BRIDGEPORT – WSHU-FM, the local affiliate of National Public Radio (NPR), is running a six-minute segment on our Advanced Manufacturing Center. In the segment. Interim AMC Director Rich DuPont, faculty member Mike Gugger and student Ed Daniels are interviewed. The segment holds up our advanced manufacturing certificate as a low cost way to prepare for a secure, well-paying position in a growing field.
Author To Chat with HCC Lab School Children While Camera Rolls
April 28, 2015
Author To Chat with HCC Lab School Children While Camera Rolls
Tues, 4/28, 9 a.m.
Children’ s author Marianne Haug Gjersvik will discuss her book Green Fun: Plants as Play with Housatonic Community College Early Childhood Laboratory School Children Tuesday, April 28, while film maker David Gaynes records their interaction for his next film. Gaynes’ latest project "Next Year Jerusalem" was featured as one of seven "must-see" films at the 2013 Sarasota Film Festival: http://nextyearjerusalemmovie.com/trailer/. The pair will visit the lab school 9 a.m. The lab school has been described by President Clinton as “what every child in America needs.” The school is located in Lafayette Hall, to the right of the Broad Street entrance.
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Bridgeport Area Kids at STEAM Enrichment Camp
Greater Bridgeport area 5th to 8th graders got a taste of college courses in a 10-day program designed to motivate them towards education and careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM).
Hands-on activities took place at Housatonic Community College were conducted by students from Bridgeport and Fairfield Universities and Western Connecticut State University under the guidance of ACCESS Educational Services, Inc. and the Fairfield University School of Engineering. Students engaged in Fun Math, Vocabulary Games, Robotics, Nanotechnology, 3D Printing, Amazing Art and Engineering Projects.
The curriculum used for the day camp program has been developed by NASA
STEAM campers visited the HCC Advanced Manufacturing Center. At the AMC, the students received a metal disc on a chain. The disc with HCC etched on it had been stamped and produced during the visit by the Manufacturing Center’s machinery. The students tour the HCC campus to view the art on exhibit throughout the campus.
STEAM students also spent a day at Fairfield University School of Engineering and another tour at the UConn Medical Center.
ACCESS (Achieving College and Career Enrichment Sills for Success) is designed to provide educational and supportive services to middle and high school students to prepare them for college and to pursue a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, or Mathematics.
Photo of campers in the HCC Courtyard attached
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Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall To Speak At HCC Mon, May 4.
May 4, 2015
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Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall To Speak At HCC Mon, May 4.
5 p.m., Events Center, Beacon Hall
Free, Open to Public
BRIDGEPORT – Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall, a leading African American feminist scholar, will discuss Women in Power: Past, Present and Future, at Housatonic Community College Monday, May 4.
A professor of women’s studies at Atlanta’s Spelman College, Guy-Sheftall is the founding director of the Women’s Research and Resource Center at the college. She pioneered the Black Feminist Movement of the 1960s.
Guy-Sheftall has published a number of texts in the field of African-American and women’s studies that are regarded as seminal works by other scholars. These include the first anthology of Black women’s literature, Sturdy Black Bridges: Visions of Black Women in Literature, which she co-edited; her dissertation, Daughters of Sorrow: Attitudes Toward Black Women, 1880-1920; Words of Fire: An Anthology of African American Feminist Thought, which she edited; and another anthology she co-edited titled Traps: African American Men on Gender and Sexuality.
The talk, sponsored by the HCC Women’s Center, begins at 5 p.m. in the Beacon Hall Events Center.
HCC is located at 900 Lafayette Blvd. in downtown Bridgeport, less than 150 yards of I-95 (Exit 27) and Rte. 8 (Exit 1), a block from the Harbor Yard sports complex. Free parking is available in the Housatonic garage.
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HCC Sidewalk Art Festival
May 4, 2015
HCC Sidewalk Art Festival
Monday, May 4
Free, Open to Public
11 a.m. to 2 p.m., College Courtyard
BRIDGEPORT – Housatonic Community College Monday (May 4) will hold its first annual Sidewalk Art Festival in the college Courtyard.
The festive event will feature sidewalk chalk drawings, street performers, dancers, body sculptures, Frisbee spin art, balloon clowns and wall art. Music will be provided by the bands Apoapsis, the House Band and the Elegant Primates. Refreshments will be served.
The event, which is free and open to the public, will take place from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The rain date is Wednesday, May 6.
HCC is located at 900 Lafayette Blvd. in downtown Bridgeport, less than 150 yards of I-95 (Exit 27) and Rte. 8 (Exit 1), a block from the Harbor Yard sports complex. Free parking is available in the Housatonic garage.
The event is sponsored by HCC’s Center for the Arts Committee.
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HCC To Hold Public Meeting On Hazard Mitigation Plan
February 24, 2015
HCC To Hold Public Meeting On Hazard Mitigation Plan
Feb. 24, 4-5 p.m.
Room A101, Lafayette Hall
BRIDGEPORT – Housatonic Community College will hold a public meeting Feb. 24 on its hazard mitigation plan.
The plan will identify the most serious natural hazards that the college could face, and the measures necessary to lessen their impact. The hazards to be addressed include such things as hurricanes, blizzards, flooding, etc.
