Front Range Community College creative writers will read from their original works in Danger! Live Writers at 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 6. The student writers are Summer Cushman, Anna Dory, Francesca Davila, Whitney Frazier, Sam Kaessner, Mischa Ledder, Alyssa McCall, Julia Ortiz, Mia Roldan, Kelly Singleton, Katharine Stacy, Taylor Steele, and Ginger Summers. Danger! Live […]
You can’t beat the learning that comes from experience. Five community college students learned a lot this summer in two STEM-related research programs. The students presented posters about their research at the end of their research time. The poster presentations were at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, which serves as a hub […]
From your LED alarm clock that wakes you up to your TV remote that keeps you on the couch when you change channels, optics technology is all around you. Checking out at the grocery store? Optics. Paying with a credit card? Optics. What is Optics? Optics is a branch of physics, but don’t let that […]
A new certificate program that trains people to become public safety dispatchers has opened at the Westminster Campus. The state Department of Labor and Employment forecasts 209 job openings per year in Colorado for the next eight years. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics sees an 8 percent annual increase in job openings nationally over […]
Nearly 90 percent of certificates and half of associate degrees awarded in the U.S. are in career and technical education, the American Association of Community Colleges reports. Commonly referred to as CTE, EdWeek succinctly describes CTE classes as those designed to prepare students for work. While many fields require or strongly prefer workers who hold […]
Who would have thought that a few supplies placed in a plastic sandwich bag could save three lives? But those supplies do save lives, and students in two College Now-Career Pathways classes packed hundreds of those sandwich bags recently. Students explore medical careers. The students are in the Medical Careers Exploration class – high school […]
Cinco de Mayo is coming up, a holiday mostly known in the United States as a colorful, festive celebration that involves lively music, margaritas, and delicious Mexican fare. What is this holiday really all about? Here are six things you might not have known about Cinco de Mayo and its origins: It’s NOT the Mexican […]
New degree concentrations in Wildlife Technology and Forestry Technology in the Forestry, Wildlife, and Natural Resources Program at Front Range Community College align the program with accrediting agencies. The Wildlife Technology concentration was developed in response to FRCC’s recent attainment of a one-year conditional accreditation by the North American Wildlife Technology Association (NAWTA). The concentration […]
