One MCC student wins a spot on the prestigious All-USA Academic Team...
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MCC-Blue River student and Marine Corps veteran Joshua Gray has been named one of 20 members of the 2018 All-USA Academic Team, a top honor for community college students that includes a $5,000 scholarship. He is also the 2018 New Century Transfer Pathway Scholar representing Missouri. Gray, who's working on an MCC associate in engineering degree, hopes to attend MIT. After seeing brothers in arms killed and wounded in Afghanistan, he wants to go into biomedical engineering to work on robotic prostheses.
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... and another is named to
the Coca-Cola Academic Team
MCC-Blue River's Monica Fritchey has joined the 2018 Coca-Cola Academic Team, which comes with a $1,000 scholarship. Three Coca-Cola team members are chosen for each state; Fritchey won bronze for Missouri. She's planning to become a secondary math teacher.
Still to come: Announcements of the All-Missouri Academic Team and other student honors from Phi Theta Kappa and the Missouri Community College Association
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MCC goes green with an entry in St. Pat’s parade
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At last weekend's St. Patrick's Day Parade, which rolls right by the MCC Administrative Center on Broadway, an MCC delegation including Chancellor Kimberly Beatty waved to paradegoers from a truck decked out for the occasion. Meanwhile, an enrollment team staffed a booth outside MCC's Health Science Institute.
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MCC Wolves design to be revealed April 16
We know we'll be the MCC Wolves starting this fall, but what does the MCC wolf look like? The winning design will be unveiled at parties on each campus: 11:30 a.m. April 16. There will be refreshments, plus giveaways of new MCC Wolves T-shirts.
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Longview Homecoming events April 16-21
This year's Spring Convocation/Common Read speaker at MCC-Longview will be "Some of My Best Friends Are Black" author Tanner Colby (pictured) on April 17. And on April 21, the Flights of Fancy mega-kites will once again take to the sky on the Longview north lawn.
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BIG PICTURE |
COLLEGE KIDS
About 1,000 Kansas City Public Schools
sixth-graders are visiting MCC-Penn Valley this week for Kids2College, a national program to get youngsters thinking about college as well as career possibilities. The sixth-graders attend three sessions on a campus tour, including one in the gym that features Penn Valley programs. On Tuesday, art instructor Bernadette Torres (left) demonstrated her love of pottery-making. Nearby, Darlene Town led students through a printmaking activity, which, yes, might involve dirty hands. "That means you're an artist," Town told her group. "Art is messy."
Click here for KSHB-Channel 41's report on Kids2College at MCC.
(Photo by Tim Engle/MCC)
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- MCC-Blue River's All for the Children family resource fair and massive egg hunt (pictured) is 10-11:30 a.m. Saturday. The Easter Bunny will be there, too. And don't forget the 5K run/walk at 8:30 a.m.
- The MCC Corequisite Summit is May 16 at MCC-Penn Valley; all employees are invited. MCC's corequisite model calls for underprepared students to take a developmental class the same semester as the gateway class. Typically, one instructor teaches both classes. Learn more and register
- Chancellor Kimberly Beatty is part of the conversation on International Women's Day: "Find a mentor," she said at a panel discussion in KC. "When you're 30, you think you know everything. You don't."
- MCC computer-integrated machining and manufacturing alumni return to the Business & Technology campus to recruit new employees
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DEADLINES
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REMINDERS
- MCC employees can save 20 percent on Royals tickets (Field Box, Field Plaza, View Box and View Reserved sections); the home opener is Thursday, March 29, against Oakland
- This year's Civility and Respect Series, with a program at each MCC campus, features keynote speaker Pearl Rovaris-MacDonald. The next one is Friday, April 13, 1-3 p.m. at MCC-Maple Woods (CC 104)
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COMING UP
Thurs. 3/22 | Opening reception for "Border Effect," solo exhibition by Carole Gray, 4-7 p.m., MCC-Longview Cultural Arts Center gallery. Hours: 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Monday-Thursday and Saturday; continues through April 21
Sat. 3/24 |
Hire KC Job Fair for high school and college students, 9 a.m.-noon, MCC-Business & Technology
Wed. 3/28 |
MCC-Blue River Job Fair featuring 50+ employers, 11:30 a.m.-3 p.m., Arts & Sciences gym, free admission
Thurs. 3/29 | MCC Board of Trustees meeting, 5 p.m. work session followed by regular meeting, Administrative Center
Wed. 4/4 | Truman Medical Centers' Mobile Market returns to MCC-Penn Valley; the bus stocked with affordable produce will stop each Wednesday from 11 to noon.
Sat. 4/28 | MCC Community College Day, 9 a.m.-noon, enrollment event at all five campuses with hands-on activities, radio remotes, giveaways and refreshments
Thurs. 5/17 | MCC commencement, 7 p.m., Municipal Auditorium downtown
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MCC JOBS
At
jobs.mcckc.edu
, you can search full-time faculty positions, full-time non-faculty positions, part-time positions and student employment.
MCC NEWS
MCC SOCIAL
Follow or friend MCC's main social media accounts, which are regularly updated. Tweets and posts by MCC Communications. Each campus also has a Facebook page.
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