V fff Mount Wachusett \^ ) Community College *S;/ 1$$B I "' '' VY-,\" 'V»'?A*I' »-/•* ' i*f3 . : Wed Mar 07 08:40:13 EST 2012 b40817544 Last Updated: 03-06-2012 Created: 03-06-2012 Revisions LANG engEnglish CAT DATE 03-06-2012 CTRL CODE SKIP BIB LVL sSERIAL COUNTRY mauMassachusetts LOCATION none FORMAT aBOOK MARC Leader #####nas 22#####Ka 4500 OCLC # 001 ocn779342723 MARC 003 OCoLC MARC 005 20120306101731.0 MARC 008 120306c20079999mauqr Oeng d | MARC 035 (OCoLC) 779342723 MARC 040 MTW|cMTW MARC 049 MTWA AUTHOR 110 2 Mount Wachusett Community College (Gardner, Mass.) TITLE 245 1 Mount Wachusett Community College president's report ADD TITLE 246 3 President s report ' IMPRINT 260 [Gardner, Mass.] :|b [Mount Wachusett Community College] |c2007- , DESCRIPT 300 v. bill, (some col.) ;|c28-32 cm. : | DESCRIPT 310 Annual NOTE 588 Description based on 2007. SUBJECT 610 2 Mount Wachusett Community College (Gardner, Mass.) SUBJECT 650 Community colleges zMassachusetts zGardner vPeriodicals | | | Page 1 of 1 As reflected i Community We help thei dreams . . . gain here. \ who the) to start on tl Mount Onb Wachusett FY07r< on the las Community optimistical] College students, as commi local Thank you f Sincerely, Daniel M. A: President Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 with funding from Federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners http://archive.org/details/mountwachusettco2007moun As reflected in our slogan, we encourage Mount Wachusett Community College students to "Start near ... Go far." We help them to realize their potential, to follow their dreams ... to literally go anywhere with the skills they We gain here. are a stepping stone for students to find who they really are, what their dreams really are, and to start fulfilling them. As an institution, we thrive on these same principles. Therefore, we pride ourselves on providing innovative programs, which often become best practices and models for the national and international community. MWCC now unfolds the results ofthe college's first-ever capital campaign, which resulted in raising nearly $4 million. Because of the success ofthe capital MWCC campaign and the philanthropy of the community we serve, received the highest match from the states Endowment Incentive Matching program. We have now finished construction and opened the Garrison Center for Early Childhood Education, dedicated the colleges library to Leo and Theresa LaChance, and completed Phase I oflibrary renovations. Furthermore, one of MWCC the individuals at the heart of this campaign, trustee and foundation /jtk Mount Wachusett board memberJim Garrison, received national recognition with a 2006 4^/ Benefactors Award from the Council for Resource Development for his Community College MWCC. dedication to the mission of With compliments of MWCC is also "going far" with its online courses and services. MWCC was recognized as one of the country's top tech-sawy community colleges by the Center for Digital Education and the American Association of Community MWCC Colleges this spring. Almost 25 percent of students now take at Daniel M. Asquino, Ph.D. least one online course and most faculty members use online course tools in President their classes. Mount Wachusett Community College MWCC is at the forefront of renewable energy, both nationally and internationally. MWCC In April, was ranked the fourth top U.S. college (and only community college) for renewable energy practices by the National Wildlife Federation and received an Award of Excellence from the Boston chapter of the International Facility Management Association. On behalfofthe board oftrustees, faculty, staff, and students, I am proud to present this FY07 report to you, which includes several more inspiring projects and activities. Reflecting on the last year, there is so much to celebrate at MWCC. Meanwhile, we look confidently, and optimistically to the future as we continue to expand our academic and student services to current MWCC students, as well as grow our outreach efforts to the more than 20,000 alumni in our local communities. We will continue to "Start near" and aim "further and further" all the time. Thank you for your continued support of MWCC. Sincerely, Daniel M. Asquino, Ph.D. President 3W .1 [ Library's 'My College Freshman' Summit How to make students at any age better scholars was discussed at length during the second annual "My College Freshman is Your High School Senior 2007: A Unique Opportunity for Teachers and Librarians" & summit sponsored by the Leo Theresa MWCCs LaChance Library inJune. Ellen Madigan Pratt, distance and outreach coordinator; Heidi McCann, instructional services coordinator; Lorie Donahue, English professor; Sue Taylor, Computer Information Systems associate professor; Sue Goldstein, English assistant professor; Tina Wilson, Computer Information Systems associate professor; and Sue Blake, "Learning has no Students Conduct English associate professor, participated in boundaries. We are Health Assessments the event. 5K Run/Walk expanding our reach at More than 140 librarians and teachers through service learning, It's natural to assume that participants in the met to talk about expectations for students inaugural Bob Wilson 5K Run/Walk are fit that pertain to research and writing; how quality educational individuals. Precisely how hale and hearty is students can be better prepared for the opportunities in and out something Anatomy and Physiology (A&P) papers and projects they encounter; of the classroom, and by and Computer Information Systems (CIS) research and writing skills students need students wanted to find out. to be successful; and how librarians can continually outreaching work with teachers to prepare students to community Under the guidance ofBiology Professor do research. The summit was funded by to the in a Bill Lefrancois and CIS Associate Professor the Central Massachusetts Regional variety of ways." Tina Wilson, students worked together to Library System. - President Asquino develop a health assessment measuring tool to survey the public as their service learning project. The A&P students outlined what they wanted in the tool; the CIS students created it. One group ofA&P students randomly surveyed the 5K participants and another group gathered participants' blood pressures, — pulses, heights and weights skills they had practiced in class. They also randomly surveyed and tested students, faculty and MWCCs staff at Gardner campus.