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Bestselling Author Robert D. Putnam to Present on Income Inequality & the American Dream at MWCC Forum

Is the American Dream Real? Political scientist, Harvard University Professor and bestselling author Robert D. Putnam will speak about the growing class gap among American young people and the implications for social mobility on Friday, March 25 at Mount Wachusett Community College. Putnam’s one-hour presentation begins at 11 a.m. in the South Café, followed by […]

MWCC Panel Presentation: Frankenscience? The Myths and Realities of Contemporary Science

Mount Wachusett Community College Humanities Project, “Myths, Monsters, and Modern Science: Frankenstein’s Legacy,” continues with a free panel presentation and discussion on contemporary science. “Frankenscience? The Myths and Realities of Contemporary Science,” will take place Wednesday, Oct. 14 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Levi Heywood Memorial Library in Gardner. Panelists include Lara Dowland, […]

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Highlights Year Two of MWCC Humanities Project

This month, the Mount Wachusett Community College Humanities Project begins its second year with “Myths, Monsters, and Modern Science: Frankenstein’s Legacy,” an in-depth look at Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein, and its relevance in today’s world.Throughout the year, free events will take place at the college’s Gardner campus and in the community at public libraries […]

MWCC Humanities Project: Thoreau’s Modern Connection to Student Debt

One author’s unconventional approach to repaying his student loans will be the focus of a Nov. 6 event for the Mount Wachusett Community College Humanities Project, supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities challenge grant. Leominster Public Library will host a book discussion of Ken Ilgunas’ “Walden on Wheels: On the Open Road from […]

MWCC Humanities Project Launches with Series of Events on Thoreau’s Walden

This month, Mount Wachusett Community College launches “East Meets West in a Cabin in Concord: Walden and Beyond,” the first year of a multi-year, college and community project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The MWCC Humanities Project will begin with a book discussion on Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry […]

NEH Summer Academy: “East Meets West in a Cabin in Concord – Walden and Beyond”

In late May, a group of 30 MWCC educators spent a day walking the trails at Walden Pond in Concord, where 19th century author, philosopher, naturalist and abolitionist Henry David Thoreau lived in a cabin for two years, two months and two days writing his most famous works. The visit was part of a week-long […]

MWCC Receives $500,000 National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge Grant

Mount Wachusett Community College has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Challenge Grant in the amount of $500,000 to endow the “MWCC Humanities Initiative” to deepen and sustain quality humanities programming and curriculum in North Central Massachusetts. The grant will be matched by $1 million raised by the MWCC Foundation, Inc. in […]