A special info session presented by GCC’s Assistant Dean of Nursing. Come learn about our associate degree in nursing and our certificate in practical nursing, as well as opportunities to earn a bachelor’s degree right here on campus.

GCC’s STEM Starter Academy program hosts a panel with alums in STEM—science, technology, engineering and math. A group of amazing GCC alumni will be returning to discuss their experience as GCC students, their continued education, and the STEM field they currently work in.

A special information session for anyone interested in our Certified Nursing Assistant/Home Health Aide programs which can be completed for credit or on a non-credit basis. Our graduates are employed in long term care facilities, home health agencies, hospitals and rehabilitation programs, adult day programs, assisted living centers, hospice and other community health settings.

Scholarships are available, including partial scholarships for students in ten western Franklin County towns:

• Ashfield
• Buckland
• Charlemont
• Colrain
• Conway
• Hawley
• Heath
• Monroe
• Rowe
• Shelburne

RSVP online if you plan to attend!

Are you looking for a career path in manufacturing? Training to be a machinist? Want upskilling courses in engineering technology? Whether you are already in the manufacturing field ready to advance, or committed to learning a new trade, Greenfield Community College has FREE programs that you may qualify for. Veterans, women, unemployed, underemployed and other underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to apply. Learn about career opportunities and pathways, FREE programs offered and start the application process! RSVP online.

A special information session for anyone interested in our Certified Nursing Assistant/Home Health Aide programs which can be completed for credit or on a non-credit basis. Our graduates are employed in long term care facilities, home health agencies, hospitals and rehabilitation programs, adult day programs, assisted living centers, hospice and other community health settings. RSVP online if you plan to attend!

A special information session for anyone interested in our Certified Nursing Assistant/Home Health Aide programs which can be completed for credit or on a non-credit basis. Our graduates are employed in long term care facilities, home health agencies, hospitals and rehabilitation programs, adult day programs, assisted living centers, hospice and other community health settings. RSVP online if you plan to attend!

Welcome back picnic to kick off the fall semester—featuring free food and Bart’s Ice Cream truck!

Join us for our annual Campus & Community Resource Fair. Campus clubs, departments, not-profit agencies, banks and local businesses from in and around Franklin County are invited to join us to showcase events, resources, volunteer opportunities, and available services.

If your agency, club or department is interested in participating, please register online.

Taught by Susan Urban, this workshop will include a brief introduction to the art of Polish paper cutting and will allow time for participants to design heir own creations or make one from patterns provided. Bring small, sharp scissors or embroidery scissors. All other materials will be provided.

$20 – Register online

In Our Own Voices is a regular panel series that provides an opportunity to hear from individuals in our community about their journeys to and at GCC. This month, a panel of GCC students, faculty and staff share their stories of life after addiction. Space for questions and dialogue, and refreshments provided.

It’s Massachusetts Community College Night with the Red Sox! Sign up to watch the Red Sox vs. the Houston Astros at Fenway, sponsored by the Alumni Association. $50 per ticket includes a GCC t-shirt and transportation to and from the game (bus leaves GCC at 3pm). Sign up online!

A searing, two-hour PBS Frontline investigation places America’s heroin crisis in a fresh and provocative light—telling the stories of individual addicts, but also illuminating the epidemic’s years-in-the-making social context, deeply examining shifts in U.S. drug policy, and exploring what happens when addiction is treated like a public health issue, not a crime.

Part of our Senior Symposia program for people over 50. All workshops are $10. Online registration available!

State Senate President Stan Rosenberg will share his unique vantage point on issues confronting the Commonwealth.

Topics may include health care, public education, infrastructure maintenance, refugee resettlement, and the opioid crisis. Stanley C. Rosenberg was raised in foster care, attended public schools, and graduated from the University of Massachusetts in 1977. He founded and became the first director of the Arts Extension Service at UMass and was later director of Community Development and Human Service Programs.

