Acknowledgement of the inextricable link between emotional and physical well-being is a major focus of training for future health care providers.

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Alerting students to such job opportunities was the goal of the first ever ROC With Your Hands Career Exploration event last week at the Rochester Community Sports Complex.

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New York has been making a strategic push to expand semiconductor manufacturing in the state for decades. It’s an economic priority that continues to grow stronger.

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A survey of Fisher’s past two graduating classes showed that 87% of undergraduates completed some form of practical or experiential learning experience during their time at the university and, of those, 40% completed two or more.

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The event is open to all community members, from high school and college students to working parents, military veterans and individuals who are unemployed or underemployed. 

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Monroe Community College President DeAnna Burt-Nanna was joined Thursday by State University of New York Chancellor Jim Malatras to announce the start of construction on the $11.4 million Finger Lakes Workforce Development (FWD) Center on MCC’s downtown campus. The FWD ...

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Normally, April would be the month when high school seniors are making last-minute visits to Rochester-area colleges, trying to decide which school that accepted them they will attend in the fall. Juniors might use their April break to start their ...

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Monroe Community College plans to hold its 2020 graduation ceremonies in early December instead of May due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The May 30 commencement has tentatively been rescheduled to Dec. 3.  “The decision to delay commencement is heart-wrenching but necessary ...

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Officials at Monroe Community College began handing out on Thursday the first of 200 laptop computers to students who need them to continue their college courses online.  The need was identified after the college began to communicate with students by ...

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State University of New York colleges and the University of Rochester will close down most in-person classes and teach the rest of the semester online in an effort to reduce the possibility of spreading the COVID-19 virus, it was announced ...

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Two things are certain about online education in 2020: the phenomenon will continue to grow in higher education settings, and institutions will continue to deliver it in their own unique ways. If you’ve been on social media in the last ...

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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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Anne M. Kress, president of Monroe Community College since 2009, has been hired to be the next president of Northern Virginia Community College. An announcement at Northern Virginia, known as NOVA, said Kress would assume her new duties at the ...

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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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Applications are now open for Monroe Community College students seeking work and scholarships from ESL Federal Credit Union. The deadline for the ESL/MCC Scholars program is Oct. 18. Students in MCC’s School of Business & Entrepreneurial Studies are eligible for ...

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