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Dr. Pamela Smith, whose successful career in higher education, retail and health care management, and leading community organizations spans four decades and three states, has been selected as the 2018 Muskegon Community College 2018 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient. Smith will be honored on Tuesday, May 8, 2018, at the Alumni Awards Dinner on campus and […]

Muskegon Community College reading instructor Hollie Benson, who chairs MCC’s College Success Center and coordinates its College Success Seminar, will be among the first recipients of the Dale P. Parnell Distinguished Faculty recognition presented by the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC). The primary advocacy organization for the nation’s community colleges, AACC represents nearly 1,200 two-year, […]

The Center for Experiential Learning at Muskegon Community College is presenting a three-part lecture series on the “Iconic Women of U.S. History” beginning on Thursday, Feb. 22, at 6 p.m. in the Sturrus Technology Center, 388 W. Clay Street, Muskegon. Free and open to the public, the talk kickoffs Women’s History Month celebration throughout March […]

The MCC Lecture Series continues with Dr. Trevor Hoppe discussing “Punishing Disease: HIV and the criminalization of sickness” on Thursday, March 15, in Stevenson Center Room 1100. The talk begins at 7 p.m. and is free and open to the public. Hoppe, an assistant professor of sociology at SUNY Albany, has been crisscrossing the nation […]

The Muskegon Community College 2018 Winter Concert, which highlights the wide variety of musical and vocal performance groups at the college, will take place at the Frauenthal Center in downtown Muskegon on Saturday, Feb. 24. The MCC Wind Ensemble, conducted by MCC Music Director Daniel M. Meyers, will perform music by John Philip Sousa, Richard […]

Muskegon Community College will celebrate Black History Month in February with several events which are all free and open to the public. On Wednesday, Feb. 14, the documentary, “Agents of Change” will be shown in Stevenson Center Room 1100 from 1-3 p.m. and again from 6-8 p.m. Both presentations will be followed by a discussion […]

Muskegon Community College’s Center for Theater presents Jim Leonard Jr.’s award-winning play “The Diviners,” a story of the unlikely friendship between a disenchanted preacher and a mentally challenged young man, on Wednesday-Sunday, Feb. 21-25, in Overbrook Theater. Performances take place at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 21-24 and at 3 p.m. on Feb. 25. Tickets go […]

MCC’s 19th Annual Global Awareness Festival on Feb. 20-23, 2018 will focus on islands of the World with a series of lectures, films, cuisine and music to bring awareness to that region’s population, culture, cuisine and political issues. Each year, the Global Awareness Festival highlights a different geographic area of the world. All Global Awareness […]

The popular Muskegon Community College “And Justice for All…” series continues on Thursday, Feb. 15, with a discussion of the in-depth research conducted by MCC students into Muskegon area check cashing services, rent-to-own and pawn shop activities. The event, which is free and open to the public, will provide attendees with the knowledge and confidence […]

When the Rwandan genocide broke out in 1994, one American, Carl Wilkens, chose to stay in the country and risk everything in hope of saving a few lives. The 2014 film I’m Not Leaving by writer/director Kevin Ekvall chronicles his experience. On Tuesday, Jan. 30, Wilkens will participate via Skype for two screenings of the […]