New Titles at the Rio Salado Library for April

Check out the latest in fiction, nonfiction and DVD releases from the Rio Salado Library, including blockbuster movies like Get Out, Loving Vincent and Murder on the Orient Express!

This is a free service for Rio Salado students and staff. You can arrange for free pick up and drop off at Rio Salado locations across the Valley. Let us know if you have a special request by calling 480-517-8424.

Fiction

• Bad Daughter: A Novel by Joy Fielding
• Census: A Novel by Jesse Ball
• First Person: A Novel by Richard Flanagan
• I’ll Be Your Blue Sky: A Novel by Marisa De Los Santos
• I’ve Got My Eyes On You: A Novel by Mary Higgins Clark
• Jackrabbit Smile by Joe R. Lansdale
• Lawn Boy: A Novel by Jonathan Evison
• Promise: A Novel by Minrose Gwin
• Speak No Evil: A Novel by Iweala Uzodinma
• Varina: A Novel by Charles Frazier 

Nonfiction

• Ask a North Korean: Defectors Talk About Their Lives Inside the World’s Most Secretive Nation by Daniel Tudor
• The CEO Next Door: The 4 Behaviors that Transform Ordinary People into World-Class Leaders by Elena Botelho, Kimberly R. Powell, and Tahl Raz
• Dream and Legacy: Dr. Martin Luther King in the Post-Civil Rights Era by Michael L. Clemons, Donathan L. Brown, and William H.L. Dorsey, eds.
• Faith and Resistance in the Age of Trump by Miguel De La Torre, ed.
• Feed the Baby Hummus: Pediatrician-Backed Secrets from Cultures Around the World by Lisa E. Lewis
• How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life by Catherine Price
• Nimble: Make Yourself and Your Company Resilient in the Age of Constant Change by Baba Prasad
• Selfie: How We Became SO Self-Obsessed and What it’s Doing to Us by Will Storr
• The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton
• Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality by Sarah McBride

DVDs

• Baby Driver
• Get Out
• Loving Vincent
• Murder on the Orient Express
• Victoria & Abdul

This list is updated throughout the month as new books arrive. To view the complete list
of new titles from previous months, please see the Library New Titles Archive.

College Savings Tips from @azcentral

Check out this azcentral story and discussion with news staff about how to get an Arizona university degree for less money. 

Rio Salado and the Maricopa Community Colleges are ready to help you make the most of your time, money and passion-- with online options, flexible Monday starts, seamless transfers and more. We look forward to being of service to you!

Rio Salado proudly provides distance-education to students in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. For more information about programs and classes available in your state, please visit www.riosalado.edu/about/research-planning/state-authorization/Pages/default.aspx

Celebrate Your Graduation with Us!

Here's to Rio Salado College 2018 grads! We look forward to celebrating your accomplishments at our 2018 commencement ceremony on Wednesday, May 9, at Comerica Theatre.

Pictured above is this year's student speaker, Jamie Peredo, an honors graduate of Rio Salado’s dental hygiene program. You'll be hearing more about her soon!

Check out this event page for the latest details on how to prepare for our commencement ceremony and to download your 2018 Grad Badge.

We also encourage you to join us for Maricopa Community Colleges convocations to celebrate your accomplishments. 

What is a convocation? Watch this video to learn more and then visit events.maricopa.edu/event/2018-convocations.

Free Urban Nocturnes Performance Today at Noon!

Join Rio Salado's Honors Program for a free concert performance featuring Urban Nocturnes at the Rio Saldo Conference Center today, April 17 beginning at noon.

Urban Nocturnes is a chamber group with the Phoenix Symphony, founded by Karen Sinclair, violin, and Christopher McKay, viola. They are Artists-in-Residence at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in downtown Phoenix as well as full-time members of The Phoenix Symphony.

We hope to see you there!

Rio Salado Conference Center
2323 W. 14th St.
Tempe, AZ 85281

40th Anniversary Throwback Thursday 1988-90

Welcome to the past! Our next stop on the 40th anniversary Throwback Thursday timeline is 1988-90.

Rio Salado College celebrated its 10th anniversary in 1988. At the time, it was noted that Rio was the first community college in the Valley, and often the first in Arizona or across the nation, to try a new service or unique program:

• First mail registration 
• First telephone registration 
• First automatic computer registration 
• First to distribute class schedules via Circle K Stores 
• First to try modem delivered instruction 
• First to provide a radio reading service for the visually-impaired 

In an effort to create alternative course delivery systems to meet student needs, the college began offering classes via audio teleconference on the SUNDIAL Network. “The network allows students to participate in credit classes from the privacy of their homes.”

In 1990, Dr. Charles Green departed Rio, and Dr. Linda Thor (pictured above) was named the new college president. At the time, she said, "The Maricopa District in Phoenix is one of the premiere community college districts in the nation, and this was a once-in-a-decade opening for a college president."

Do you remember this time? Share your photos, stories and memories via email to RSCmemories@riosalado.edu or social media using the hashtag #RioSaladoCollege40th.

Celebrate National Library Week April 8-14, 2018!

First recognized in 1958, National Library Week is a national observance sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and libraries across the country each April. 

It is a time to celebrate the contributions of our nation's libraries and librarians and to promote library use and support.

Check out this National Library Week guide, created by the Rio Salado Library. It highlights many of the practical resources and services that make the Rio Library an indispensable source of student support. Happy reading!

KJZZ Hosts Explore Arizona StoryFest May 12

Join KJZZ 91.5 FM for EXPLORE ARIZONA StoryFest and Expo at the Mesa Convention Center on Saturday, May 12, from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. 

The family-friendly event will showcase some of the state’s most animated storytellers and features booths from popular and unique Arizona destinations. 

Pre-registered listeners will have the chance to record their stories of family, success, discovery and more. Recording time slots will be booked on a first-come, first-served basis at https://storyfest.kjzz.org

KJZZ’s mobile studio and food truck Soundbite will also be on hand. 

Tickets are $10. Children 13 and under are free. 

The event benefits Sun Sounds of Arizona and is presented in partnership with the Arizona Storytellers Project and South Mountain Community College's Storytelling Institute.