A New Do

tutelage of licensed instructors in a newly ren-ovated salon.

JCCC’s cosmetology school offers three pro-grams – cosmetology, nail technology andesthetics – all of which exceed Kansas StateBoard of Cosmetology minimum requirements.Programs have a low student-to-instructor ratio,and the cost is significantly less than a privatebeauty school tuition, according to AnitaPankalla, cosmetology coordinator, JCCC.

At this writing, the cosmetology program wasdue to show off its new salon in a public openhouse from 3-7 p.m. March 12 at JCCC’s WestPark Center, 9780 W. 87th St. After 12 yearsin the same location, the school threw off its

institutional look and adopted the style andfunctionality of a chic salon.

“I am honored to be part of an academic orga-nization that provides students with thehighest quality education, which includes anassociate of applied science degree in cosme-tology, and also provides our community withquality of services in all aspects of hair, skinand nail care with a friendly environment at avery reasonable price,” Pankalla said.

Each of the 26 hair stations has wood-likecabinets to store electrical equipment andstyling products, new client styling chairs andpadded floor mats to reduce back and footfatigue for students who do a lot of standing

At JCCC, beauty is more than skin deep – it’s theory, study,

exams and hours and hours of hands-on experience under the

Cover: Kelly Heckert, adjunctcosmetology instructor,Anita Pankalla, cosmetologycoordinator, and KathyRonning, adjunct estheticinstructor, are seen here inthe esthetics classroom.

Educationwith Style

The cosmetology schooloffers acrylic nails and nailart as part of its services.

Student Molly Griffin(left) works on a client withadvice from instructor KellyHeckert

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while working on customers’ hair. The new washbowls and shampoo chairs are more ergonomicfor clients and students.

There are six nail stations, two pedicure sta-tions, a greatly expanded esthetics room with 11stations and a separate waxing room.

The pedicure room is revolutionized. Instead ofthe old hard benches, clients can now relax on atilt-back “throne” that can vibrate if so desiredduring a “spa” pedicure. Sanitation, sanitation,sanitation. Pankalla points out the sanitary tech-niques that students learn at each station. Sheunderscores it at the pedicure spa and nail sites.

The esthetic room has moved to a bigger spaceand is geared to bring in high-tech equipment asthe industry becomes more technically advancedand in anticipation of increased contact hoursfor Kansas esthetician licensure. On the low-tech end, the room features New Age music andlow lights with partitions separating client’shydraulic beds. Esthetic essentials include asteamer, mag light, and tray with an inviting sup-ply of herbal, aromatic and other bioelements forskin care treatments at each station.

On the high-tech end, three microdermabrasionmachines, a photo imaging machine and anLED light therapy machine are being used towage the fight against fine lines, age spots andother superficial skin problems. However, themicrodermabrasion and LED light therapymachines will not be available to the generalpublic until the Kansas State Board of Cosme-tology approves the pending curriculumchanges. The photo imaging machine capturessurface cell damage and assesses improvementafter facial treatments. A separate waxing roomhas three facial waxing stations and three pri-vate body waxing stations.

There is also a station for makeup applicationwith a light that mimics the outdoors and a hostof mineral cosmetics so people can treat them-selves to a special occasion application.

“I have always been artistic and always lovedtalking to people. This incorporates all my tal-ents,” said cosmetology student Lindsey Shidler,Kansas City, Mo., who graduates in May.

Kelcie Wheeler, Overland Park, chose JCCCbecause of its reputation. She already has anoffer to be an apprentice at a local salon aftergraduation.

“I love this work,” Wheeler said. “I can’t imag-ine doing anything else. I like the interactionwith people.”

Cosmetology certificate students receive trainingin hair, nails and skin care during a one-yearcourse of 1,500 clock hours.

JCCC also offers an associate of applied sciencedegree in cosmetology, which Donnelly Collegeaccepts toward a bachelor’s degree. There arethree other certificate programs in the cosme-tology school – nail technology (350 clockhours), esthetics (650 clock hours), advancedesthetics (100 additional clock hours) andadvanced nail course (50 hours). The schooloffers an instructor-training program forlicensed cosmetologists, estheticians and nailtechnicians (300 hours). JCCC uses the PivotPoint curriculum, an internationally recognizedstandard of quality, for all its programs. Comple-tion of any of the cosmetology certificatesprepares students to take the Kansas State Boardof Cosmetology examination in their specialty.

The JCCC cosmetology salon is a full-servicesalon. See the full list of services and hours athttp://www.jccc.edu/cosmetology.

