2022

Houston Community College will hold its Women in Apprenticeship Summit 2022 on Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022 to mark the 85th Anniversary of the National Apprenticeship Act and National Apprenticeship Week.

Meet Erin Bass, a rehabilitation technician manager, and learn how her degree at HCC Coleman College set her up for success in the field of physical therapy!

Meet Health Information Technology student Angela Tademy, and learn what makes her a Coleman Champion!

Houston Community College (HCC) has been approved as a Level 2 baccalaureate granting institution, beginning with four-year degrees in Artificial Intelligence & Robotics and Healthcare Management.

A new workforce collaborative uniting 17 local community partners to offer resiliency career training will receive part of a $3.3 million investment from JPMorgan Chase. Local community partners will receive $1.8 million of the total investment and remaining dollars will support various climate and sustainability initiatives in Houston.

The pain of losing her youngest son, Chase Simon, to gun violence on a Third Ward street four years ago hasn’t eased at all for HCC English professor Syble Davis. But this year, like the last three, Davis is again putting her sorrow into action. She is continuing the Drive-By Toy Drive she and her family began in 2019 to honor her son, and to help bring joy and happiness to deserving children in the Third Ward area.

Houston Community College has been selected as a recipient of the 2022 RODEO award in Recognition of its Dedication to Educational Outcomes, the Texas Association of Community Colleges (TACC) has announced.

Here’s a new, high-tech twist on final exams: 10 students in HCC Central’s Digital Arts class will showcase their wearable 3D shoes on Wednesday, Dec. 7 for their final grade through the college’s state-of-the-art XR (extended reality) lab.

Kanisha Ffriend, a Houston Community College student entrepreneurship program alum, recently took first place at the American Heart Association's Empowered to Serve pitch competition. She also won the fan favorite award and earned a total of $55,000 in grant funding.

The Houston Community College’s Office of Entrepreneurial Initiatives has received the Excellence in Specialty Entrepreneurship Education Award at the national conference of the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers.

Houston Community College (HCC) Chancellor Cesar Maldonado, Ph.D., P.E., has been named to a key leadership group organized by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to increase the Hispanic community’s access to USDA education and employment programs.

The week of December 5 will shine a spotlight on Endoscopy Technicians and the work they do for early prevention and detection of colorectal cancer.

Houston Community College has earned one of the Houston region’s 2022 Best Place for Working Parents® designations. The recognition comes from Best Place for Working Parents, a national collaborative and network of businesses across the U.S. dedicated to providing support for working parents through evidence-based strategies. To earn the distinction, employers must respond to an online assessment that details their support of family-friendly policies.

Marian Magdaniel always wanted to express herself through fashion and the creative arts. She loved drawing, painting, violin, guitar and design, and especially believed that fashion was a great way to make something “come to life on your own.” Now, the 28-year-old Venezuelan-born, Houston-raised fashion student at Houston Community College’s Central Campus has learned that her multiple artistic abilities have placed her in rarified air.

Houston Community College Chancellor Cesar Maldonado, Ph.D., and City of Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner met at HCC’s Northeast College today to sign a three-year agreement for HCC to train Houston firefighters in emergency medical services.

The National Science Foundation has awarded Houston Community College and San Jacinto College nearly $1.5 million to continue a joint project to promote students engaging in Science, Technology Engineering and Mathematics programs.

Dr. Stacy Welcome, dean of Student Success at Houston Community College Central, has been selected to participate in the League for Innovation in the Community College’s 2022 Executive Leadership Institute (ELI).

A three-student team from Houston Community College Southwest has won the top prize at the Intel AI Global Impact Festival in San Jose, California. The annual festival gathers next-generation technologists, future developers, teachers and policymakers to learn and share innovations and impacts of artificial intelligence, according to Intel Corporation, an education partner of HCC’s AI program.

Houston Community College’s digital Fashion Archive – a collection of historic fashion, accessories and textiles from the 1740s to present, has just been added to Google Arts & Culture, the renowned arts platform that features more than 2,000 leading museums and archives viewed by researchers and art aficionados across the world.

