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Waubonsee seeks to meet the educational needs of district residents of all ages. In 2013, the college created its Center for High School Partnerships to better meet the needs of local high school districts and their students. Two of the center’s biggest programs are the High School Summer Program and the Dual Credit Program, which allow students to earn high school and/or college credit.   

As the days until the Waubonsee commencement ceremony dwindle down, I catch myself looking back at how quickly my two years at the college have flown by.  One minute I am sitting on the couch working my way through the college’s Electronic Registration and Planning (E-RAP) tutorial, and the next I am writing my graduation speech and figuring out what shoes will look best with my graduation dress. 

Articles on adult literacy typically cite statistics like this, from the National Assessment of Adult Literacy: 45 percent of adults in the United States are English-language literate only at the basic level or below. The articles usually continue with examples of the many barriers limited literacy presents: barriers to education, employment, involvement in children’s education, and even to performing life’s most basic tasks, like driving, shopping or visiting the doctor. 

When you are conducting a job search, it’s important to know where to locate openings, but even more important is knowing how to act. The way you present yourself in writing, on the phone and in person will determine whether or not you get hired, so Waubonsee’s Career Services Department spends a lot of time helping job seekers learn the proper etiquette. Here is some advice that may help you land your next job. 

While we’re just over a month into a new calendar year, it’s already time for prospective and current college students to look ahead to the upcoming 2014-2015 academic year, especially if they want help paying tuition. 

With Christmas songs on the radio, holiday concerts on television and performances of “The Nutcracker” on local stages, December is a very musical month. It’s no different at Waubonsee Community College. We just finished our end-of-semester concert season, with our Steel Band, Chorale, Woodwind Ensemble, Jazz Ensemble and Rock Band all performing over the past few weeks. 

Designing. Brainstorming. Building. Innovating. Computing. Traveling. Working with a global team. Making a difference. Welcome to a career in modern manufacturing. 

Making dreams come true. That's what we do at Waubonsee Community College. Many students come here looking for an education that will lead to a satisfying career. Others come for college credit they can transfer to a four-year college or university. Still others come to develop a specific job skill, to improve their ability to speak and write the English language, to continue the process of lifelong learning, or simply to obtain help in deciding their future path. By offering classes that meet a wide variety of learner needs, Waubonsee is helping community members fulfill their educational and career dreams.

While students at Waubonsee Community College and elsewhere are busy worrying about fitting in, finding just the right classes or finishing homework on time, there’s another group paying attention to an entirely different set of priorities. For the most part, the work of this group remains invisible to students, but, when done well, it ensures that success at school is all students need to be thinking about.

Waubonsee Community College is about to start the fourth year of a five-year National Science Foundation (NSF) funded STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) scholarship grant. Disciplines include biology, chemistry, computer science, engineering science, physics, mathematics and the geosciences (earth science, geology, oceanography, astronomy, meteorology and geography). Scholarship recipients are recruited from local high schools and from among current Waubonsee students. New and returning STEM scholars form a learning community nurtured by 12 faculty mentors and counselors. Selection criteria include high grades in STEM courses, high overall grade point average, recommendations from faculty and personal essays.