The Front Range Community College Foundation has received a $20,000 donation for scholarships for precision machining students from the Gene Haas Foundation of Virginia. FRCC’s Precision Machining Program is housed in the Advanced Technology Center at the Boulder County Campus in Longmont. The program has more than a hundred students in its daytime for-credit program […]
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: […]
According to the Colorado Health Foundation, health-care and wellness jobs in Colorado grew by more than 22 percent during the past five years, driving the state’s economy even as other industries were mired in recession. The Northern Colorado Health Sector Partnership is celebrating this success and more. The group of more than 30 northern Colorado […]
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 […]
Students, faculty, and instructor volunteers at Front Range Community College-Westminster Campus assisted low- and moderate-income taxpayers in filing tax returns to claim more than $1.4 million in refunds to the taxpayers in 2015. FRCC partnered with Denver-based Piton Foundation in Tax Help Colorado. At the Westminster Campus’s free tax site, IRS-certified students filed 735 returns, […]
Manufacturers in the NoCo Manufacturing Partnership introduced students to manufacturing in Fort Collins this month. As a result of this partnership with manufacturers, educators, county workforce centers and others, more than 80 Poudre School District students from Fort Collins, Fossil Ridge, Poudre and Rocky Mountain high schools attended tours at FiberLok Inc., In-Situ, Sears Trostel […]
