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The Waubonsee Community College Foundation scholarship application for 2021-2022 is now open. This one application allows people to apply for all Foundation scholarships that students may be eligible for. Scholarships awarded will be available for use beginning with the Fall 2021 semester.

The end of the year is often a time of reflection for many.

In 2018, we surveyed the community and received responses from more than 1,500 people. In this needs assessment, we learned that our stakeholders did not know the scope of our offerings and many hoped for new programs to be developed at the college. Feedback from this survey helped us create our FY2020-2022 Strategic Plan which includes new program development as one of our key drivers with the goal to design and deliver community-responsive programming.

Waubonsee Community College nursing students may have an easier time earning their bachelor’s degree thanks to a new agreement with the University of Illinois Chicago. 

Waubonsee Community College Foundation Board Welcomes New Member

The Waubonsee Community College Foundation Board of Directors announces a new board president and board vice president.

The Waubonsee Community College Foundation approved Kaleshia “Kay” Page to join its board of directors at the board’s meeting on September 15.

We need the arts now, more than ever. In this troubling time, as we isolate and maneuver through the pandemic, we have probably found ourselves listening to music, watching movies, reading books, or perusing museum websites all the time. We have turned to the arts for safety and security, maybe without even realizing it.

The lesson is, that like human nature itself, war is a complicated weave of good and bad, life and death, heroism and brutality.

Tolkien points out what many writers forget—that some wars are worth fighting to preserve freedom and that oppression must be conquered in order for peace to reign. It would be so much easier if we never had to leave our shires and become soldiers. However, those of us who are safe at home and protected by those who do join the battle are grateful, for to them we owe our support, our lives, and our freedom.