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ESCC Adult Education Director Receives Statewide Recognition

ESCC Adult Education Director Receives Statewide Recognition

Dr. Terri Dunn, Director of Adult Education at Enterprise State Community College (ESCC), recently received the Alabama Adult Education Directors’ Association “Hall of Fame Award” at the Alabama Community College Association (ACCA) Conference in Mobile, AL. The Hall of Fame award honors individuals who have made distinguished contributions to adult education in Alabama and preserves the significant legacies of those honored on a permanent exhibit.

“It is always nice to be recognized for your work and leadership, but it really means a lot when the recognition comes from other adult education practitioners in the state who equally deserve the honor,“ said Dunn.

“But honestly, my staff and instructors are the real Hall of Famers. It’s what they do each day to carry out the mission and vision of the ESCC Adult Education Program that makes our program a success. I really do have a great team and have been fortunate to work with administrators at the College who believe in what we do and who fully support our program.”

Dr. Dunn was also inducted as the incoming President of the Alabama Adult Education Director’s Association at the ACCA Conference. Her term will expire in November 2019.

Enterprise State employs recruiter

Enterprise State employs recruiter

An admission and recruiting professional with years of experience recruiting hundreds of students to prestigious universities in the state will lead recruiting efforts at Enterprise State Community College next year.
Adonis Bozeman will take reins as a recruiter at ESCC in January. Bozeman comes to Enterprise State from Auburn University Montgomery as a senior admissions counselor and recruiter. Prior to then, he served as an ambassador and orientation leader at the University of West Alabama. His experience recruiting students through multiple efforts will be essential to ESCC’s mission for students to “see what’s possible” in the more than 20 career-ready programs and 20 clubs and organizations at the college.

ESCC President Matt Rodgers expressed his excitement to have Bozeman as part of the ESCC recruiting team.

“We are thrilled that Adonis Bozeman will be joining our team here at ESCC,” President Rodgers stated.

“Adonis has a great reputation in the recruiting circles. He is considered one of the top recruiters in the state. He was responsible for 97 schools and did a wonderful job recruiting for Auburn University in Montgomery. Adonis is already well established in this region and connects very well with students. Most importantly, he is an outstanding man and a class act. He will hit the ground running on January 2nd.”

ESCC Dean of Students, Olivier Charles, is excited to have Bozeman on our team.

“We wanted to find a recruiter that understands our student population, is knowledgeable about current trends in student recruitment, and understands the support needs of our educators, counselors, and school administrators. Because of Adonis’s experience in student recruitment, he fits all of those needs and he will have an immediate impact on our efforts,” Charles stated.

Bozeman obtained a master’s degree in Higher Education and a bachelor’s degree in History from the University of West of Alabama. His experience includes advising and managing a pool of an estimated 1,300 prospective freshmen, international and transfer students. While at AUM, Bozeman increased enrollment by more than 50 percent in a year’s time.
“I decided to join Enterprise State Community College because of the opportunity and growth,” Bozeman said.

“Working as a senior admissions counselor and recruiter has given me the tools needed to successfully connect with a broad range of individuals who want to improve their lives through education. Enterprise State is an institution with many opportunities. I feel that every student has an opportunity to become successful in whatever they chose to do for an affordable price. Enterprise State is a “hands-on” institution that ensures each student is counted as a student and not a number. The campus environment is welcoming to anybody. The growth of ESCC shows that the opportunities here are limitless. Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together. I am excited to be a part of the ESCC growth. My goal is to ensure that every student (traditional & non-traditional) will have that same opportunity to join the Boll Weevil Family.”

Bozeman is a native of Aliceville, AL.

EHS partners with ESCC for FAFSA night

EHS partners with ESCC for FAFSA night

Dec 12, 2018

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Enterprise State Community College held a FAFSA night at Enterprise High School on Nov. 15. It served as an opportunity for students and their parents to get face-to-face help with filling out the FAFSA application.

This free application is required for any student to receive federal student aid and many colleges required a FAFSA to be filled out prior to applying for scholarships, according to ESCC’s Director of Financial Aid Chip Quisenberry. “We just want to come out to all of our area high schools and just help all these high school seniors get their FAFSA completed,” Quisenberry said.

Partnership provides opportunities for students

Partnership provides opportunities for students

Dec 6, 2018

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Nakira Bush is on track to be the first Enterprise High School student to graduate with a college associate’s degree at the same time she receives her high school diploma.

