To say that community service is a family value for Devin Oakes and his family would be an understatement.At a family reunion recently, about 60 members of Oakes’ extended clan gathered at an elementary school in northern Arizona and built planter boxes for a community garden. As he grew up, outings with his parents often involved helping others.In that respect, it’s not surprising that Oakes…
Former MCC student president Andrew Kuhn appears in Westminster College Leadership magazine:
Mesa Community College’s Act I Musical Productions will present Mel Brooks’ “The Producers” next month at its campus at Southern Avenue and Dobson Road.Based on the hit 1968 film of the same name, the musical is built around a washed-up Broadway producer and his mild-mannered accountant, who scheme to get rich quick by producing the most notorious flop in the history of show business.Showtimes…
Germaine Morris graduated summa cum laude in August from Arizona State University’s College of Public Programs with a bachelor’s in social work with a minor in communication. She attended MCC.
After being addicted to drugs, losing her son and finding herself homeless, Valerie Le Grande dedicated herself to getting clean and sober and returning to college. Now she is one of two recipients of Phi Theta Kappa’s $1,000 GEICO Business Student Scholarships.A business administration major at Mesa Community College in Arizona, Le Grande earned a 4.0 grade point average, and she plans to…
At minute 5.04, Mesa Community College employees are quoted about how the Health Care Act impacts their lives.
Dr. Shouan Pan said the addition of new Mesa colleges will give local students additional options if they are looking for a smaller campus environment or a school with a religious affiliation.
Five art teachers in metro Phoenix — including two from the Southeast Valley — who excel at applying those traits in their teaching are the subject of “Inspire,” an exhibition of artwork from their classrooms, Friday, Sept. 27, through Sunday, Jan. 5, at the young@art gallery of the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, 7374 E. Second St. in Scottsdale. Teachers Shelley Richardson of Mesa…
Northern Arizona University has been awarded a $448,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to support career and educational pathways in geospatial technology.Through the Geospatial Connections Promoting Advancement to Careers and Higher Education, or GEOCACHE, project, NAU will partner with Mesa Community College to integrate GST and project-based learning in new…
The Maricopa County Community College District will hire about 360 new full-time faculty members over the next several years as a way to keep students from dropping out.
Mesa Community College’s dental-hygiene program is looking for patients who have not received dental-hygiene care in at least three years to help students meet a requirement for challenging cases. Specifically sought are people who have been diagnosed with periodontal disease and have never been treated as well as those with other conditions such as puffy and bleeding gums.
After the “gut-wrenching” process of whittling 17 qualified candidates down to one, the Mesa City Council has selected broadcast professional, teacher and Latino-community advocate David Luna to replace former Councilwoman Dina Higgins in northeast Mesa. Luna is adjunct faculty in MCC's communications department.
An Op-Ed submitted by Submitted by Shouan Pan, Mesa Community College president, and Patrick J. Burkhart, provost of MCC’s Red Mountain Campus and Downtown Center.As Mesa Community College prepares to celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2015 as a foundational provider of higher education for the East Valley, we are pleased to play a new role as a transformational partner in supporting…
Mesa Morning Live, a monthly television program hosted and produced by the Mesa Chamber of Commerce and Mesa’s Channel 11, will welcome unique guests this Friday including a man nicknamed “The Human Calculator” for his super-speedy math skills.Scott Flansburg, who holds the Guinness World Record for adding the same number to itself more times in 15 seconds than a person can do using a calculator…
New Frontiers for Lifelong Learning, an organization of over 400 members operating under the auspices of Mesa Community College, has scheduled an open house next week to introduce people to its large array of fall courses and programs.
If you wanted to tell the story of Arizona using one 2,000-acre piece of real estate, Dobson Ranch would be as good a piece as any.In the blink of history’s eye, it was transformed from raw desert to cattle ranch to master-planned suburban utopia, following Arizona’s swift arc from rusticity to modernity. MCC is mentioned in this article.
Administrators at local post-secondary colleges say the year-plus debate over increases in student loan rates has created an additional level of precaution in terms of loans and class loads for prospective and current students.
A crowd of more than 250 gathered in downtown Mesa Tuesday for a blessing and ribbon-cutting in the building that was once Mesa’s Southside Hospital and is now home to Arizona’s first Catholic university.Steffen Spreng, who is 20 years old and transferring to the university from Mesa Community College, said he’s excited to “see the Christian Community growing in Mesa,” even though he is not…
The father of an Arizona teenager whose body was found near his abandoned SUV in the woods of southern Oregon said his son was "a young man who had a broken heart." He had intended to begin classes at MCC this semester.
Investigators are trying to find an Arizona teenager whose car was abandoned in southwest Oregon. He was headed back to Arizona after a trip to Washington, to start his first day of college this week. But he never made it. He was due to begin classes at Mesa Community College this past Monday.
If you would like to volunteer to improve the lives of veterans or students, or strengthen Mesa’s older neighborhoods while also earning a modest stipend, you’re invited to look into five VISTA positions that have been awarded to Mesa United Way.Three of the positions are at Mesa Community College and are aimed at strengthening services that help students succeed; two of them are in the Veterans…
Even though the Obama administration has granted large companies a one-year reprieve under the Affordable Care Act, some employers are scrambling this year to prepare for the nation’s health-care overhaul.Maricopa Community Colleges cited the Affordable Care Act for its decision to limit the hours of about 700 part-time adjunct professors and 600 employees to 1,300 hours each year. That equates…
Op Ed by Patrick Burkhart, Provost of MCC's Red Mountain Campus and Downtown Center. http://issuu.com/timespub/docs/view0813/15?e=8633901/4265770
Ten students from Mesa Public Schools received a sampling of what a career in the health and engineering fields would be like during a four-week program designed to help them prepare for jobs in those fields.The students participated in the STEM Scholars Project, presented by the East Valley Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.The pilot program, funded in part through a grant from Mesa Counts on…
First it was bars, restaurants and office buildings. Now the front lines of the “No Smoking” battle have moved outdoors. MCC is an example.