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The Rural Community College Alliance has awarded a $25,000 grant to Greenfield Community College (GCC), Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture (CISA), and the Franklin Community Co-op (FCC) to fund a new collaborative College Farm Market Project ...

Check out GCC's Medical Assistant Certificate (MAC) program What are Medical Assistants and what do they do? Many people know Medical Assistants as the person who takes them into an appointment with a physician, checks their vital signs, asks questions ...

GCC's new five-year National Science Foundation (NSF) S-STEM grant has just begun, but it's already starting to meet one of its goals. Thanks to scholarships provided by the NSF grant, 14 full-time GCC students studying Engineering, Environmental Scien ...

Joan O'Beirne, professor of photography at GCC, along with student intern Kristina McComb, recently taught a six-week course that covered using DSLR cameras, image editing, and printing—all in one room with no natural light. The class, ART 151: Photogr ...

Don't be surprised if you hear Greenfield 11 and 12-year-olds talking like Dracula in coming weeks or dressing up like Dracula for Halloween. Those Greenfield Middle School students will be imitating performers they saw at special preview performances ...

On Thursday, October 22, officials from the Massachusetts Executive Offices of Elder Affairs and Labor and Workforce Development will present a formal Citation honoring Greenfield Community College's commitment to provide outstanding educational workfo ...

Ever wonder what it takes to record music for radio, TV, or video games? Walk into GCC's Music Department and you'll find students recording music with ProTools – the same software used in professional recording studios. Students in GCC's Audio Enginee ...

The joke says "How many people does it take to change a light bulb?" but at GCC's East Building, the real questions are "how much can people learn while changing light fixtures and how much energy and money can be saved when they change them?" The shor ...

Join us Friday, October 2, at 12 Noon for a presentation by Dr. Carol Geary Schneider, President of the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). The event will be held at Greenfield Community College in the Nahman-Watson Library S ...

When Paul Norwood, 54, of Colrain first heard about Manufacturing courses offered at GCC, he thought they were probably way over his head. But Paul had worked for twenty years at Lightlife Foods, was ready to find a new career, and he decided to go to ...

In celebration of Manufacturing Day 2015, Greenfield Community College (GCC) will open its doors on October 1st, between 5 p.m.-7 p.m. to students, parents, and others interested to learn more about manufacturing practices, free training programs, and ...

Each semester Greenfield Community College recognizes superlative academic performance. We applaud the success of students who earn these high grades and appreciate sacrifices that are often made by students in order to earn these grades. For Summer 20 ...

How does a farmer make sure she has enough fresh vegetables from an 8-acre farm for a weekly Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) distribution or that he meets his productivity goals on his 2,000 acre midwestern corn and soybean farm? Ask GCC Farm and ...

Greenfield Community College (GCC) and Cooley Dickinson Health Care have agreed to work together to develop ways that they can further their respective educational and patient care missions. GCC's well-respected and robust programs to train health care ...

The National Science Foundation S-STEM program has awarded $632,000 to Greenfield Community College to provide scholarships to students in Engineering, Environmental Science, Farm and Food Systems, and Renewable Energy/Energy Efficiency over a five-yea ...

The Greenfield Community College Foundation asked the community to "invest in students and create a future," and the community did just that. Thanks to strong annual fund support by business and individual donors, and the addition of three unanticipate ...

The legacy of the belief that the late Arthur E. Neipp held in the value of education is already apparent in his children. Although he was never able to attend college and worked in a "blue collar" profession all his life, he ensured that each of his t ...

This summer, thanks to funding from a U.S. Department of Agriculture grant, Greenfield Community College is offering a 3-credit hands-on Sustainable Farming Skills course free to rising and graduating high school seniors and a free 15-hour curriculum d ...

Thanks to extended funding by the Women's Fund of Western Massachusetts, Franklin County women in transition will be able to develop skills in sustainable agriculture and food preservation. The Franklin County Women's GARDEN (Growing Agricultural Resil ...

