Cash prizes awarded to help local entrepreneurs start and build businesses
Fran LeFort - May 31, 2022
Local entrepreneurs pitched their business plans for cash prizes in a hybrid return to Pitch@WCC, the WCC Entrepreneurship Center's premier annual event.
View Post : Cash prizes awarded to help local entrepreneurs start and build businessestags: Entrepreneurship, Community enrichment, June 2022, Entrepreneurship Center, Pitch@WCC, On The Record
Ann Arbor woman uses Free College Week to transition to new stage in life
Rich Rezler - April 26, 2022
LeNelle Covés attended nearly 40 of the 64 Free College Week classes that WCC offered earlier this month. "There's no reason I should be bored in my life because I have too many interests," she says.
View Post : Ann Arbor woman uses Free College Week to transition to new stage in life
Public invited to Free College Week at WCC
Fran LeFort - March 15, 2022
Washtenaw Community College (WCC) will open its virtual classroom doors to the public during Free College Week on Monday, April 4, through Friday, April 8.
View Post : Public invited to Free College Week at WCCtags: March 2022, Community enrichment, Online Learning, On The Record, Free College Week
Community invited to participate in WCC's Liberal Arts Week on Oct. 25-29
Fran LeFort - October 18, 2021
The public is invited to participate in WCC's first Liberal Arts Week. Events offer interactive, virtual and in-person workshops that showcase how jobs and the world around us are impacted by liberal arts studies.
View Post : Community invited to participate in WCC's Liberal Arts Week on Oct. 25-29tags: Liberal Arts Week, Community enrichment, Liberal Arts Innovation Group
Public invited to meet with 60 employers at WCC's Oct. 15 virtual career fair
Fran LeFort - October 01, 2021
Washtenaw Community College (WCC) will host a career fair Oct. 15 with an anticipated 60 employers seeking to fill positions. The virtual event is free and open to the public.
View Post : Public invited to meet with 60 employers at WCC's Oct. 15 virtual career fairtags: Community enrichment, Career Fair, Center for Career Success
WCC joins EMU, YMCA to address critical need for child development workers
Rich Rezler - August 14, 2020
The Early Childhood Education program at WCC is joining an effort spearheaded by the Office of Engage@EMU to respond to a critical community need for certified child development workers in eastern Washtenaw County.
View Post : WCC joins EMU, YMCA to address critical need for child development workerstags: community involvement, Early Childhood Education, Community enrichment, ousearch_News_2020
WCC offering free Race and Ethnic Relations virtual learning series to community
Rich Rezler - June 26, 2020
Washtenaw Community College is offering a free, five-part Race and Ethnic Relations virtual learning series.
View Post : WCC offering free Race and Ethnic Relations virtual learning series to communitytags: Race and Ethnicity, ousearch_News_2020, Community enrichment
70-year-old achieves goal of earning a WCC degree ... and did it for free
Rich Rezler - January 20, 2020
Claudia Dionne took WCC classes for free thanks to the college’s emeritus student program that offers tuition-free credit and non-credit classes to Washtenaw County residents age 65 and older.
View Post : 70-year-old achieves goal of earning a WCC degree ... and did it for freetags: Affordability, Emeritus Program, On The Record, January 2020, Fine Arts, Community enrichment, ousearch_News_On The Record
Community-focused health and fitness
Kelly Gampel - January 17, 2020
The staff at the Health and Fitness Center at WCC is eager and ready to help those who walk through the front doors – whether members or not – to reach their health goals.
View Post : Community-focused health and fitnesstags: Community enrichment, January 2020, Health and Fitness, On The Record, ousearch_News_On The Record, ousearch_News_On The Record
McKinley calls on WCC to develop maintenance staff
Washtenaw Community College - April 23, 2018
McKinley, Inc., one of the nation’s largest residential and commercial real estate development companies, called upon Washtenaw Community College to help train building maintenance professionals for employment at the company’s apartment and housing units around the Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti area.
View Post : McKinley calls on WCC to develop maintenance stafftags: April 2018, On The Record, Community enrichment, Workforce Development, training, ousearch_News_On The Record