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The MCC family extends its condolences to the family of one of our own, John Michael Delehanty, an MCC liberal arts student who died as the result of injuries sustained in a fall from a rooftop in Boston this past weekend. John, 20, was the beloved son...
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As you may or may not know there are a couple of new browsers out there to try. Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 8. My suggestion is that if you use Blackboard and it functions well enough for you please resist the urge to try something new. Blackboard...
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This past Friday morning, more than 1,000 members of the MCC community - students, faculty, staff, everyone - set off for the college's first-ever Day of Service. After raucous pep rallies inside the Double Tree Hotel in Lowell and the Bedford Campus...
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Presidential hopefuls John McCain and Barack Obama squared off on the steps of MCC this week, complete with boxing gloves and cheering sections. Unlike the one most folks watched on the national news recently, though, the MCC version featured 10 foot...
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It has come to our attention that Mozilla Firefox 3.0 and Blackboard are having compatibility issues causing an error with uploading documents. We have found a workaround to solve this problem. It will require you to install a Firefox add-on, User Agent...
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Shakespeare in the Park! Music in the Park! Art in the Park! Saturday in the Park! We've got 'em all at MCC, thanks to the newest addition to our environs as of this week, the MCC Culture Garden on Middle Street! This week, folks feasted on hot...
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The MCC community extends its condolences to the family of Gena R. Brown, a 2005 graduate of our medical sonography program who died in a tragic house fire in Lexington over the weekend. Authorities are crediting Brown with saving her two daughters from...
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Recently, a group of newly enrolled MCC students fresh out of high school jumped both feet forward into a unique program designed to help prepare them for college, albeit by taking a slightly more adventurous route. The program, run through MCC's...
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Jared St. Pierre, an MCC business student, was on the phone in his apartment on Wednesday, talking with a representative from the cable company, when he heard the screams outside his window. St. Pierre looked out and saw an older man in the Pawtucket...
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If you are not aware MCC used to use a portal provided by Blackboard. The college has decided to change portals, so this past summer when the contract for the portal with BB expired the college created a temporary portal which looks identical to the naked...
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A great baseball-filled day was had by all on at Lowell's Lelacheur Park recently, with a special summer event related to MCC’s Common Book, When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka. The event, called "American Pastime: On Film &...
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Call it North vs. South Redux. Or City Slickers vs. Suburbanites. Anyway you cut it, this year's MCC Campus Softball Brawl was one for the books. Unable to make the trip to compete in Beijing, MCC's finest softballers instead took not just their...
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Hello, As you prepare your courses to start a new semester whether your starting something new or preparing a course that you have done many times before. If you have set up Blackboard assignments in your course that you want to remove please work on...
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Governor Deval Patrick on Thursday signed into law a bill to invest $2.2 billion over 10 years for new buildings or renovations at all of the state's 29 community and state colleges and at each of the five campuses of the University of Massachusetts....
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Middlesex Community College is one of only 13 colleges nationwide to this week receive a U.S. Department of Education grant offered for the first-time ever as part of a program to address campus safety issues for higher education institutions. MCC was...
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Just in time for the dead of summer, MCC landed some hot news this week, receiving word that the college will receive nearly $400,000 through a critical U.S. Department of Education grant program, Strengthening Institutions. The Title III project, "...
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As you listen to the dulcet sounds of the Boston Pops and its stirring rendition of the 1812 Overture at the Boston Fourth of July concert on Friday, behind the scenes in a carefully protected command post, Middlesex Community College personnel will be...
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To quote Rockford Peaches coach Jimmy Dugan, "there's no crying in baseball," and apparently there isn't any in softball either, as a hearty team of MCC folks, fresh off the diamond where they challenged a team of counterparts from the...
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Owning a small business is the dream of many of our students at MCC, and this week, some of them took things to the extreme. On Tuesday, the Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour brought together three of America's top young entrepreneurs to spread the entrepreneurial...
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There are a wide variety of people that have trouble copying and pasting from Word into BB. It causes the formatting and the margins to be all out of wack (technical term). This causes endless issues and frustrations with the editing process. I have been...
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Middlesex Community College on Thursday joined with its city, state, and federal partners to announce the next exciting chapter in the college's development, with the ceremonial passing of keys of the historic Boston and Maine Railroad Depot at 240...
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Over the past several months I have had people get in touch with me regarding editing within Blackboad. The issue is that the right hand margin of the material has expanded so far over that there is a lot of horizontal scrolling going on to edit the material....
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To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Middlesex Community College Celebrity Forum , the MCC Foundation will host Jay Leno, comedian, author, classic-car collector and host of NBC's Emmy award-winning Tonight Show , at 8 p.m. on Saturday, June 21...
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What's your favorite kind of pie? Apple? Blueberry? Pumpkin? Humble? Around these parts, at least in our Math Department, it's 3.1415926535. A Pi of a different sort, obviously. That's why every March 14th - as in 3.14, the universally known...
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Effective today, Middlesex has a new number to call for help, the result of ongoing emergency preparedness measures implemented by the college's Emergency Management Team. The Emergency Management Team continually reviews and makes improvements to...
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