About JWCC

Accomplishments and Fast Facts

Accomplishments

The College has received the ICCB’s Award for Excellence three times in recent years, including the 2000 Workforce Preparation award for its JOBS Project.
JWCC has received the Illinois Council of Community College Administrators’ Innovation Award four times since 1999, including the fall 2006 award for its project Registration Reconfigurations to Enhance Student Success.
The College’s chapter of Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society has received numerous awards, including an international Distinguished Chapter award in spring 2005 and the Five Star Chapter award in multiple years.
Since 1995, JWCC agriculture and horticulture students have taken 78 first-place state and national awards in the Postsecondary Agriculture Student Organization, including a first-place finish in 2006 in the Swine Team category by an all-female team.
In its short 16-year history, the intercollegiate athletics program has received several honors, and the College now includes nine All-Americans, 32 Academic All-Americans, and the recipient of the NJCAA National Award for Sportsmanship/Community Service among its student athletes. The men’s basketball team finished in 5th and 7th place in the NJCAA Division II National Tournament.

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“Creation” – a 12-x-14-foot floor mosaic – was installed in the lobby of the Mary Ellen Orr Auditorium in the Paul Heath Center, 2005. This unique piece of artwork was created especially for the College; it is the first floor mosaic in the history of the State of Illinois’ Art-in-Architecture program.
A geothermal heating and cooling system was installed in the Student Activity Center during its construction in 2006. The system allowed the College to dramatically reduce its heating and air conditioning costs for the center from the very beginning. The overall result is lower energy usage, lower costs and cleaner air.
The College’s Strategic Plan was revised and adopted by the Board of Trustees in FY 06 and an Enrollment Management Plan, to guide the College’s recruitment and retention efforts through the coming years, was adopted by the Board in FY 07.
Two new degrees, the Associate in Fine Arts and the Associate in Applied Science in Graphic Design, were added in fall 2007; the Computer-Aided Design program moved to an all-evening program to better serve students; and the Electrical Technology curriculum was updated, with two new labs created.
The College was awarded a five-year CampusEAI Oracle Portal Grant for more than $1.1 million in 2007; this will enable John Wood to allow for a single sign-on for students, faculty, and staff.
The Quincy campus became a wireless environment in 2007-08; this allows anyone with a wireless laptop connection to log onto the College’s network and resources from anywhere on campus.
The College hosted two evaluator-consultants from the Higher Learning Commission for a focused visit on assessment of student learning in 2007. The visit was a successful one, and the College’s accredited status has been continued, with the next comprehensive visit scheduled for 2012-2013.
The College’s thirty-second annual commencement ceremony was held on its own campus, May 2007.