Powers Appointed to AACC Faculty Council
Waubonsee Community College Associate Professor of History Amy Powers was appointed to the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) Faculty Council. Her term runs until June 30, 2018.
Suzette Murray Appointed to Executive Committee of National Workforce Board
Suzette Murray, Waubonsee Community College Assistant Vice President of Career/Technical Education, was appointed to the executive committee of the National Council of Workforce Education Board of Directors.
Waubonsee Earns Tree Campus USA Designation for Sixth Consecutive Year
Waubonsee Faculty, Staff Work Published
Members of the faculty and staff at Waubonsee Community College had their work published in various places during the past month.
Waubonsee Featured Student Balances Family, Dreams
If you ask him, Paul Christiansen will say he has been preparing for his career in early childhood education for at least eight years now, and he has three teachers who mentor him every day.
'Opening a Window of the Universe' - Gravitational Waves Discovery Explained
Major news for the science world – and really, our universe – took place last week when scientists announced they’d detected gravitational waves. Waubonsee Physics Instructor, Dr. Pratima Jindal, sat down to explain to us why this is such big news.
Waubonsee Aurora Campus to Host 'Poetry Out Loud'
Waubonsee Community College will host an event, “Poetry Out Loud,” at the Aurora Campus Library, 18 S. River St. in downtown Aurora, on March 4 from 7 to 9 p.m.
Auto Tech a Stop Along the Way to World Record Pursuit
As Adam Kimble races across the country in an attempt to break a world record that has stood for decades, his support team will follow in an RV – which they named Carol - that got a little TLC from some Waubonsee Community College auto tech students earlier this month.
The Science Behind Dating
Love is in the air this month, but if you find yourself single, nervous, and wondering if your new interest is also interested in you, perhaps you can take comfort in realizing that the vast majority of people do not want to be alone. Perhaps you can do even better by having science on your side.
Community Colleges are the path to debt-free higher education
Today’s student in the United States enters a higher education system different from the one experienced by previous generations. A decades-long drop in public investment in higher education (especially at the state level) has laid a greater responsibility on the tuition paying student, often leading to burdensome levels of debt to obtain a degree. But there still exists an affordable path to higher education, and even a debt-free plan – community college.
