There are 5,900 manufacturing companies in Colorado, according to the state Office of Economic Development and International Trade. These companies employ 120,000 people and account for $16.3 billion in economic output. As employees retire or move on, where will new workers come from? This question is answered by two goals of the Northern Colorado Manufacturing […]
Dr. Jean Runyon is the new vice president of the Larimer Campus of Front Range Community College. She joins FRCC from Anne Arundel Community College in Maryland, where she was associate vice president for learning advancement and the Virtual Campus and interim dean of the college’s School of Business and Law. She succeeds Bruce Walthers, […]
Fourteen nursing assistants working for Columbine Health Systems have received nursing pins for completing a two-year Practical Nursing program – a collaboration between Front Range Community College and Columbine. The upgrade in their skills will allow the employees to provide more advanced health-care services and offer opportunities to be promoted by their employer. The students: […]
Wynnston Corona is a high school graduate with two certificates in Precision Machining and a job as a machinist. Oh, and he’s 17 years old. How does that happen? “I’ve got a lot of determination,” he says. “In middle school I knew I wanted to graduate early. I wanted to start work as soon as […]
Ryan McCoy, the new executive director of the Front Range Community College Foundation, is passionate about education. As a teacher in the college classroom, he sees how education enriches the lives of students. Through his experience with the Foundation, he understands the challenges students face and overcome as they fight for an education and a […]
Front Range Community College students are finishing production on a documentary about veterans meeting the challenges of returning to college and dealing with Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome (PTSD). This is the second year that students in the FRCC digital media program are creating a documentary about veterans. Last year’s effort – “Women Warriors: A Vision […]
Kay Howarth, Nishta Oberai, and Nash Seufer, students at Front Range Community College, have earned National Engaged Leader awards from the National Society of Leadership and Success. The trio were honored at the Boulder County induction ceremony for 44 new society members. The National Society of Leadership and Success has chapters at more than 475 […]
Students, faculty, and instructor volunteers at Front Range Community College-Brighton Center assisted low- and moderate-income taxpayers in filing tax returns to claim more than $500,000 in refunds to the taxpayers in 2015. FRCC partnered with Denver-based Piton Foundation in Tax Help Colorado. At FRCC-Brighton Center’s free tax site, IRS-certified students filed 244 returns, helping local […]
