Due to the impending inclement weather and hazardous driving conditions, all MWCC campuses will be closed Wednesday, November 22nd. All day, evening and remote classes are cancelled. Please refer to the Mount Fitness Facebook page for status on their operations. View weather policy here.
MWCC’s Humanities Project, East Meets West in a Cabin in Concord: Walden and Beyond, continues during the spring semester with several community book discussions and a poetry reading. The events, inspired by Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, are free and open to the public. A discussion on Cal Armistead’s “Being Henry David,” will take place Wednesday, […]
MWCC’s year-long study of Henry David Thoreau continues for the spring semester with a book discussion on Cal Armistead’s “Being Henry David,” on Wednesday, Feb. 11 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Gardner campus. In Armistead’s debut novel about a teen in search of himself, 17-year-old “Hank” lands at Penn Station in New York City with […]
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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 […]
With President Daniel M. Asquino leading the way to the summit of Wachusett Mountain, Mount Wachusett Community College began an annual tradition on the mild morning of Saturday, Oct. 18. In the first “Hike for the Humanities” fundraiser, a group of MWCC faculty, staff and alumni simulated Henry David Thoreau’s 1842 hike of Wachusett Mountain, […]
While Mount Wachusett Community College professors find innovative ways for their students to examine Thoreau, the author’s lasting influence has also extended into the community. On Wednesday night, the college held the second event in its ongoing series, “East Meets West in a Cabin in the Woods: Walden and Beyond,” the first year-theme of the […]
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 […]
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