Students, such as Sahar Assaf shown here,practice 500 hours in the classroom before theymove to the salon.

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Vanessa Preston appliesnail art to Jennifer York.

Lauren Mayfield performs askin analysis on KatelinWaymare.

Day from 1-5 p.m. Saturday, April 18, on theJCCC campus.

In celebration of its 40th birthday, JCCC facultyand staff have volunteered to offer the publicmore than 100 free classes as a way to say thankyou to the community.

Classes are offered at 1, 2, 3 and 4 p.m. and last40 minutes. The central courtyard will offerrefreshments, directions and information. In

case of rain, the base will be inthe Commons.

Just to pique your interest, hereare some of the variety of topics:

Anyone Can Act; Arts Tours; ArtHistory: Early Renaissance ThroughModern Art; Introduction to Finan-cial Statements; 2007 MicrosoftWord; Writing Your Own Book: ByKids, For Kids; Parents and YouthSports; The Art of Floral Design;Alzheimer's Disease; Motorcycles inAmerica; Car Care; Business Eti-quette; Dynamic Résumés; ComputerForensics; Video Editing Made Sim-ple; YouTube and Facebook forDummies; Cake Decorating; Intro-

duction to Wireless Networks; Great FashionDesigners of the 20th Century; Handmade Cards;Learn to Knit; Beginning Brazilian Portuguese; Entry

Japanese for the Hobbyist or Tourist; Hebrew Intro-duction; The Real Hercules; Crime Prevention in aHigh-Tech World; Tornadoes in Kansas; ResearchingYour Family; Play Like Tiger; and Introduction toKayaking.

Go to www.jccc.edu/FreeCollegeDay to see acomplete list of classes and register. Classes arefree, but registration is required. For more infor-mation, call 913-469-2323.

Skeptics says there is no such thing as a free lunch. But trust us,

Johnson County Community College is offering a Free College

Community

Diana Ingham, associateprofessor, (left) and JoRandolph, adjunct professor,both interior design, willdemonstrate how you canbe more environmentallyfriendly in your home inGreening Your Home.

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Free College DaySet for April 18

William Brown, associateprofessor, automotivetechnology, has volunteeredfor Motorcycles in America,a class covering the historyand evolution of two-wheeltransportation in Americasince World War II.

Bob Epp, adjunct assistant professor, personalcomputer applications, will teach quick fixes todigital photos in 5 Minutes to a Better Photo.

Faculty

Daniela Frederick talksabout her paper oncorruption in Romania atthe January 2009Professional DevelopmentDays.

papers at international business conferencessince 2005. Her most recent, Corruption inEmerging Economies: The Case of Romania, wasdelivered at the Association for Business andEconomics Research conference, University ofFlorence, Italy, in October 2008.

Frederick, who teaches economics at JCCC, hasprofessional and personal motivations for herresearch topic. A native of Romania, she immi-grated to the U.S. in 1984, when Romania wasa Communist country. She maintains her par-ents’ home in Ploiesti, which she visits everysummer.

“My intention, my dream, was to come tothe United States and live in a democracy,”Frederick said.

Before immigrating to the United States, Fred-erick earned an associate’s degree in businessfrom the College for Foreign Trade, Bucharest,and a master’s degree in French and Italian fromthe University of Bucharest.

Continuing her studies in this country, shereceived a master’s degree in economics fromthe University of Missouri-Kansas City. Shebegan teaching as an adjunct at JCCC in 1995.

With her ability to speak the native language,Frederick was able to research original docu-ments, published proceedings of investigationsand the news media regarding her paper on thecorruption in Romania.

Although Romania has restructured its econ-omy during its transition period to a free marketeconomy (1990-2006) and achieved an eco-nomic growth rate of six percent since it enteredthe European Union in 2007, it faces economicchallenges with corruption, often tolerated bythe government.

During her spring 2009 Staff Professional Devel-opment Days recap of the paper, Frederick talkedabout the causes of corruption – lowsalaries/personal gain, poor law enforcement, an

imperfect judicialsystem, imperfectlegislation and toomany regulations.She discussed sta-tistics inunemployment andexplained the threesteps toward priva-tization – sharesdistributed to indi-viduals and employees (shares that were oftenworthless pieces of paper); mass privatization; andshares to dubious figures, both domestic and for-eign.

Frederick drew surprise from the JCCC audiencewhen she revealed that the medical sector of theeconomy (doctors, dentists, emergency rooms)had the highest incidence of receiving bribes forfavor, a higher incidence than governmentoffices.