The HCC plan is Housatonic’s portion of a multi-campus hazard mitigation plan being developed by the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities (ConnSCU). The project is being funded by a Federal Emergency Management Agency grant.
At the meeting, Woodard & Curran of Portland, ME, the consultant developing the system-wide plan, will explain the proposal. Members of the HCC hazard mitigation committee will discuss the specific hazards that could present the greatest threat to HCC campus operations and what can be done to blunt their impact.
The meeting will be held from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. in Room A101 in Lafayette Hall on the HCC campus. Students, faculty, staff and residents of the college’s service area, which includes Bridgeport, Stratford, Milford, Derby, Ansonia, Seymour, Shelton, Easton, Monroe, Fairfield and Trumbull, are invited to attend.
Housatonic is at 900 Lafayette Blvd. in downtown Bridgeport, less than 150 yards off Exit 27 of I-95 and Exit 1 off Rte. 8, a block from the Harbor Yard sports complex. Free parking is available in the Housatonic garage.
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Housatonic Community College Presents: Addressing the Opioid Crisis
Housatonic Community College Presents: Addressing the Opioid Crisis
What: Addressing the opioid crisis is an informal lecture to educate both college-age students and the public on the associated risks of heroin and other opioids as well as the potential life-saving benefits of Narcan. Data shows 917 overdoses within CT in 2016 and an estimated 540 overdoses just within the first six months of 2017. The event is possible as part he Connecticut Healthy Campus Initiative Grant (CHCI) which strives to address the opioid crisis with education, awareness building, resources and training on the usage of Narcan, the antidote to opioid risks. The mission of CHCI is to serve as a catalyst for creating and sustaining healthy campus and community environments.
When: Tuesday, November 28, 2-3:30pm
Where: Housatonic Community College, 900 LaFayette Blvd, Bridgeport, Connecticut. Beacon Hall Events Center, 2nd floor
Who: Ellen Brezovsky, LCSW, Director of Community Relations for Silver Hill Hospital
Students, the public, media, lawmakers, HCC Counselors will be on hand to answer questions from the media
Media Contact: Dr. Indira Reddy 203-328-5039
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Immigration Forum at Housatonic Community College
For immediate release: Contact: Esther Watstein (203)-332-5226
Housatonic Community College will host an Immigration Forum on Saturday, September 26, from 9 a.m. to 12 noon in room A101, Lafayette Hall. Free parking in the Housatonic garage.
Held in collaboration with the West Indian American Association of Greater Bridgeport the forum is open to the public and no cost. The forum in a resource for Connecticut’s immigration and refugee communities. Those with questions about visas, status, international student concerns or general immigration issues are urged to attend.
Panelists are Immigration Attorney Robert Maresca, Bridgeport; Attorney Margaret Jordan-Addo, Hartford and Middletown; Alicia Kinsman, Director of Immigration Services, International Institute of Connecticut; and Attorney Nandita Ruchandani, Fairfield.
For further information contact Susan Ratanavong, 203-332-5103.
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New at Housatonic Community College This Fall
Students starting classes for the HCC Fall semester on August 29 will find some significant changes at the college. The very obvious change is the progress of the ongoing construction to the Lafayette Hall expansion. The extension is taking shape every day, and will soon be enclosed.
Inside Lafayette Hall, students will find a brand new cafeteria with improvements to the traffic flow at the enlarged food stations and new furniture.
The Manufacturing Center has also been expanded over the summer with an additional Metrology lab and computer classrooms. Existing labs have new and additional machinery for students enabling them to learn the most recent computerized, advanced manufacturing processes. Three-D copying is on the agenda and expected to be in place later in the fall.
Several new courses are on the HCC schedule including Industrial Design in the Art offerings and Science Fiction in Literature as an English elective.
On August 6, HCC will participate in the system-wide Super Saturday with offices open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Students will be able to take placement tests, begin the financial aid process, get academic advising and register for classes.
Late registration will be available during August, on Wednesdays and on Monday August 22 with offices will be open til 7 p.m.
Orientation for new students will take place on Wednesday, August 17 from 2 to 8 p.m. Programs for parents, guardians, and other loved ones will also take place on August 17 from 2 – 7:30 p.m.
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Sen. Gomes among Speakers At Multicultural Expo
January 31, 2015
Sen. Gomes among Speakers At Multicultural Expo
Bridgeport – State Sen Edwin A. Gomes, who was returned to the State Senate in a special election in February, was among the speakers at the city’s Business Expo and Multicultural Marketplace held recently at Housatonic Community College. Gomes said he looks forward to working with city officials on initiatives that will benefit the city. Appearing with Gomes are Deborah Caviness, senior program administrator with the mayor’s office (left) and Mayor Bill Finch (right).
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Shiva: God of Many Faces
For immediate release: Contact: Robbin Zella (203) 332-5052
A Talk by Hamish Lutris at Housatonic Museum of Art 6 pm, Wednesday, October 7 In the Burt Chernow Galleries
This event is FREE and open to the public
About the Speaker: Hamish Lutris is an Associate Professor of History at Housatonic Community College in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He has worked in some of America’s premier natural and historical sites, leading hiking and historical programs. He has also lectured extensively in the United States, Europe, and Canada, presenting programs on wide-ranging historical topics, including Native American history, the Civil War, Scientific History, Social and cultural history, World War I, World War II, and the American West.
