Mark Farina, a Chicago reporter and sports announcer who wrote “Casey and the Flying Fortress,” will be in Muskegon on Monday, March 19, to speak in the morning at the USS Silversides Submarine Museum and in the evening at Muskegon Community College’s Sturrus Technology Center in conjunction with the college’s Center for Experiential Learning. Farina’s […]

Muskegon Community College will present its 2018 Alumni Achievement Award, an honor recognizing extraordinary professional achievement by one of its graduates from the past 15 years, to David Takitaki, Class of 2005, who is a political science faculty member at Ferris State University. Takitaki will be honored on Tuesday, May 8, at the Alumni Awards […]

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 is hosting “Achieving the Dream STEM Awareness and Exploration” for high school and middle school students in Muskegon and Ottawa counties on Friday, March 1, at the Sturrus Technology Center, 388 W. Clay Avenue, in downtown Muskegon. MCC applied technology faculty and representatives from 10-15 area companies will be on hand to […]

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 […]