September 26
Year 44, No. 2
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Sports Information Director Roy Allen and Mason Marshall stream the Lady Saints volleyball match against Colby earlier this month. Matches that are broadcasted are done by Practicum in Sports Management students, both live games and archived games can be found online.
Broadcasting new angle for athletes Home matches are streamed online by students Jose Medrano Editor
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Every dunk, spike, run and point is now being streamed online at Seward County Community College/Area Technical School. The Saints athletic department, with the help of students in Practicum in Sports Management class, is streaming volleyball matches online. Regular season home games of baseball, women’s and men’s basketball, softball and volleyball are streamed online. Last year, the Lady Saints volleyball match against Colby was the first of the matches to be broadcasted. “Technology is evolving everyday and we needed to keep up with it,” Sports Infor-
mation Director Roy Allen said. Hardwires were recently installed by the IT department in the Green House to make it easier for the games to be broadcasted. With a laptop and a camera, students in Practicum in Sports Management run the broadcast of the matches. “The cool thing about filming is catching that one awesome play on camera, and knowing you can go back and watch it,” Jack “T.J.” Looney, a student in Practicum in Sports Management, said. Looney has helped film and broadcast 16 games in the last year. Occasionally, Saints games that are close to Seward Coun-
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Fans can view archived matches that were streamed online, for free, by going on scccsaints.com, finding the sport that they are interested in and clicking on the home match that they want to view. An account with livesportsvideo.com does have to be created in order to view the matches, but it is free to join. All Saints matches, both archived and live, are free to view. The next live match to be stream will be the Lady Saints volleyball match against Cloud County tonight. The match will also be Kids Inc. Night for those attending it at the Green House, the match begins at 6:30 p.m.
Transfer fair announced Contributed to Crusader Students can learn more about transfer institutions at the Seward County Community College/Area Technical School transfer fair from 9 to noon Oct. 16 in the Student Union. Representatives will be on campus from Fort Hays State University, Kansas State University, Sterling College, Bethany, Northwestern Oklahoma State University, McPherson, Washburn, Tabor College, Pittsburg State University, University of St. Mary, and Oklahoma Panhandle State University. This gives students an opportunity to find out about schools, and to start thinking about the transfer process, according to college counselor Star Triscornia.
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Community members were invited to talk to AQIP representatives Dennis Shaw and Brenda Sanchez, Monday afternoon. The representatives were on campus on Monday and Tuesday for a performance checkup.
Accreditation representatives on campus Crusader illustration/ Jose Medrano
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ty get filmed and are put online. Matches that are played at the Green House, but do not feature the Saints, are streamed online for a fee. The funds from those matches help pay for site hosting or other expenses. “It was intimidating at first, but now everything can be set up in five minutes,” Allen, about beginning to stream the Saints matches online said. “The videos are great because they give exposure our athletes. Instead of pictures we can show videos to coaches who are wanting to recruit them,” Allen said. Seward is one of the few colleges in Kansas that covers and streams sporting events online.
Nursing students will help at the Community Health, Education and Employment Fair at the Seward County Event Center from 7:30 - 11:30 a.m. Oct. 6. According to Veda King, director of nursing, first-year nursing students from Seward County Community College/ Area Technical School will help the Seward County Health Department by giving immunizations. First-year nursing students will also help the Lion’s Club give vision and hearing screenings in the Lion’s Club bus. The second-year nursing students will help draw blood for lab tests. People who want lab work done should not eat after midnight the before the day of the fair. Nancy Kletecka of Southwest Medical Center outlined services in a news release. “We will have the battery of tests done by the hospital’s lab, as well as clinical breast exams, bone density exams, and the Seward County Health Department will be offering flu shots again this year.” For more information, call 620-629-6335.
Student enrollment increases Matthew Adki ns News editor The student enrollment count is in and most of the numbers are up. There are currently 1,971 individual students enrolled in the 2012 fall semester. This is a 3 percent increase since this time last year. The total enrollment at SCCC has been increasing steadily for the last three years. Another interesting fact is that 54 percent of students attending SCCC are from Seward County, which is also a 3 percent increase from last year. Celeste Donovan,
dean of student services, believes this is a good thing. “We’ve been really focusing on Seward Country residents in recruitment and it just goes to show that our marketing is working,” Donovan said. Online enrollment numbers are up as well. The number of online credit hours being taken has increased 69 percent, from 446 credit hours to 752 hours. Full time student numbers are down 10 percent, but there was a 14 percent increase in the number of part-time students.
Jose Medrano Editor Forums with Academic Quality Improvement Program representatives at Seward County Community College/ Area Technical School for an accrediation survey allowed people to ask questions directly to the AQIP representatives. Dennis Shaw of Des Moines Area Community College and Brenda Sanchez of Independence Community College are the two AQIP representatives who toured campus and met with faculty, committees, students and community figures. Some of the people that were in attendance at a forum Monday were high school principals, superintendents, business members, alumni of SCCC/ATS and faculty. The representatives interacted
with the people in attendance by allowing them to bring up their concerns and thoughts, concerning the college. A topic that was throughly discussed was the merger of the college and the technical school. Community involvement by SCCC/ATS was discussed and analyzed. The responses were positive on most of the issues that were brought up during the meeting. On Monday, the representatives also had a lunch meeting with a group of students. The AQIP representatives remained on campus on Tuesday, to tour the Technical School campus and to talk to staff members. In the faculty and staff meeting, the representatives received input and talked to the attendees about the AQIP checkup. In the meeting, representative
Shaw talked to the faculty and staff in attendance about how successful the visitation was. “If a campus adopts the mind set that ‘we’re always going to improve,’ it’s an exciting thing,” Shaw said. The merger of the college and the technical school was also discussed in that meeting. “The community really sees the value of the college,” Shaw said about how the college is involved with local schools, business and other colleges. The representatives were satisfied with the overall improvement at SCCC/ATS. “I’d like to say, we have seen quality improvement here,” Sanchez said. The representatives will send a report to the Higher Learning Commission. Seward will know the results of the report by November.