Aug. 6 is the deadline for WCC's Financial Aid office to receive a student's FAFSA information from the federal government.
Jessica Hale, WCC orientation advisor.
For young college students and their parents, the transition from high school to college is also a transition into adulthood.
As young adults, 18-year-old college students take on new rights and responsibilities. With college comes responsibility for decisions that just a short time ago their parents may have made. Students’ records, grades, and financial aid information are no longer available directly to their parents under federal privacy laws. And in college, students learn to juggle academics and other responsibilities on their own while their parents play a new role as advisors rather than decision makers.
Full Story »Beginning this fall, WCC will offer evening classes at the University of Michigan. The pilot program, which begins Aug. 27 and runs through Dec. 17, involves holding 10 classes in Mason Hall, which is adjacent to Angell Hall on State Street in the heart of U-M’s campus.
The three- and four-credit classes include composition, speech, government, psychology, sociology, accounting, and statistics.
Full Story »Degree-seeking students whose first semester of enrollment at WCC is Fall 2010 Semester or later will be required to take a computer class that aims to equip them with skills for school, home, and work.
“We’re teaching them the software and computer skills that employers will expect of them and that will help them through other courses they might take at the College,” said Neil Gudsen, program manager for computer information systems and business office systems.
Full Story »Registration for WCC’s Fall Semester starts Wednesday, July 14, for current and readmitted students. Registration for new students starts one week later on Wednesday, July 21.
A schedule of credit classes is available on WCC’s website. Fall Semester starts Aug. 27 and ends Dec. 17.
Students have a new online tool to help them build their schedules.
Full Story »For young college students and their parents, the transition from high school to college is also a transition into adulthood.
Beginning this fall, WCC will offer evening classes at the University of Michigan. The pilot program, which begins Aug. 27 and runs through Dec. 17, involves holding 10 classes in Mason Hall, which is adjacent to Angell Hall on State Street in the heart of U-M’s campus.
Degree-seeking students whose first semester of enrollment at WCC is Fall 2010 Semester or later will be required to take a computer class that aims to equip them with skills for school, home, and work.
Registration for WCC’s Fall Semester starts Wednesday, July 14, for current and readmitted students. Registration for new students starts one week later on Wednesday, July 21.
For the last 30 years, WCC dance instructor Noonie Anderson has taken her dance students to the Ann Arbor Street Art Fair—not to look at the art, but to perform.
It’s not unusual to find students in WCC classrooms who’ll admit they hadn’t planned on going to college at all.
This July, WCC’s campus will be home to approximately 600 instructors from the International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers. WCC has been home to summer instructor training for the United Association of Plumbers and Pipefitters for 20 years, and it will also host some classes for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.
WCC welcomes over 150 home-based hobbyists and owners of small shops from the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. when it hosts the Digital Machinist CNC Workshop June 22-25. The workshop, which covers computer numerical control and is sponsored by Digital Machinist magazine, includes demonstrations and discussions involving software, machine conversions, equipment improvements, and electronics related to machine building and modifying. It also features hands-on training.
Editor’s note: The following story about a trip sponsored by Student Activities to the University of Michigan Biological Station in Pellston is by Mike Wilkinson, a WCC staff member.
The ninth edition of The Huron River Review arrives any day at the WCC Barnes & Noble Bookstore, filled once again with the kinds of words and imagery that have made it a stunning award winner.