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Waubonsee Assistant Professor of Economics Sowjanya Dharmasankar, Associate Professor of Sociology Kathy Westman and Associate Professor of History Dr. Timothy Draper will travel to the Philippines this summer as part of the Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Short-Term Seminar to the Philippines through the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University to deepen their understanding of the people, culture, history and current issues of the archipelagic Asian nation.

Dr. Scott Peska, Waubonsee Community College's Dean for Students, has been appointed to a two-year term on the NASPA (Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education) Region IV-East Advisory Board.

Artwork by 11 Waubonsee Community College students is being exhibited at Morton College in Skokie as part of the 2015 Skyway Juried Art Exhibition. Two of the Waubonsee art students, Esther Espino, of Oak Park, and Ruby Garza, of Aurora, earned honors at the exhibition.

Why is it important to get more women into Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)? Many reasons! According to the U.S. Census Bureau, women are now earning a larger proportion of college degrees than men, yet they make up only 26 percent of the STEM workforce. STEM jobs are generally well-paying jobs, and research shows that when women in a society are financially independent and stable, the society as a whole does better.

Waubonsee Community College celebrated twin feats - dedicating its new Field House and newly renovated Erickson Hall, the project which served as the capstone of the college's 2020 College Master Plan, a 14-year-long building project to improve and prepare the college to respond to the needs of the community in 2020 and beyond.