News from around the College.
MC and MCPS Expand Degree, Diploma Opportunities
The Early College program is offered at each Montgomery College campus, providing qualified students the opportunity to earn an associate’s degree in a specific content area. Participating students will finish their 11th and 12th grade years of high school while simultaneously completing their first two years of college. They will graduate with an associate’s degree […]
New Scholarships for Maryland’s Community College Students
In May 2018, Maryland Governor Larry Hogan signed into law the Maryland Community College Promise Scholarships act to help eligible students afford community college. Starting with the 2019–2020 academic year, there will be a $15 million annual, “last dollar” scholarship, which requires students to access all other eligible financial aid (grants and scholarships) before Maryland’s […]
DHCA and Montgomery College Address Critical Need for Workers in Senior Housing Facilities
By 2040, one in five residents in Montgomery County will be 65 and older—and one out of three will be over the age of 55—according to a May 2018 study of senior housing needs conducted by the Montgomery County Planning Department. This extraordinary growth in senior population prompted county leaders to enhance the leadership and […]
MC Volleyball Serves Up Undefeated Season—First Ever Title
Montgomery College’s women’s volleyball team capped an undefeated season with a first-ever MD JUCO Division II title. The Raptors finished 26-0, dropping only three sets all season. The latest NJCAA poll ranks the Raptors #19 in the nation. They are the only unbeaten team in the Top 20. Tori Kenno ’12, now in her third […]
College’s Gudelsky Institute for Technology Celebrates 25 Years
The Montgomery County Council last week held a proclamation ceremony to celebrate the 25th anniversary of MC’s Homer S. Gudelsky Institute for Technical Education (GITE). October 3, 2017, marked the 25th anniversary of the opening of the Homer S. Gudelsky Institute for Technical Education. The Montgomery County Council held a proclamation ceremony in June to […]
Helping Drivers with Special Needs Get Behind the Wheel
Driving is a rite of passage into adulthood for most teenagers—and children with special needs are no different. According to research conducted at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, two-thirds of fifteen-to eighteen-year-olds with a higher functioning autism spectrum disorder are currently driving or plan to drive. To accommodate students who are on the autism spectrum, those […]
Meet Montgomery C. Raptor, aka Monty
Campaign season kicked off in September—to name the MC mascot. The month-long social media campaign conducted by MC’s marketing department drew enthusiastic—and creative—responses from the MC community. Acting President Stephen Cain selected the winning name(s): “Montgomery C. Raptor,” submitted by Alejandra Borja, a current MC student, and nickname, “Monty,” submitted by Dr. Jamin Bartolomeo, collegewide […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
One week after the deadly school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, Professor Pat Ruppert asked her philosophy class to comment on the Parkland students’ activism. In a closed, online forum their conversation—like many across the country—held opinions ranging from anti-gun to pro-Second Amendment. But Ruppert noticed a glaring difference between […]
MC librarians at all three campuses know a thing or two about good books. And—no surprise here—they had a lot to say when Insights asked for summer reading recommendations. Here are a few of their new favorites. Kari Schmidt, technical services manager, recommends: Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders This imaginative ghost story about […]
All That Data: New Program Helps Meet Workforce Demands in a Data-driven World
All organizations and enterprises—profit, nonprofit, private, public, etc.—need to find efficient methods to turn data into usable information. And they need workers conversant in ideas and tools. Data science combines math, statistics, programming, and hacking skills, as well as data journalism, to gain insight from a growing volume of information produced by an increasingly data-driven […]
The Carnegie Corporation of New York named MC President DeRionne P. Pollard a recipient of its Academic Leadership Award. Pollard is only the second community college recipient of this award. The honor consists of $500,000 in support for each winner’s academic initiatives. Pollard has earmarked the Carnegie award funds for two landmark MC programs: the […]
New Center for Justice Supports Student Activism
When Patty Pablo ’18 went to bed on August 13—after the nation spent the weekend watching white supremacists trudge through Charlottesville bearing torches and messages of bigotry and hate—only four people had signed up to join the protest event she advertised on Facebook. She assumed only a handful of people would show up the next […]
Food for Thought: Students Struggle with Basic Needs
A Mobile Market program now brings fresh food to campus for students and members of the community experiencing food insecurity. Food insecurity, or reduced quality of diet and access to nutrition, can sometimes be overlooked at the college level, but it plays an important role in academic performance. The Mobile Markets, provided in partnership with […]
College Partners with County and Nonprofits To Host First Conference for Single Parents
Erica Brizuela has a two-year-old son, works as a waitress, and takes classes at Montgomery College. Single parents like Brizuela, 23, rarely have time to get together with other single parents, or attend workshops, no matter how helpful they promise to be. When she heard about the Single Parent Conference at the College’s Rockville Campus, […]
Insights talks with Martha Schoonmaker, executive director, Pinkney Innovation Complex for Science and Technology at Montgomery College (PIC MC). Q: PIC MC was named for Dr. Hercules Pinkney, who was vice president and provost at the Germantown Campus when the integrated campus idea was conceived. What aspects of the PIC MC’s 40 acres has already […]
Retired Professor’s Holocaust Memoirs Book Wins Award
Professor Emerita Myrna Goldenberg’s latest book, Before All Memory Is Lost, received the 2017 Canadian Jewish Literary Award in Holocaust literature. One juror called the book “remarkable.” “It was a kind of joy to shine a spotlight on the survivors—some are still living—and to share the book with survivors’ families,” says Goldenberg. Before All Memory […]
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