Starting in Fall 2015, incoming full-time Greenfield Community College students may enroll in a program to complete their GCC associate degrees and Worcester State University bachelor's degrees in four years for approximately $30,000. On Wednesday, Jun ...

Class of 2015 Commencement Awards The Liberal Arts Award Samuel Castillo The Liberal Arts/Dance Award Brittany Woodward Liberal Arts English Award – April B. Albrecht Alexandra G. Werbicki The Music Department Award Steve Jonker The Donald Oberacker Aw ...

On June 4, Greenfield Community College held a special graduation and pinning ceremony for the 50th class of students to complete GCC's Associate Degree Nursing program. Along with celebrating this year's 40 nursing graduates, the ceremony included the ...

Six of the graduates receiving Bachelor of Science in Social Work degrees at Elms College's May 16 commencement exercises at the MassMutual Center in Springfield weren't typical Elms students, they were the first cohort of students to complete the Elms ...

Greenfield Community College student Guinevere Arthur Vanhorne is one of "29 Who Shine," a group of outstanding Massachusetts public college and university graduates honored by the Department of Higher Education at a Massachusetts State House ceremony ...

For many years, GCC student Tenzin Thutop has looked to Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, and Mahatma Gandhi as role models as he works to preserve Tibet's rich religion and culture. When Thutop heard about GCC's Nelson Mandela Book Award that asks stude ...

Ask most people what they imagine when they hear "Business Club trip," and they probably don't say meeting an attorney whose entertainment law firm represents Lady Gaga and Britney Spears, learning a song and dance choreography from a cast member of th ...

The College of Our Lady of the Elms and Greenfield Community College (GCC) have signed an agreement to expand baccalaureate opportunities for GCC students with a new full-time business degree program with established moderate tuition rates  for each ye ...

How does a restaurant owner engage consumers? What is an effective "hook" to draw people to a restaurant in an area with many competing restaurants? For the 21 GCC students in Tina Stevens' Principles of Marketing class, these questions aren't an abstr ...

Greenfield Community College Student Senator Crystal Kindle is one of 201 students from across the United States being honored for her leadership by being chosen to receive a Newman Civic Fellow Award from Campus Compact. Kindle, 32, of Rowe, will grad ...

Thanks to two Massachusetts Department of Higher Education grants, Greenfield Community College is encouraging students to consider careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields. Last summer, GCC hosted a very successful STEM STAR ...

Want to jump into the world of sports management but aren't sure where to begin? GCC's new Athletic Facility Administration Certificate is a perfect first step toward working at a fitness center, stadium, or other sports facility, or continuing on for ...

On March 2nd, 60 first graders from Greenfield's Federal Street School will go to college, visiting Greenfield Community College's Main Campus to celebrate the National Education Association's Read Across America Day. Read Across America is an annual r ...

Opening in time for the spring semester, Greenfield Community College and Baystate Franklin Medical Center's new Simulation Learning Lab will provide a state-of-the-art interactive learning environment for GCC students and BFMC health care staff. Partn ...

Greenfield-based Jones Whitsett Architects has been chosen to design Greenfield Community College's new Child Care Center. The Massachusetts Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance(DCAMM) selected Jones Whitsett to design a state-of-the-ar ...

Fulfilling his long-time career goal, Luis R. Santamaria has been chosen as Greenfield Community College's new Director of Campus Public Safety and begins his new position on February 9. Santamaria will oversee GCC's Campus Public Safety department and ...

4 Bachelor's Degree Completion Programs to be available on the GCC Main Campus At Greenfield Community College, 2+2 equals more than four, it equals earning an accredited Elms College Bachelor of Arts degree delivered on the GCC campus. Culminating a h ...

Greenfield Community College's new Corrections Certificate Program is part of a community solution to reducing incarceration. The nine-course Certificate focuses on inmate management, treatment, and re-entry into the community and fits within the natio ...