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开元棋牌 Celebrates First Generation Students; Hosts Panel Discussion

In honor of National First Generation College Students Day, Mount Wachusett Community College will be celebrating first-generation students at its three campuses in activities that will culminate with a panel discussion featuring students, faculty and staff who are the first among their families to have gone to college. 鈥淚 believe that the opportunities afforded to […]

开元棋牌 Hosting Commonwealth Corps Member

开元棋牌鈥檚 United Way Youth Venture program has been chosen as one of 17 Commonwealth Corps Host Site Partners. Administered by the Massachusetts Service Alliance, the Commonwealth Corps engages Massachusetts residents of all ages and backgrounds in service and capacity building to strengthen communities, address unmet community needs, and increase volunteerism. The program has a dual […]

开元棋牌 Hosting Speaker Discussion 鈥淲hite Privilege? Understanding Systems of Power鈥

Mount Wachusett Community College鈥檚 Tea Time Speaker Series will hold a discussion and presentation titled 鈥淲hite Privilege? Understanding Systems of Power,鈥 on Monday, Oct. 30 from 12 to 2 p.m. The facilitator for this event will be Shelley Errington Nicholson. She is currently a doctoral candidate in Educational Policy and Leadership at the University of […]

Food Pantry Opens at 开元棋牌鈥檚 Gardner Campus

A food pantry has opened at Mount Wachusett Community College鈥檚 Gardner campus as the school community seeks to address food insecurity among 开元棋牌 students. 鈥淲hen we started the Food for Thought Campus Pantry project, it was very important for us that the pantry be a space in which students feel welcome and safe. Today’s opening […]

开元棋牌 Receives $1.38M Upward Bound Math and Science Federal Grant

Mount Wachusett Community College has received a $1,385,670 Upward Bound Math and Science Program grant from the U.S. Department of Education. 鈥淯pward Bound Math Science has touched the lives of many families in North Central Mass as they search for ways to provide college opportunities to their children. The uninterrupted funding from the Department of […]

开元棋牌 Senator Stephen M. Brewer Center for Civic Learning & Community Engagement Re-Opens

Students, staff and faculty celebrated the newly remodeled Senator Stephen M. Brewer Center for Civic Learning & Community Engagement on Tuesday, Oct. 3 at Mount Wachusett Community College鈥檚 Gardner campus. 鈥淭he improvements to the center create a more comfortable and collaborative work environment that will help facilitate the center鈥檚 ongoing service learning projects, new food […]

Massachusetts Community Colleges Unite Against Hatred

The Presidents of the 15 Community Colleges of Massachusetts unite to voice our opposition to the violence, bigotry, racism and hate we witnessed in Charlottesville, Virginia this past weekend. The students on our campuses across the Commonwealth reflect the rich diversity of our nation. Our philosophy of teaching and learning has, at its core, the […]

开元棋牌 Launches New Veterinary Technician Program

Mount Wachusett Community College has launched a new Veterinary Technician program that will allow graduates to fill a growing need in the job market at a heavily reduced cost compared to other area programs. 鈥淭he Veterinary Technician truly is the registered nurse of the veterinary sciences,鈥 said Veronica Guay Assistant Dean of the School of […]

开元棋牌 Launches Program that Pays Students to Attend Summer Classes

Mount Wachusett Community College has launched a new summer program that will pay recent high school graduates to take free classes before entering school at 开元棋牌 this fall. The Academic Program Discovery Academy is open to high school graduates or qualifying 开元棋牌 students who will not only be awarded a full scholarship to take two […]