“I currently have 19 (college course) hours this semester plus high school (classes) then I have 20 (college course hours) next semester and I’ll be done and graduate,” the Enterprise High School senior told those attending the Enterprise Board of Education meeting held Nov. 27 at the newly renovated Enterprise State Community College Multi-Purpose Room.

It is the dual enrollment program with Enterprise State Community College that has helped make Bush’s accomplishment possible. Dual enrollment is a program that allows eligible high school students to enroll in college courses for college credit concurrently with high school classes prior to high school graduation.

“The potential, in my opinion, is limitless in regard to what we can do for your students, our students,” ESCC Dean of Instruction Danny Long told those attending the EBOE meeting. “Over the last three years, we have had about 50-55 students that actually finished high school with their associate’s degree.”

Colleges in the Alabama Community College System are authorized to establish dual enrollment/dual credit agreements with local boards of education in the colleges’ service area. Students successfully completing college classes as a dual enrollment student receive both high school and college credit.

Courses offered to dual enrollment students by postsecondary institutions are of collegiate quality and rigor, Long said. “We’re required to meet the same qualifications and credentials as any four-year university in the Southeast.”

The quality of education offered at ESCC is the same as any four-year college but there is a difference, Long said. “But in my opinion there is a difference.

“Because if you are teaching at a community college, you are not only passionate about your course content, you are also passionate about your students,” Long said. “You’re going to be in a classroom with, chances are, no more than 25 students. You are going to know those students’ names.

“The quality of education is equal but there’s a little different feel in a community college because just like in high school, we’ve got a vetted interest in seeing students be successful to not only pass the classes but to move on and pursue their dreams,” Long said.

Long said that ESCC has had about 55 students in the college’s service area who have earned an associate’s degree by the time they receive their high school diploma via the dual enrollment program.

“This fall we had about 419 students who were enrolled in dual enrollment throughout our service area,” he said. “Students participating in dual enrollment are more likely to be successful when they go to college, more likely to raise their ACT score.”

Not only does dual enrollment save a student time, it saves money as well, Long said. “Three semesters and the cost of living at a four-year university will cost you about $31,314 a year. It costs ESCC students about $4,800 for the same number of courses. That is a pretty substantial savings to that student and family and we’re proud of that.

“You can’t talk about the community college without talking about cost savings,” Long said. “If a student is having to take out student loans with interest that $31,314 (at a four-year university) turns into $35,323.”

“Probably one of the best decisions that I’ve made in my life,” is how Enterprise High School junior Zeta Metz called her participation in the dual enrollment program with ESCC. “This program has actually opened my eyes and let me experience a lot of things that I haven’t experienced.

“I’m in five different clubs and two of them are actually here at the college,” Metz said, adding that her mother also attends ESCC. “I love this course, I love this school, this is probably one of the best things that I’ve ever done and I can’t wait to graduate.”

Bush agreed. She began the dual enrollment program in the summer between her sophomore and junior years. “This (dual enrollment program) has really helped me,” she said. “I feel like I’m going to be really prepared for college and I’ll be ready for the workforce, too, even if I decide not to go to college.”

EBOE member Dr. Danny Whitaker said that his daughter benefited from her participating the dual enrollment program. “What you guys are learning will prepare you for your college courses,” he told Metz and Bush. “My daughter will agree with you on that.”

“I’d like to echo everything that’s been said,” EBOE President Bob Doerer said. “My daughter got a little taste of college right here with dual enrollment and I think that truly helped her when she went to Auburn.”

“We’re a family,” said ESCC President Matt Rodgers who was formerly the EHS principal. “We’re excited about the partnership that we’ve had and we’re really excited about moving forward. We love what we’re doing here.”

Long agreed. “The potential for what we can do is limitless. I’m going to call them your students,” he told the EBOE members. “But really they are our students because you are the city school system and we are the community college.”

The next meeting of the EBOE is Tuesday, Dec. 18, at the ECS Central Office on Hutchinson Street at noon. The meeting is open to the public.

‘This is essentially the first domino’

‘This is essentially the first domino’

Dec 5, 2018
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Enterprise State Community College’s renovations to Talmadge Hall are nearly complete after about a year of hard work.

ESCC President Matt Rodgers toured the virtually complete building with Alabama State Sen. Jimmy Holley, Alabama Community College System Chancellor Jimmy Baker, ACCS Vice Chancellor of Workforce and Economic Development Jeff Lynn and Alabama Technology Network Executive Director Keith Phillips on Nov. 26.

ESCC Dean of Student Services Olivier Charles said although the building looks new, one of the biggest changes can only be felt.

