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April 2022 – Newsletter

Mohave Community College Board Trustee Dr. Judy Selberg is retiring after 14 years of service. Selberg said she plans to move to the East Coast to be closer to her family. Her last board meeting as a trustee will be on June 9. “Being part of such a successful board for as many years as […]

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June 2021 Newsletter

Who’s Who and What’s Happening?

Are you curious about who is running the Mohave Community College Foundation? Are you interested in attending a Chapter meeting or attending an upcoming event? Check out our latest Newsletter for current answers to these questions and more. Just click on this link – Newsletter – to read about some of the things that happened […]

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 […]