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Chronicle 01-20-17.Pdf The A Weekly Look at the Cottey College Campus CChroniclehronicle volume XXXI, number 19, January 20, 2017 All-Campus Dance Faculty Recital Saturday, January 21 @ 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Hinkhouse Gym Sunday, January 22 @ 3 p.m. This dance party will Missouri Recital Hall feature contemporary Join Cottey music faculty members Amanda Cook, music and a whole lot of Jackie Lordo, Peggy Graves, Theresa Forrester dancing! Join the women Spencer, and Debbie Fast for a recital featuring voice, of Cottey College in this piano, clarinet, and tuba. smoke- and alcohol-free club. The theme of this dance is "Glowga" (Glow items and Toga party) and is sponsored by the Student Activities Committee (SAC). BASKETBALL: This Week! Wednesday, January 25 @ 6 p.m. vs. North Central Missouri College Hinkhouse Gymnasium Results January 16 vs. St. Louis Community College LOSS: 60-72 January 19 vs. MCC - Penn Valley WIN!: 56-54 Let's Go, Comets! More than 350 campuses from all 50 states, Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico participated in the White House Campus Challenge and carried out some enrollment activities, with nearly 100 campuses completing all the criteria. Last Friday, leaders from nearly 60 of those campuses attended Healthy Campus Challenge Day at the White House, including Cottey! Accepting the certificate and recognition on behalf of Cottey was student Hannah Cook (above left) and Renee Hampton, coordinator of career planning and experiential learning (above right). Also pictured above (middle) is Kristie Canegallo, assistant to the President and deputy chief of staff for implementation. Learn more about this event HERE. Did you miss the White House Live Stream last Friday? You can see footage HERE! P.E.O. Founders' Day While Cottey College has Founder’s Day each spring to commemorate the birthday of Virginia Alice Cottey Stockard, January 21 marks the P.E.O. Sisterhood’s annual Founders’ Day to honor the seven women who started the organization in Iowa in 1869. On Saturday, P.E.O.s throughout the United States and Canada are encouraged to wear their P.E.O. pins and hold special programs to commemorate the history of this organization and the lives of the founders. P.E.O. has grown to more than 240,000 members who celebrate the advancement of women; educate women through scholarships, grants, awards, loans and stewardship of Cottey College; and motivate women to achieve their highest aspirations. If you are a faculty or staff member interested in finding out more about P.E.O., please visit http://www.peointernational.org/contact-us. If alumnae or students inquire about joining P.E.O., they can complete an interest form at a site P.E.O. designed specifically for that purpose at www.cotteygrad.com. 2017 Comets Track & Field The spring track season is off and running for the Cottey Comets! Mark your calendars for these upcoming meets: INDOOR TRACK Date Meet Location 1/20 UCM/Johnson County C.C. Warrensburg, MO/Overland Park, KS 1/28 Pittsburg State Invitational Pittsburg, Kansas 2/3 UCM/Johnson County C.C. Warrensburg, MO/Overland Park, KS 2/10 MSSU/Pitt State University Joplin, MO/Pittsburg, KS 2/17 University of Central Missouri Warrensburg, Missouri 3/3 - 3/4 NJCAA National Indoor Meet Pittsburg State University - Pittsburg, KS OUTDOOR TRACK Date Meet Location 4/1 Pitt State/Emporia State Pittsburg, KS/Emporia, KS 4/15 Pitt State/William Jewell College Pittsburg, KS/Liberty, Missouri 4/21 UCM (tentative) Warrensburg, Missouri 4/22 Tabor College Hillsboro, Kansas 4/29 Baker Open Baker University - Baldwin City, Kansas 5/18 - 5/20 NJCAA National Outdoor Meet Hutchinson C.C. - Hutchinson, Kansas From the Office of the President President's Suggestion Box As we often hear, it is all in the timing. Such was the case when an email was received in the President’s Suggestion Box recently. The timing of the email coincides with the request for proposal (RFP) for a rebranding project of Cottey College. The composer of the suggestion box email made the point that with the transition to a four-year institution and working toward becoming a member of NAIA, it might be time to consider a rebranding of the College inclusive of its athletic programs. We couldn’t agree more! In the fall of 2015, a proposal was made to the P.E.O. Foundation by Marketing and Strategic Communication for a rebranding project that was accepted by the Foundation. The last time Cottey closely examined its brand was 1986, and the Cottey of today is very different from the Cottey of 30 years ago. We were a two-year college with no baccalaureate programming. Athletic programs were limited, and the demographics of prospective students were very different than they are today. Cottey has the opportunity to develop a brand