Frederick has firsthand knowledge of dealingwith the transition to privatization during herattempt to reclaim her grandparents’ home,taken in 1944 by the Communists with no com-pensation. The government had rented thehouse to four families, but Frederick was able tountangle bureaucratic red tape to regain owner-ship through the help of a lawyer and a SWATteam.

While corruption is tolerated and not consid-ered disreputable in Romania, Frederick seessigns of reform among a new generation of pro-fessionals, police and government officials.

Meanwhile, Frederick enjoys her life in Americaas a teacher, writer and researcher. Her avoca-tions are gardening and rescuing cats.

“It’s a good life,” Frederick said. “I love teaching.I have learned not to be afraid to encounter fail-ures or successes.”

Daniela Frederick, adjunct professor, busi-

ness administration, has delivered three

FrederickResearchesCorruptionin Romania

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JCCC scholar in residence April 6-10 atJohnson County Community College.

During her residency, Oxley will deliver twopublic lectures.

�Media Coverage of War: Presidential Power,News Profits and Democracy at 7 p.m. Wednes-day, April 8, in the M.R. and Evelyn HudsonAuditorium of the Nerman Museum of Con-temporary Art

Overview: How have the news media in theUnited States covered recent wars? How doesthis coverage compare to what we should expectin an open, democratic society? In addressingthese two questions, the presentation will focuson how presidential control of information aswell as the profit-motive of news organizationsresult in news that falls short of the democraticideal. Special emphasis will be placed on thecurrent war in Iraq, but examples will also beprovided from the Vietnam War, the PersianGulf War (1991) and the war in Afghanistan.

�Women, Gender Stereotyping and Elections inthe United States at 11 a.m. Thursday, April 9,in the Craig Community Auditorium

Overview: Compared to past decades, women aremuch more likely to serve in elective officetoday, largely due to the reduction of overt sexdiscrimination. Yet, women today are still muchless likely to run for office and win than aremen. Why? This presentation will focus on oneof the primary explanations for women’s contin-ued underrepresentation: gender stereotyping.Key political actors, such as voters, newsreporters, and party officials, apply their stereo-typical assumptions of women and men toelections, assumptions that often (but notalways) work to disadvantage women.

In addition, Oxley will be a guest lecturer inJCCC political science classes.

Oxley, chair of the department of political sci-ence, Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., has

been a professor at the college since 1998 teach-ing political science, political psychology andwomen’s studies. She has twice led a U.S. Poli-tics Internship Program in Washington, D.C., asa well as a term abroad in York, England.

As an expert in elections, women in politics,public opinion and media coverage in Americanpolitics, Oxley has many publications and ismuch sought-after as a conference participant.

Democratic Ideals, Democratic Practice, a bookOxley co-authored with Rosalee Clawson, waspublished in 2008. One of her works in progress isVariation in Media Coverage of Women Candidates:Gender Stereotypes and Novelty. Other publica-tions she has co-authored include Does RunningWith a Woman Help? Evidence from U.S. Guberna-torial Elections; Women in Executive Office:Variation Across American States;Gender Stereotyp-ing in State Executive Elections: Candidate Selectionand Success; and Philosopher Kings or PoliticalActors? How the Media Portray the Supreme Court.

Oxley has presented at numerous conferencesincluding her most recent as chair and discussant,Political Identity in Action panel, annual meeting,International Society of Political Psychology, July2007; discussant, Political Ideology panel, annualmeeting, Midwest Political Science Association,April 2007; and chair, Explaining the Sources of theGender Gap on Domestic and Foreign Policy Issuespanel, annual meeting, Midwest Political ScienceAssociation, April 2007.

Oxley holds a bachelor’s degree in governmentand legal studies from Bowdoin College,Brunswick, Maine, and a master’s degree anddoctorate in political science, Ohio State Uni-versity, Columbus.

JCCC’s scholar-in-residence program isdesigned to bring visiting scholars to students,faculty and the public. For more informationabout Oxley’s residency, contact Dr. VinceMiller, vmiller4@jccc.edu.

Dr. Zoe Oxley, a researcher in the field

of U.S. media and voting, will be the

OxleyDiscussesMedia,Elections

Scholar inResidence

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Scholar DiscussesMedia in IslamicWorldDr. Mohammed Ibahrine,assistant professor, Schoolof Humanities and SocialScience, Al Akhawayn Uni-versity, Ifrane, Morocco,will be the JCCC scholar inresidence April 13-17.

