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…
MCC Biotechnology Director Stan Kikkert told CBS5 that he found thousands of different types of bacteria in a sample of run-off flood water following the recent storm. Excerpt: "We see lots and lots of different colonies - different shapes and colors," said Kikkert. "That tells us right there, it gives us a hint of the diversity that's present in the standing water." Two segments…
Excerpt: Giving children the experience of meeting their favorite fairy-tale characters no longer has to be a vacation. Spoonful of Sugar Events makes it possible to have princesses right at your doorstep. Spoonful of Sugar Events was created by 21-year-old Danielle Jake, a lifelong Ahwatukee resident, and 19-year-old Ryann Franklin. The two young entrepreneurs decided to start the business this…
Storm chaser Reed Timmer will speak about his experiences at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 17, at MCC. Mr. Timmer is one of a few to document an F5 tornado as well as Hurricane Katrina, according to a press release.
The dental hygiene program at MCC is seeking patients who have not received entail care in three or more years to participate in its clinical education program.
Case Study Excerpt: "The Arizona Advanced Manufacturing Institute (AzAMI) of Mesa Community College (MCC) is helping meet the need for qualified, employable workers in the advanced manufacturing sectors, industries vital to Arizona, by building on workers’ prior experience, aligning training to industry needs and using innovative approaches to learning including Tooling U-SME…
Veteran Services at Mesa Community College is honoring U.S. troops with a moment of silence and flag-raising ceremony 8:30-9:30 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 11, at Veterans’ Rose Garden at the college, 1833 W. Southern Ave. The garden entrance is the driveway closest to Dobson Road on Southern.
Excerpt of letter to the editor by Wayne Block, MCC SID: "My school, Mesa Community College, and, I am sure, Phoenix College and all junior colleges in Arizona have dozens of athletes who were in the top 10 percent of their high-school class, National Honor Society members and honor-roll members. In fact, one recent football player is now at Cornell, a school not likely to accept…
Excerpt from Letter to the Editor: "The benefits of college athletics, as well as high-school sports, are far too numerous to outline here and have been expressed many times over the years. My outrage at his letter has primarily to do with his closing comment "Eliminate (PC) sports and maybe those athletes mentioned will get with the program and up those grades and pull themselves up out of the…
Community college book club to discuss 'Eating Animals'
The Hechinger Report, a publication devoted to reporting about education, has published a major article on Maricopa's innovative ideas and activities.
Tony Cirelli, baseball coach at Mesa Community College, has been named National Coach of the Year by the American Baseball Coaches Association and Division II Conference Coach of the Year by his peers in Arizona.