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Many Benefits Associated with Participating in
Student Clubs
Students are making a positive investment in
their future by getting involved with a student
organization at WCC. WCC has 25 clubs and
organizations that are available for students.
These clubs provide a variety of leadership
training opportunities, including planning
campus-wide events, traveling to state and
regional conferences, sponsoring community
service activities, and organizing fundraisers.. .
These types of activities enable students to
become more connected with the college and
allow them to strengthen their employment skills.
In the article. Rewards and Benefits for
Community/Commuter College Student Who
Participate in Campus Activities, Sutton writes,
“What students learn outside the classroom in
extracurricular activities enhances classroom
learning and may broaden students’ perspectives.”
Sutton also indicates that students may learn or
enhance the following skills by participating in
student activities.
•Leadership Development (facilitating meetings,
delegating tasks, time management)
•Decision Making (critical thinking)
•Planning Skills (planning and implementing events)
•Teambuilding (compromising/reaching consensus,
expressing opposing views)
•Diversity (communicating and working with a
variety of people)
•Social Skills (friendships, networking)
Involvement with student clubs is invaluable.
The skills listed above can help students gain a
competitive advantage over other candidates for
a job or scholarship! Students should not delay
“checking out” what the student clubs and the
overall student activities program has to offer
them! Anyone wanting more information should
contact Scott Johnson in the Student Services
Office.
Source: Sutton, Linda H. (2004). Rewards and
Benefits for Community/Commuter College
Students Who Participate in Campus Activities.
Programming, 38(8), 32-35.
WCC Student Clubs & Organizations
Accounting Club
Advisors: Cindy Killian, ext. 6150
e-mail: cindy.killian@wilkescc.edu
Janet Dengler, ext. 6154
e-mail: janet.dengler@wilkescc.edu
Architectural Technology Club
Advisors: Tim Lackey, ext. 6226
e-mail: tim.lackey@wilkescc.edu
Stacie Taylor, ext. 6579
e-mail: stacie.taylor@wilkescc.edu
Association of Information Technology Professionals
Advisors: Arlene Handy, ext. 6160
e-mail: arlene.handy@wilkescc.edu
Michael Souther, ext. 6428
e-mail: michael.souther@wilkescc.edu
Autobody Club
Advisor: Tim Wilcox, ext. 6192
e-mail: tim.wilcox@wilkescc.edu
Baptist Student Union
Advisor: Kristen Macemore, ext. 6427
e-mail: kristen.macemore@wilkescc.edu
Criminal Justice Club
Advisor: Joe Exposito, ext. 6429
e-mail: joe.exposito@wilkescc.edu
Culinary Club
Advisor: KimreyJordan, ext. 6506
e-mail: kimreyjordan@wilkescc.edu
Dental Assisting Club
Advisor: Martha Townes, ext. 6253
e-mail: martha.townes@wilkescc.edu
Diesel Tech. Club
Advisor: Ricky Smith, ext. 6225
e-mail: rickysmith@wilkescc.edu
Early Childhood Education Association
Advisor: Ellen Firestone, ext. 6587
e-mail: ellen.firestone@wilkescc.edu
Future Contractors of America
Advisor: Dwight Hartzog, ext. 6202
e-mail: dwight.hartzog@wilkescc.edu
Horticulture Club
Advisor: Ronald Dollyhite, ext. 6281
e-mail: ronald.dollyhite@wilkescc.edu
Human Service Club
Advisor; Alison Pipes, ext. 6523
e-mail: alison.pipes@wilkescc.edu
Industrial Technology &■ Electronics Club
Advisors: Chris Bare, 846-3900—Ashe
e-mail: chris.bare@wilkescc.edu
Eddie Carter, 846-3900—Ashe
e-mail: eddie.carter@wilkescc.edu
Medical Assisting Club
Advisor: Joyce Minton, ext. 6251
e-mail: joyce.minton@wilkescc.edu
National Technical Honor Society
Advisors: Marty Franklin, ext. 6161
e-mail: marty.franklin@wilkescc.edu
Kim TetzlalF, ext. 6159
e-mail: kim.tetzlaff@wilkescc.edu
Newspaper Staff (Cougar Cry)
Advisors: Scott Johnson, ext. 6142
e-mail: scott.johnson@wilkescc.edu
Chad Treadway, ext. 6181
e-mail: chad.treadway@wilkescc.edu
Phi Theta Kappa
Advisors: Blair Hancock, ext. 6230
e-mail: bIair.hancock@wilkescc.edu
Sheneele Wagoner, ext. 6139
e-mail: sheneele.wagoner@wilkescc.edu
Rotaract
Advisors: Beth Foster, ext. 6173
e-mail: beth.foster@wilkescc.edu
Brian Barker, ext. 6410
e-mail: brian.barker@wilkescc.edu
Southern Culture Organization (SoCO)
Advisor: Julie Mullis, ext. 6502
e-mail: julie.mullis@wilkescc.edu
Student Government Association
Advisors: Scott Johnson, ext. 6142—Wilkes
e-mail: scott.johnson@wilkescc.edu
Jackie Bryan, 372-5061—Alleghany
e-mail: jackie.bryan@wilkescc.edu
Sherry Thompson, 846-3900—Ashe
e-mail: sherry.thompson@wilkescc.edu
Student Nurses Association
Advisors: Laura Walsh, ext. 6250
e-mail: laura.walsh@wilkescc.edu
Sandra Bryant, ext. 6511
e-mail: sandra.bryant@wilkescc.edu
Wanda Douglas, ext. 6254
e-mail: wanda.douglas@wilkescc.edu
Voltairean Publications
Advisor: Nolan Belk, ext. 6507
e-mail: nolan.belk@wilkescc.edu
“WCC Presents" Theatre
Advisor; David Reynolds, ext. 6231
e-mail: david.reynolds@wilkescc.edu
WCC Skills USA
Advisor: Hardin Kennedy, ext. 6219
e-mail: hardin.kennedy@wilkescc.edu
WCC Earns Superior
Wilkes Community College has again earned a
“Superior Rating “from the North Carolina State
Board of Community Colleges.
