Front Range Community College Blog

A clump of honeybees clouds the small hole in the side of the Sunlight Peak classroom building at Front Range Community College’s Larimer Campus in Fort Collins. While the bees tirelessly make foraging trips and return to an observation hive for biology students, Evelyn Freytag takes a well-earned break from digging in the sticky clay

Well not THE Amazing Race, but it sure felt like it. If you’ve never seen it, the Amazing Race is a fast-moving competitive reality show where teams race around the world to accomplish assigned tasks. The race has several legs where the teams must navigate the locals, customs, and language, and get to the goal site

We were just leaving Estes Park when I asked my van full of students, “So how was it? What did you get out of today?” One of my more thoughtful students, sitting in the passenger’s seat next to me, replied “Do you remember telling us at the beginning of the year that by the end

Every summer my family trades our condominium through an international home exchange club. We have lived in strangers’ houses, driven their automobiles, walked their pets, and talked to their families. This past summer, we traveled to Hawaii’s big island for three weeks. We lived aloha, from our morning glass of POG, to pau hana happy

As the health-care landscape changes, the role of medical assistants is becoming more visible and more important. One of the biggest providers in Colorado – UCHealth – for example, is changing the model of care in its clinics. As outlined in a report to the community we found in The Coloradoan in January, this new

As a queer student, I know from many, many personal experiences that being non-straight and not cisgender (cisgender means someone who identifies with the gender they were assigned at birth) can feel like an island. With the recent push for campus inclusivity, it can leave one wondering “What does inclusivity mean about my experience here?”

Who would have thought that a few supplies placed in a plastic sandwich bag could save three lives? But those supplies do save lives, and students in two College Now-Career Pathways classes packed hundreds of those sandwich bags recently. Students explore medical careers. The students are in the Medical Careers Exploration class – high school

Companies are still hiring college graduates, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE). Each year, NACE publishes projections of the hiring landscape for college grads. The most recent Job Outlook publication points to a promising future and far better circumstances than students who graduated amid the Great Recession experienced. Here are the