The soccer team formerly known as the Rochester Rhinos will join the new MLS NEXT Pro league as its only independent club and play its home games at MCC.
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Calendar preview: Workin’ it out
This week’s preview highlights the lectures, workshops, and exhibits to inspire continued action now that the election is over.
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Rochester-area colleges begin planning for a fall reopening
Exactly what protocols will be put in place at the schools, and how they will change campus life, aren’t yet clear.
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MCC faculty take concerns with Kress to Board of Trustees
About 100 members of Monroe Community College’s faculty gathered at a press conference today to rebut some of President Anne Kress’ public responses to their vote of no confidence.
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Kress faces pressure from MCC faculty
[UPDATED AND REVISED 11.27.18] Long-simmering tension between Monroe Community College President Anne Kress and the Faculty Senate and Faculty Association has erupted in a strong no-confidence vote by the Faculty Association, the MCC faculty’s union. Of the 502 full-time and part-time teachers who voted last week, 88 percent supported the no-confidence resolution. The vote by […]
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MCC says come back, pay later
James Simpson was just 12 credits away from completing his degree at Monroe Community College in 2008 when he stepped on something that left him was a serious foot infection. “It got so bad that it led to kidney failure and I was on dialysis,” Simpson says. He could hardly walk for nearly two years […]
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Author Ibram X. Kendi traces America’s history of racist ideas and policies
Author Ibram X. Kendi argues that racist ideas, used to justify racist policies that are created out of economic and political self-interest, produce ignorance and hate, not the other way around. He also identifies a group between segregationists and anti-racists: Assimilationists, as he calls them, are well-meaning people who don’t think they are racist and […]
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Conflict over construction at Sibley
Renovations are often disruptive, no matter the scale. So some sort of conflict between WinnCompanies and Monroe Community College’s Damon City Campus may have been inevitable. Winn owns and is renovating the Sibley Building downtown for housing and a high-tech incubator; MCC is a tenant in the building. The Monroe Community College Faculty Association sent […]
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Work progressing at MCC’s future home
Crews are six months into construction of Monroe Community College’s future Damon City Campus, which officials expect to open in time for the fall 2017 semester. The project spans four connected buildings, all previously owned by Kodak, which provide a total of 255,000 square feet of space. DiMarco Constructors and LaBella Associates, the contractors on […]
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Next step: making sure we don’t blow $500 million
It sounds like a lot of money, but in terms of government spending, $500 million really isn’t, which is why careful investment in projects that move the Finger Lakes economy forward and finally shake off the region’s Rust Belt past is so important. The Finger Lakes is one of the three regions to win $500 […]
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Filling the gap before the middle-skills gap
People in the Rochester region need jobs. Employers in the Rochester region need middle-skills workers. Yet thousands of machinist, lab technician, and dental assistant positions — to name a few — go unfilled because employers say they can’t find people with the right education and training. Monroe Community College’s accelerated certificate programs are an attempt […]
