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As 2023 draws to a close, remember that making a donation to the RCC Foundation is tax-deductible. When you donate, tell us what you want to support: How? You have options: *Bowl Reminder:If you buy a brick or a star by Dec. 31, 2023, it is guaranteed to be installed in the Rogue Bowl’s main entryway for all to see. A small brick is $1,000...
Rick Levine, the fourth president of Rogue Community College, passed away last month at home. His wife Ellen was also one of RCC’s early instructors. She writes the following: “Rick Levine, my husband, my confidante, my ally, my best friend, and so much more, died April 24, 2023, at 8 pm. He fought a valiant 12-year battle against cancer but now he can rest in...
Outdoor amphitheater is focus of June 24 event Josephine County – The Rogue Community College Foundation invites the community to save the date for an upcoming free, family-friendly community festival slated for June 24 from 2-8 p.m. The festival will include a selection of food trucks, live music from local bands, a kids’ zone with games and activities, live theater, a radio broadcast booth, and...
It’s time to apply for scholarships for the 2023-24 school year at Rogue Community College. Current and incoming students planning to attend RCC during the 2023-24 academic year are invited to apply for about 125 scholarships provided through the Rogue Community College Foundation. The application is open through June 1 on the foundation’s website, roguecc.edu/scholarships. Students who apply by April 1 will be entered into...
Ashland Community Health Foundation donation supports Allied Health students JACKSON & JOSEPHINE COUNTIES – The Rogue Community College (RCC) Foundation recently received a strategic donation from the Ashland Community Health Foundation (ACHF). “The $40,600 gift,” according to RCC Foundation Interim Director Jodi Simons, “is tremendously helpful and will support many scholarships for students seeking careers and training in allied health occupations. We are tremendously grateful.”...
Link to KTVL Broadcast Ten lucky students over the next two years will receive $6,000 each toward their Rogue Community College (RCC) education courtesy of a recent gift to the RCC Foundation orchestrated from Medford-based Addictions Recovery Center, Inc. (ARC). “We applaud ARC for their desire to benefit our community through this new partnership,” says Jodi Simons, interim director of the RCC Foundation. “Partnerships like this...
Nayely Contreras had an idea she’d like to pursue a career helping others when she first met with a faculty advisor at Rogue Community College. Maybe nursing, maybe firefighting, maybe even criminal justice. “I was all over the place,” the sophomore recalled. She met with Gary Heigel, chair of the Emergency Services Department, to make a plan. “He helped me out.” Nayely took a few...
Think you’re too busy to go back to school? Gary Malone wondered, too. But, like many students, he was attracted to the flexibility Rogue Community College offers, which allows non-traditional students to earn a degree while juggling full-time jobs and family responsibilities. This spring, the RCC Foundation has named Gary as recipient of the 2021 RCC Outstanding Alumni Award—proof that the system works. Like many...
Henry Pete recognized an incredible opportunity — for himself, but especially for the community — when he accepted the role of Rogue Community College’s first president in 1971. “It is not often in a person’s career that he has the opportunity to participate from the beginning in building an institution that is going to have the impact on an area that this new college will...
The Wiseman Center, home to the Redwood Campus library, is named in honor of Lillian Alicia Wiseman, who lived from 1895 to 1983. In 1973, the retired seamstress gave an anonymous gift of $10,000 to Rogue Community College. She’d never even stepped on campus. She just wanted to help future students. This Jan. 12, 1977 article from the Grants Pass Daily Courier tells her inspiring...