Frontier Community, Lincoln Trail, Olney Central, and Wabash Valley colleges awarded nearly $180,000 to area high school students in the first round of Illinois Eastern Community Colleges’ Priority Deadline Success Scholarships.  

OLNEY, Ill.

Frontier Community, Lincoln Trail, Olney Central, and Wabash Valley colleges awarded nearly $180,000 to area high school students in the first round of Illinois Eastern Community Colleges’ Priority Deadline Success Scholarships. IECC Director of Financial Aid Andrea Puckett said the tuition awards demonstrate IECC’s commitment to seeing area students successfully achieve their higher education goals. The scholarships are renewable for up to four semesters — Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, and Spring 2024, not including summer courses.

REGISTRATION FORM Olney Central College Baseball will host a Winter Camp on Saturday, Jan. 15 at the OCC Gymnasium and Britton’s Bullpen in Olney.

Tonight, Mount Carmel and the surrounding region will experience a partial lunar eclipse, one of the two to cover our region this year. The peak of the eclipse will take place at 3 a.m., but Wabash Valley College’s physics professor Andy King explained that the action starts taking place much sooner. “While the eclipse technically begins at midnight, the visible action really starts at about 1:15 a.m.

Enhance your skills and keep pace with today’s ever-changing business climate. Enroll now in Olney Central College’s spring business courses.

Olney Central College will offer a free basic computer class this spring focusing on how to access and utilize Google Workspace. CIS 1601 Computer Skills 1 will meet in the Anderson Library computer lab from 6 to 8:50 p.m. on Tuesdays, beginning Jan. 11. The 8-week class will be taught by Jane McCormick, the Instructor for OCC’s Information Systems Technology Program. “The class will be ideal for people who want to learn more about the computer and would like to understand more about the Google products they can use for free,” McCormick said.

During her teaching career, Wanda Douglas has trained and inspired a generation of nurses working in healthcare facilities across the country. Her dedication to the nursing profession and community has left a lasting impression on many, including two former students who created a $10,000 scholarship in her honor. Douglas says she was shocked when the two donors, who wish to remain anonymous, contacted her late last fall. Over the years, the pair had never forgotten Douglas’ kindness to them while nursing students at Frontier Community College.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Aspen Institute has named Olney Central College one of the 150 institutions eligible to compete for the $1 million Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence, the nation’s signature recognition of high achievement and performance among America’s community colleges. The colleges selected for this honor stand out among more than 1,000 community colleges nationwide as having high and improving levels of student success as well as equitable outcomes for Black and Hispanic students and those from lower-income backgrounds.

Looking for a hobby or the opportunity to learn a new skill? Olney Central College is offering a variety of Community Education classes beginning January 10. Courses range from basic computer skills, community band and oil painting to quilting, woodworking and artistic welding. Visit www.iecc.edu/occ/communityed for a complete listing of Spring 2022 courses. For more information or to register, call 618-395-7777.