Spring Concert “Song And Dance!” Performed By Umpqua Chamber Orchestra And UCC Chamber Choir
-03/25/25
ROSEBURG, Ore., Mar. 25, 2025 — Umpqua Community College Performing and Visual Arts presents Umpqua Chamber Orchestra and UCC Chamber Choir performing their Spring Concert “Song and Dance!” on May 6, 2025, at 7:00 p.m. at the Whipple Fine Arts Center, Umpqua Community College.
Under the direction of Dr. Jason A. Heald, the concert will include ballet music from Jean Phillippe Rameau and "Dances of Panama" by William Grant Still, as well as Mozart's "Sinfonia Concertante".
Admission is at the door or online at umpqua.edu/community: $15.00 general admission, $10.00 seniors, and students are free. For more information, contact 541-440-4691 or music@umpqua.edu.
About Umpqua Community College
Nestled in the beautiful North Umpqua River Valley, Umpqua Community College is the regional center for higher education in Douglas County, Oregon. UCC provides high quality college degree programs, workforce development, and community learning opportunities. For more information, please visit us online at umpqua.edu.
UCC Budget Committee Meeting
-03/24/25
A public meeting of the Budget Committee of Umpqua Community College, Douglas County, State of Oregon, to discuss the budget for the fiscal year July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2026, will be held at the Lang Teaching, Learning & Event Center, 1140 Umpqua College Rd, Roseburg, OR 97470. The meeting will take place on April 3, 2025, at 6:00pm. There will be a dinner for committee members at 5:30pm.
The purpose of the meeting is to receive the budget message and to receive comment from the public on the budget. This is a public meeting where deliberation of the Budget Committee will take place.
Any person may appear at the meeting and discuss the proposed programs with the Budget Committee. A copy of the budget document may be inspected or obtained on or after March 24, 2025, at the Umpqua Community College Library between the hours of 8:00am and 5:00pm.
Instructions for virtual access to the meeting and other meeting information can be found at umpqua.edu/board-meetings
For additional information, please contact the President’s Office, 541-440-4622.
Cisco Recognizes UCC Faculty Expertise (Photo)
-03/20/25
ROSEBURG, Ore., Mar. 20, 2025 — Umpqua Community College associate professor of Computer Information Systems, John Blackwood, was recognized on Mar. 17, 2025, as an “Instructor Excellence Expert” by Cisco Systems, Inc. for his accomplishments and contributions to Cisco Networking Academy. Blackwood's achievements have earned him a spot in the top percent for the third year in a row among 29,700 instructors globally.
Academy courses sponsored by Cisco are embedded in UCC’s Computer Information Systems and Cybersecurity degree programs and lay the foundation for learning advanced concepts in networking and cybersecurity such as ethical hacking and forensics hacking. With this foundation, UCC students become ready to transfer to a university ready to study robust cybersecurity courses that focus on servers, routers, and switches.
The Cisco Networking Academy stated, “Your exceptional teaching and contributions to the Cisco Networking Academy have earned you the prestigious 2025 Instructor Excellence Advanced Level Award. This accolade celebrates your global standing as a top instructor, distinguished by outstanding student feedback and performance.”
Learn more about the UCC computer science and cybersecurity courses at umpqua.edu/CIS
UCC Board Of Education Meeting
-03/14/25
The Umpqua Community College Board of Education will meet on March 19, 2025. At 4:00 pm there will be a work session in the Sue Shaffer Library. The regular meeting will begin at 5:00 pm in room 17 of Tapʰòytʰa Hall (TAP 17). Pertinent meeting information can be found at umpqua.edu/board-meetings
UCC Art Gallery Presents “Fire And Ice” By Bob Keefer (Photo)
-03/05/25
ROSEBURG, Ore., Mar. 5, 2025—The Art Gallery at Umpqua Community College presents “Fire and Ice” by Bob Keefer. A selection of hand-painted photographs exploring the strange beauty of climate-driven devastation in the forests of western Oregon will be on display at the Whipple Fine Arts Center at UCC from Mar. 31 – May 6. Gallery hours are Mon. – Fri., 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. A reception and artist talk will take place on May 6 from 12-1 p.m. Admission is free.
“I am a late-life emerging artist who grew up in the American West. Using a traditional medium — hand-colored black-and-white photography — in a contemporary way, I have explored subjects such as the persistence of old-growth stumps in the Northwestern rain forest and the role of tourism in shaping our relationship with the land,” said the artist, Bob Keefer. “My work stems from a fascination with the interplay between the cool, Modernist medium of photography and the more personal, tactile nature of painting. I create my hand-colored photographs the old-fashioned way — without Photoshop — using paint and brushes on black-and-white prints.”
About Bob Keefer:
Writer and photographer Bob Keefer graduated from Harvard University in 1975 and spent nearly five decades as a newspaperman before retiring in 2024 to turn his attention to landscape and nature photography. He wrote about art and artists for most of the 30 years he worked at The Register-Guard in Eugene, Oregon, produced an online blog about the arts in Eugene for three years, and served as arts editor of Eugene Weekly from 2017 to 2024. In 2006 he was a fellow at the National Endowment for the Arts’ Journalism Institute for Theater and Musical Theater in Los Angeles.
About The Art Gallery
The UCC Art Gallery is located in the Whipple Fine Arts Building at Umpqua Community College, 1140 Umpqua College Road, Roseburg, OR, 97470. The Art Gallery is a 1100 square-foot exhibition space that features six exhibitions per year, showcasing a variety of media from emerging to established artists. The primary focus of the Art Gallery is to exhibit high-quality artwork for the education and cultural benefit of the students of UCC and the residents of Douglas County.
