Category: Press Release

Love Around the World

We are pleased to announce an upcoming event called “Love Around the World”. This celebration features a special dinner with courses from five different countries. MCC Foundation is hosting this fundraiser to provide scholarships for students with financial need to help fulfill their dreams. Click to buy tickets

Attorney doubles scholarship donation to help local students

Law Office of Shawn B. Hamp donates $2,400 for MCC scholarships. (Left-Right) – Bailey Giovanardi, Loxie Morley, Shawn Hamp, MCC Mascot Boomer Bighorn, MCC Foundation Executive Director Carrie Kelly, and Virginia Crews. Attorney Shawn B. Hamp just donated $2,400 to fund MCC scholarships that will help students pursuing careers in the legal profession. The […]

Cancer Association of Havasu donates $5,500 for MCC Nursing scholarships

The Cancer Association of Havasu donated $5,000 for scholarships in honor of their Hero of the Year – Eagles Aerie 4299. The association also donated another $500 to the Rosemarie Coletta Memorial Scholarship. Both scholarships are for Lake Havasu City residents in the second year of the MCC Nursing Program. If you’d like to donate to […]

MCC graduate receives $10,000 Kathy Hodel Most Outstanding Student Award

When Ronald Marcks graduated from Mohave Community College with an associate degree in liberal arts, he also received a check for $10,000. He is the college’s the first annual Kathy Hodel Most Outstanding Student Award recipient. “I was stunned,” said Marcks, who had not even applied for the award until his instructors and friends pressured him. “I […]

MCC ConCom is a big success, helps students, brings community together!

Courtesy Rodd Cayton, Mohave Valley Daily News It was a big, sunny festival of connections. Mohave Accelerated Learning and Mohave High School students reviewing the MCC ConCom map and event schedules. The first MCC ConCom event on the Bullhead City campus of Mohave Community College was designed to connect the community. Its primary purpose was to […]

New scholarship to honor memory of “vibrant” MCC dental instructor

A new scholarship will honor the memory of an MCC employee who left a lasting, positive impression on the college Dental Program. Marilyn Burdick was an instructor for the MCC Dental Programs. The Marilyn Burdick Memorial Scholarship will help future MCC dental students pay for college. MCC Instructor Marilyn Burdick’s life was stolen from her […]

Changes at annual Kiwanis scholarship dinner, but same community mindset

Kingman Daily Miner article

New scholarship will help students, honor MCC employee who “made the world a better place”

The memory of a Mohave Community College employee will live on, through a scholarship set up in her name. Barbara Nelson-Simpson was the assistant to the college dean at MCC’s Bullhead City campus. She bravely fought the cancer that took her life in the summer of 2016. Barbara Nelson-Simpson with one of her four grandchildren […]

CC to give outstanding graduates $10,000 cash thanks to generous donation

One outstanding Mohave Community College graduate will be chosen each year to receive a $10,000 cash award. The Kathy Hodel Outstanding Student Award was first announced Friday at the MCC Board of Governors meeting. MCC is able to provide the award thanks to an endowment set up with a generous donation of $200,000 from Dr. […]

Mohave Community College graduate follows his heart to nursing

From Reporter David Louis, Today’s News Herald in Lake Havasu City With two bachelors’ degrees from Northern Arizona University in hand – one in psychology and one in public relations – you would think that it would be easy for local resident Marshall Knauf to find a job. It wasn’t. But, following the old adage that […]

MCC Mohave Scholars chosen from each campus

Four Mohave Community College students have been named Mohave Scholars and will each receive $2,000 scholarships. The scholarships are provided by the Mohave Community College Foundation, and are given to recent high school graduates who excel academically, are enrolled full time at MCC and are giving back to their communities through community service work. One […]

MCC student receives Harrah’s Laughlin scholarship

MCC Culinary Student Kristen Delles receives her $5,000 Harrah’s Laughlin scholarship check! So great to have a corporate partner like Harrah’s helping our community. The MCC Culinary program has had many successful graduates, including Harrah’s own Executive Chef Ron Williams and Range Chef Erik Martinez Ochoa.

Owners of Kingman Daily Miner donate $26K to Mohave Community College Foundation

Kingman Daily Miner – A multi-media company’s family has transformed a long legacy of sharing tennis with their community into a $26,000 gift to Mohave Community College Foundation. The contribution from the Yuma Tennis Association via the Soldwedel family – owners of Western News & Info, Inc. (WNI) – sets up the Daily Miner Scholarship – […]

MCC Foundation Hosts “White Out” Event to Raise Money for Scholarships

Photo and portions of the story from Brandon Messick, Today’s News Herald Left, Dan Lara, Foundation Executive Director, Evie Cistaro, Event Chair, center, accept a donation check from Tim Shugrue, Co-Owner, Shugrue’s Restaurant and Brewery Group In August Supporters of the Mohave Community College Foundation gathered at Shugrue’s Restaurant in Lake Havasu for the restaurant’s fifth annual “White Out” […]

Mohave CASA Council Creates New MCC Scholarships for Students from Foster Care

The Mohave CASA Council has created a competitive new program to provide students who have been in the foster care system with a scholarship to attend Mohave Community College. First preference will be given to students pursuing a vocational (e.g., Automotive, Business, Computer Information Systems, Culinary Arts, Fire Science, HVAC, Paralegal, Welding) or allied health […]