Tea Time Speaker Series Hosting Indigenous Peoples and Native American Indians Panel

Mount Wachusett Community College’s Tea Time Speaker Series will host a panel discussion highlighting indigenous peoples and Native American Indians on Monday, April 30 from 12 to 2 p.m. “Together we will listen as members of the Cherokee, Nimpuc, Taíno, Pocasset Wampanoag, and Mashantucket Pequot tribes and a researcher share their cultural experiences, life stories, […]

Students Paint Wall with “Hope” at Mount Wachusett Community College

This semester, inspired by recent tragedies, the MWCC Art Club decided to take action through creation. “We wanted to show that in dark times there is still hope,” said Camilo Almarales, an art major who will graduate in 2019. Almarales, together with Art Club members Alyson Bois, Nick Lutz and Blake Denmark, painted a mural […]

MWCC Initiates First Ever Delta Alpha Pi Honor Society Members

Five Mount Wachusett Community College students were inaugurated into the Delta Alpha Pi Honor Society Thursday as the college became the eighth college in Massachusetts to host a chapter of the honor society recognizing high-achieving college and university students with disabilities. “You are joining an elite group of honors students across this country,” said Dean […]

MWCC Students Inducted into Alpha Beta Gamma Honor Society

Fifteen students from Mount Wachusett Community College were inducted into the Chi Gamma Chapter of the Alpha Beta Gamma international business honor society recently. The honor society recognized the hard work and effort of the students at an induction ceremony on Friday, April 13. Alpha Beta Gamma was established in 1970 to recognize and encourage […]

Choosing the Mount by Ashley McHugh

If you met me three years ago, you knew I had no intentions of going to college. My high school didn’t push college, so I felt as though I didn’t have to apply myself and went straight into the work force after graduation. I can tell you from personal experience that it was not my forte. […]

MWCC Participating in Mount Ida College Fair

Admissions representatives from Mount Wachusett Community College will be participating in a college fair at Mount Ida College on Tuesday, April 17 as MWCC encourages Mount Ida students to explore transferring to the college. “I am so thankful to the Mount Ida staff for putting together this college fair. This will be a great opportunity […]

MWCC Welcomes Mount Ida College Vet Tech Students

Mount Wachusett Community College announced Monday that it welcomes students from the Mount Ida College Veterinary Technician Associate of Arts program and will assist with their transfer into MWCC where they can begin classes as early as this summer. “Mount Wachusett’s Veterinary Technician program is happy to welcome any student that was enrolled in the […]

Community Invited to Character Breakfast at MWCC

Characters from fairy tales, cartoons, storybooks and beyond will be making a special appearance at Mount Wachusett Community College on Saturday, April 7 during the Fourth Annual Phi Theta Kappa Character Breakfast. The annual character breakfast will take place from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. at MWCC’s South Cafeteria. In addition to volunteers dressed in costume, […]

Veterans Complete Mediation Training

Nineteen veterans were presented with mediation certificates Friday following a five-week long mediation program that was hosted at Mount Wachusett Community College. Most of those who took participated in the training were veterans or work with veterans. Certificates recognizing their 35 hours of training were presented by Massachusetts Senator Anne Gobi, Massachusetts Representative Susannah M. […]

United Way Youth Venture Students Inspire Community Members

The United Way Youth Venture program held its third annual Spring Showcase at Great Wolf Lodge in Fitchburg on March 22 where student venture teams displayed their community projects. The event gave over 200 students from around the region — representing close to 70 communities— a chance to show off their youth-led, youth-created service programs […]