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Front Page News
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It might seem as though the news about the economy can't get any gloomier, but for our national leaders looking for solutions to fix the bleed, apparently they need look no further than MCC! Not to make a Federal case out of it or anything, but a...
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Talk about an icy reception! Not even winter yet, and folks are already tired of the weather conditions! Here we are, days after what seemed to be an innocent enough ice storm comes through the area, and some MCC folks - not to mention tens of thousands...
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Always on Christmas night there was music. An uncle played the fiddle, a cousin sang "Cherry Ripe," and another uncle sang "Drake's Drum." It was very warm in the little house. Auntie Hannah, who had got on to the parsnip wine,...
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Lights, please! Tis the season for Christmas specials, and judging by the buzz around campus on last month's turkey quiz, it seems folks like some blog posts that test their knowledge of all things trivia. So, in honor of Monday night's showing...
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Congrats go out to a pair of MCC's own, who have been nominated as candidates for the All-USA Community Colleges Academic Team! Damian Gray of Methuen and Michelle Lehoullier of Pepperell are this year's MCC nominees. The annual recognition program...
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Calling all weekend warriors! Earn the degree you need at a time that works for you! In response to changing economic times and a student population looking for more flexibility in its studies, Middlesex Community College is now fully launching its Weekend...
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Okay for the sake of this blog post, let's just pretend that the wonderful search engines out there on the internet DON'T exist. Take a pass through this Thanksgiving and turkey quiz and see how well you do answering these questions just using...
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The MCC family extends its condolences to the family of one of our own, John Michael Delehanty, an MCC liberal arts student who died as the result of injuries sustained in a fall from a rooftop in Boston this past weekend. John, 20, was the beloved son...
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As you may or may not know there are a couple of new browsers out there to try. Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 8. My suggestion is that if you use Blackboard and it functions well enough for you please resist the urge to try something new. Blackboard...
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This past Friday morning, more than 1,000 members of the MCC community - students, faculty, staff, everyone - set off for the college's first-ever Day of Service. After raucous pep rallies inside the Double Tree Hotel in Lowell and the Bedford Campus...
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Presidential hopefuls John McCain and Barack Obama squared off on the steps of MCC this week, complete with boxing gloves and cheering sections. Unlike the one most folks watched on the national news recently, though, the MCC version featured 10 foot...
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It has come to our attention that Mozilla Firefox 3.0 and Blackboard are having compatibility issues causing an error with uploading documents. We have found a workaround to solve this problem. It will require you to install a Firefox add-on, User Agent...
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Shakespeare in the Park! Music in the Park! Art in the Park! Saturday in the Park! We've got 'em all at MCC, thanks to the newest addition to our environs as of this week, the MCC Culture Garden on Middle Street! This week, folks feasted on hot...
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The MCC community extends its condolences to the family of Gena R. Brown, a 2005 graduate of our medical sonography program who died in a tragic house fire in Lexington over the weekend. Authorities are crediting Brown with saving her two daughters from...
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Recently, a group of newly enrolled MCC students fresh out of high school jumped both feet forward into a unique program designed to help prepare them for college, albeit by taking a slightly more adventurous route. The program, run through MCC's...
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Jared St. Pierre, an MCC business student, was on the phone in his apartment on Wednesday, talking with a representative from the cable company, when he heard the screams outside his window. St. Pierre looked out and saw an older man in the Pawtucket...
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If you are not aware MCC used to use a portal provided by Blackboard. The college has decided to change portals, so this past summer when the contract for the portal with BB expired the college created a temporary portal which looks identical to the naked...
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A great baseball-filled day was had by all on at Lowell's Lelacheur Park recently, with a special summer event related to MCC’s Common Book, When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka. The event, called "American Pastime: On Film &...
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Call it North vs. South Redux. Or City Slickers vs. Suburbanites. Anyway you cut it, this year's MCC Campus Softball Brawl was one for the books. Unable to make the trip to compete in Beijing, MCC's finest softballers instead took not just their...
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Hello, As you prepare your courses to start a new semester whether your starting something new or preparing a course that you have done many times before. If you have set up Blackboard assignments in your course that you want to remove please work on...
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Governor Deval Patrick on Thursday signed into law a bill to invest $2.2 billion over 10 years for new buildings or renovations at all of the state's 29 community and state colleges and at each of the five campuses of the University of Massachusetts....
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Middlesex Community College is one of only 13 colleges nationwide to this week receive a U.S. Department of Education grant offered for the first-time ever as part of a program to address campus safety issues for higher education institutions. MCC was...
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Just in time for the dead of summer, MCC landed some hot news this week, receiving word that the college will receive nearly $400,000 through a critical U.S. Department of Education grant program, Strengthening Institutions. The Title III project, "...
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As you listen to the dulcet sounds of the Boston Pops and its stirring rendition of the 1812 Overture at the Boston Fourth of July concert on Friday, behind the scenes in a carefully protected command post, Middlesex Community College personnel will be...
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To quote Rockford Peaches coach Jimmy Dugan, "there's no crying in baseball," and apparently there isn't any in softball either, as a hearty team of MCC folks, fresh off the diamond where they challenged a team of counterparts from the...
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