MESA, Arizona – Feb. 27, 2019 – Mesa Community College releases a customized version of Emsi Career Coach, a web-based tool which uses comprehensive labor market data to help students match their interests to specific occupations and identifies available academic programs to achieve their career goals. In addition to compiling rich, Valley-specific workforce data such as occupational growth and…
MESA, Arizona – Feb. 27, 2019 -- Shereen Lerner, anthropology faculty, and Rick Effland, anthropology faculty emeritus at Mesa Community College, are co-authors of “Connecting the Dots: Teaching Archaeology and Social Relevance” in a newly published edited volume Pedagogy and Practice in Heritage Studies, by the University of Florida Press, edited by Susan J. Bender and Phyllis Mauch…
MESA, Arizona – Feb. 24, 2019 – Mesa Community College (1833 W. Southern Ave.) invites the public to an afternoon of art, theatre and thought-provoking conversation on March 2, to kick off Women’s History Month.Two mainstage performances of "Top Girls," a Caryl Churchill play about women’s achievement, takes place in the MCC Theatre at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on March 2.Between the afternoon and…
Note: April 10, 2019 -- The hours for the basketball camp were extended from 9-11 a.m. to 8 a.m. to noon, the cost remains the same. Apps, Theatre, Multimedia, Sports and Music MESA, Arizona -- Feb. 22, 2019 -- Mesa Community College again offers its popular summer camps for students entering K–12. These affordable and sometimes free camps provide opportunities to have…
MESA, Arizona – Feb. 21, 2019 – Mesa Community College Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) Program leads Arizona in the number of EMT candidates it readies for the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technician (NREMT) certification and in the number of candidates passing the exam on their first attempt. During the four quarters of 2018, 217 MCC NREMT candidates sat for the exam. Ninety-one…
Recognized for academic achievement and distinguished leadershipMESA, Arizona – Feb. 20, 2019 – Four high-achieving Mesa Community College students will be celebrated for their outstanding academic achievements and distinguished leadership at the 2019 All-Arizona Academic Team Recognition Ceremony on Feb. 27 (12:30-2:30 p.m.) at the East Valley Institute of Technology, 1601 West Main…
MESA, Arizona -- Feb. 19, 2019 – The Mesa Community College Nursing Program is ranked No.1 in RegisteredNursing.org’s list of 2019 Best RN Programs in Arizona.The RegisteredNursing.org ranking is based on analysis of current and historical National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX) RN pass rates, meaning the percentage of graduates who pass the exam on the first attempt, out of the 27 RN…
Mesa, Arizona – Feb. 14, 2019 -- Dennis Kibbe, Mesa Community College Computer Information Systems faculty, earned the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management Blockchain Technology Certificate this past January. The program draws on the work of leading MIT faculty and cryptoeconomics experts to examine blockchain technology from an economic perspective and highlight…
MESA, Arizona – Feb. 6, 2019 – Arizona Citizens for the Arts selected Mesa Community College student Shachi Kale (Chandler) as the artist for the 2019 Governor’s Arts Awards. Her work, Desert Beauty, has been chosen as the cover art for their commemorative program and will be featured on this year’s formal invitations and signage. Kale has been invited to attend both the nominee reception…
MESA, Ariz. – Jan. 30, 2019 – Mesa Community College student Varinia Varela (Gilbert) is one of 395 American undergraduate students from 152 colleges and universities across the United States selected to receive the prestigious Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship to study or intern abroad during the summer of 2019.The congressionally funded Gilman Program broadens the U.S. student…
Mesa, Arizona -- Jan. 24, 2019 -- Mesa Community College Dental Hygiene students seek individuals for complimentary oral health screenings from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019 at the Arizona School of Dentistry and Oral Health, 5855 E. Still Circle in Mesa. Screenings will take place, on a walk-in, first-come, first-served basis. Ideal screening candidates are individuals who have not…
MESA, Ariz. – Jan 24, 2018 – Mesa Community College Interior Design students earned top honors during the 2018 International Interior Design Association (IIDA) Western Region Student Design Charette – Southwest Chapter finals held in November at Forward Tilt in Phoenix. Charette teams of five student designers, each at different stages in their education, are given a design problem to solve.…
