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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 […]

President’s and Dean’s Lists for Fall 2021 Semester

Mount Wachusett Community College is pleased to announce our Dean’s and President’s Lists for the fall 2021 semester. Students who complete a minimum of 12 semester hours are eligible. The Dean’s List requires a 3.30 to 3.99 grade point average while the President’s List requires a 4.0-grade point average. President’s List Sabrina Lapcheske, Steamboat Springs, […]

Media Communications Receives Improved Lighting Thanks to National Grid

Mount Wachusett Community College is the recipient of an Energy Initiative rebate from National Grid for upgrades to lighting in the colleges’ two video recording studios. The $43,216 rebate payments from National Grid will enable MWCC to reduce kilowatt-hour energy consumption in the studios by 91.2% per year. Enrollment in the video concentration of the […]

Barre Savings Charitable Foundation Establishes Scholarship at Mount Wachusett Community College

Mount Wachusett Community College has been awarded $10,000 from the Barre Savings Bank Charitable Foundation (BSCF) to aid students with financial need from Barre, Oakham, New Braintree, Hardwick, Hubbardston, Paxton, Princeton, and Rutland. “The members of the Foundation are supportive of helping to provide opportunities for people of our area and educational fulfillment is a […]

MWCC Recruiting Students for Shannon Grant Senior Success Program

Mount Wachusett Community College, with generous support from the Shannon Grant, has launched a new program aiming to connect with students and provide them with support, coaching and workshops in academic, employment, and life readiness. The Senior Success program is intended for high school seniors and HiSet participants or graduates who are interested in attending […]

Mount Wachusett Community College Receives Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 907 Donation

Members of the Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 907 visited the Mount Wachusett Community College Gardner campus on Wednesday, December 1, 2021 to deliver their annual donation to the MWCC Foundation in support of veteran students. “I am so grateful for the generous donation from Chapter 907 of the Vietnam Veterans of America.  Chapter 907 […]

MWCC Awarded 2021 Activation Fund Grant for Dental Clinic Enhancements

Mount Wachusett Community College (MWCC) will utilize the $73,903 Activation Fund grant from The Health Foundation of Central Massachusetts at its Dental Clinic to enhance its sterilization center. This enhancement will allow MWCC to improve training for dental hygiene and dental assistant students in state-of-the art sterilization and infection control procedures and processes. The grant […]

MWCC Welcomes New Leadership Team Members

Mount Wachusett Community College (MWCC) is welcoming new members to its Leadership Team and to other leadership positions throughout the college. MWCC welcomes Sandra Quaye to the college as Vice President of Finance and Administration. Quaye replaces retiring Robert LaBonte who held the position since 1994. Quaye comes to MWCC from Franklin Pierce University in […]

Student Parent Success Continues with CCAMPIS Grant Renewal

Mount Wachusett Community College is excited to announce that the CCAMPIS (Child Care Access Means Parents in School) federal grant has been renewed for an additional four years. First awarded in 2009, MWCC has continued to be rewarded renewal of the CCAMPIS Grant every four years. Since the inception of the CCAMPIS grant program, MWCC […]