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Fall 2014: Awesome Autumn

Fall 2014: Awesome Autumn

Students versus faculty in the Dean’s Cup annual kickball game. Creativity and clay creatures at the 3rd Annual Artwalk. A big Raptor welcome to the fall semester. Day one at the Germantown Campus, fall semester. Frida Kahlo (actor Marian Licha) at the 15th annual Chautauqua program. Artwork on display at the Visual Arts & School […]

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Spring 2014: Out and About

Spring 2014: Out and About

Step Afrika! wowed the crowd at the Cultural Arts Center (CAC) during National Humanities Month. “Portraits of Life” exhibit series opened at Pepco Edison Place Gallery in Washington, DC, featuring all three original exhibits: Holocaust Survivors (2004), Student Stories (2008), and LGBT Stories (2013). Discovery Communications panel on careers in digital media and advertising filled […]

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Dual Enrollment for Nurses

Dual Enrollment for Nurses

Starting this fall, nursing students can begin the process of dual enrollment with the University of Maryland. The opportunity puts them on the fast track toward bachelor’s degree (BSN) attainment, which is quickly becoming the new industry higher education standard for RNs. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) issued its new standards in 2010, in The […]

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Advancing Public Health

Advancing Public Health

Teaming with Lockheed Martin, Cisco, Cloudera, Illumina (named by MIT as the smartest company in 2014), and Intel, the College is helping to advance public health. The new alliance combines the expertise of leading health IT providers, medical technology companies, and academic institutions. “We are so pleased to be part of this forward-thinking alliance,” says […]

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Student Nurses in Morocco

Student Nurses in Morocco

[rev_slider Morocco] When nursing skills lab instructor Kathy Awkard read about a conference in Morocco last June, she saw it as a life-changing opportunity for her students. Awkard recruited Mahdia Taheri ’15 and Aziz Elfath ’15 to submit an abstract for a presentation, something neither had done outside of class before. “I wanted to introduce […]

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MC in the News

MC in the News

NPR, All Things Considered “Time Versus Debt: Why These Students Chose Community College,” prominently featured Carlos Mejia-Ramos ’15, Nancy Chen ’14, and Jake Meile ’15 in the story hosted by Robert Siegel. Washington Post Professor Deborah Stearns provided input to the Style blog (September 11, 2015) by Soraya Nadia McDonald: “Kylie Jenner and Bella Hadid […]

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World of Montgomery

World of Montgomery

[rev_slider Festival] The World of Montgomery festival celebrated the county’s diverse cultural heritages through food, music, dance, traditional arts, and hands-on projects for children and families. Held at the Rockville Campus for the first time, the festival included exhibits on the four countries with the largest immigrant populations in Montgomery County: China, El Salvador, Ethiopia, […]

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Community Engagement Center Opens

Community Engagement Center Opens

MC opened a second Community Engagement Center in June, the East County Regional Services Center, which helps county residents find resources, classes, and information on higher education and career training options. The center is located at 3300 Briggs Chaney Road in Silver Spring.

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New Resources for Part-time Faculty

New Resources for Part-time Faculty

Teaching part time is a way of life for more than 1,200 instructors at Montgomery College. Overall, part-time faculty teach more than half of all courses MC offers; they teach roughly 1,000 credit and 200 noncredit courses. In some departments, they comprise 90 percent of instructional staff. This scenario is not unusual at community colleges […]

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Hillman Entrepreneurship Students Win

Hillman Entrepreneurship Students Win

Hillman Entrepreneurship students were among two of the three winning teams (of 18 teams in all) in a business-startup competition in NYC and DC in August. Students presented ideas to business experts—CEOs and entrepreneurs—during the three-day event, Athgothon. They competed against students from Duke, Cornell, and George Washington University. The David H. and Suzanne D. […]

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