to differentiate it from other colleges. We want this brand to be distinctive in the minds of prospective students, parents, P.E.O.s, donors, and alumnae. I invite faculty, staff and students to share their opinions through participation in focus groups in the coming months as Marketing begins qualitative research to determine our brand position in the minds of our primary constituency – prospective students. We need individuals who feel passionately about Cottey and are willing to become active participants in the process. As we move forward, remember that a successful rebranding involves overhauling key messages and shifting a campus culture -- not just changing a name or a logo. Carla Farmer Vice President for Marketing and Strategic Communication Next Steps Faculty News We are currently in the process of a Brianne Fulton Miller, assistant professor of art, recently submitting RFP's and selecting an outside had artwork featured at the Nasty Women's exhibition at the firm to assist us in this process, which we Knockdown Center in Queens, New York. Her work was featured with hope to select by late February. over 700 other women artists, and also raised over $30,000 Following the selection of a firm, our for charity. She also received campus will engage in qualitative word last week that her piece research, involving both internal and had sold on the opening night external focus groups, and a baseline study of the exhibition, especially in certain geographic areas to determine exciting as so many artists awareness of Cottey among prospective were involved! Brianne students and parents. We look forward to contributed a small, ceramic the input of the entire campus community ocarina which she titled, "No throughout this process as we seek to One Puts My Bunny In the build a brand that lasts. Corner." Coming Soon: Website Refresh! The Marketing and Strategic Communication Department is pleased to announce that the refreshed website will go live on Wednesday, January 25, 2017. There will be no interruption in your ability to use the website. What you will notice is a different appearance on most first and second tier pages. The process of moving information (migration) from approximately 500 pages on the old website to the new site is ongoing and will be completed in late March. What this means is that as you navigate through the pages that have not been migrated, you will be redirected to the old pages where you will recognize the former design. We invite you to spend time on the site exploring the improved navigation, bright color palette, and large pictures all designed to easily lead prospective students to information about applying to Cottey. As you explore the site, we ask that requests for changes/corrections be limited to only the most critical issues until after the migration of pages is completed in late March. As you can imagine, our webmaster Donna Lenharth has her hands full in completing the transition of nearly 500 pages! The Marketing Department has a Power Point presentation about the new website that will be presented at two special meetings in the coming weeks to those interested in asking questions and learning more about the site. We also look forward to sharing with you plans for additional tools to be added to the site in the coming months. The presentations will be held on the following dates and times. Tuesday, January 31 , 11:30 a.m., Room 203, Judy and Glenn Rogers Fine Arts Building Thursday, February 2 , 12 noon, Room 203, Judy and Glenn Rogers Fine Arts Building Attendees may also bring their lunches to these informational sessions. Marketing sincerely appreciates the input from the campus community provided in focus groups last spring that helped guide this process. COMING SOON Friday, February 3 @ 7:30 p.m. Center for the Arts, Auditorium The year is 1963 and C.S. Lewis, the famous British author, is hosting a group of American writers at his home near Oxford. They are about to experience a captivating evening with a man whose engaging conversation and spontaneous humor made him one of the great raconteurs of his day. Seated in his living room and in front of a warm fire, he recalls the people and events that inspired his thoughts and shaped his life; his friendship with J. R. R. Tolkien; why he nearly abandoned The Chronicles of Narnia; how he came to embrace Christianity; and the American woman who turned his life upside down. Described by critics as “Extraordinary!” “A Must See!” and “A Master Class,” An Evening With C.S. Lewis has proved again and again to be an enthralling theatrical experience and one that has led many thousands to discover (or rediscover) the continuing impact of a man who died over 50 years ago and whose collected works made him one of the literary giants of the twentieth century.
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