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MC+MCPS=MC2: Middle College Program (MC2) Lets Students Earn an Associate’s Degree While in High School

When Northwood High School’s Dominique Desmarattes crosses the stage at DAR Constitution Hall on June 6, she will finish a storied high school career. Her senior-year accomplishments include running cross-country and track, garnering Homecoming Queen honors from her fellow students—and earning a degree from Montgomery College. Desmarattes and six other Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) […]

Sweet Dream

Sarah Dwyer left a corporate career to build a business that makes her smile. It makes her customers—and her team—smile, too. For Sarah Dwyer ’06 life isn’t like a box of chocolates. It’s thousands of boxes of chocolates a year, each morsel made by hand following her recipes, her dream, and a commitment to giving […]

Good Vibrations

Dennis Beach ’91 transforms plywood, epoxy, and paint into geometric sculptures, paintings, and kinetic designs that echo natural forms and phenomena. His sculpture, “Drift #24,” for example, evokes sound waves or ocean waves in its symmetrical undulations. “Flow,” a kinetic sculpture, suspended above gallery-goers, features moving water inside a tubular acrylic pipe. “Bump #4,” a […]

Alicia Carroll: Travel Nurse Thrill Seeker

Alicia Carroll ’07 travels light. When she moved to South Carolina in February for a position in the neurotrauma ICU at Greenville Memorial Hospital, she fit everything into her Subaru Crosstrek and rooftop carrier. As a travel nurse, Carroll works under 13-week contracts at hospitals around the country. She works with a recruiter and chooses […]

Awesome Awasom

Lumnwi Audrey Awasom, 21, always wanted to do something big for the community. During her sophomore year at MC, she co-founded the One Heart Project, a community service project supported by MC-Enactus that already helped more than 50 homeless women with career and job readiness skills. During her last semester at the University of Maryland’s […]

From Medic to LPN: Program’s First Active-Duty Soldier Graduates

When Sukwon Koh ’18 left South Korea to study as an international student in 2004, he had no plans to re-enter military service. He was a sophomore at Emory University when he returned to his home country to fulfill his obligation; in South Korea, three years of military service is mandatory for all adult males […]

Testify!

President DeRionne Pollard gave testimony on Capitol Hill and in Annapolis in February as part of an effort to persuade lawmakers to make higher education more affordable. She spoke to the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, detailing MC’s efforts to close the affordability gap, which also helped make the argument for […]

Raptors Basketball Teams Finish Fifth in the Nation

The Raptors men’s and women’s basketball teams both finished fifth in their 2017–2018 NJCAA Division III Championship tournaments. This season the women’s team tied best finishes from their 2012 and 2013 national tournament appearances. The Raptors finished their season with an overall record of 22–7 and fifth place in the country out of 100 Division […]

Color Trending

MC is at the height of fashion this year, according to color experts at the Pantone Color Institute. The institute, a consulting service with Pantone, chose a shade of purple (18-3838 ultra violet) akin to MC’s official color (Pantone 2617) as 2018 color of the year. Each year, the institute forecasts global color trends and […]

Web Updates

Alumni Association If you have visited montgomerycollege.edu/alumni recently, you’ll notice that things have changed. We have redesigned our Alumni Association web pages, making it easier to become a member, access your benefits, and find ways to stay involved with MC. Check it out, and send your feedback on the new pages to alumni@montgomerycollege.edu. Language Resource […]