Mesa Community College and Arizona State University Announce Research Partnership
Published Wednesday, January 2, 2013The Mesa Community College Virtual Incident Command Center (VICC) and Arizona State University’s Applied Psychology Unit (ASU) will partner in the development of research opportunities that will lead to improved outcomes for major critical incidents. Currently, data collected during training sessions at the VICC is not used in research studies. The expertise in research brought to the...
Mesa Community College to Host Walk United Event in February
Published Wednesday, December 19, 2012PLEASE NOTE: The Walk United Event at Mesa Community College scheduled for February 9, 2013 has been postponed due to weather. MCC plans to reschedule the event for fall. Mesa United Way will refund all registration fees. Thank you for your support and we hope you will participate in the walk this fall. For many of our community...
MCC Center for Economic Education Names 2012 Teacher of the Year
Published Monday, December 17, 2012The Mesa Community College Center for Economic Education named Michelle Barton the 2012 Middle School Teacher of the Year. Michelle is a graduate of Arizona State University and has taught pre-algebra, algebra and geometry at Ward Traditional Academy in the Tempe Elementary School District since 2009. Michelle is recognized for integrating the standards based Stock Market Game into her math...
Connect 4 Success Program at Mesa Community College is Changing Lives
Published Tuesday, December 11, 2012An innovative mentoring program, started last fall at Mesa Community College, is changing the lives of incoming students by matching them with a MCC employee who will spend one-on-one time with them as they pursue a degree at MCC. MCC executive assistant, Janet Felton, said the program was developed as a result of a challenge issued by MCC President Dr. Shouan Pan in response to President Barack...
Arizona National Guard Partners with Mesa Community College for Virtual Training
Published Thursday, November 29, 2012VICC Training Twenty-two members of the Arizona National Guard, 91st Civil Support Team (CST) will participate in virtual training at the Mesa Community College Virtual Incident Command Center (VICC) in mid-December. For three days, the CST members will learn about the latest technologies in incident management and Emergency Operations Centers (EOC). They will be tested on their staff functions...
Red Mountain Choirs Present Songs of the Season - A Living Christmas Tree
Published Friday, November 16, 2012The Mesa Community College Red Mountain campus will present the annual Songs of the Season Christmas program in the form of a Living Christmas Tree this year. Songs of the Season will feature more than 70 choir members from the three MCC Red Mountain performing arts choirs. The Sun Valley Chorale, under the direction of Dr. Glenn M. Bennett, professor of Choral Studies, is a community chorus...
New GED to Mesa Community College Program Announced
Published Wednesday, November 14, 2012The Mesa Counts on College partnership between the City of Mesa, Mesa Community College (MCC) and Mesa Public Schools (MPS) recently announced a new GED to MCC program designed to increase the college completion rate in the East Valley. “The primary focus of Mesa Counts on College is to increase post-secondary attainment, which in turn supports workforce and economic development in Mesa. MCC and...
Mesa Community College to Hold 7th Annual Dumpster Dive
Published Wednesday, November 7, 2012On November 15, 2012, Mesa Community College students and volunteers will sort and analyze 24 hours worth of campus trash. The event will take place on the Clock Tower lawns on the Southern and Dobson campus (1833 W. Southern Ave., Mesa). The MCC campus community will watch on Wednesday how the trash piles up on the lawn. Beginning at 8 am on Thursday, students and volunteers will sort through...
Assistance for New Student Athletes
Published Tuesday, November 6, 2012Janet Feldon assists students in Creating College Success class Diligence, persistence and focus are all traits that produce success on the field or on the court for young student athletes. What if students took those same attributes and applied them to the classroom? A new program created by the Mesa Community College Counseling Department in partnership with the MCC Athletic Department is...
MCC Student Selected to National Community College Aerospace Scholars Program
Published Monday, November 5, 2012Wendy Nessl, a Mesa Community College Geography student recently returned from Huntsville, Alabama where she spent three days at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center as a member of the National Community College Aerospace Scholars program. Wendy applied for the program because of her involvement in the Phi Theta Kappa Omicron Beta chapter at MCC. She was selected to complete 20 hours of...