On May 15, Muskegon Community College distributed nearly $640,200 in federal emergency grants to 1,386 eligible winter semester students under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund. In all, MCC received $1,123,675 from the U.S. Department of Education pursuant to the institution’s Certification and Agreement for Emergency Financial […]

Muskegon Community College low-income students, who were enrolled in career or technical education programs during the recently completed winter semester or who are enrolled in those programs during the 2020 summer and fall semesters, may become eligible to receive food assistance benefits through a new State of Michigan initiative. The Michigan departments of Health and […]

The Muskegon Community College Board of Trustees will hold its regularly scheduled May meeting online at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 20. Individuals wishing to contact members of the Board of Trustees to provide input or ask questions on any business that will come before the Board at the meeting, should email cindy.deboef@muskegoncc.edu no later than 12:30 […]

Muskegon Community College will permanently close its Lakeshore Fitness Center, which had halted operations on March 19 in conjunction with the campus response to the coronavirus, effective immediately. The Board of Trustees voted 5-2 for closing operations during a special meeting held on May 1. The Board conducted the meeting online in accordance with Gov. […]

The Muskegon Community College Board of Trustees will hold a special meeting online at noon on Friday, May 1, to discuss the Lakeshore Fitness Center. Individuals wishing to contact members of the Board of Trustees to provide input or ask questions on any business that will come before the Board at the meeting, should email cindy.deboef@muskegoncc.edu no […]

Muskegon Community College will open its University Park Golf Course for the 2020 season on Friday, May 1. The daily hours will be from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. This week, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer allowed Michigan golf courses to open with restrictions to safeguard against the spread of coronavirus. University Park Golf Course will have […]

The Muskegon Community College Nursing Program has been granted full continuing accreditation through 2027 by the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN). The MCC program once again has received the highest praise from the ACEN, which granted it the maximum eight years of full continuing accreditation without conditions. Approved by the State of Michigan […]

On many community college campuses, formal undergraduate research is a dream. At Muskegon Community College, it’s a reality. MCC students can take BIOL 280: Applied Research in Biology, a course taught by Darren Mattone, who over the past decade has spearheaded MCC’s official research efforts. His chance meeting in 2011 with an Upstate New York […]

In her more than two decades as a nurse, Kim Mason has never stopped being a lifelong learner, a trait she credits to her Muskegon Community College nursing instructors, especially Pam Brown. “She taught me to never reach a professional goal without setting the next one,” explained Mason, who went on to earn advanced nursing […]

Up until this point, Muskegon Community College alumna Amanda Jean Krum, RN, BSN admittedly hasn’t been “one of the many incredible nurses who face this virus head on.” That, however, will change this month when she answers the call for health professionals in the COVID-19 ravaged Metro New York region. A 2015 graduate of MCC’s […]