ARE YOU NEW TO CLC?

PLEASE TRY "EXPERIENCECLC.COM" for The First Year Experience at CLC. This site is damn fantastic, and we suggest you use it for all of your first year questions and needs. Very helpful!

OR, If you have been here so long, you now have at least one Assosicates degree? Then try: College of Lake County Continuing Education Department Online Instruction Center

THEN, you MUST try: CLC Radio PROduction page::

Steven Mintz
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University of Houston
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A pioneer in the application of new technologies to history teaching and research, Steven Mintz is a leading authority on the history of families and children. He has also written extensively on reform, ethnicity, film, and private life. The President of H-Net and Co-Chair of the Council on Contemporary Families, he is creator of the Digital History website, director of four "Teaching American History" grants, and recipient of more than $7 million to fund technology and curricular innovations. Curriculum Vitae

We had to spell check "American".

The college offers course credit by signing through the Cooperative Education Office.

By enrolling through their office, working at CLC Radio, and while already a registered student of CLC, any student may earn from 2 to 4 credit hours per semester for a total of 12 hours listed on their transcript. THESE CREDITS ARE General Elective Credits and apply toward the AA of 23 General Electives and AS of 17 electives.

"Cooperative Education (EWE) provides students the opportunity to earn college credits for new learning in an employment setting. Four EWE classes are offered each semester. For more information contact: Coordinator, Service Learning and Cooperative Education, Illinois Employment and Training Center - E101, (847) 543-2058. See also: Service Learning."

OPINION: Now that you know that you will be graduating from CLC with an AA or AS, what next?

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submitted 12-17-2006

CLICK HERE FOR THE MOST UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION ABOUT TUITION PAYMENT DEADLINES

BUT, PLEASE REMEMBER:

FACTS Installment Plan Options and Deadlines

A minimum balance due to CLC of $100 is required before you can enter the FACTS plan. IF your total tuition due is 100.00 or MORE, you CAN enroll and use the FACTS plan AND a $25 non-refundable FACTS enrollment fee will be charged to your FACTS account IMMEDIATELY upon entering the plan.

EXPLAINED FURTHER: WHEN YOUR TOTAL TUITION (cost of books are not eligible, as far as we can tell) DUE TO CLC IS LESS THAN 100.00 (USD), then you will be BILLED BY CLC AS BEFORE. A GOOD EXAMPLE OF THIS WOULD BE IF YOU WERE ENROLLING IN A SINGLE CREDIT CLASS AND the total due CLC would be LESS THAN 100.00. ANOTHER EXAMPLE: If you are taking classes through Adult Continuing Education and the total TUITION happens to be less than 100.00 for all TUITION (not books, remember), then you will be BILLED BY CLC as in past times.

THIS INFORMATION IS NOT AVAILABLE (as of 12-17-2006) ON THE CLC WEBSITE ANYWHERE - THAT IS WHY WE PROVIDE IT HERE.

Why are we asking? At the financial aid webpage, they use the term Cost of Attendance (COA), that includes all of your likely legitimized expenses for school - not just tuition and fees. That's fine, however, our concern is that the FACTS payment plan is set up and ONLY MENTIONS tuition that may be paid through that plan - no mention about the other Costs of Attendance (books, transportation, supplies, etc.).

BASICALLY: We do not want anyone to think that ALL of your COA can be covered by FACTS (if you are eligible after adding all of your COA) when that is probably not true. We believe that ONLY your TUITION AND FEES may be brought into the FACTS system. Other than the official term "COA", we assume that tuition means just that: TUITION (and fees, such as allowable taxes and technology and activity fees) ONLY.

Then again, we HOPE that in the future MORE or ALL of a student's COA can be added into the FACTS payment plan. We cannot command it, but we can hope.

HISTORICAL (from Fall 2006)

submitted 9-14-2006

Now, the official word on the current status of dropped students from the newest deadline of September 13th, as reported in The Chronicle, October 15th Issue.

But, now at your newsstand today, September 29th, there contains more wit, wisdom, disclosure, and open discourse promised us since January of this year, 2006.

submitted 9-6-2006

FROM THE MAIN OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

"Fall/06 Reinstatement Procedures
Reinstatement Period - Wednesday, 9/6/06, through Wednesday, 9/13/06

To be reinstated you need to contact the Admissions Office: in person or by phone 847/543-2061

When you request reinstatement, you will need to be prepared to follow the payment options at the time of reenrollment:

" Pay by cash or check .
" Pay by credit card online .
" Enroll in the FACTS tuition management plan online.
" Have applied for Financial Aid.
" If extenuating circumstances make it impossible for you to pay in full or enroll in FACTS at this time, you will be directed to the cashier office to speak with a business office staff member to determine if special arrangements can be made.

Your account will be reviewed after 48 hours to ensure this agreement has been met. If not met, you will be dropped from your classes and will not be reinstated.

The reinstatement period begins Wednesday, 9/6/06 and ends at 8:00 p.m. Wednesday, 9/13/06.

If you continue going to class without being reinstated by September 13, 2006, you will not be reinstated at a later date."

FROM THE NEW OFFICE OF STUDENT LIFE

09/26/2007

submitted 9-1-2006

The NEW deadline, hard deadline, is September 6th 8:30pm in person to pay your tuition bill or by Sept 6th midnight to be signed into the FACTS system to Pay your tuition bill. If you are paying in person at the college, your FULL amount is due at the Cashier's window by this newer PERMANENT deadline. This new deadline WILL NOT CHANGE. You can NOT sign up for a payment plan at the Cashier window! Read the rest of this article for more important info about the FACTS system!

