MCCC’s Board of Trustees was asked to put a ceiling on the number of contact hours paid by students at its meeting Monday night. Trustee Linda Lauer made the proposal. “I am trying to get other trustees to think about it,” Lauer said.  “I didn’t feel much support.” Video: Lauer and Nixon […]

A Detroit construction management firm has been chosen to assist in the design and possible construction of a Career Technology Building. Monday the college Board of Trustees chose the Walbridge Group to assist in the performance of all construction management services for the project. “Even though we selected a company, […]

What does diversity mean to you? This prompt was displayed on a poster board outside MCCC’s cafeteria today. All passers-by had the chance to add their voice to the collection of answers on the display. MCCC President David Nixon answered the prompt with, “Working hand in hand with people different […]

What does diversity mean to you? This prompt was displayed on a poster board outside MCCC’s cafeteria today. All passers-by had the chance to add their voice to the collection of answers on the display. MCCC President David Nixon answered the prompt with, “Working hand in hand with people […]

Record enrollment busied MCCC’s slush-covered campus this Friday, the first day of Winter classes. The start to the Winter semester differs from the Fall. “There are only about 400 new students in the Winter compared to about 1,300 in the Fall,” Vice President of Student and Information Services Randy Daniels […]

Their goal is to help MCCC students become independent learners.Supplemental Instruction (S.I.) leaders have been around since 1975 when the University of Missouri in Kansas City first started the program. The program reached MCCC in 1991. The program works by assigning an S.I. leader to a course that he or […]

An e-mail asking for personal information is not usually trusted, but it was sent through MCCC’s e-mail account.  So is it safe? One specific e-mail asked for your name, phone number, race, age, hair and eye color, as well as a digital picture. This e-mail was sent by the iGroup, […]

LANSING — A bill that would allow students to carry guns into classrooms and dormitories was the subject of a Michigan Senate hearing held this week. The hearing, chaired by Sen. Wayne Kuipers (R), was intended to allow state senators to hear opposing sides of the bill and to address […]

The Diversity Committee at MCCC is planning a Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Celebration for Jan. 18, 2010. Members of the MLK Day subcommittee include Molly McCutcheon, Tiffany Wright, Khadija Ahmed, Tom Ryder and Sandy Kosmyna.  This is the first year the college will be having daytime activities to […]

Some students feel as if they are missing out on activities that a larger college or university might offer. “My sister and I could have gone away to play college ball but we decided to stay in Monroe for personal and financial reasons,” MCCC student and volleyball club member Amy […]