The Finger Lakes Regional Economic Development Council has tapped SUNY College at Geneseo president Denise Battles as its next co-chair. Battles succeeds former Monroe Community College president Anne Kress, who served in the role from 2016 until December 2019. Battles ...

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Monroe Community College has appointed the recently retired president of SUNY Corning Community College as its interim president while it conducts a national presidential search. Katherine Douglas, whose 40-year career has included community colleges in three states, will begin her ...

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United Way of Greater Rochester Inc. this week unveiled its community impact fund strategy for 2020 and beyond, a plan that will focus on health, education and economic mobility. “Today we are offering a focus on our three new impact ...

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 A $4.4 million federal grant will help Monroe Community College turn out higher numbers of precision optics graduates. U.S. Rep. Joe Morelle, D-Rochester, announced the grant Wednesday from the Office of Naval Research for the Defense Engineering Education Program in Optics. ...

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Anne M. Kress, president of Monroe Community College for the last decade, is one of three finalists for the presidency of Northern Virginia Community College. The college in Richmond, Va., has 75,000 students on six campuses, making it about four ...

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On July 1, three women will create history in the Rochester area as each one officially becomes the first woman to preside over her respective college or university.

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Monroe Community College has received a $3 million gift from the Wegman Family Charitable Foundation to help low-income students in need of food and other necessities overcome obstacles that make it hard to attend college or complete a degree. Wegmans’ ...

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A tense meeting of the Board of Trustees of Monroe Community College Monday night brought out more than 250 people, many of whom wore red “Union Strong” T-shirts and held red signs referencing a faculty vote of no confidence in ...

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Monroe Community College’s embattled president, Anne M. Kress, Tuesday characterized a faculty vote of no confidence in her as a union bargaining ploy, but said she will reach out to faculty representatives to try to seek a resolution. Kress held ...

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Monroe Community College faculty and staff on Monday and Tuesday are taking a vote on whether to issue a statement of no confidence in President Anne M. Kress. Both the MCC Faculty Senate and the faculty union, the MCC Faculty ...

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The Finger Lakes Regional Economic Development Council has endorsed 23 projects in the nine-county region, with a total cost of more than $171 million, to further the Finger Lakes Forward strategic plan. In its 2018 annual report, FLREDC proposes $20 ...

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High school sweethearts who attended Monroe Community College together and rose to the top of the business world returned to MCC Monday to announce a $4 million gift to lead the college’s fundraising campaign for student scholarships. The gift is ...

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General Motors dealers today donated the latest in a long line of vehicles to Monroe Community College for automotive students to use as they train to become GM-certified automobile repair technicians. The donation of 2017 GMC Sierra Denali diesel truck ...

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O-AT-KA Milk Products Cooperative plans to build a 20,000-square-foot expansion onto its production facility in the city of Batavia. A state grant of $750,000 was announced Wednesday, Jan. 10, for the $34.5 million project, which also includes incentives from the ...

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