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 […]

A seasoned respiratory therapist, Keegan Knue understood firsthand the toll that the escalating cases of COVID-19 would take on the Spectrum Hospital staff in Grand Rapids. Before Knue joined the Muskegon Community College faculty in 2017, he spent the previous 12 years working in Spectrum’s Respiratory Therapy Department. “This was my second home,” he said. […]

The Muskegon Community College Board of Trustees will conduct its regularly scheduled meeting on Wednesday, April 15, as an online meeting open to the public. The meeting will begin at 12:30 p.m. However, anyone interested in participating in the virtual meeting must pre-register by Friday, April 10, to allow College organizers to get an accurate […]

The winners in Muskegon Community College’s Winter 2020 Creative Writing Contest, organized by the MCC English and Communications Department and the Muskegon Writers’ Series, have been selected. The top three places in each category are: POETRY First Place: Josie Buckingham – “From Sunrise to Sunset” Second Place: Keegan Colcleasure – “The Needles Above Us” Third Place: Stevie […]

Former Muskegon Community College students, who have financial holds up to $1,200 with MCC and who have not been enrolled at MCC for three academic years, are being encouraged to re-enroll under an initiative called the MCC Debt Forgiveness Program. Qualified students may be eligible to have their debt forgiven. In addition to the above […]

Muskegon Community College has partnered with the State of Michigan and Mercy Health to use the college’s Health and Wellness Center as a site for hospital beds for overflow patients to free up space in area hospitals for the possible influx of critical COVID-19 cases. The 52,000 square-foot facility, which has been unoccupied since March […]

In response to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s statewide stay-at-home order for the next three weeks, Muskegon Community College will extend its suspension of on-site operations at all locations through Sunday, May 3. MCC President Dale K. Nesbary made the decision today following the announcement of the Governor’s executive order, which takes effect at 12:01 a.m. on […]

Muskegon Community College is suspending on-site operations at all its locations from Thursday, March 19, through Sunday, April 5, in response to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s executive order designed to assist in stopping the spread of COVID-19. The MCC Emergency Response Team will monitor the situation daily. In the meantime, the college will continue to deliver […]