Guest Commentary by Kathy Bareiss of MPS on Mesa Counts on College
After a whirlwind six months that saw four liberal arts colleges agree to set up shop in downtown Mesa, the city is probably finished with that phase of its college-recruitment drive. Mesa has taken great pains to knit the four schools into the fabric of community life, involving them in early discussions with Mesa Public Schools, MCC and groups such as the Mesa Chamber of Commerce.
Mason Steill, 22, grew up in Chandler. He graduated from Corona del Sol High School in 2008 and went to Mesa Community College and, somewhere along the way, decided to take his life in a different direction. Which is how he came to be Army Spc. Mason D. Steill, combat medic.
Congestive heart failure is not something commonly associated with young, otherwise healthy dancers, but here sits MCC dancer Mia Welch, waiting; she’s waiting for a heart.
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Mesa has secured a fourth liberal arts college for a planned higher education center that’s set to open downtown in the fall of 2013.
Justin Decker and Dana Yanch are Mesa Community College graduates who have found that networking—on both the technical and personal sides—has resulted in lucrative career opportunities within east Valley companies.
The idea was to take a sprawling desert suburb, better known for senior-living trailer parks than for schools, and retrofit it with the kinds of colleges that sprang up in America's older regions, decades or even centuries ago.
Burkhart Appointed Community College Provost
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Students enrolled in the MCC summer academic enrichment program known as STEP ventured from the classroom of text books and theory to walk the actual halls, engage former students and gain a first- hand experience of the school for Colored children which was later renamed George Washington Carver High.
MCC’s Federal Work-Study Fair is highlighted. (minue 21.20)
Glasper shares his vision for strong leadership and disruptive innovation as he discusses the challenges and opportunities faced by his community college system.
MCC’s Federal Work-Study Fair is highlighted. (minue 21.20)
Wearing a Mesa Community College T-shirt while working out at Lifetime Fitness in Burr Ridge, Gary Mayberry got to talking with somebody who had also attended that school.
Numerous records set by the athletes competing in this year's Arizona Junior Olympics Girls State Track Meet, at Mesa Community College, this past weekend.
Last fall, 21-year-old Mia Welch took the phrase “dancing your heart out” to a whole new level. It all began in summer 2010, when she was attending Mesa Community College and dancing 14 hours a week with the school’s summer dance company. Tribune coverage: http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/local/article_04609bb4-6a4e-11e1-a3d3-0019bb2963f4.html http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/local/mesa/…
Wentworth just finished up her second semester at Mesa Community College. She is working on her associate's degree in psychology, hoping to transfer to a four-year university to pursue a degree that would allow her to work with special-education children, she said.
New Provost at Mesa Community College--Coverage
Jessica Bailey Brooke is getting a head start on life after skipping the 8th grade and high school and starting college classes at the age of 12. Now 14, the Gilbert girl is graduating Friday at Mesa Community College with two associates degrees.
Welch, a graduate of McClintock High School in Tempe once danced for the Mesa Community College dance company, was diagnosed with an enlarged heart in 2010. Doctors believe that it was caused by a virus that attacked her heart, but by the time she ended up in the hospital with cardiac issues, the virus was gone.