program are invited to a public forum to learn more about the program.

The forums will be held at JCC locations from 7 to 8 p.m. Sessions are set for February 7 at the North County Center in Dunkirk, February 10 at the Cattaraugus County Campus in Olean, and February 17 at the Jamestown Campus. Reservations are not required.

Maria Kindberg, College Connections coordinator, will provide details on courses available to qualified students through the program at area high schools.

Students participating in the program complete the Accuplacer placement test required of all JCC students and their courses are taught by high school teachers who meet the same educational and professional requirements as on-campus instructors.

The Community Reads Project at JCCs Cattaraugus County Campus has chosen Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich as its next reading selection. 

The Community Reads Project is part of the “one book, one community” movement that has spread across the U.S. from Seattle where it originated.

Community Reads is sponsored by the Olean Public Library and JCC’s Cattaraugus County Campus Program Committee and Faculty Student Association. All events are free and open to the public. Paperback copies of Love Medicine are available for $5 in JCC’s campus store.

Set in and around the Turtle Mountain Chippewa Reservation in North Dakota, Love Medicine features three generations of the Kapshaw and Lamartine families narrating a collection of stories spanning 50 years.