The rating is a result of the Critical Success
Factors Report issued by the State Board each
year. 12 performance measures for accountability,
called “Core Indicators of Success,” capture the >
essential elements of the mission of the NC
community college system and focus on student
success. WCC met 11 of the 12 performance
measures to earn the "Superior Rating"
designation.
WCC President Dr. Gordon Burns was excited
to share the news with the WCC family. "This
distinction reinforces the work we do each day
towards fiilfilling our mission to provide quality
education and education services to the citizens
of Wilkes, Ashe, and Alleghany counties. This
distinction is a reflection of the high quality
students, faculty, and staff we have here at
Wilkes Community College.”
The performance measures that WCC met or
exceeded were progress of basic skills students,
goal completion for completers, employment
rate of graduates, performance rate of college
transfer students, passing rates in development
courses, success rates of developmental students
in college level courses, student satisfaction of
completers and non-completers, curriculum
student retention and graduation rates.
Cougar Cry
Rating from State Board
employer satisfaction, business and industry
satisfection with services provided, and program
enrollment. The one measure that was not fiilly
met was narrowly missed by one point on one
students test.
In 2006-2007,38 of North Carolina’s 58
community colleges achieved the “Superior
Rating" distinctions. To earn a Superior Rating,
a college must meet or exceed at least five
performance measures set by the State Board and
one performance measure the community college
chooses. The State Board of Community Colleges
reports that overall “the measures demonstrate
the excellent job our community colleges do in
educating and training the citizens of North
Carolina."
WCC Now Offers Resp
WCC has a tradition of responding to the
education and training needs of area businesses
and industry. Hospitals in our region have
expressed a need for qualified applicants to
fill vacant positions in respiratory therapy;
respiratory therapists are health professionals
responsible for taking care of patients
with deficiencies in abnormalities of the
cardiopulmonary system. In response to this need,
WCC is starting a respiratory therapy program
and is enrolling its first class of respiratory
therapy students for the fall 2007 semster.
Career opportunities locally and nation-wide
are excellent and earning potential is competitive
with other health professions. The Bureau of
Labor Statistics projects an increase in demand
for respiratory therapists of 42.6% through
2008 due to a large increase in the elderly
population, environmental impact on diseases
such as asthma, increases in smoking-related
illnesses, technological advances in treatment
of cardiopulmonary disease, and advances in
treatment of premature babies.
Graduates entering the field will find an average
salary of $40,270 a year and a minimum salary of
$32,460 a year. Salary varies with the educational
degree and years of experience with supervisors,
clinical specialists, and department managers
tending to have higher salaries.
WCC’s two-year program will prepare graduates
to compose a patient assessment, perform
cardiopulmonary diagnostic procedures, set up
and maintain a mechanical ventilator, formulate
appropriate cardiopulmonary treatment plans.
iratory Therapy Program
and determine and carry out appropriate
interventions in a critical medical situation.
Students will be involved in classes such as
pharmacology, anatomy, patient management,
and pediatrics. In addition to time spent in the
classroom, students will gain invaluable hands-on
experience by being involved in clinical practice
which will take place at surrounding hospitals and
medical centers.
WCC’s respiratory therapy program is a limited
enrollment program with first year students
beginning each &11 semester. Applicants to the
program are ranked by a points system and
those with highest points will be chosen to fill
the limited openings in the program. All spaces
for the fall 2007 class have been filled but new
applicants can still begin the process. Interested
applicants should submit a WCC admissions
application and indicate respiratory therapy
as the desired program of study. Placement
tests and attendance in a Respiratory Therapy
Application Information Session are required.
A student services counselor will assist
students in completing a Minimum Admissions
Requirements Review
WCC’s respiratory therapy program is a fiill-
time program with classes meeting during the
day, Monday- Friday, with the possibility of
some weekend and evening clinical rotations.
Anyone interested in finding out more about
the respiratory therapy program should contact
the WCC Admissions Office at 336-838-6135
or Billy Woods, Respiratory Therapy Program
Director, at 336-838-6496 or billy.woods@
wilkescc.edu.