{"id":2203,"date":"2017-04-20T09:37:32","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T13:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/marketing\/?p=2203"},"modified":"2025-02-03T11:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T16:37:11","slug":"gcc-named-best-2-year-college-in-the-valley-by-2017-valley-advocate-readers-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/newsroom\/2017\/04\/20\/gcc-named-best-2-year-college-in-the-valley-by-2017-valley-advocate-readers-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"GCC named \"Best 2 Year College in the Valley\" by 2017 Valley Advocate Reader's Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greenfield Community College (GCC) President Bob Pura said GCC student experience is one of the college's top focuses \u2014 really teaching the students instead of just teaching the subject. GCC continues to offer new courses, begin new initiatives, and enter into collaborations every year. A new manufacturing lab was created to cater to students planning to enter into the industrial workforce, while an addiction certificate program was added at GCC as a way to help people struggling with addiction due to the opioid crisis. Pura said support from the Pioneer Valley community helps the curriculum at GCC remain current.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif;font-size: 18pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Check it out<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/valleyadvocate.com\/2017\/04\/18\/best-two-year-college-2017-greenfield-community-college\/\"><span style=\"color: #0563c1;font-family: Calibri\">https:\/\/valleyadvocate.com\/2017\/04\/18\/best-two-year-college-2017-greenfield-community-college\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Gill Sans MT',sans-serif;font-size: 22pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greenfield Community College (GCC) President Bob Pura said GCC student experience is one of the college's top focuses \u2014 really teaching the students instead of just teaching the subject. GCC continues to offer new courses, begin new initiatives, and enter into collaborations every year. A new manufacturing lab was created to cater to students planning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}