Students involved in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community started a new student advocacy and outreach group, filling an absence of organizations dedicated to gay rights causes at MCTC. The new group, PRIDE (People for Respect, Integrity, Diversity & Equality), has already planned its first event called “Erasing Hate.” Set for Tues., Oct. [...]
The Star Tribune featured the biotechnology program of MCTC, students and staff in a Sept. 22 article in its Jobs section. A small but growing job market, biotechnology is an emerging field whose applications are constantly expanding. Rebekah Kent, who works at the BioBusiness Alliance of Minnesota, compared biotechnology to computer technology, which has fundamentally [...]
President Obama invited student journalists across the nation to discuss the state of higher education in the U.S. with him on Sept. 27, in a series of events targeted toward students and set to culminate in a White House summit on community colleges on Oct. 5. College reporters from Radford University’s The Tartan, the University [...]
Days after workers at Minneapolis Jimmy John’s franchise locations filed to hold union elections, the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) Jimmy John’s Workers Union alleged that their franchise owners, Mike and Rob Mulligan, were in the process of attempting to bust the union actions. The first union for workers at Jimmy John’s, which serves [...]
Students, faculty and the Muslim Student Association (MSA) from MCTC participated in an Iftaar dinner hosted by the Ummah Project at Coffman Memorial Union on the University of Minnesota campus last Friday. The Ummah Project, which tasks itself with the planning of a multi-million dollar Muslim youth and recreation center here in Minneapolis, said it [...]
Kitchen and delivery employees of the national chain known for sandwiches “so fast you’ll freak” walked off the job in Minneapolis last Thursday to picket on Block E and form the Jimmy Johns Workers Union, affiliated with the International Workers of the World (IWW). Matt Miranda, the media coordinator for the newfound union’s solidarity committee, [...]
Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) Chancellor James H. McCormick unveiled a new web service to help military veterans find out how their education, skills and training translate to credits in the MnSCU system last Thursday afternoon. Known as “Veterans Education Transfer System,” the tool is thought to be among the first ever, according to [...]
Olafesos ink scholarships with Concordia-St. Paul. Sustainability fair aims to teach. International students go without free tax software.
On April 21, 2010 Minneapolis Community and Technical College’s environmental club, 3 Legged Frog, will host a sustainability fair at MCTC, specific location to be announced. This is 3 Legged Frog’s sixth annual sustainability fair, and the theme this year will be sustainability from the ground up Should “Sustainability from the ground up” and will feature environmental organizations and speakers with the aim of educating MCTC’s student population about living a more eco-friendly life.
MCTC student Cristy Molter founded Toothbrushes for Toddlers to give homeless and poverty-stricken children in other countries something that we so often take for granted.