“The building is completely refabricated with new HVAC,” Charles said. “Instructors can control it individually from their classrooms and we can also centrally control from a point on campus. We didn’t have that capability before.”

Some of the other renovations include brand new flooring, LED lighting, new paint on the walls of the classroom including an accent wall, state-of-the-art projectors and screens as well as smart podiums.

“Our instructors don’t have to bring their laptop and plug into the system or VGA to teach,” Charles said. “All they have to do is bring their flash drive and they can plug in and they can teach.”

The Connor Gallery in Talmadge was also completely refabricated and Charles said the school plans to create “student study spaces” throughout the building.

“You’ll see a lot of our kids sit in hallways or sit in lobbies of buildings and we’re going to put the type of furniture that will make them want to sit and study,” Charles said, “so really inviting and intuitive furniture.”

He said all that’s really left is to add the furniture, some water fountains and signage to the building.

“Our big goal was to just make this state-of-the-art to give our instructors a first-class teaching facility but to give our students a first-class learning environment as well and I think we accomplished that,” Charles said.

The school is planning to give the instructors who have been displaced during the entire renovation time a bit of a Christmas present.

“Before we leave for Christmas, we want to have them (the instructors) back in here, that’s our goal,” Charles said.

Talmadge holds the English, communications, history and social sciences classes that the school provides. Charles said it is the smallest building by square footage, but one of the highest traffic buildings on campus.

Rodgers said he’s excited for the hall to to be completed.

“The renovations and upgrades to Talmadge Hall and other campus areas affirm that there is nothing more important to us than what takes place in our classrooms,” Rodgers said. “I am proud of the excellent level of instruction here at ESCC and look forward to our current and future students being taught in new and improved classrooms. I appreciate the patience and understanding our faculty, staff, students and community partners have given us over the last few months, as renovations are ongoing. We will continue to make a modern learning environment.  We look forward to sharing our progress as we continue to update and renovate both campuses.”

The building will be completed and ready for students coming to ESCC during the spring 2019 semester.

Charles said that this is just the beginning for ESCC renovations. He said the school is currently waiting on designs to be sent back from an architect so the school can start renovating the Sessions and Forrester buildings.

The plan is to then create a new quad for the campus and then focus on renovating the Snuggs building and the student center.

At the Alabama Aviation College Ozark Campus, Charles said the Higham Building will be receiving a new roof and a complete refabricating of the inside of the building.

The Brown Building will also receive a new roof while the Barnett Building will likely get refabricated.

“It’s a lot of projects,” Charles said. “So this (Talmadge Hall) is essentially the first domino in some other projects that we’re kicking off.”

ESCC hosts Coppinville eighth graders

ESCC hosts Coppinville eighth graders

Dec 5, 2018

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Enterprise State Community College hosted the eighth grade boys from Coppinville Junior High School on Nov. 13. The day started off with a complimentary Chick-Fil-A lunch before the ESCC Entertainers put on a performance for the group and the ambassadors took the students on a tour of the college. “I’m really really excited that they’re getting a chance to come here to Enterprise State Community College as well because they have so many different certification programs,” said Coppinville Career Tech Teacher Roberta Bronson.

 

ESCC to host Geneva County-ESCC Campus Invitational

ESCC to host Geneva County-ESCC Campus Invitational

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Dec 5, 2018

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Enterprise State Community College will play host to the inaugural Geneva County-ESCC Campus Invitational Girls Basketball Tournament on Dec. 7 and Dec. 8.

The tournament will feature seven teams from around the area and according to ESCC, is an effort to give girls basketball players more exposure and a hope to being a partnership between area schools and ESCC.

“It makes me happy to see us come together, especially during the Christmas time of year, and we hope to have a great turnout on Friday and Saturday and that it is a memorable event for all of the teams,” ESCC President Matt Rodgers said.

New Brockton, Geneva County, G.W. Long, Florala, Andalusia, Carroll and Pike County will play in the inaugural tournament.

Play begins on Friday, Dec. 7, and continues on Dec. 8 with each team playing two games in the tournament.

Geneva County coach and Tournament Director Karie Striplin said that she hopes this tournament becomes an annual event at ESCC.

“The second week of December is an open weekend for tournaments and we think it’s a perfect date to do it every year,” Striplin said. “I’m excited for the girls to get more exposure like the boys do in other tournaments.”

New Brockton coach Gloria Hylton echoed Striplin’s sentiments in terms of getting more exposure for female athletes.

“I’m very excited about this tournament,” Hylton said. “I felt like this would be a great experience for our girls for them to get that added exposure of this tournament.

