ACTC Promotes Robin Johns
Robin D. Wallace Johns, a Lawrence County native, has been promoted to Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Early Childhood Education (IECE) at Ashland Community and Technical College. She is one of nine ACTC faculty members who were promoted effective July 1, 2016. Their promotions recognize excellence in teaching and college service.
Johns started at the college part time in 2009 and became full time in 2013. She teaches IECE classes and is the IECE Program Coordinator. A member of the Faculty Council and Valued Employees Committee, she is also co-chair of the KCTCS Curriculum Committee for IECE.
“I love working one-on-one with students, advising them toward their career goals,” she said. “It’s also important to support my students and the children they serve by raising public awareness of this valuable and demanding job.”
Other promotions were Sara A. Brown to Associate Professor of English, Terri L. Ratliff to Associate Professor of Practical Nursing, alumna Susan Wallace-Vernatter to Assistant Professor of Practical Nursing, Pamela S. Klinepeter to Professor/Librarian I, Dr. Nicole Griffith-Green to Professor of Biology, alumna Deena L. Howerton to Assistant Professor of Practical Nursing and Warren Howard to Professor of Education.
ACTC Theatre Auditions
ACTC Theatre will hold auditions for Steel Magnolias on Monday and Tuesday, Aug. 29 and 30, at 6:00 p.m. in the J. B. Sowards Theatre on the College Drive Campus.
Roles are available for six female performers, and high school students and adults are invited to audition. Those auditioning will do cold readings from the script, and no advance preparation is required.
Steel Magnolias, written by Robert Harling, is a comedy-drama about a group of Southern women who are as delicate as magnolias but as tough as steel. Jim Maggard, Theatre Director for Fairview High School, will be the director. Performance dates are September 30 and October 1 and 2.
For ACTC theatre or audition information, contact Sarah Diamond Burroway at: sarahdiamondburroway@kctcs.edu, 606-326-2106 or Jonathan Joy at: jonathan.joy@kctcs.edu, 606.326.2201.
12-week Class Reminder
August 29 is the application deadline for ACTC’s 12-week fall term. Applications and class schedules are at: ashland.kctcs.edu. Classes still open include Intro to Art, Intro to Communications, Basic Public Speaking, Digital Literacy, Writing I, History of the US through 1865, Pre-Algebra and Intermediate Algebra.