Houston Community College’s West Houston Institute and the Urban Manufacturing Alliance will bring national, state, regional and local economic and community development leaders to Houston from Nov. 1-3 to promote urban manufacturing programs, policies and models that can creating more resilient economies.

Houston Community College is partnering with UnidosUS, a Washington, D.C.-based Latino civil rights and advocacy organization, to launch a program to help Latino students to navigate college and excel in post-secondary education. The Avanzando Through College program kicked off this fall as a 10-week course covering a range of topics to help students stay on track academically.

Music filled the air at the 2022 F2F Music Summer Camp, which drew 21 Houston-area students to the HCC Stafford Fine Arts building for an immersive musical experience. Now in its third year, the summer camp was the result of a partnership this year between Houston Community College Southwest and the F2F Music Foundation, a nonprofit educational performing arts group founded by jazz recording artist Vel Lewis.

The Houston Community College Board of Trustees is conducting a once-per-decade redistricting process to better align HCC districts based on equitable population distribution.

Houston Community College has launched a training program to prepare students for work as 911 emergency dispatchers. The new eight-week public safety certification program for telecommunicators provides the critical skills and knowledge needed for such professionals to answer emergency calls and dispatch fire, police, or emergency medical services units.

About 40 Empowerment High School students have taken flight as Houston Community College Eagles with the start of their new, dual-credit journey. To kick off the first cohort of 39 freshmen and sophomores in the high school’s Early College Academy, students took part in an Academic Signing Day on Sept. 2 where they committed to earning associate of arts degrees from HCC while also getting their high school diplomas.

Houston Community College’s Child Development program has been named the best in the nation among two-year colleges by EduMed.org, an online resource for students seeking higher affordable and flexible education programs.

Houston Community College Trustees Dr. Cynthia Lenton-Gary and Dr. Adriana Tamez have been named among the Top 30 Influential Women of Houston by d-mars.com. The two were honored earlier this month among a group of women who are successful in their professions and who possess a servant-spirit as leaders striving to break barriers in fields like education, broadcasting, medicine, law and government, and others.

Houston Community College was honored with the Federation of Houston Professional Women Sheri L. Parrack Diversity Excellence Award for 2022. The honor, announced at a recent gala, recognizes outstanding efforts in promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in the organization by including or involving people from a range of different social and ethnic backgrounds and of different genders, sexual orientations and backgrounds.

HCC Chancellor Cesar Maldonado, Ph.D., P.E., met with 39 key leaders from business, industry and economic development at HCC’s West Houston Institute recently to launch a new collaboration focused on addressing the region’s long-term workforce training needs. The meeting was the first of the newly formed Chancellor’s Business Champions Council (CBCC) and represented some of the largest employers in the Houston metropolitan area.

The Houston Community College Foundation Board has elected six new members to serve three-year terms. The HCC Foundation supports HCC in attracting and educating Houston-area students who embody the desire and dedication to learn, including many nontraditional students and those who have traditionally faced barriers to higher education.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Houston Community College and San Jacinto College $1,478,965 for three additional years to continue their joint project titled, “Louis Stokes B2B Alliance: Harris County Community College Alliance (HCCCA).”

Former Lamar Institute of Technology President/CEO, Lonnie L. Howard – a 1995 graduate of Houston Community College – was recently bestowed the honor of having the institute’s technology center bear his name. The renaming of the Dr. Lonnie L. Howard Technology Center was at the direction of the Texas State University System Chancellor and Board of Regents in recognition of Howard’s contributions as president of the Beaumont, Texas institute for six years before he stepped-down in August.

Scientific Bioprocessing, Inc. and BioMADE have announced that HCC's Dr. Chandra Mittal, program coordinator for the Medical Biotechnology program, has been selected for the highly-competitive Fellowship Program.

On the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Harvey, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner and Houston Community College (HCC) Chancellor Cesar Maldonado, Ph.D., P.E., signed a Memorandum of Understanding that will address one of the City's significant goals - to train 500,000 citizens, employees, small businesses, volunteers, and first responders in new resiliency training programs starting in the Fall 2022.

