The College of St. Scholastica, a private Catholic Benedictine school, offers access to online graduate-level certificate programs to Arizona students.St. Scholastica recently launched a social work program in partnership with Mesa Community College.
Spc. Bryce Parker, a Mesa Community College student and a civil affairs specialist, is competing with 12 other soldiers in the Army’s Best Warrior competition.
Kizzy and Rathen Ricedorff competed in the Newlywed Game with the ASU State Press. Rathen attends Mesa Community College and is currently the starting quarterback.
Cesar Calderon, 26, knows what it means to be shut out of insurance.A DACA recipient and student at Mesa Community College in Mesa, Arizona, he has been disabled since he was nearly killed in a car crash in 2006. After spending several weeks in a coma in an Arizona hospital, the staff there decided to transfer him to a clinic in Mexico in a controversial practice known as medical…
Students and teachers should be ready to fight for the lives and attack mass shooters if necessary, according to a security alert by one of the largest community college systems in the U.S.The advisory was sent to students at the Maricopa Community Colleges after Thursday’s killings at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, gives tips on how to escape and hide from "active shooters."
The National Science Foundation has awarded Finger Lakes Community College a $1.5 million grant to continue its work in developing undergraduate research programs in its classrooms and laboratories and at other community colleges across the country.The success of the pilot led to a $3.35 million grant and the establishment of CCURI in 2011. Since then, CCURI has developed a network of 60 partner…
Mesa Community College (MCC) has been awarded a TRIO Student Support Services Grant (SSS) from the U.S. Department of Education to help college students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds succeed in obtaining a higher education. MCC will receive $220,000 annually for five years to increase retention, graduation, and transfer rates of eligible students.
Food Tank has rounded up a list of 22 programs, both nationally and internationally, that integrate food into their curriculums. These programs include the culinary arts, farming practicum, food security degrees, and food justice studies.MCC's Sustainable Food Systems Program is one of those programs. MCC offers both a degree and a certificate in Sustainable Food Systems. Both…
Aeron Carr and Rathen Ricedorff of Mesa Community College were named WSFL players of the week on special teams and offense, respectively, for their performances in a double-overtime 55-52 victory over Phoenix College.
Kizzy Ricedorff was in celebration mode, signing autographs after Arizona State volleyball's upset of then No. 6 Illinois last Saturday when she learned that her husband Rathen, playing quarterback a few miles away for Mesa Community College, had suffered a serious hand injury.
Mesa Community College quarterback Rathen Ricedorff and Paradise Valley soccer star Megan Schulze don’t know each other, but they have more in common than they realize. Both players are Phoenix natives who left the Valley for short periods of time but found their way back.Ricedorff grew up in Mesa. His father was an assistant coach on the MCC football team for two years, and the father’s…
Update on Fiesta District changes.
Article about the local maker movement with quote from Mesa Community College employee Paul Hickey. The movement, still in its infancy, embraces technological change. It brings people together in community spaces to make things, and make them better."Paul Hickey, 31, of Chandler, was in the back, using the laser cutter to make an acrylic plaque. He said it’s not difficult to use…
-The public is invited to tour the recently completed Mesa Community College Enrollment and Student Success Centers from 10 a.m. to noon on Sept. 29. Following an opening ceremony attendees may tour the facilities.Also, MCC Partners with St. Scholastica
Previous MCC athlete in USA Today.
The Valley’s growing love affair with food trucks and their ever-expanding culinary possibilities is dishing up controversy in some areas, where owners of traditional restaurants are making it clear they don’t want the competition and would prefer the vehicles keep their distance.In Mesa, an effort to establish regular food-truck events was launched in the Las Sendas area in early…
Article by Emily Dimson in the Blazing Star, a publication put out by the North American Native Plant Society, about teaching at the Red Mountain Campus.Pages 4-6
Tempe resident Carly Leonard, a U.S. Air Force veteran and staff member at Mesa Community College's Veterans Service Center, chats it up with a participant in the 32-mile roundtrip ride that began at MCC's main campus at Dobson Road and Southern Avenue, and stretched all the way to the college's Red Mountain campus and back.
Paul Patterson, MCC Program Coordinator for CCIP International Student Grant, was the Mystery Guest on Mesa Morning Live. The Mesa Chamber of Commerce sponsors the show. Video of Mesa Morning Live Show
The induction class for the Mountain Pointe Hall of Fame might be the smallest in the five years of existence, but the impact the individuals had was anything but slight.Sam Ballard molded young players into men while taking the boys basketball team to the brink of the state title game. Ballard knows a little something about playing at a high level as he took over the basketball program soon…
Dr. Brian Dille, Professor of Political Science, talks about the refugee crisis. (Link to come)
Insight into the I-10 shootings from Mesa Community College Psychological Science and ASU Criminal Justice Professor, Tim Franklin:
Adults can continue their education with 61 extracurricular learning classes offered this fall from New Frontiers for Lifelong Learning.An open house will be held 1-3 p.m. Friday, Sept. 18, at the Mesa Community College Downtown Center, 145 N. Centennial Way.Classes meet at the Main and Red Mountain campuses of MCC, the MCC Downtown Center, the East Valley…
The Gila County Cowbelles recently awarded two $1,000 scholarships. One went to Kylie Ridley in memory of Cowbelles’ founding member Laura Mae Holder. Ridley is enrolled in Barrett Honors College at Arizona State University to study biomedicine to pursue a career as a veterinarian.A second scholarship donated by the Arizona Cattle Growers Association went to Kelsey Barlow. She plans to pursue a…
WalletHub said it studied 670 community colleges in the country and ranked them over four criteria: cost and financing, classroom experience, education outcomes and career outcomes. Mesa Community College was No. 363.