FROM THE CLC WEBSITE:

"We Don’t Want to Lose You!

CLC is very happy to have you in class. That’s why we want to remind you that if you haven’t fulfilled your payment students being dropped obligations to the college, you need to do it now.

You can meet your payment obligation by taking one of these steps:

Pay your tuition by cash, check or credit card.
Enroll in the FACTS tuition installment payment plan.
Arrange for financial aid.

On Sept. 6, CLC will cancel the enrollment of students who have not taken one of these steps to meet their payment obligation.

You’re important to us! Please make sure you "pay and stay."

Questions about your balance due?
Contact the CLC Cashier’s Office (in the first floor A wing) or call 847-543-2085.

Financial aid information
Visit or call the Financial Aid Office in Room B 114 (847-543-2062).

Have a great semester! "

8-24-2006

The Office of Student Life has helped arrange that National City Bank and First Midwest Bank offer to sign students up for checking or savings accounts for those who do not have one yet. The reason you should know: the college’s new payment process (called FACTS) requires all students to have a banking account or credit card in order to sign up for the FACTS payment plan - unless your balance owed to the College is LESS than $100.00us. Both banks are STILL providing monetary incentives and ‘no minimum’ balances for students.

If you have any questions about the FACTS, click on that link. You will find a FACTS brochure everywhere throughout the college. Every faculty, counselor, and administrative office has plenty of these fine brochures for you to take and read. We even have many in the Office of Student Activities, room C101 !

IMPORTANT: The new deadline is approaching, but is not yet public information. If your balance is more than $100.00us, you can either pay in FULL immediately when signing up for any more courses OR you will be using ONLY the FACTS system to make payment arrangements, whether or not you will be receiving financial aid. ALL financial aid - when you are using the FACTS system only - will be sent TO THE FACTS SYSTEM ONLY. All money owed AT THAT TIME will be automatically deducted from your remaining FACTS balance, but you may still owe a smaller balance after the full financial aid deductions have been applied.

ALL of your FACTS payments due to FACTS are to be paid ONLY to FACTS. The College of Lake County WILL NOT PROCESS NOR ACCEPT ANY PAYMENT FOR YOUR BALANCE OWED once you have signed up for the FACTS system. You CAN NOT drop the FACTS system UNTIL ALL payments are made for the current semester. You CAN pay MORE than the minimum payment - there is no penalty for paying ahead of time to the FACTS system.

Some recent history:

The Office of Student Life had re-invited National City Bank to be on the Grayslake campus Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006:

9:00am to 1:00pm

4:00pm to 6:00pm

The Office of Student Life had also previously invited National City Bank and First Midwest Bank to be on campus the week of August 14th, 2006

The bank representatives were available on the GRAYSLAKE campus from:

9:00am to 1:00pm

on

Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday

At the Lakeshore campus (Waukegan), bank representatives were available

on Thursday

from 10am to Noon and 5:00pm to 7:00pm

and also on

Friday from 10:00am to Noon

TO ALL POTENTIAL STUDENTS ALREADY REGISTERED:

1) CLC has delayed last night's (Wednesday, 8-16-2006) scheduled drop to provide those students, you, who have not yet paid nor secured financial payment arrangements, with more time to meet your payment responsibilities or to secure financial aid or a combination of both.

2) THE Reason we are delaying the drop: College faculty, staff, and administrators have tried hard to communicate with you about our recently enforced policy regarding adherence to tuition due dates, but despite our sincere efforts, we’re finding that a number of students are still not aware of the serious consequences of not meeting their due dates. This is as real as it gets, folks -

YOU COULD HAVE BEEN DROPPED FROM ALL OF YOUR CLASSES IN ONE, AUTOMATIC STEP!

For this reason, the drop for nonpayment has been delayed until very early in the semester, a short time after classes start. This time frame was selected to minimize disruption to your life here as student, faculty, or staff.

3) The drop will still be conducted, however: Although this delay gives you a little more time to meet your tuition responsibilities, it is important for you to know that your tuition responsibilities remain unchanged. To keep your place in all of your classes, you must pay in full OR arrange a tuition payment plan utilizing only the FACTS system OR obtain financial aid OR a combination of financial aid and FACTS payment plan. The payment plan will be only through the FACTS system - UNLESS the money you owe the college totals less than $100.00us. In this latter case, you will be paying in full, as there will be no payment plan offered to cover this lesser amount.

The classes you registered for will be dropped early in the semester if you do not take one of these mentioned steps. Your CLC full registration may also be cancelled, very possibly causing yourself to go through the whole orientation, counseling, and registration process again - not just re-registering for classes.

4) Some history: The college had conducted drops for non payment up until about five years ago. Since we have reinstated a policy this semester that many students are not familiar with, we are leaning - temporarily - to giving students a little more time to meet their financial obligations. In addition to taking this step, for the spring semester (Spring 2007), we will conduct an assessment of how we can improve the implementation of the class drop process, examining issues such as the dates set for conducting the drops and what further communication is needed with you, the CLC student.

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Other college policies provide that this assessment process must directly involve you, the student, in communicating and discussing your concerns or suggestions about: this process, the FACTS system, and our assessment methods.