Steve Dirmeyer, GED teacher at Front Range Community College’s Center for Adult Learning in Fort Collins, is the Colorado Adult Educator of the Year. The Colorado Adult Education Professional Association recognized Dirmeyer at its annual convention. In his more than 21 years of teaching GED classes at FRCC, Dirmeyer has helped hundreds of students pass […]
It’s Never Too Late To Go Back to School, and Scholarships Help
For years I thought perhaps my window of opportunity had passed to return to college and really finish my undergraduate degree. I had been dabbling in taking classes for a few years—one class here, another there—yet not making real progress toward a degree. Attend school and work full time?! My main reason for not committing […]
Teaching with Digital Media a Unifying Thread to Brandon Berman’s Career
The arc of Brandon Berman’s career contains a unifying thread—teaching. He has always taught. Today, it is his focus. He teaches in and leads the digital media and graphic design degree program at the Front Range Community College campus in Westminster.
Non-Traditional Student Returns to College for Love of Animals
Denise is the hospital coordinator at the Denver Zoo. Her newly created position is administrative in nature. She makes sure the zoo hospital has the appropriate supplies, medications, and equipment on hand for the four staff veterinarians who tend to the zoo’s 3,800 animals that span 650 species.
22 Thompson School District Students Earn Merit Awards at FRCC Campus in Fort Collins
Twenty-two Thompson School District students have been designated for a Student of Merit award in the College Now-Career Pathways Program for the fall 2011 semester at Front Range Community College-Larimer Campus. Student of Merit winners exhibit academic and technical excellence within their chosen career programs. About 420 high school students from Larimer County schools are […]
19 Poudre School District Students Earn Merit Awards at FRCC Campus in Fort Collins
Nineteen Poudre School District students have been designated for a Student of Merit award in the College Now-Career Pathways Program for the fall 2011 semester at Front Range Community College-Larimer Campus. Student of Merit winners exhibit academic and technical excellence within their chosen career programs. About 420 high school students from Larimer County schools are […]
Popular Holiday Customs Around the World
I live in a diverse neighborhood. My next-door neighbors are an Indian family on one side, and a couple composed of a Peruvian woman and Indian man on the other. Across the street is an African-American family with four kids. Two doors down is a family with two adopted children—a girl from Ethiopia and a […]
Our Favorite Holiday Foods
We’re in full holiday mode now! With the students and faculty done with finals, they are off enjoying their well-earned winter break. Before they left, we asked them to share with us some of their favorite holiday foods. I think you’ll really see the diversity of our Front Range family in their responses. Dan Balski: […]