MESA, Arizona – Jan. 16, 2019 – Mesa Community College announces its Spring 2019 Arts season. Exciting theatrical performances and exhibitions fill this season’s calendar with National Theatre Live film screenings, plays, musicals, band and orchestra concerts, an arts festival and a dance scholarship showcase.VenuesThe MCC Southern and Dobson Campus (1833 W. Southern Ave.) is…
MESA, Arizona – Dec. 14, 2018 - Collin Hicks, 26, Chandler, is the first Mesa Community College student to complete the Red Hat Academy and earn his Red Hat Certified Systems Administrator (RHCSA) certification. Hicks began at MCC in fall 2017, when the college first began offering the Red Hat Academy to help prepare students to take the RHCSA exam and become Linux professionals in demand by…
MESA, Ariz.—Dec. 7, 2018 – Mesa Community College student Ryo Kato is one of 207 Phi Theta Kappa members named a 2018 Leaders of Promise Scholar. He is one of only seven international students in the nation to receive the $1,000 Global Leaders of Promise scholarship. The Leaders of Promise Scholarship Program helps new Phi Theta Kappa members defray educational expenses while enrolled in…
MESA, Ariz. – Dec. 7, 2018 -- Professor Peter Conden, director of the Mesa Community College Sustainable Agriculture program, is the 2018 Arizona Nursery Association (ANA) Person of the Year. He was honored during the ANA annual meeting and awards dinner Nov. 29 at the Wild Horse Pass Hotel and Casino in Chandler. The Person of the Year award recognizes ANA members who make…
MESA, Ariz. – Dec. 5, 2018 – Dennis Kibbe, Mesa Community College business and information systems professor, was named the 2018 Red Hat Academy New Instructor of the Year during the Red Hat North American Training Partner and Instructor Conference, Sept. 5-6 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.Kibbe, a teacher of the Linux operating system since 2008, has been recognized on multiple occasions for his…
MESA, Ariz. – Dec. 3, 2018 – Mesa Community College received a $10,000 grant from the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation Grant Program to encourage low-income, underrepresented groups of students to pursue degrees and careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields. The Exploring STEM Degrees and Careers project provides opportunities for students to learn through…
MESA, Ariz. – Nov. 30, 2018 – Mesa Community College student Jacobo Perez received the coveted first place honor at a national literary competition sponsored by the League of Innovation, a consortium of community colleges across the nation. His poem, “How to Cross the Border Illegally or How to Make Tamales de Rajas,” was submitted to the national League Competition, along with other first-…
MESA, Ariz. – Nov. 21, 2018 – Two Mesa Community College students, Jenna Connolly and Anthony Burch, were on the nine-member team that placed first in a Mars rover prototype competition at the National Community College Aerospace Scholars project (NCAS) at Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. Connolly said the support from MCC faculty made a huge difference in winning the rover competition…
MESA, Arizona — Nov. 21, 2018 — The Rose Garden at Mesa Community College, the largest rose garden in the Southwest, is hosting the inaugural Sonoran International Rose Trials on Nov. 23 and 24 at the Southern and Dobson Campus. The garden at MCC is the only test garden in the world that is located in a desert. The results will provide valuable information for professional growers as well as…
MESA, Ariz. – Nov. 15, 2018 Mesa Community College professors are sharing with students their experiences volunteering in Africa. Dr. Graham Boorse, life science faculty, and Jennifer Wood, math and honors faculty coordinator, at their own expenses, devoted time this past summer to humanitarian endeavors in Africa. Boorse has been teaching MCC students about the role of microbes in public…
American Indian Recognition Day Basketball Games Showcase New UniformsMESA, Ariz. -- Nov. 14, 2018 – Mesa Community College’s Sixth Annual American Indian Recognition Day basketball games, Dec. 1, 2018, will be the big reveal for the Thunderbird N7 uniforms. MCC was accepted as the first two-year college in the nation to participate in the Nike initiative celebrating Native…
MESA, Arizona — Nov. 8, 2018 — The community is invited to the unveiling of Dance of the Chromosomes at 3:30 p.m. today, on the second floor of the Life Sciences Building at the MCC Southern and Dobson Campus. The collection of three drawings, in which the artist uses human figures to represent the chromosomes during mitosis, were created by Reece Grissom, Mesa Community…
MESA, Arizona — Nov. 2, 2018 — Ten outstanding alumni, staff and community members were welcomed into the Mesa Community College Hall of Fame during a reception and ceremony hosted by the MCC Alumni Association Nov. 1 at the MCC Theatre, 1833 W. Southern Ave., Mesa, 85202.The MCC Hall of Fame honors alumni, community members, and MCC employees whose personal and professional accomplishments and…