WCC News Story Archive: Launch

Barbara Hughes, embracing son, Zhakharius Holloway

Army veteran and her son find an educational home at WCC

Fran LeFort - September 21, 2023

“After 30 years since I’d been in school it was kind of hard – and it still is being a single mom and trying to raise my last of three babies – but I don’t think I would have enrolled as quickly as I did if WCC hadn’t helped me immediately,” Barbara says.

View Post :   Army veteran and her son find an educational home at WCC

tags: Student Succes, Vet Fest, Launch, Veteran, Wadhams Veterans Center, Fall 2023

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Mom, daughter bring their passion for learning to WCC

Fran LeFort - September 05, 2023

As one half of a rare parent-child duo at WCC, Stephanie Suchala cried when she got the news last summer that her 13-year-old daughter Dylan would be joining her as a WCC student.

View Post :   Mom, daughter bring their passion for learning to WCC

tags: Small Business Development Center, SBDC, Computer Science, Student Success, Fall 2023, Launch

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Passion for auto safety drives WCC alum's career with Toyota

Fran LeFort - September 04, 2023

When Zach Van Buren enrolled in WCC in 2016, he wasn’t sure where his career path would ultimately take him. But his pursuit of just one question helped to shape his trajectory. That is, how could he simply walk away from a rather nasty car accident he’d recently experienced?

View Post :   Passion for auto safety drives WCC alum's career with Toyota

tags: Launch, FAME, Fall 2023, Student Success

EV charging stations.

WCC is paving the road of the EV ecosystem

Fran LeFort - August 31, 2023

Washtenaw Community College is pairing with industry and state agencies to lead the advancement of Michigan’s EV ecosystem, offering three new programs to train students for high demand, high-wage jobs.

View Post :   WCC is paving the road of the EV ecosystem

tags: Advanced Transportation Center, Advanced Transportation, Launch, Fall 2023, Electric Vehicles

Zaria Miller and Elizabeth Perryman

HBCU Pathway helping WCC alumni achieve their dreams

Fran LeFort - August 28, 2023

Less than two years after launching an initiative to help more local students transfer to an HBCU, WCC filled its Towsley Auditorium with more than 400 local high school students to give them a taste of HBCU life.

View Post :   HBCU Pathway helping WCC alumni achieve their dreams

tags: Diversity, Fall 2023, Student Success, HBCU Pathway, Launch, Transfer, HBCU, HBCU Day

Joe Hallisy, Creative Director

Award-winning creative manager got his start at WCC

Kayla Gahagan - July 04, 2023

Hallisy appreciated the approach to teaching the technical side of video production as well as the human and emotional side of capturing video. He puts those skills to use in his role as creative manager, collaborating with patients, faculty, hospital and university staff, executives, his own team and more.

View Post :   Award-winning creative manager got his start at WCC

tags: Video Production, Digital Video Production, Digital Media Arts, Student Success, Career, Launch, What Do You Call, Alumni Profile, Summer 2023

Statia Hamilton, Medical Instrument Technician

'I wanted a career, not a job' says Sterile Processing certificate graduate

Kayla Gahagan - June 29, 2023

Statia Hamilton always dreamed of a large family and a fulfilling career. Now, she has both.

View Post :   'I wanted a career, not a job' says Sterile Processing certificate graduate

tags: Health Sciences, What Do You Call, Career, Summer 2023, sterile procesing, Allied Health, Launch

Video Game Programmer

WCC grad living his dream programming video games in California

Kayla Gahagan - June 27, 2023

Tom Adams wanted something special to go alongside the digital animation credits he earned during his time at WCC – a portfolio that looked like no one else’s. So he made it happen.

View Post :   WCC grad living his dream programming video games in California

tags: 2023, Launch, 3D Animation, What Do You Call, Summer 2023, Computer Programming, Student Success

Radiographer

Radiography graduate found direction, career path at WCC

Kayla Gahagan - June 26, 2023

When Michelle Wilkins started in Washtenaw’s Radiography program, she hoped success would directly lead to a job in the Michigan Medicine hospital system.

View Post :   Radiography graduate found direction, career path at WCC

tags: Radiography, Student Success, What Do You Call, Career, Summer 2023, Launch

Jason Franchi Chemical Engineer

WCC prepares Marine for transition to higher ed, chemical engineering career

Kayla Gahagan - June 21, 2023

"I chose WCC because of the great things I had heard about it from friends who had attended and because it was the facilitator school to get into the University of Michigan."

View Post :   WCC prepares Marine for transition to higher ed, chemical engineering career

tags: Transfer, What Do You Call, Summer 2023, Launch, Veterans, Mathematics Science and Engineering Technology, 2023