Experiential Learning Paves the Way to Employment

One of the best ways to ensure employment related to your major after graduation is to spend some time gaining work experience related to your field of interest. For many college students, internships and other experiential learning opportunities result in job offers even before graduation.

First Generation Students Find Open Doors at Community Colleges

First-generation college students are in many ways the core of community colleges, which were originally designed to provide equal access to higher education. Serving this group of students requires respect for and attention to the unique challenges they face.

How to Get Ahead With Dual Credit

In today’s fast-paced world, most people are looking for the most efficient path toward their goals. Dual credit is one of those rare, timesaving pathways that delivers real dividends.

Community Colleges are the path to debt-free higher education

Today’s student in the United States enters a higher education system different from the one experienced by previous generations. A decades-long drop in public investment in higher education (especially at the state level) has laid a greater responsibility on the tuition paying student, often leading to burdensome levels of debt to obtain a degree. But there still exists an affordable path to higher education, and even a debt-free plan – community college.

Pathways to College Degree Are Diverse, Ever-Changing

When you think of the daily routine of a typical college student, do you envision rising before the sun to prepare kids for school, followed by a full day of work and then night classes? Do you envision a part-time schedule of classes that allows the student to support their family along the way? Do you think of a student whose parents never attended college? For the majority of community college students nationwide, this is reality.

From Compost to the Classroom: Sustainability as a Way of Life

Sustainability has evolved from a buzzword to a part of everyday life, and as educational leaders deeply ingrained in our local culture, community colleges have the resources, mission and reach to help steward the environmental future of our regions. Our students, partners and community members count on us to prepare them for a brighter future. An environmentally sustainable way of living and doing business is critical to achieving that goal.

Strong Communities Start with an Educated Workforce

Less than two years ago, a group of local government leaders approached Waubonsee Community College’s workforce development department to request a one-day customized professional development workshop. They wanted to help their communities thrive amid growth and change, and they knew that to do that, they needed to make sure their municipal employees had the updated knowledge and skills to navigate changing times. Their request was reflective of a need that can be found in many local governments today: Ongoing professional development for municipal employees is vital to ensuring the highest levels of efficiency, effectiveness and ethics to the taxpayers they serve.

Accessibility is Everyone's Job, All the Time

Twenty-five years have passed since the signing of the Americans with Disability Act (ADA). While this quarter-century mark prompts us to measure our progress, at Waubonsee Community College we take pride in our tradition of accessibility and a commitment to service that pre-dates the legislation. When legislation is passed, people often ask: Whose job will it be to implement this, and what’s the deadline? When it comes to accessibility, the answer is that it is everyone’s responsibility; every day.

Faculty are lifelong learners at Waubonsee

Every profession requires a certain amount of continuing education or professional development to add new skills and maintain knowledge of current trends. The same is certainly true for faculty and others involved in teaching and learning. At Waubonsee Community College, our faculty are continually expanding their knowledge in unique and exciting ways.