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The Collage Concert will feature over 20 selections by a variety of performers on Wednesday, Feb. 19, at 7:30 p.m.  The event is free and open to the public. Featured will be MCC’s College Singers, Collegiates, Jaywalkers, Jazz Ensemble, Wind Ensemble, soloists and other small ensembles. For more information, call (231) 777-00278.

Vying against three major universities, Muskegon Community College placed second in the 76th Annual Wisconsin Regional Foundry Conference and Exposition casting competition held Feb. 12 in conjunction with American Foundry Society (AFS) meeting in Milwaukee, WI.

Talk Back, a panel discussion of our community’s neighborhoods, will take place tonight, Tuesday, Feb 18, at 6:30 p.m. in the Blue and Gold Room on campus. The event is free and open to the public. The panelists are: Floyd Cook, Institute for Healing Racism; Ciggzree Morris, a local African-American realtor; Sarah Rinsema-Sybenga, director of […]

“The Next Big Step,” a free informational seminar for parents of college-bound students, will look at important financial, academic and career-related considerations facing students and their parents. The seminar takes place from 6:30-8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 19, in Muskegon Community College’s Blue and Gold Room. The program is free of charge, but participants must […]

The Ryan Spencer Reed photography exhibit, Sudan: The Cost of Silence, is in its final week at Muskegon Community College’s Overbrook Gallery. The exhibit, which closes Friday, Feb. 21, features a collection of 36 photographic prints. They are compiled from thousands of images Reed took on various visits to Sudan, Kenya, and Chad, while documenting the impact of two decades of civil war in southern Sudan as well as the crisis in the western Darfur region.

In 2013, the Muskegon Community College Nursing Program graduates once again exceeded both Michigan and national averages on their first time pass rates on the National Council Licensing Examination for RNs and LPNs. On the NCLEX-PN, Muskegon Community College graduates had a 97.01% first time pass rate, compared to just 91.91% in Michigan and 84.63% […]

One of the most critically acclaimed plays produced in the past few years, Bruce Norris’ “Clybourne Park” will be presented by MCC’s Overbrook Players on Feb. 12-16 in Overbrook Theater. The hilariously unsettling comedy – inspired by Lorraine Hansberry’s 1959 play “A Raisin in the Sun” – features a battle over race and real estate and rages across two generations in a suburban Chicago neighborhood.

Even as George Erickcek presented the most positive economic outlook since the Great Recession, the regional labor economist still pointed out a persistent cloud hanging over Muskegon. Muskegon County has a talent deficit, Erickcek said of employment and educational statistics. And it’s not going to go away, he told a Muskegon Lakeshore Chamber of Commerce […]

The 2014 Global Awareness Festival at MCC this week is focusing this year on Africa with music, film, art exhibits, lectures, food, and children’s folktales. Free and open to the public, the Festival events are designed to enlighten participants about a specific region of our ever-shrinking world.

The following Muskegon Community College (MCC) students have earned academic recognition for their grade point averages during the recently completed Fall 2013 semester. They are listed by alphabetically by hometown under each of the following three categories: President’s List Dean’s List Academic Honors List PRESIDENT’S LISTMuskegon Community College (MCC) has named the following students to […]