Dear FRCC Community, I have written to you several times over the last couple of months about COVID-19, and how the college is responding to keep you safe. That has been challenging enough, but this is an even harder message to write. The deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and many more are […]
CCCS honors 16 FRCC students—and peers around the state—for their inspiring achievements. The Colorado Community College System (CCCS) this month paid tribute to top students from schools around the state during a virtual ceremony for the system’s 2020 Student Excellence Awards. Sixteen distinguished students from Front Range Community College were chosen for this year’s honor. […]
For Juliana Osornio-Barron, receiving a laptop from the FRCC Foundation during the COVID-19 crisis was the help she needed to keep her studies going. “I was really stuck,” says Juliana of continuing to keep up with school after coronavirus closed FRCC campuses — and everything else — in mid-March. “I’ve always done my school work […]
Like everything else, early care and education (ECE) is experiencing significant changes because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Those of you reading this blog with a toddler in your lap are especially aware of how true this is. To learn more about ECE and its profound effects on us all—not just those of us with young […]
Remote learning is a whole new ballgame, but hopefully you’ve gotten into a groove in recent weeks. Just in time for finals! It’s one thing to figure out how to study effectively while learning remotely, but it’s something else entirely to study in today’s remote learning landscape for exams, which might be proctored or unproctored […]
Front Range Community College is ranked among the top 10 schools in the country for online learning. Front Range Community College (FRCC) has been listed as one of the best online community colleges in the U.S.—listed ninth nationally out of more than 1,000 colleges in a new ranking from College Consensus. “Online classes and programs […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought a number of challenges into our lives, especially for students who are parents. With fewer trips to the grocery store—and finding items missing from the shelves or unavailable online—meeting our babies’ and older kids’ nutritional needs has become even more problematic. Nutrition expert Victoria Lee has been kind enough to […]
We’ve all read news stories about how the current COVID-19 situation is negatively impacting businesses and their employees in Colorado. Unfortunately, this means many of our students aren’t receiving paychecks from the jobs they depend on to support themselves. Over the last few weeks, FRCC has rushed to provide almost $600,000 in emergency grants to […]