After working as a senate aide and as Executive Director of the Massachusetts Democratic party, Rosenberg was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1986 and served as representative for Amherst and Pelham until 1991, when he won a special election for a senate seat. A leader in the struggle for same-sex marriage and a champion of public education, Rosenberg founded and co-chaired the state legislature’s Foster Kid Caucus. In 2015 he was unanimously elected President of the Massachusetts Senate.

Once again Richard Little will explore this history on a 90-minute cruise down river about six miles to Barton Cove before returning to Northfield. Learn about the many striking features of this area such as flood plains, terraces, abandoned waterfalls and other evidence of the glacial era of Lake Hitchcock. You will also be cruising along the “Age of Dinosaurs” fault that formed as Pangea separated. The boat leaves promptly from the Riverview Picnic Area which is about 2 miles north of Route 2 (in Erving) on Route 63. Space is limited! You must RSVP in advance.

$15 in advance, pre-register online.

Part of our Senior Symposia program for people over 50. All workshops are $10. Online registration available!

On November 14, 1889, Nellie Bly, the crusading young reporter for Joseph Pulitzer’s World newspaper, left New York City by steamship on a quest to break the record for the fastest trip around the world. Also departing from New York that day—and heading in the opposite direction by train—was a young journalist from The Cosmopolitan magazine, Elizabeth Bisland. Each woman was determined to outdo Jules Verne’s fictional hero Phileas Fogg and circle the globe in less than eighty days. Matthew Goodman will tell the dramatic story of the race that spanned 28,000 miles, captivated the nation and changed both competitors’ lives forever. Matthew Goodman is the New York Times-best-selling author of three works of non-fiction, including the award-winning Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland’s History-Making Race Around the World, which has been translated into eight languages. Goodman’s writing has appeared in The American Scholar, Harvard Review, Salon, and many other publications.

Part of our Senior Symposia program for people over 50. All workshops are $10. Online registration available!

Presented by Robert Forrant. For over 150 years in a prosperous 200-mile industrial corridor along the Connecticut River between Bridgeport, Connecticut and Windsor, Vermont, hundreds of firms built the world’s metalworking, machinery, cutting tools and measuring and inspection devices. Other companies in the region purchased these machines and produced finished goods, including rifles, carriages, rail cars, ice skates, bicycles, motorcycles and automobiles. The Valley economy was vibrant and home to thousands of skilled workers. Things took a turn for the worse in the 1960s and 1970s as locally owned firms were purchased by outside investors and the industry was challenged by global competitors. Forrant will explain the remarkable rise and swift decline of industry in the region we call home. Robert Forrant is Professor of History at UMass Lowell. The author of books and articles on industrial history and deindustrialization, he worked for many years as a machinist at the American Bosch plant in Springfield before its 1986 closure. He was named UMass Lowell Distinguished University Professor in 2016.

Register online

Join us to watch the PBS documentary Lives Worth Living about the disability rights movement in America.

Join the GCC Foundation for a fun night of trivia! Doors open at 6pm, trivia begins promptly at 7pm. Entry fee of $20 per person.

A PVI tour of Amherst’s museums. Price includes transportation to and from GCC.

$15 – Register online

Part of our Senior Symposia program for people over 50. All workshops are $10. Online registration available!

The penitentiary system in early 18th century America exploited racial ideologies, gender norms, and antipathy towards the poor to justify its existence and expansion. The first of the early penitentiaries was founded in Philadelphia in 1790 and functioned as a way to regulate the poor, especially poor women, indentured servants and African Americans, who attempted to lay claim to the new nation’s promise of liberty. Criminal convictions were harsh on those charged with violating vagrancy laws, minor theft, or disorderly conduct. In this pattern, we see a precursor to the dramatic growth of the U.S. prison system in the last forty years. Jen Manion is Associate Professor of History at Amherst College and author of Liberty’s Prisoners: Carceral Culture in Early America (2015), which received the 2016 Mary Kelley Best Book Prize from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. Manion received a Ph.D. in history from Rutgers University. She is co-editor of Taking Back the Academy: History of Activism, History as Activism (2004).