The Montgomery College Foundation’s 32nd annual golf and tennis classic was held on October 23 at Lakewood Country Club, hosting over 100 golfers and 24 tennis players, all of whom played to support unrestricted scholarships for MC students. The Montgomery…
For college students, being plugged in is a way of life. But statistics show it’s not always about “snapping” and posing for Instagram. According to a recent survey conducted by polling giant Harris, 81 percent of college students admit that…
You may not think of computer science as the kind of profession where your work life follows you home, but Bryan Solis might disagree. His cybersecurity internship in Montgomery County’s Information Security Department is over now, but he’s been busy…
Montgomery County Councilmember Craig Rice presented a proclamation recognizing the Montgomery College students who won the National Climate Change Gaming Competition this past spring. Students in Professor Deborah Solomon's board game design class won first place among all college students…
Dr. Pollard and Trinity University President Patricia McGuire kicked off the 2017-2018 Presidential Dialogue Series with a timely—and provocative—discussion of access to education for all and the role of education as a public good. McGuire expounded on the achievement gap…
Sally Alkire and James Owens are lifelong learners at Montgomery College, both qualifying for the senior tuition waiver granted to students over 60 years of age. But on a warm September afternoon, the two found themselves front and center in…
Megan, a first-generation Montgomery College alumna and University of Maryland student from the Philippines, says her family came to the United States for the prospect of “better jobs, better education, and overall, a better life.” The combined efforts of a…
Construction crews are busy at the College’s Rockville Campus creating a new state-of-the-art Student Services Center that will consolidate all major student services into one building. The new 130,000-square-foot student services center is designed to streamline and improve services for…
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…