A straight-A student missed a week of classes at Montgomery College because her family would not be able to afford both food and the feminine hygiene products she needed to go out in public. Unfortunately, students all over the United…
By 2040, one in five residents in Montgomery County will be 65 or older, and one out of three will be over the age of 55. This extraordinary growth in the senior population signals a growing need to refine and…
Every year, a large number of students enter college without having made final decisions about their careers, or even majors, with many students changing their minds at least once. In situations like this, having an academic plan is essential in…
After a storied, championship-laden history as a National Junior College Athletic Association Division III athletic program, Montgomery College is competing this fall at the Division I and Division II levels. The MC teams elevating to the Division I level are…
When Professor Robert Giron announced that he would retire this past August after 31 years as a member of the English and ESL (ELAP) department faculties on the Takoma Park/Silver Spring Campus, his fellow faculty members tried to envision the…
The Carnegie Corporation of New York named Dr. DeRionne Pollard as a recipient of its Academic Leadership Award, Dr. Pollard is only the second community college recipient of this award. The honor consists of $500,000 in support for each winner’s…
When Montgomery College student Patty Pablo went to bed on August 13—after the nation spent the weekend watching white supremacists trounce through Charlottesville, bearing torches and messages of bigotry and hate—only four people had RSVP’d to the protest event she…
Single parents like Erica Brizuela, 23, rarely have time to get together with other single parents, or attend workshops, no matter how helpful they promise to be. Brizuela has a two-year-old son, works as a waitress, and takes classes at…
When Dr. Sanjay Rai, senior vice president for academic affairs, was in high school in India, he had to take a competitive, high-stakes math exam. The school was overcrowded—Dr. Rai took the exam in a hallway—and had no electricity. The…
E.J. Dionne is well-known to readers of the Washington Post, where he writes a political column, and to listeners of NPR, where he is frequent contributor. Earlier this summer Ken Becker, chair of the foundation’s board of directors, and his…