“It’s great because they don’t get as much exposure (as boys) a lot of times and it’s a great opportunity for them to be possibly seen by recruiters or scouts. It’s really just a great opportunity for everyone.”

On Dec. 7, Geneva County will face off against Florala at 5:30 p.m., while the rest of the games take place on Dec. 8.

Long will face Andalusia at 11:30 a.m., New Brockton will play Carroll at 1 p.m., Geneva County will play Andalusia at 2:30 p.m., Florala will play Pike County at 4 p.m., Long faces Carroll at 5:30 p.m. and New Brockton will play Pike County at 7 p.m.

ESCC is not charging tournament fees to any of the teams involved but admission will be $6 per day.

ESCC holds Christmas tree lighting

ESCC holds Christmas tree lighting

Dec 5, 2018

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Enterprise State Community College held a Christmas tree lighting on Nov. 26 in the student center. The occasion was marked with free eggnog, and cookies for guests as well as a melody of Christmas carols performed by the ESCC Entertainers. The carols included “O little Town O’ Bethlehem,” “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” “Joy to the World,” and “We Wish You a Merry Christmas.” ESCC President Matt Rodgers thanked all those who attended the lighting.

 

Federal Student Support Services programs celebrates 40 years at ESCC

Federal Student Support Services programs celebrates 40 years at ESCC

Forty years of legacy, learning, success and growth were celebrated by ESCC’s Student Support Services program on Tuesday, Nov. 13, at the main campus. The 40th anniversary was marked by testimonies and a fun event during students’ break, as well as a recruitment effort to gain 40 participants into the SSS experience.

The SSS program is a federal program that has provided opportunities for academic development, career readiness and cultural experiences since 1978 in an effort to increase the college retention and graduation rates of participants and facilitate the process of transition from a level of higher education to the next. Services available to eligible students include the following: career counseling; academic advisement; tutorial services; financial aid information; personal counseling; transfer information; campus visits to senior universities; self-improvement workshops; diagnostic inventories; and cultural awareness activities.

The SSS program at ESCC is housed at both the main and Alabama Aviation College’s Ozark campus. In its latest award, SSS received one of the largest awards in the state – $2.4 million five years or $483,978 in current year funding – to provide services aimed at increasing the number of low-income college students, first-generation students and students with disabilities who successfully complete their college matriculation. Each aforementioned classification of students is considered “at-risk” of not reaching such accomplishment.

The program provides support to an estimated 275 students each year.

“The longevity of repeated funding from the United States Department of Education is sufficient testimony of the ongoing success of our department,” said Michael Harrison, ESCC’s Director of SSS.

“It’s really a measure of the success of our students. We are honored to serve them and to be a part of their next best steps in life.”

ESCC to host FAFSA Assistance Night for Students, Families

ESCC to host FAFSA Assistance Night for Students, Families

Every student interested in receiving grant money, scholarships or student loans at Enterprise State Community College must first complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). Sometimes, completing the FAFSA is more complicated than families think.

Thankfully, Enterprise State Community College has several teams available to assist families with what may sometimes be a tedious process. ESCC has also committed a special day for families to visit the campus and get the hands-on help that they need.

Money Matters, a free service ESCC provides to assist with the FAFSA, takes place Thursday, Nov. 8, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. inside the LBW Student Center Multipurpose Room. Computers with WIFI, handouts with valuable information, and ESCC Financial Aid Director, Dr. Chip Quisenberry, will be available. Dr. Quisenberry and his team will guide families past common mistakes made when completing the FAFSA, including missing signatures, incomplete income and asset information, and more.
Items needed to best assist you include:

2017 Tax Return & W-2
Driver’s License
Social Security Numbers
Untaxed Income Information (VA Disability, Child Support Paid and Received)
Email Addresses and Passwords
FSA ID and Passwords (If Already Registered)
If a family misses the Money Matters event, there are other times scheduled at the following schools for ESCC to assist you:
Slocomb High School – November 1, 2018, beginning at 5pm.
Geneva County High School – November 6, 2018, beginning at 3pm.
Samson High School – November 13, 2018, beginning at 5pm.
Pike Liberal Arts – November 14, 2018, beginning at 1:30pm.
Enterprise High School – November 15, 2018, beginning at 5pm.
Even students who do not believe they may qualify for financial aid often receive some form of aid by completing the FAFSA. At ESCC, more than 80 percent of students qualify for some form of financial aid.

If a student or parent has specific questions regarding the FAFSA, contact ESCC Financial Aid at 334-347-2623 ext. 2214, or email the office at financialaid@escc.edu.

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