CSN Geology professor Cindy Shroba addresses a gathering on the Charleston campus to honor the victims of the recent shooting at Umpqua Community College.
Today, faculty, staff and students at the College of Southern Nevada joined their colleagues at community colleges across the nation in pausing to remember the victims of the recent shooting at Umpqua Community College in Oregon.
On CSN’s Henderson campus, Senior Vice President of Strategic Initiatives and Administrative Services Patty Charlton talks about the shooting in Oregon.
“Let’s show Umpqua that we all stand with them as they begin the process of healing their campus community,” American Association of Community Colleges President Walter Bumphus wrote in a message to colleges.
At each of CSN’s three campuses at 11 a.m., college officials noted the purpose of the event. “As educators and students,” they said, “as a community who cares about learning and sharing knowledge, we are all Umpqua Community College.”
CSN Vice President of Finance Mary Kaye Bailey addresses the gathering on the Cheyenne campus.
Simultaneously, Oregon media reported, Umpqua Community College officials counted out the numbers one through nine in front of the college’s welcome center, just a short walk from where nine people were killed and nine others were injured in the Oct. 1 shooting.