Congrats to the people making a difference

People are what make TCC great. Students eager to learn and build their resumes. Faculty prepared to share their expertise. Staff positioned to help students enroll, find their classes, apply for scholarships, etc. Again and again, when people talk about TCC, they talk about, well, the people.

Employees from every area of the College gathered yesterday on TCC's Southeast Campus to kick off the new academic year. At this event, several employees were selected as TCC Excellence award winners. These winners were nominated by their peers for the excellent work they do with and for students. Since many of you may know the winners, I'm thinking you might want to tell them "congrats," either by leaving a comment on this blog or telling them in person, so here are their names:

Lynnda Brown, Kara Ryan-Johnson, Jim Elder, Mary Ellen Sullivan, Patty Smith, Glen Jones, Tom Rowe, Jerry Rhodes, Larry Bittick, Becca Floyd, Pam Lucas, Keilah Deatherage, Lyn Kent, Lindsay Fields, Gornie Williams, James Price, Cheryl Lindle, Peter Kovaleski and Dianne Kirk.

Culpepper promotes Poems for Peace competition

Do you fancy yourself a poet? Does alliteration, blank verse and haiku make you want to carpe diem? TCC is now accepting submissions for Poems for Peace Student Poetry Contest. The deadline to enter is 5 p.m. April 1.

All enrolled TCC students are eligible to enter. Poems should include content that relates to peace and/or tolerance. Poems should be no longer than 50 lines. Submissions should be emailed to Dr. Allen Culpepper at allen.culpepper@tulsacc.edu with "Peace Poem" in the subject line.

The competition will culminate with poetry readings and prize distributions from 10-11:30 a.m. Thursday, April 18 in the Student Union Auditorium on the TCC Southeast Campus.

Goose on the loose

Beautiful day to get out on campus!

Stealing: The new form of flattery?

Now that the Majors Fair is over, I can't let another moment go by without sharing something funny and a bit strange. Yes, TCC has made some attractive posters and banners in the past but none has been so popular as this year's Majors Fair promotional materials. In fact, some people liked them so much that they took them home! That's right--those posters and banners with the cute dogs, sharks and squirrels have been disappearing from TCC campuses ever since they were hung.

Faculty, staff and students commented about how much they loved the Majors Fair promotional materials, but for someone to take them? Repeatedly? In fact, I heard from a reliable source that one of the full-color posters was stolen and then replaced by the perpetrator with a black-and-white copy. Now there's a crook with a conscience.

I hear that TCC is taking it as a form of flattery. :)