In the coming months, we’ll be spotlighting each of the programs housed within the brand-new Center for Integrated Manufacturing. Check out our June blog on Automation & Engineering Technology. If you’ve been paying attention to the Colorado job market, you know already that the manufacturing industry is booming in Colorado. In fact, more than 5,000 […]
Fort Collins, Colo. – Kathleen Mitchell, Ph.D., is the new director of the Front Range Community College (FRCC) Law Enforcement Academy. Mitchell served with the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) for more than 20 years in many roles, including Special Agent, Supervisory Special Agent, and as an Executive Manager in the FBI’s Training and Development […]
Longmont, Colo. – On August 1, Front Range Community College (FRCC) will open its new training center for careers in high-tech manufacturing. Colorado expects to have 5,000 new jobs in manufacturing by 2026. As the only college facility in the state with four advanced manufacturing programs under one roof, the Center for Integrated Manufacturing will […]
By now you may have heard about the new Center for Integrated Manufacturing that Front Range Community College is opening in Longmont later this year. What you may not know is that Colorado has a serious shortage of skilled workers for advanced manufacturing jobs. So this new facility won’t just help our students get good […]
Jane Beard (RN, MSN), nursing faculty at Front Range Community College’s Larimer campus, is the college’s faculty of the year. She was honored at a meeting of the State Board for Community Colleges and Occupational Education. When Beard was in nursing school, a charismatic instructor told her, “You are going to make a great nurse.” […]
You’ve probably heard before that getting an internship during college is a fantastic way to strengthen your résumé, test out an industry or job (before you take the full plunge after college), and get a foot in the door at a great company. All true! An internship will expose you to a professional situation, allowing […]
In recent years, higher education has undergone a significant transformation. A large number of small liberal arts colleges have closed. Undergraduate majors have become more STEM-focused and aimed toward employment. The popular myth of the liberal arts, especially in the humanities and art, is one of an elitist and impractical pursuit that creates unemployable young […]
Eric Salahub, philosophy faculty at Front Range Community College’s Larimer Campus, has earned the Colorado Community College System’s Teaching with Technology Award. He was honored at a meeting of the State Board for Community Colleges and Occupational Education this month. The Jerome Wartgow Teaching with Technology Award recognizes a full-time faculty member for excellence in […]
