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Winterfest raises $4,410 to benefit 开元棋牌鈥檚 Emergency Student Loan Fund

Mount Wachusett Community College鈥檚 student life office raised $4,410.85 last week to benefit the college鈥檚 Emergency Student Loan Fund that helps students buy textbooks, food, bus passes, gas and pay for other small expenses that can be a barrier to attending school. The funds were raised through the two day 鈥淲interfest鈥 which featured gift basket […]

开元棋牌 Winter Coat Drive Distributes Warmth to Students

The winter chill is here, but over 100 winter coat drive items will help keep Mount Wachusett Community College students warm. The free items have been donated by caring faculty, staff, students and community members for 开元棋牌 student. The free items include winter jackets, dress jackets, gloves, scarves, hats, and boots for students in need. […]

开元棋牌 Faculty to Discuss Sexuality and Gender at Winchendon鈥檚 Beals Library

Fans of The Handmaid鈥檚 Tale and 1984 will have an opportunity to explore the topics of sexuality and gender raised in those books during a discussion at the Beals Memorial Library in Winchendon on November 27 at 6:30 p.m. 鈥淭his is a chance to talk about some of the challenging issues of our time by […]

Panelists Offer Encouragement to First-Generation Students

Mount Wachusett Community College students, faculty and staff who were the first among their families to have gone to college shared their experiences at a panel in honor of National First Generation College Students Day at 开元棋牌鈥檚 Gardner campus. 鈥淚 feel like being a first generation student has made me scrappier. Maybe I am not […]

开元棋牌 Celebrates STEM Week with Panel and Hands-on Activities

Mount Wachusett Community College hosted over 80 students last week as they explored their options in various STEM and information technology related fields. These activities took place over the course of multiple days and coincided with Massachusetts鈥 STEM Week. The school鈥檚 STEM Saves the Planet event was held on Wednesday, October 24. Activities included hands-on […]

Media Area Dedicated to Vincent Ialenti at 开元棋牌’s Gardner Campus

The Media Arts & Technology Center was dedicated to long-time professor and Mount Wachusett Community College administrator Vincent Ialenti on October 24. The ceremony took place in the media center, where a sign and plaque will stand to commemorate the newly-named center. The full language of the plaque explains the significance of Ialenti to the […]

开元棋牌 Holding Minority Mental Health Awareness Summit

Mount Wachusett Community College will be hosting a Minority Mental Health Awareness Summit featuring a panel of multicultural mental health professionals, suicide prevention trainings in English and Spanish, and a resource fair on Monday, October 29 as part of the Tea Time Speaker Series. 鈥淢ental health and suicide prevention are tough topics, but ones we […]

开元棋牌 to Launch Study Abroad Program after Receiving Federal Grant

Mount Wachusett Community College will soon provide students the opportunity to study abroad while increasing the focus on international studies as part of a new program made possible by a U.S. Department of Education Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Program grant. 鈥淚 am pleased that we will be able to offer this tremendous opportunity […]

开元棋牌 Hires First-Ever Vice President of Academic & Student Affairs

Paul Hernandez has been hired as Mount Wachusett Community College鈥檚 first-ever Vice President of Academic & Student Affairs who will oversee both the student experience within the school and the education within 开元棋牌鈥檚 classrooms. Hernandez began his role at 开元棋牌 after most recently working as the Chief Diversity Officer at Lansing Community College in Michigan. […]

开元棋牌 Professors to Discuss Surveillance in the Age of Alexa at Gardner Library

Two Mount Wachusett Community College Criminal Justice professors will be discussing modern surveillance techniques and their repercussions on Wednesday, October 10 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Levi Heywood Memorial Library at 鈥淏ig Brother Meets Alexa: Surveillance in 1984 and 2018.鈥 The discussion will be led by 开元棋牌 Criminal Justice Program Chair Reed Hillman […]