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The MCC wrestling team cracked into the Top 10 with its 9th place finish at the National Junior College Athletics Association (NJCAA) Championships which concluded Saturday, March 1, at the Spokane (WA) Convention Center. Northeastern Oklahoma A&M won the overall team championship with 169 points, followed by Northwest College 149, Clackamas CC 139, Colby CC […]

“The Monument(less) Scape: The Praxis of Neglect,” a multimedia exhibit by Shaurya Kumar opens March 10 in Overbrook Gallery and continues through April 25. An assistant professor of print media at The School of Art Institute of Chicago, Kumar’s exhibit presents the idea of marginalization of history in contemporary societies.

MCC President Dale K. Nesbary advocated for MCC in testimony before two Michigan legislative committees in Lansing on Feb. 19. Joined by Michigan Community College Association President Mike Hansen, Nesbary sought sustainable operating funding for the state’s community colleges during his appearance before the Community Colleges Subcommittee of the Michigan Senate Appropriations Committee. Nesbary spoke […]

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.