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Student stories: Flying with a Phoenix

phoenix unveiling

An inside look at Clark’s award-winning arts and literary journal      My name is Lily Hart, and I am a student at Clark College. I’m also the Managing Editor of Phoenix and was Assistant Literary Editor last year. Phoenix is Clark College’s award-winning literary and art journal. Run by student editors and faculty advisers,…

Clark men’s basketball rolls in home opener

Miles Martin dunking

The Clark College men’s basketball team opened its home season with a wire-to-wire, 84-64 victory over the visiting Wenatchee Valley Knights on December 4. The Penguins, who had previously relied on their hot shooting to create early leads, just couldn’t find the range from the field and only shot 33 percent from the floor and…

Clark Makes Run at Title

2015 Penguin Volleyball team

Penguin Volleyball ends phenomenal season at conference championships       The Clark Volleyball team started the NWAC Championship tournament with a No. 3 South Region seed and an opening match loss on Thursday to Walla Walla in five sets. After that, the Penguins went on a roll and won their next six matches on…

Open Enrollment has begun for employee benefits

Notes from HR

PEBB Medical Flexible Spending Arrangement (FSA) and Dependent Care Assistance Program (DCAP) If you wish to enroll in or continue your Medical FSA and/or DCAP, open enrollment is the time to do it. You must enroll or reenroll no later than November 30 for the January 1, 2016 coverage year. The Medical FSA allows you…

Clark employees’ generosity is always in style

Backpack Project thank you card

We are in the midst of change at Clark College. The STEM building is being built and people will begin moving next year. ctcLink has many of us reviewing our business processes and anticipating a modern ERP (enterprise resource planning) college-wide management software. The new Academic Plan is focusing us on developing academic pathways that…

Welcome, Penguins!

Fall 2015 campus

Clark College greets new academic year      The parking lots were filled. The Bookstore was bustling. And the sunshine poured down as if to comfort those who were still mourning the end of their summers as they started the 2015 fall quarter at Clark College on Monday, September 21. Returning students got to see…

Clark Band Hits a Home Run

Clark College Band on Oakland A's JumboTron

Band performs National Anthem at Oakland A’s game       On June 21, 2015, the Clark College Band demonstrated its excellence to more than 39,000 spectators at the Oakland Athletics Baseball Father’s Day game in O.co Coliseum (formerly Oakland Coliseum) in Oakland, California. “There was nothing more exhilarating than playing that last note and…

Take a Bow, Maestro!

Don Appert

Music chair Donald Appert celebrates 25 years of teaching at Clark      The award-winning Clark College Orchestra concluded its 2014-2015 season with its annual spring concert on June 14—an event that also served to celebrate Clark Orchestra Director and Conductor Donald Appert’s 25th anniversary at the college. The concert was held at the Royal…

A Different Kind of Final

Bruce Elgort teaches class

Computer Technology students get real-world experience by presenting to industry experts       On Thursday, June 11, students in Clark College instructor Bruce Elgort’s PHP and SQL programming class (CTEC 227) will face an audience. While that might be standard for a class in the performance arts, it’s less expected in a computer science…

Update on ctcLink

ctcLink logo

As the new Clark ctcLink Project Director, I am pleased to relay the good news we received from the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges: Clark College’s Go Live date for ctcLink (i.e., PeopleSoft) has been deferred to August of 2016. This additional time will benefit Clark for the following reasons: Since most…

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