A total of 59 Estes Valley businesses have received more than $2.1 million in disaster recovery grants through the efforts of the Larimer Small Business Development Center (SBDC), working in conjunction with the Estes Park Economic Development Corporation (Estes Park EDC). The grants awarded to Larimer County businesses represent more than 60 percent of the […]
Two women at Front Range Community College have been named to the American Association of Women in Community Colleges (AAWCC) 40 Under 40 list. The honorees are Gwen Garrison, conference services coordinator at the Larimer Campus, and Christy Gomez, chair of the Mathematics Department at the Boulder County Campus. Garrison is president-elect of AAWCC’s Rocky […]
Eric Sheley, a student at Front Range Community College, is one of two community college students in the nation to be awarded a 2016 Darrel Hess Community College Geography Scholarship from the American Association of Geographers. The scholarship provides students with $1,000 for educational expenses. This summer, Sheley will complete an internship with UNAVCO, the […]
Alvina Vasquez, communications director for the Colorado office of Strategies 360 (S360) and an alumna of Front Range Community College, has joined the FRCC Foundation board of directors. She brings to the board more than 20 years of experience in communications and messaging strategies for organizations and businesses. S360 helps organizations with integrated, successful approaches […]
Dave and Cindy Batka, owners of Wheels Manufacturing Inc., want to build a pipeline for Colorado’s manufacturing industry by graduating skilled workers from Front Range Community College today and tomorrow. Half of their recent $20,000 donation to the FRCC Foundation will fund scholarships encouraging students to obtain one of the many manufacturing degrees and certificates […]
Niroj Bhattarai, chair of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Front Range Community College’s Larimer Campus, is the 2016 Jerome Wartgow Teaching with Technology Award winner in all of the Colorado Community Colleges System. In addition to his chair duties, Bhattarai teaches economics in classroom and online settings, and it is in the classroom that Bhattarai […]
Tom Cassady and Terry Dye have been elected to the board of directors of the Front Range Community College Foundation. Cassady retired from Broomfield-based Ball Corporation in 2015 after 27 years with the company. He held various finance and accounting positions before being named the director of accounting systems. Before joining Ball, Cassady was the […]
Dan McGillicuddy is the Classified Staffer of the Year at Front Range Community College. McGillicuddy, who has been at FRCC for 6½ years, is an IT Technician II at the Westminster Campus. He works desktop support, deploys new computers, and images existing computers as semesters change. He also is responsible for Macintosh computers in Digital […]
