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RCC will be closed Monday, Feb. 15 in honor of Presidents Day. Have a great long weekend! For important dates, please see the Academic Calendar. Here are some cultural and historical events worth learning more about: Lunar New Year 2021 is today, Feb. 12! Unlike the Western New Year, celebrated on Jan. 1, the Lunar New Year is based on a lunar calendar cycle. This holiday...
It’s scholarship season! One easy application opens the door to more than 100 scholarships through the RCC Foundation. The deadline is March 1. Apply by Feb. 15 to be entered in the drawing for a $500 Early Bird Scholarship. The Foundation is using a new platform this year that will match you with external scholarship opportunities as well as RCC scholarships. Log in to ScholarshipUniverse with your RCC...
There are 73 million baby boomers in the United States. By 2030, all of them will be 65 or older. Who’s going to take care of our aging population? Rogue Community College is stepping up—with the new Nursing Assistant program. This non-credit workforce training course is designed to prepare students in as little as six weeks to pass the nursing assistant certification exam through the Oregon State Board of Nursing. “Wherever there is...
By Celeste Hettman, MS, NCC, Registered LPC Intern, Certified Body Trust Provider Do you constantly find flaws with your body, or the bodies of others? Do you feel like you have to change your body in order to be worthy or acceptable? RCC Counseling presents a four-week Zoom group where you can explore body acceptance. Body acceptance goes beyond being “body positive” and supports the development of acceptance and...
Rogue Community College and eight community college partners in Oregon were recently awarded a $5 million consortium grant to develop a workforce pipeline for jobs in cybersecurity and advanced manufacturing. The Oregon consortium is one of 11 recipients nationwide awarded a share of a $40 million grant package announced Jan. 15 by the U.S. Department of Labor. The Strengthening Community College Training Grant program aims...
Henry Pete recognized an incredible opportunity — for himself, but especially for the community — when he accepted the role of Rogue Community College’s first president in 1971. “It is not often in a person’s career that he has the opportunity to participate from the beginning in building an institution that is going to have the impact on an area that this new college will...
RCC is disbursing financial aid for winter term to 418 students this afternoon. Loan disbursements were not included in today’s disbursement but are expected to go out early next week. You can check Account History within your myRogue account to see whether funds have been transferred to your BankMobile account; students in today’s disbursement group will see “BankMobile refund” posted in their account. We greatly appreciate your patience during...
By Michelle Gray RCC Counseling With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, it seems like a perfect time to discuss cultivating happiness. Yes, I realize that Valentine’s Day has become a commercialized explosion of pink, red and purple merchandise and we get bombarded with advertisements for diamonds, chocolates and romantic getaways without even saying the words loud enough for our electronic devices to hear…. But,...
Welcome to the first week of winter term! Warmer spring days will be here before you know it, and good news — you get a long weekend. The college will be closed Monday, Jan. 18 in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The deadline to add or drop a class — you can do this in myRogue — is Tuesday, Jan. 19 at 11:59 p.m. For...
Rogue Community College (RCC) has been the path to affordable job training and college education for thousands of Southern Oregon residents. As many as 40 percent of them are the first in their families to attend college. The path for these pioneers often starts with earning a high school certification by passing the General Education Development (GED) test. When her three daughters were older, Millie...