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 […]
FRCC-Brighton Center Helps 244 Taxpayers Claim $500,000 in Refunds
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 […]
FRCC-Westminster Helps 735 Taxpayers Claim $1.4 Million in Refunds
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, […]
What’s the Hidden Job Market?
I think we should have a contest for the job search term most likely to terrify new job seekers, and I think the winner would be “Hidden Job Market.” Say these words to a new college graduate or high school student looking for his/her first summer job, and watch their eyes widen in horror. “You’re […]
High School Students See Manufacturing as Career Possibility
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 […]
What is a Cloud Computing and Virtualization Degree?
Every time you pay for something on Square, ApplePay, or even use your Starbucks app, you are relying on “the cloud.” Every time you check or use your Gmail account, it’s in the cloud. Cloud Computing is what removes the need and expense businesses incur by having physical equipment. That equipment – servers and other […]
What Do Pharmacy Technicians Do?
Pharmacy technicians prepare the prescription medications that are dispensed to patients after pharmacist review. The job involves measuring, mixing, counting out, labeling, and recording amounts and dosages according to prescription orders. The medications could be the pills pharmaceutical companies supply to pharmacies, or they could be medications that the pharmacy technician prepares – that’s called […]
FRCC Website Voted Education Site of 2014
Front Range Community College’s website has been voted the Telerik Sitefinity Education Website of 2014. Progress Software Corporation, which in 2014 acquired Telerik Sitefinity, the vendor for FRCC’s content management system, reported that “more than 40 organizations were nominated for website creativity, design, user experience, functionality and overall presentation. After narrowing the field, voting was […]