Student Congress opens semester with transfer rule news
President Vivian Blevins informed the Student Congress that transferring students will face higher costs and red tape as the state plans to require immunization records for all registrants. She criticized the measure as a barrier to college access, noting it follows a measles outbreak and was pushed by health lobbyists. She urged students to lobby legislators and to organize a Persian Gulf soldiers blood drive to show support.
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Saudi Arabia
Persian Gulf
Blevins
Texas Department of Health
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Desert Storm blood drive proposed by Student Congress
Student Congress chaired by DaLa Nifong plans a Desert Storm blood drive coordinated with Sgt. John H. Walker at San Jacinto Mall. Military personnel will run the drive with details to be announced on campus. Castellanos heads the Desert Storm Booster committee to send Americana to soldiers in Saudi Arabia and Iraq.
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DaLa Nifong
Nifong
John H. Walker
U.S. Army
San Jacinto Mall
Lee College
Saudi Arabia
Barbara Castellanos
Desert Storm Meral
Castellanos
Student Congress Office
LC Requires GED or Diploma for College Entry
Lee College faces noncompliance with a federal rule from the Education Department effective January 1. The rule demands all Texas community colleges require a high school diploma or an approved placement test for enrollment or risk losing federal funding. Dean John McCormick notes uncertain scope and test details while opposing the regulation as an overreach on proprietary schools.
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Department of Education
Educational Department
Texas Community Colleges
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McCormick
Lee College Faces High Student Loan Defaults in Texas
The article reports Texas student loan defaults totaling over 410 million dollars with Lee College showing a 20 to 25 percent default rate on institutional and short term loans. It notes annual loan applicants exceed 100, with only qualifiers receiving funds, and details loan rules, repayment timelines, and consequences of default including potential IRS deductions.
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Texas
Community Colleges
Lee College
Barbara Watkins
LC Financial Aid
Internal Revenue Service
Black History Month finale features play Camp Logan at Rundell Hall
The Awareness Club and LC’s Walter Prescott Webb Historical Society present Celeste Bedford-Walker’s Camp Logan at 7 30 p m March 2 in Rundell Hall Auditorium 1. The event covers the 1917 Houston race riot and 19 soldiers execution. A public author workshop follows. a second workshop March 5 offers advanced academic training credit for teachers. Workshops funded by Mary Sue Bloomfield and Shell Education Foundation, coordinated by Britt and W C Smith. Olsen expects hundreds from off campus. LC faculty urged to bring students. aim to include all Baytonians in the history celebration.
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24Th Infantry
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Rundell Hall
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Shell Education Foundation
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W.C. Smith
Goose Creek
Olsen
Campus renovations at LC advance to meet state standards
Topper outlined progress on Rundell Hall stairs and other campus upgrades to improve accessibility. Lighting along Gulf Street and security lighting through GE advisories are planned, with major renovations at 711 W Texas Ave nearing completion. The John Tucker Lecture Hall opened, the library upgrade proceeds at an estimated 500000 costing, while moving operations run April 15 to July 15 with in house crews and Kelly Temporary Services saving about 14000.
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Rundell Hall
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Gulf Street
General Electric
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Campuses rally over Iraq war divide amid protests
Reaction in war sparked confusion as a national network grows with 85 colleges joining the effort to stage student protests. SMASH expands from Columbia to about 150 campuses, while critics stress support for troops and the president.
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Northwestern University
Evanston, Ill
Columbia University
Glen Morgan
Columbia
SMASH
Damon Auer
Purdue University
U.S
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Gayle Jo Carter
USA Today
Apple College Information Network
Lee College to host Region 11 TSSA conference speakers
Vivian B. Blevins Lee College president Clyde Temple III Texas State Students Association president Kent Hutchinson TSSA Spring Convention Coordinator will speak at the TSSA Region 11 conference on Feb 9 at John B. Tucker Auditorium Lee College. Timothy J. Poole TC Student Congress Vice President Region II Director directs with Janet Mustain Jodi Young Jaime Cascante and Steven Hobbs assisting. The conference aims to recruit non member colleges into TSSA and marks Lee College's first sponsorship of a TSSA mini conference.
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Vivian B. Blevins
Lee College
Clyde Temple III
Texas State Students Association
Kent Hutchinson
T.S.S.A
Steven Hobbs
State of Texas
T.S.S
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