IRS-certified counselors who also happen to be college students will be on hand at Metropolitan Community College-Maple Woods to provide free income-tax help for those who qualify. The free tax preparation (federal and state electronic filing) at Maple Woods’ Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) site is for most people with incomes of less than $60,000. Remaining …
Metropolitan Community College’s Tyjaun A. Lee, Ph.D., will be one of 28 recipients of the Phi Theta Kappa Paragon Award for New Presidents this year. PTK, the international academic honor society for two-year colleges, bestows the award on presidents “who have shown strong support of student success by recognizing academic achievement, leadership and service among …
Metropolitan Community College’s Maple Woods campus held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Sept. 30 to mark a “refresh” of the Student Center building, including the student dining area and lounge, Campus Life & Leadership office and student organizations meeting space. Maple Woods president Tyjaun Lee described the remodeled Student Center as a “shining jewel” of the campus. …
Metropolitan Community College-Maple Woods will celebrate the renovation of its Student Center with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 11 a.m. Monday, Sept. 30. MCC-Maple Woods President Tyjaun Lee and student leaders will be on hand. The Student Center, opened in the fall of 1995, got a $100,000 refresh over the summer, a project that was completed …
Metropolitan Community College kicked off its 105th academic year on Tuesday, Aug. 20. Here are some first-week scenes from our five campuses. You’ll see lots of smiles, helpful faculty and staff, a book or two, and one gregarious Wolf. Welcome (and welcome back) to MCC! Photos by Clay Bussey, Andrew Ryan and Mary Beth Hope/MCC …
Some cool, refreshed spaces will greet Metropolitan Community College students and faculty as they start the new school year. The biggest project of the summer is the $1.3 million renovation of the MCC-Penn Valley cafe, on the zero level of the Campus Center. Both the kitchen and serving area have been redone, following improvements to …
The day Rachel Merrill found out she’d be transferring to Yale University was the same day she graduated from Metropolitan Community College. That evening in May she, her mom and her younger sister were headed to MCC commencement when they had to pull over in a parking lot on Vivion Road. Merrill needed Wi-Fi so …
Kevin Hardin’s field of dreams may be in Milwaukee. The Brewers selected the Metropolitan Community College first baseman with the 1,003rd pick in the 33rd round of the Major League Baseball draft. “It’s an opportunity that I have been working for for a long time,” Hardin told the Warrensburg Daily Star-Journal. “It’s definitely a blessing …
For Hannah Ousley, 20, Metropolitan Community College is a family tradition. The Kearney native has an older brother and sister who also attended MCC-Maple Woods. She has a younger brother still in high school who plans to take dual-credit MCC courses this fall. Ousley, who is graduating with an associate in arts degree, entered MCC-Maple …
In our fast-paced world, people find themselves constantly having to make decisions. But sometimes it’s hard to know which decision is the right one. Metropolitan Community College psychology instructor Bob Williams and his son Alex Williams, program director of psychology at the KU Edwards campus, have developed two games to help students effectively work through …