Kathleen Cleary, dean of Liberal Arts, Communication and Social Sciences and Stephen Skiles, chair of Theatre and Dance battle for the unofficial championship title. Let the games begin! Staff, faculty and students alike have been participating in an unofficial ping pong tournament in the basement of Building 8. Do you have what it takes to beat some of the best? Come down between the hours of 12 – 1 p.m. and try to beat some of the famous like Professor Stephen Skiles, Chair Lori Zakel and Dean... [Read more...]

After a routine program review by the board of nursing in September, it was discovered that the nursing department had let part-time instructor Mary Beth Lodge teach classes for five years without a license, Madeline Iseli, chief of staff said. Marcia Miller, chair of the Nursing department, and Associate Provost Gloria Goldman were put on paid leave to avoid conflict of interest, following investigations by the Ohio Board of Nursing and Sinclair Community College, according to Iseli. Goldman had... [Read more...]

They are, by our estimation, the downright coolest of all the supernatural creations of man.  Vampires, those blood-sucking fiends, are back in vogue in a major way, thanks to Stephanie Meyer’s uber popular book and movie series, Twilight. The history of vampires extend far past Edward and his flock, and before the trio from True Blood donned the cover of Rolling Stone magazine covered in nothing but blood. Even before Bram Stoker’s classic vampire of vampires, Count Dracula.  But before we... [Read more...]

Championship Productions, a company that produces and distributes videos featuring famous coaches and athletes, recently filmed a Sinclair Community College men’s basketball practice to study the tactics of coach Jeff Price. Championship Productions has in the past featured famous coaches like Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski, Kansas’ Bill Self, Connecticut’s Jim Calhoun and the retired Bobby Knight. Price believes the video will bring exposure to the relatively unknown Sinclair program.  Because... [Read more...]

In an attempt to educate the community about different cultures and debunk some of the misrepresentations of Islam, Mara Ahmed, producer/director will be speaking at an event called “The Muslims I Know: Myths, Movements, and the Media.” Sinclair Community College’s Courseview campus partnered with Mason High School to hold the event which will be held on Oct. 28 from 7 – 9 p.m. at Mason Middle School Auditorium in Mason, Ohio, according to George Sehi, executive dean of the Courseview campus. Mara... [Read more...]

Connected to Sinclair since 1965, former president Ned J. Sifferlen has helped Sinclair grow from a YMCA building to the campus it is now. In respect to everything he has done for Sinclair, they held a ceremony that honored him in naming Building 14 the Dr. Ned J. Sifferlen center. Sifferlen started his career at Sinclair as a Business Technologies professor and moved up to the dean of Business Technologies in 1969. He was named the vice president for Administration in 1979, vice-president of Instruction... [Read more...]