We will have Student Services Saturday from 9am-12pm Admissions, Advisement, Financial Aid, and Testing Services will be available for those needing services on the weekend!

The college’s community band and orchestra are presenting their annual shared spring concert. Featured composers include Beethoven, Wagner, Nat King Cole, Standridge, Holsinger, La Plante, and more. Admission is free.

Phi Theta Kappa is the international honor society for community colleges. PTK provides recognition of academic excellence and opportunities for personal and professional development. Full membership is by invitation only, and provisional membership in the JALC chapter only is open to all students. For more information, contact the PTK Chapter Advisor at ptk@jalc.edu or 618-985-2828, ext. 8522.

STEM Club allows students to work together in project-based activities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

For this “Healing Illinois” racial healing initiative, the Carbondale Branch NAACP is sponsoring a one-day conference, followed by a series of book discussions (‘The Sum of Us’), and leading to the formation of an annual conference and/or an on-going ‘banned’ book club.
“Thriving Together” a southern Illinois, racial healing conference will be held both in-person and virtually on Friday, May 3, 2024. This will provide the opportunity for attendees to share space with one another and with the intention of making the conference available to the larger community, including those who would like to participate but are unable to attend in person. The venue is John A Logan College. Sessions, and keynote remarks will be streamed live for online participants.
Transferring resources to communities targeted by racism is an important aspect of promoting racial healing and addressing systemic disparities. The closing session will involve conference attendees working in groups to create and commit to actions for transferring information and resources shared during the conference to their communities, and advocating for policy changes at the local, state, and national levels to dismantle systemic racism and promote equity, after the conference.
The ‘Thriving Together’ conference on racial healing would address various problems, issues, and community needs related to racial injustice, discrimination, and historical trauma. Some of the key areas include, but is not limited to: systemic racism, racial healing and reconciliation, historical trauma, social and economic disparities, community empowerment, policy advocacy, social and political engagement, and resource allocation.
The past several years have been unlike any other. Marginalized communities continue to live in a continuous state of insecurity and unstableness with a health pandemic, now in its third year, that continues to disproportionately affect people of color; war in the middle east; an unstable economy with inflation rising faster than wages; attacks against our rights to vote, one’s right to make decisions about our own bodies, and to teach this country’s true history.
As the country continues to wrestle with the fallout from the 2020 election, and head towards the 2024, very critical election for the future of what America now calls a democracy and for the true multicultural, multiracial democracy we envision and work toward, The “Thriving Together’ Conference will provide a unique collaborative space for discussions and strategies to continue advancing racial justice. The conference will offer southern Illinoisans access to information, tools, and resources on racial equity, allowing community members an opportunity to engage in deep discussions, presentations, and organizing efforts.
With our democracy and freedoms at stake, community members will be encouraged to attend “Thriving Together”, in-person or online, to help chart the path to create and build the society we want and deserve. The present is a decisive and furious moment in history – a time to press forward in solidarity as a coalition of community members working and thriving together.

Conference agenda:
Opening Remarks
Keynote Speaker – Heather McGhee, author of ‘The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

Panel – Bridging the Israeli / Palestine Divide
Session – Political Advocacy
Panel – Bridging Borders: Exploring the Dynamics of Immigration
Session – Racism & Racial Trauma: Impact on Mental Health
Closing Session – Networking: Concerned & Committed
Reviews of ‘The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

Phi Theta Kappa is the international honor society for community colleges. PTK provides recognition of academic excellence and opportunities for personal and professional development. Full membership is by invitation only, and provisional membership in the JALC chapter only is open to all students. For more information, contact the PTK Chapter Advisor at ptk@jalc.edu or 618-985-2828, ext. 8522.

Student Senate is JALC’s student government association representing the voice of the student body and organizing service projects that benefit the campus and community. For more information, contact Student Senate Co-Advisors at studentsenate@jalc.edu or 618-985-2828, ext. 8522 or 8588.

STEM Club allows students to work together in project-based activities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.