Ibahrine will give two freepublic lectures:

� U.S. Public DiplomacyToward Islamic Countries:Realities and Challenges?,7-8:30 p.m. Tuesday, April14, in the M.R. and EvelynHudson Auditorium of theNerman Museum of Con-temporary Art, with areception from 6-7 p.m. inthe Atrium; and

� New Media and Neo-Islamism, 1-2 p.m.,Thursday, April 16, HudsonAuditorium.

Ibahrine, who has a doctoratein International Relations andInternational Communicationfrom Hamburg University, isthe author of New Media andNeo-Islamism: New Media'sImpact on the Political Culturein the Islamic World.

Ibahrine’s residency is spon-sored by Karen Schory,professor, interactive media;Stephanie Sabato, professor,graphic design; and CarolynKadel, professor and pro-gram facilitator, InternationalEducation. Title VI grantmoney for Islamic studieswill be used to help fund thisresidency.

Shafer Sees Foodas Root ofSustainability

principles as a market farmer for more than 30years.

Shafer is the fourth and last scholar for the2008-2009 JCCC College Scholars program. Asa Scholar he will give two public lectures:

� Sustenance: Food and the Roots of Sustainability,7 p.m. Wednesday, April 22, Hudson Audito-rium of the Nerman Museum ofContemporary Art.

� What Does Sustenance Mean to JCCC?, 11a.m. Thursday, April 23, Craig CommunityAuditorium, on the second floor of the Gen-eral Education Building.

In the evening presentation, Shafer will discusshow the human species will deal with seriousquestions about sustainability in the 21st century.

“This is a question not only of whether and howmuch we eat, but what we eat and how we pro-duce it,” Shafer said. “How we address thosequestions affects not only our personal healthand well-being, but the health and well-being ofthe planet.”

In his daytime lecture, Shafer will bring sustain-ability efforts to the home front – raising ourcollective conscience about the possibilities ofoffering more locally grown food in dining ser-vices, linking culinary students with local foodproducers and recycling food wastes.

In the 2008-2009 academic year, Shafer startedteaching two new classes related to his areas ofresearch and experience. In fall 2008, he initi-ated Commercial Crop Production, a three-hourcredit class designed to teach prospective,beginning and experienced market farmers to bemore productive and ecological. The horticul-ture class is required as part of the sustainableagriculture entrepreneurship certificate.

In spring 2009, Shafer for the first time is teach-ing Sociology of Food, a three-hour credit classcourse that deals with how people’s relationshipscenter around food. A sociology class, the courseaddresses issues of culture – identity, power andecology – through the focus of food.

Shafer has a bachelor’s degree in English andenvironmental studies from Western MichiganUniversity, a master’s degree in sociology fromthe University of Kansas and an ABD (all butdissertation) in sociology from the University ofCalifornia, San Diego.

Hands-on experience includes more than 30years in cooperative groceries, homesteadingand the organic farming movement, as well as10 years of experience in the community-supported agriculture movement. During mostof his adult life, he has maintained two careers –one as a certified organic farmer of fruits andvegetables and one as a JCCC professor.

As social movements around food and sustain-ability have emerged, Shafer proves the idealscholar to talk about their convergence in twoscholarly presentations.

Stu Shafer, professor, sociology, knows a lot about sustainable

agriculture. He researches it, teaches it and has followed its

JCCCScholar

Stu Shafer hasmaintained two careersduring most of his adultlife – certified organicfarmer and JCCCprofessor.

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Celebrate JCCCTurning 40

“You say it’s your birthday ... We’re gonna have good time.”

The Beatles sang about a good time, and JCCC is going to continue therefrain. In honor of JCCC’s 40th birthday, Dollars for Scholars, the annualbenefit for student assistance and programming, will have a birthdaytheme when it takes place at 6:30 p.m. Friday, April 24, at the RitzCharles, 9000 W. 137th St.

The evening will feature live and silent auctions, buffet dinner, beverages,raffle, games of chance and entertainment. Tickets are $25 a person, $15for students with a JCCC ID or $240 for a reserved table of eight.

Included in the auction are hundreds of items, ranging from certificatesto restaurants and services, vacation getaways and sports memorabilia.

The co-chairs are Tom and Mary Martha Carrico, members of the Foun-dation Board of Directors who have volunteered for the auction forseveral years.

The 2008 auction raised more than $50,000 with the help of 250 volunteersmade up of alumni, students, faculty, staff and community friends.

To volunteer, make reservations for the auction or donate an item,contact Kristin McDaniel, auction coordinator, JCCC Foundation,913-469-3835, kmcdanl@jccc.edu.

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