KCC Public Safety Education Department raises $3,927 for Special Olympics via Kalamazoo Polar Plunge

A KCC Police Academy cadet jumps into a pool during a polar plunge event in 2017.

Students and employees from Kellogg Community College’s Public Safety Education Department raised $3,927 for Special Olympics Michigan via donations collected as part of the Kalamazoo Polar Plunge this past weekend. More than 25 students and employees from the College’s Police… Continue Reading

KCC Police Academy, EMS students raising funds for Special Olympics via Feb. 22 Polar Plunge

A KCC Police Academy cadet jumps into a pool during a polar plunge event in 2017.

Kellogg Community College Police Academy cadets, Emergency Medical Services students and KCC employees will take their annual plunge into icy winter waters this month for an event to raise funds for Special Olympics Michigan. The charity jump is part of… Continue Reading

KCC to host Battle Creek Community Run 5K for Special Olympics Oct. 25

A group photo of participants in the 2014 Law Enforcement Torch Run.

The Kellogg Community College Police Academy will again join area police departments to participate in the annual Law Enforcement Torch Run – this year dubbed the 2019 Battle Creek Community Run – to benefit Special Olympics Michigan. Registration and sign-in… Continue Reading

KCC Police Academy, EMS students raising funds for Special Olympics via Feb. 16 Polar Plunge

A KCC Police Academy cadet jumps into a pool during a polar plunge event in 2017.

Nearly two dozen Kellogg Community College Police Academy cadets, Emergency Medical Services students and KCC employees will take the plunge into icy winter waters this month for an event to raise funds for Special Olympics Michigan. It’s all part of… Continue Reading

KCC Public Safety Education students, employees donate $300 to S.A.F.E. Place for No-Shave November

KCC Public Safety Education students and staff pose for a large group photo with S.A.F.E. Place shelter director and legal advocate Melissa Smith.

More than a dozen Kellogg Community College Public Safety Education students and employees together donated $300 to Battle Creek’s S.A.F.E. Place shelter last week as the culmination of a department-wide No-Shave November initiative. No-Shave November is an annual event in… Continue Reading

KCC Journalism Camp: Police Academy cadets can learn about processing crime scenes in KCC’s CRJU 201: Criminal Investigation class this fall

The side of a KCC Police Academy cruiser.

Editor’s note: The following profile was written by 12-year-old Union City Middle School sixth grader Gillian Gallup as part of Kellogg Community College’s Journalism and News Writing Camp, which ran July 23 through 26 on the College’s North Avenue campus in Battle Creek.… Continue Reading

KCC Police Academy raises $7,041 for Special Olympics through Polar Plunge

KCC Police Academy students and employees pose for a group photo before participating in the 2017 Kalamazoo and Calhoun County Polar Plunge in Kalamazoo.

Kellogg Community College’s Police Academy raised $7,041 for Special Olympics Michigan as part of the 2017 Kalamazoo and Calhoun County Polar Plunge last weekend, the highest amount raised by any of the more than 50 teams participating in the Feb.… Continue Reading