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Mount Wachusett Community College Hosts Virtual Conference to Help Student Parents

Mount Wachusett Community College (MWCC), in collaboration with Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA), hosted a ‘Child Care Access Means Parents in School (CCAMPIS) Virtual Student Parent Conference’ on Friday, April 22. This full-day event incorporated voices of leadership and student-parents sharing the stories of their educational journeys. Student-parents are now one of the fastest-growing college […]

MWCC Helps to Address Equity in Healthcare through Diversity Simulation Training

In a recent poll conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), LGBTQ+ people reported different, and in some cases more challenging, experiences accessing care than their non-LGBTQ+ peers. They were more likely to report that a provider did not believe they were telling the truth, suggested they were personally to blame for health problems, assumed […]

MWCC to host Earth Day Webinar Honoring Senator Robert D. Wetmore: The Role of Forests in Carbon Sequestration – first in a series

In connection with Earth Day, Mount Wachusett Community College’s Senator Robert D. Wetmore Center for Forest and Wood Products will host the first in a series of panel discussions of environmental issues as well as the forest and wood products industries in the Commonwealth. The event will be co-hosted by Massachusetts Senator Anne Gobi, a […]

Early College Designation Announced for Narragansett Regional High School in Partnership with MWCC and Fitchburg State

GARDNER, MA – April 11, 2022 – On March 28, 2022 the Baker-Polito administration announced the designation of eight new Early College programs including Narragansett Regional High School (NRHS) in partnership with Mount Wachusett Community College and Fitchburg State University. Early College programs provide college exposure to students in high school who might otherwise not […]

MWCC Foundation to Hold Veterans Scholarship Breakfast at Great Wolf Lodge April 14

The MWCC Foundation is excited to return to in-person events this spring with the return of the annual Veterans Scholarship Breakfast. Speakers will include alumnus Christopher Shaddock, student Andrea Giordano, and keynote speaker James Kopp a member of the US World War One Centennial Commission which established the WWI Memorial on the National Mall. MWCC […]

Mount Wachusett Community College 57th Commencement to be held on May 18, 2022

Keynote Speaker Massachusetts Board of Higher Education Chairman Chris Gabrieli Mount Wachusett Community College will be holding its commencement ceremonies in person for the first time since 2019 on May 18, 2022 at six in the evening. In addition to the graduating class of 2022, members of the 2020 and 2021 classes have also been […]

Stephanie Williams Named Inaugural Chief Diversity Executive

We are pleased to announce that Stephanie Williams is joining Mount Wachusett Community College in the newly established role of Chief Diversity Executive. Williams joins MWCC after severing as the Chief Diversity Executive for the City of Worcester where she was responsible for leading the City Manager’s diversity agenda. Prior to joining the City of […]

Mount Wachusett Community College Earns 2022-2023 Military Friendly® School Designation

Mount Wachusett Community College announced today that it has earned the 2022-2023 Military Friendly ® School designation. Institutions earning this designation were evaluated using both public data sources and responses from a proprietary survey. More than 1,800 schools participated in the 2022-2023 survey with 665 earning special awards for going above the standard. MWCC earned […]

2nd Annual Healthy Minds Event Focused on Health and Skill-building for Students in North Central Mass

The MWCC’s Portrait of a Graduate initiative in conjunction with community partners Gardner CAC, Growing Places, HEAL Winchendon, LUK, Inc., Making Opportunity Count (MOC) Inc., and Pathways for Change, announce the second annual Healthy Minds Virtual Youth Conference, scheduled for April 13, 2022 from 10 am to 1 pm. The 2021 event was a tremendous […]