Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder made a stop at MCCC Monday during a series of statewide town hall meetings.  The MCCC meeting, which was held in at the La-Z-Boy Center, lasted just under an hour and saw a variety of topics brought up, including education spending, Michigan’s recovery, and the proposed International bridge.  The governor, […]

Tempers flared among MCCC’s Board of Trustees members over the Whitman Center at the June 25 budget meeting. The board decided to close the Whitman Center for the spring and summer semesters beginning next year. “This is really stupid,” vented a frustrated Mary Kay Thayer, secretary of MCCC’s Board of […]

Walls for the Career Technology Center at MCCC are expected to be up by Sunday, July 1. Groundbreaking for the center was held on Friday, May 4. The formal groundbreaking for the new $17 million Career Technology Center at MCCC was held Friday, May 4. Paul W. Smith, a Monroe native and morning anchor for Detroit’s WJR-AM radio station was the master […]

MCCC celebrated its 45th annual commencement Friday evening, April 27. The words of MCCC’s 2012 alumnus of the year, Alan Barron, echoed through the Welch building’s gymnasium as he addressed a gathered crowd of around 1,400 people – with countless more watching via a live television broadcast by Monroe Public […]

New-fangled technology has allowed us to have cell phones, portable computers, and now, even convenient electronic books – aka ebooks.     With ebooks come a variety of new devices like the iPad, Kindle (along with the Kindle Fire), and the Nook.     All of which allow us to pull books, and other information, right to the […]

College students face their own version of stress, so why shouldn’t it have a name of its own?     How about: “Student Study Stress Syndrome.”     It’s not surprising that students suffer from high levels of stress. After all, they have their whole lives ahead of them – and what they do at college could […]

#8220;The Curious Savage,” a play by John Patrick, was performed in the little theater April 21-22.     The story is about a woman (Ethel Savage) who is left a large sum of money from her husband, who recently passed away. However, her stepchildren are doing all they can to get their grubby […]

MCCC will begin offering a new program – Information Assurance and Security – in the fall of 2012, .    The program will require 60 credit hours and result in an Associate Of Applied Science Degree.     Professor William Hilliker is in charge of the program in close collaboration with software company CyberWatch and Eastern Michigan University. […]

The team is mostly self funded by the players.     “Through fund raising, we are able to get new players and more funding to go to new tournaments,” coach Denise Lockard said about the reasoning behind hosting the tournament.     Seven teams showed up to play in the tournament. Washtenaw Community College’s women’s volleyball team competed. […]