QUINCY The Quincy College Board of Governors has been asked by city councilors to consider joining the state community college system as Mayor Thomas Koch looks to build the college a new home and invest millions of dollars in the city-run school.
Councilor-at-large Anne Mahoney was joined by several other councilors Monday night in asking the board of governors to consider joining the Massachusetts Association of Community Colleges. Quincy College, which first opened in 1958, operates independently of the association and is technically owned by the city. Like such institutions across the country, Quincy College has struggled for the last several years with falling enrollment and budget gaps.
Jay Anaya of Lawrence. (Courtesy photograph.)
Northern Essex Community College graduates from Haverhill, Lawrence and Rowley were recently named to the 2021 Phi Theta Kappa All-Massachusetts Academic Team based on outstanding academic achievement and exemplary student service.
Michelle Colbert-Mason of Haverhill, Jay Anaya of Lawrence and Cathalina Eisan of Rowley will be graduating from Northern Essex Saturday, May 15, with high honors.
“It’s been a stressful year, and all three of these students deserve special recognition for having achieved such high levels of academic success despite all the challenges,” said college President Lane A. Glenn. “If they can excel like this in the midst of a pandemic, I can’t wait to see what they will do in the future.”
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April is a STEM Scholar, president of the Alpha Kappa Upsilon chapter of Phi Theta Kappa, a mother, daughter, wife, and a non-traditional student at the age of 37. After changing her major three times from accounting to psychology and nutrition, her experiences have led her to pursue her goal of becoming a medical/clinical lab scientist and minoring as a veterinary technologist. She is graduating from Massasoit with an Associate in Arts in Liberal Arts Transfer – Science degree. Massasoit and my PTK chapter have taught me so many things, but most of all to use all the resources I can use in order to understand the concepts of the lessons that are crucial to continuing my path, said April. She hopes to one day open an animal-assisted therapy farm for individuals with mental health and development disorders. April has been accepted into the Medical Lab Science Program at the University of Maine Orono on a Flagship Merit Scholarship.
Berkshire Community College students Monica Bliss, Molly Gingras and Ginger Zani will be honored by the Massachusetts Association of Community Colleges for their induction to the 2021 Phi Theta Kappa All-Massachusetts Academic Team through a virtual PTK Community College Excellence Week.
Running on its social media pages Monday through Friday, April 26 to 30, MACC will highlight the student members of the All-Massachusetts Academic Team for their outstanding academic achievement and exemplary student service.
Students with grade point averages of 3.5 or higher are invited to join Phi Theta Kappa, the international honor society of two-year colleges.
In addition, Bliss was named an All-USA Academic Team Scholar and a New Century Transfer Scholar. Just 20 students from across the country are named annually to the All-USA Community College Academic Team with each receiving a $5,000 scholarship. The student receiving the highest All-USA Community College Academic Team application sc