Friday, May 3, 2024
MCCC is changing once again. New and returning students now are logging into Brightspace, instead of the Blackboard program, for online classes and many on campus courses. And they will find the Regional Computer Tech Center, RCTC, in the La-Z-Boy Building in Z-258. The switch to Brightspace comes after the […]
The downward trend continues as MCCC’s Fall enrollment dropped below 3,000 for the first time in 30 years. Enrollment for the Fall 2018 semester is down 5.7 percent, after several years of smaller decreases. This leaves the enrollment count at 2,943 students, compared to last year’s 3,122. According to annual […]
A screenshot of the new myWebPAL system, accessible from the MCCC homepage. MCCC has found that despite the few problems students have encountered, there are many benefits to the new myWebPAL. MCCC began using myWebPAL in the Spring of 2018. Tracy Vogt, the campus registrar, was helpful in explaining the […]
The switchboard will no longer field incoming calls after 4:30 P.M. on weekdays. The college switchboard’s hours during the week have been curtailed. The operator will now leave at 4:30 p.m. The evening shift, formerly manned by two part-timers, has been done away with entirely. While this has been done […]
Grant McPeck and Cassandra Eby lounge in the new student space. Students no longer have to sit on the dusty floor of the L Building, thanks to the new student space. Jack Burns, MCCC’s director of Campus Planning and Facilities, said he collaborated with professors Lori Bean, Tracy Rayl, Lisa […]
The Michigan State University mascot, Sparty, danced through the hallways of the H Building on Sept. 6, welcoming students to Field Day. Many farmers and students came out to meet Sparty at MCCC’s Soybean / Cover Crop Field Day. MCCC and Michigan State University partnered to offer a farming degree […]
Signs have been displayed around campus to encourage students to join Student Government this year. Much of college is spent preparing: preparing for the semester, preparing to transfer, and preparing to make important decisions. But members of Student Government are making important decisions now, running between 40 and 60 campus […]
Bookstore employee Kaitlyn Gullet Cengage Unlimited, a publishing company used by many MCCC courses, is offering a digital subscription service that could save students hundreds of dollars on textbooks. With the purchase of a $119 textbook access code, students would be able to keep up to six Cengage digital textbooks […]
MCCC President Kojo Quartey hugs professor emeritus James DeVries during a reception to honor his life in the atrium of the La-Z-Boy Center Aug. 24. When life starts to end, reflection begins. For James “Jim” DeVries, a member of the MCCC Board of Trustees and professor emeritus, this […]
Emma Muth smiles as she files out of the gymnasium after the 2018 graduation. About 200 students celebrated their new degrees during MCCC’s 51st commencement on April 27th. “It’s nice because I’ll be the first one graduating from college in my family, so I’m really excited,” Nicole Wilson said. Ian […]
