Dual-enrolled student Noel Ramos, 15, graduates with two college degrees as a high school sophomore

KCC alumna Noel Ramos poses at the main entrance to KCC's North Avenue campus in Battle Creek.

When 15-year-old Noel Ramos graduates from high school in 2018, she can frame her diploma and hang it next to the two degrees she earned after graduating from Kellogg Community College this spring. Ramos, of Bedford, is a sophomore at Gull… Continue Reading

KCC Radiography Program updates lab with new state-of-the-art X-ray machine

KCC Radiography students Ashley Ledford and Joshua Pitchure demonstrate the use of the program's new X-ray machine, while Radiography student Jennifer Whitaker acts as their patient.

Kellogg Community College received more than $2 million for updates to select occupational programs at the College via the state’s Community College Skilled Trades Equipment Program last year, and among the package of CCSTEP resources were funds for a new… Continue Reading

KCC assessment trainers help improve hiring process for local manufacturers

Shane Bresson, HVAC-R and Pipefitting instructor at Kellogg Community College, demonstrates one of the College’s new assessment trainers, which measures mechanical aptitude.

A batch of new assessment machines installed at Kellogg Community College’s Regional Manufacturing Technology Center shows promise at taking some of the guesswork out of the hiring process for local manufacturers. For companies looking to hire skilled workers in the… Continue Reading

Battle Creek Central senior Yarielis Rosario on dual-enrolling at KCC: “It’s a wonderful opportunity”

Battle Creek Central High School senior and KCC dual-enrollment student Yarielis Rosario poses near the entrance to KCC's North Avenue campus in Battle Creek.

Yarielis Rosario is a senior at Battle Creek Central High School. She’s also a dual-enrolled Kellogg Community College student, taking college classes while still in high school. Rosario keeps herself busy outside the classroom. She’s president of Central’s National Honor… Continue Reading

Hastings senior Andres Carmona gets ahead by dual-enrolling at KCC: “I’d definitely recommend it”

Dual-enrolled KCC student and Hastings senior Andres Carmona

Andres Carmona is a senior at Hastings High School. He’s also a dual-enrolled Kellogg Community College student, taking college classes while still in high school. For Carmona, dual-enrolling at KCC has been a way to get ahead on his future… Continue Reading

High achiever: Trustee, Transfer Scholar Eric McClure motivated by scholarships

A portrait of KCC alumnus Eric McClure

Eric McClure was no stranger to achievement when he was awarded the Kellogg Community College Board of Trustees Scholarship in 2013. A graduate of Athens High School, McClure was on the school’s honor roll every semester, was valedictorian of his… Continue Reading

Graduate of first Dental Hygiene class at KCC retires after working more than 40 years in Battle Creek

Retired dental hygienist Gail James, left, sits in her exam room at Battle Creek’s Halonen Family Dentistry with patient Kevin Rabineau, Dean of Arts and Sciences and Regional Education at KCC. James, who was a member of KCC’s first graduating Dental Hygiene class in 1972, saw Rabineau as her last patient before officially retiring from Halonen on Jan. 28. She’d worked as a dental hygienist at the practice since 1981.

Applications for KCC’s 2016-17 Dental Hygiene Program are available now! For more information, visit www.kellogg.edu/dentalhygiene. – # – You could say Gail James puts the dental in coincidental. Working as a receptionist for a dentist in the summer following her high school graduation,… Continue Reading

Interview: Aubrey Lynea Shore plays Princess Leia in KCC Theatre’s ‘Sampled Shakespeare’

Aubrey Lynea Shore as Princess Leia in a dress rehearsal for KCC Theatre's "Sampled Shakespeare"

*Editor’s note: Below is the fifth in a series of interviews with the cast and crew of Kellogg Community College Theatre’s “Sampled Shakespeare.” The show, which opened last weekend and shows at 7:30 p.m. this Friday and Saturday and at 3 p.m. Sunday, includes… Continue Reading

Interview: Jordyn Needham plays Han Solo in KCC Theatre’s ‘Sampled Shakespeare’

Jordyn Needham as Han Solo in a dress rehearsal for KCC Theatre's "Sampled Shakespeare"

*Editor’s note: Below is the fourth in a series of interviews with the cast and crew of Kellogg Community College Theatre’s “Sampled Shakespeare.” The show, which opened last weekend and shows at 7:30 p.m. this Friday and Saturday and at 3 p.m. Sunday, includes scenes… Continue Reading