It’s not unusual for a student to take a class in high school that qualifies as college credit. Emma Thoman, however, started taking classes on an actual college campus — Metropolitan Community College-Maple Woods — when she was just 16. She’s now 19 and will graduate on May 17 with her MCC associate in arts …
Robert Hamilton has three college degrees, but his associate in arts degree from Metropolitan Community College is in a category of its own. “That A.A. has a place in my heart because it was pivotal for me,” says Hamilton, Rockhurst University’s director of academic advising for the College of Arts and Sciences. Hamilton, 46, grew …
For the past thirteen years, Jim Murray has coordinated a cultural tribute at Metropolitan Community College that honors those who were lost and those who survived the Holocaust. Murray, the music program coordinator at MCC-Maple Woods, is pleased to announce the program for the 14th anniversary event. “Day of Remembrance: Remembering the Holocaust Through Music …
This semester, several classes at Metropolitan Community College-Maple Woods have been reading, discussing and writing about “Spare Parts” by Joshua Davis. The book, which is the campus’ 2017 “Common Read” selection, is a non-fiction account about an underdog high school robotics team from Phoenix, Ariz. who won a prestigious national competition, defeating college teams like Massachusetts Institute …
In a classroom at MCC-Maple Woods, 40 students divided into teams are creating a new society. Think “Survivor.” Or maybe “The Walking Dead.” On the first day of this project, sociology instructor Debra K. Taylor informed students that each team would represent one of 15 people gathered in a shelter awaiting a “cataclysmic event.” Before …
It started with a California woman who was rude to a Starbucks barista but apologized the next day with a card and a $50 bill. After discussing that feel-good story March 28, Mix 93.3 morning hosts Rocket and Teresa threw open the phone lines to listeners who wanted to thank someone, even a total stranger. …
How smart are they? Smart enough to answer tough questions ranging from quantum physics to pop culture and anything in between. Who are they? They are winning teams of students who competed in the annual Metropolitan Community College-Maple Woods Scholar Bowl on Tuesday, March 7. 19 Kansas City metro area high schools squared off in what’s …
No one says you have to set foot on a college campus before enrolling there. Some students don’t. Some community college students visit friends at the four-year school they like — but fail to talk to the academic department they’re interested in or make sure their credits will transfer. So in March, MCC-Maple Woods put …
It’s a lovely thing to be on the receiving end of kindness, and students at Metropolitan Community College had a nice surprise in store when a team of kindness-bearers beamed their goodness on the MCC-Maple Woods campus Feb. 17. The kindness recipients soon realized the folks from the Primrose Retirement Community of Kansas City, North, were a …
You have to really like the place you work to write a book about it, especially if you’ve already retired from that place. John Leheney and Chris Yannitelli, longtime counselors at the MCC-Maple Woods campus, came up with the idea over lunch several years ago. “He said, ‘I think we should write about Maple Woods, …