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Waubonsee Community College’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Program has completed 15 years of service to the community.

The Waubonsee Community College Board of Trustees seated Angela Nwalie to serve as the student trustee for the 2019-2020 academic year.

I sent out the text message to the team after the delivery. “It’s here!”

Very soon my small office of bookshelves and an oversized desk was flooded with six students whom I had been working with day and night, seven days a week, for the previous two months. They each showed their excitement differently...

Then, I reached my hand into a cardboard box and revealed a book, their book, our book.

Naturalist, photographer and writer (and native of nearby Joliet, Illinois) Edwin Way Teale wrote “The world's favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May.” While Teale wrote this in a book about nature, it is certainly true of students as they finish the academic year in May.

The Waubonsee Community College Board of Trustees seated newly elected members at its scheduled meeting on April 25.

Waubonsee Community College will celebrate the accomplishments of its students with commencement ceremonies on Saturday, May 18, at the college’s Sugar Grove Campus Field House. Ceremonies will take place at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.

Students from several Waubonsee Community College Career and Technical Education (CTE) Programs recently earned recognition at the annual Illinois SkillsUSA State Leadership and Skills Conference.

Waubonsee Community College announces its 2019 Distinguished Contributor and Distinguished Alumnus. Dr. Gina Santori is this year’s Distinguished Contributor. Aurora Police Chief Kristen Ziman is this year’s Distinguished Alumnus.

Beginning in the fall of 2019, Waubonsee Community College will offer a program that prepares students for the Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship International (PATH) certification as a Therapeutic Riding Instructor.

Waubonsee Community College will host events and activities from 5 to 8:30 p.m. on Friday, May 3 as part of First Fridays in downtown Aurora.