Embry-Riddle cross country runner Adrian Castillo used CPR to resuscitate a Mesa Community College runner who had collapsed during the inaugural ERAU Invitational Oct. 4.Daily CourierRunner's World
Best places to practice driving: any community college campus on weekends. Mesa Community College is the largest of the 10 community colleges in the Maricopa County Community College District, 1833 W Southern Ave, Mesa. Maximum speed on campus is 15 miles per hour.
Backed by a $108,900 Environmental Protection Agency grant. Mesa Community College teamed up with RighTrac Inc. and the Roosevelt School District to develop aquaponics, a new type of farming that combines raising plants with raising fish. Chronkite News video
The Arizona Rattlers coaching staff will continue to remain at the helm of the Arena Football League world champions. The team has announced the signing of assistant coaches Kani Kauahi and Dave Ewart to contract extensions. Kauahi began his coaching career in 1995 as the offensive line coach at Mesa Community College.
Article about ASU women's basketball mentions MCC alumni Promise Amukamara and her younger sister, Peace. The Mesa Community College transfer was the NJCAA Division II Player of the Year.
Coinciding with Manufacturing Day, Tooling U-SME, a leader in manufacturing training and development, recently presented its Platinum Education Center designation to six community and technical colleges nationwide, including Mesa Community College.
MCC alum Ben Garcia is one of ten finalists in New Times' Best Concert Photographer contest.
Mesa Community College (MCC) will host an Open House in celebration of the completion of its new 462-seat Performing Arts Center (PAC). The free event is open to the public and will be held on Saturday, October 25 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at MCC’s Southern and Dobson campus (1833 W. Southern Ave., Mesa). MCTV Video at minute 12HVACR Today (page 14)Mesa Independent (Ribbon Cutting)AZ…
“Rumpelstiltskin” at Mesa Community College: 7 p.m. evening shows and 2 p.m. matinees at Mesa Community College, 1833 W. Southern Ave. in Mesa. This play based on the classic fairy tale is written by Linda Daugherty and directed by Kevin Dressler. For more information on showtimes or to purchase tickets, visit www.ezticketlive.com/mcc.
Beginning this fall, students can take NAU business classes at MCC.
MCC alum Stephanie Salazar is now director of East Valley community and municipal relations in ASU’s Office of Public Affairs on the Polytechnic campus.
As a sign of its commitment to Mesa and the greater Phoenix area, Wilkes University will award $5,000 scholarships to the first 30 qualified transfer students to be accepted and enroll in its business bachelor’s degree programs. The Founders Scholarships, good for two years, build on a newly signed transfer agreement with the Maricopa Community Colleges and further the missions of both…
A Pennsylvania university with a satellite campus in Mesa is the latest higher education institution to have a transfer agreement with the community college district that serves the Phoenix area.Wilkes University's agreement with the Maricopa County Community College District smoothes the transfer process for students to complete their bachelor's degree in business at Wilkes.
Maricopa Community Colleges announced that two of its skill centers will receive part of a $10 million federal job-training grant co-administered by the U.S. Departments of Labor and Education. This is the fourth and final round of TAACCCT funding; three Maricopa Community Colleges — Rio Salado, Estrella Mountain and Mesa Community College — have received funding in the past.
Students who showed their posters and presented their research at the CCURI Spring Student Colloquium at Mesa Community College last February presented their project at a national poster session in Washington D.C.
Jennifer Rose, a 22-year-old student at Mesa Community College, is seeking a dog from Arizona Goldens to help with epilepsy. Her dog will cost $17,500 because it must have a vest to carry her medicines. In five months, she's raised $1,000 of the $17,500 needed from online fundraisers and a website.
MCC is featured in several stories in the Fourth Quarter 2014 edition of the City of Mesa's Economic Reporter.
Mesa Community College, in partnership with the Roosevelt School District, received a two-year $108,000 grant to create an Urban Horticulture Center.South Mountain District News
MCC is offering students, their family members and the community tools and resources to better understand and manage their finances during a series of workshops.
Mesa Community College has organized a candlelight vigil for Oct. 6 to honor domestic violence victims.
Excerpt: "The grant was for the environmental education,” Conden said. “We figure what’s a better way to teach people environmental education than through aquaponics?”"The program is divided into several stages, but it includes teaching seminars on gardening and sub-granting to aquaponics STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) programs in local school districts. The…
Excerpt: "Mesa Community College, on the west end of the district, has poured millions into its own campus in recent years, adding student facilities that are also community attractions. "A $15 million, 462-seat performing arts center is set to open at MCC next month, with the musical "Hairspray" as its first show. The college redeveloped an old Harkins movie theater to support the arts center…
Excerpt: "Reed Timmer is called the world's most extreme storm chaser and for good reason. He drives into the eye of the storms as the star of the Discovery Channel's Storm Chasers. "Wednesday night, he was in Arizona to speak at the Mesa Community College Honors Program Lecture Series."
Storm chaser to speak Sept. 17 at Mesa Community College Staff report Independent Newsmedia Inc. USA Updated September 16, 2014 Storm chaser Reed Timmer will speak about his experiences at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 17, at Mesa Community College, 1833 W. Southern Ave. Mr. Timmer is one of few to document an F5 tornado as well as Hurricane Katrina, according to a…
Excerpt: The Urban Horticulture and Agribusiness program at Mesa Community College (MCC), in partnership with the Roosevelt School District and RighTrac, Inc., received a two-year$108,000Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Environmental Education grant to establish a Center for Urban Agriculture (CUA). The Center will serve as a hub for the…