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New transfer options on way MCC partners with NIU on business bachelor’s program By EMILY K. COLEMAN ecoleman@shawmedia.com CRYSTAL LAKE – A new transfer program is designed to get working adults attending McHenry County College their bachelor’s degree in business administration. That focus on working adults – ones with kids and jobs that prevent them from attending most degree programs – is what makes a new partnership between Northern Illinois University and five suburban community colleges so unique, McHenry County College President Vicky Smith said. McHenry County College has other types of partnership agreements with both public and private four-year Vicky Smith schools, many designed to transfer students smoothly from program to program, as well as some dual or guaranteed admission programs, according to its website. The college also has more than 200 transfer guides for about 40 colleges and universities to help students plan their course load with transferring in mind. “Your traditional-aged students are able to go out and go to Northern or commute to Northern if they’re not going to live in residence at the college, and they can go during the day,” Smith said. “Many universities don’t provide full-degree programs in the evenings.”
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County Board committee to hash out remaining rule change By KEVIN P. CRAVER kcraver@shawmedia.com WOODSTOCK – A McHenry County Board committee is poised to begin tying up a loose end from major changes to its rules in the wake of the popular election of the board chairman. Its Management Services Committee later this month is expected to hear proposals as to how each of the board’s six electoral districts of four members each will caucus
after November elections to choose their delegate to the group that assigns members to the committees in which much of county government’s work gets done. The change came about as a last-minute compromise between board members who believed that the committee’s proposed changes give a popularly-elected chairman too much power, and those who said that giving the position little to no authority would be an affront to voters who de-
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cided that the power to elect the chairman should rest with them. Voters last year approved a referendum to elect the chairman themselves, rather than continue to let the 24-member Scott Hartman board do so. B o a r d members in a three-hour meeting May 1 decided to give the chairman a voting seat on
the seven-member Committee on Committees that makes assignments after each election. But the power to choose each district’s representative on the committee was Tina Hill shifted from the chairman, who in the past had the sole power to choose it, to the districts themselves.
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‘Perfect way to end it’ Jacobs and Oak Park-River Forest baseball share third place in wacky season finale / C3 LOCAL NEWS
Business ‘hobby gone wrong’ Crystal Lake shop one of five in the United States to service the estimated 6,000 DeLoreans still on the road / D1
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“We’ll be bringing a proposal for [Management Services’] consideration to approach the selection of the district representative,” Deputy County Administrator Scott Hartman said. The membership of the County Board’s dozen or so standing committees – who gets assigned to which one – is a big deal politically for its members. Perhaps more importantly is who gets the chairmanships to set the agendas for those commit-
tees, the selection of which in past years was at the board chairman’s discretion. Critics alleged that the power of incumbency was strong because the chairman could promise those chairmanships in exchange for almost all of the 13 majority votes needed for re-election. Committee Chairwoman Tina Hill, R-Woodstock, said she would prefer to see a simple system in which each
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