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…
The Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT) recently announced the recipients of its annual Regional Awards for community college trustees, equity programs, chief executive officers, faculty members, and professional board staff members. Montgomery College Professor Tammy Peery is the recipient of the…
It began simply enough. A group of students wanted to put on a show—in the cafeteria. Now, forty years later, Montgomery College's Summer Dinner Theatre program is thriving—delighting audiences and preparing students for careers in the performing arts. “We got a rhythm and the…
Growing up, Dr. Carrie Fitzgerald, professor of physics, saved up the money she earned from babysitting to buy her first telescope. Now she shares her passion for the stars with her students and community members in the Montgomery College Astronomical…
When she started at Montgomery College, Darina Callear could not answer a question aloud in class. But by her graduation ceremony this past spring, Callear gave the longest speech. Callear is just one of the many successful graduates of the…
The Montgomery College Libraries are home to more than 215,000 books and 60,000 e-books. We asked the library staff to help us sort through the stacks to find great reads for the summer. Here are their picks. Want to check…
When students in Dr. Alonzo Smith’s history class study segregation, they are getting the views of an accomplished historian who witnessed it firsthand. “Washington was a real Jim Crow town,” says Dr. Smith, who grew up near Howard University and…
Like many young adults, art major Shoshanna Chito is looking forward to the next chapter in her life and “yearning for something better.” That feeling of yearning was behind her etching in the juried student art exhibition on the Takoma…