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Nishia Ikezoe Heard named senior director of COD s Student Financial Assistance, Veteran Services and Scholarships Nishia Ikezoe Heard is senior director of Student Financial Assistance, Veteran Services and Scholarships at College of DuPage. Courtesy of College of DuPage
Updated 12/17/2020 6:14 PM
In her new role as senior director of Student Financial Assistance, Veteran Services and Scholarships at College of DuPage, Nishia Ikezoe Heard is striving to remove financial barriers to education through an ongoing commitment to empowering and educating students.
The Homewood resident has a passion for helping students navigate the financial aid process due to her own experience as a first-generation college student.
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Moraine Valley Community College alumnus Mike La Mantia, of Chicago s Mount Greenwood neighborhood, was one of the top scorers in Illinois for the Microsoft Office Specialist Excel certification exam, qualifying him for the Microsoft Office Specialist U.S. National Championship in June 2021.
La Mantia took a Microsoft Excel class in fall 2019 with Carol Boyle, Moraine Valley professor of Office Technology and certification testing coordinator. When he sat for the certification exam, a requirement for the class, he performed advanced Excel tasks. Top exam scorers in each state are invited to the national tournament, which was canceled in June due to the pandemic but rescheduled for June 2021. La Mantia earned a near-perfect score. He transferred to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is studying finance and agribusiness.