Campus Compact (Compact), a national coalition of colleges and universities committed to advancing the public purposes of colleges and universities, has announced it has now secured the required funding and leadership to advance planning for the new program College Renaissance Corps (CRCorps).

Fall 2022 Newsletter from Trustee Charlene Ward Johnson, District II

Fall 2022 Newsletter from Trustee Eva L. Loredo, District VIII

The Aspen Institute College Excellence Program has announced that Dr. Shantay Grays, Houston Community College’s vice chancellor of student services, is one of 31 leaders selected for the 2022-23 class of the Aspen Rising Presidents Fellowship.

The Aspen Institute College Excellence Program announced Monday that Dr. Frances Villagran-Glover, president of HCC's Southeast College, is one of 26 leaders selected for the 2022-23 class of the Aspen New Presidents Fellowship.

Fall 2022 Newsletter from Trustee Robert Glaser, District V

The Houston Community College Foundation 50th Anniversary Gala at the Hilton Americas hotel raised more than $790,000 on behalf of HCC students on May 14, and Houston icon Jim "Mattress Mack" McIngvale received the coveted Crystal Eagle Award for his outstanding support of HCC’s programs and students.

A newly opened Security Operations Center at Houston Community College is preparing students for high-skilled jobs in cybersecurity, a field experiencing a critical shortage of workers.

Houston Community College (HCC) and Texas Southern University (TSU) have signed a memorandum of understanding that will help graduates from HCC’s Drafting and Design program transfer seamlessly into TSU’s College of Science, Engineering and Technology to obtain a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Technology.

Houston Community College has opened registration for inaugural courses designed to help businesses mitigate the impact of hurricanes, other catastrophic weather events and unexpected disasters, part of the college’s new Resiliency Center of Excellence.

Houston Community College System (HCC) Chancellor Cesar Maldonado, Ph.D., P.E., testified before the Texas House of Representatives in Austin last week that continued funding through the Texas Reskilling and Upskilling through Education (TRUE) Initiative is needed to address persistent workforce shortfalls in the state.

Houston Community College is one of nine national finalists to receive a grant of $100,000 from Indianapolis-based Lumina Foundation. Through The Million Dollar Community College Challenge, the foundation awarded $1.9 million in grants and technical assistance directly to community colleges, with one school receiving $1 million and nine others receiving $100,000 each.

Fall 2022 Newsletter from Trustee Dr. Reagan Flowers, District IV

Sharon Wright, HCC’s director of board services, has received the Association of Community College Trustees 2022 Professional Board Staff Member Award for the association’s western region.

Fall 2022 Newsletter from Trustee Dr. Pretta VanDible Stallworth, District IX

Fall 2022 Newsletter from Trustee Dr. Cynthia Lenton-Gary, District VII

Forbes Advisor, an independent and impartial consumer research publication, has listed Houston Community College as one of its top 10 trade schools in the nation.

Dr. Kurt Ewen, Vice Chancellor of Strategic Planning & Institutional Effectiveness, and Chief of Staff at Houston Community College (HCC), has been named recipient of the prestigious Carl M. “Cheesie” Nelson Award by the Texas Association of Community Colleges (TACC).

Dr. Michael Webster of Houston Community College has been appointed to the state’s Industry-Based Certification Advisory Council.

Houston Community College has been named a partner in a group of colleges recognized for their excellent support of college students who juggle attending school and parenting children.

HCC Southeast College President Frances Villagran-Glover has been appointed to the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) Commission on Institutional Infrastructure and Transformation.

Houston Community College Northwest Visual Arts instructors Clara Hoag and Esther Delaquis-Baidoo both contributed pieces to a recent exhibit at the University of Houston’s Blaffer Gallery. Titled, “Bearing Witness,” the three-day show was a fundraiser for the Ukrainian American Cultural Club of Houston and its efforts to aid civilians impacted by the military conflict.

HCC will be authorized to offer training to instructors to deliver MSSC’s CPT 4.0 e-learning courseware, and its hands-on Certified Production Technician Plus (CPT+) program using the highly innovative “Skill Boss” training and testing device invented by Amatrol, the nation’s leading manufacturer of industrial technician training equipment.

The $3.3 million grant will go toward HCC Central’s efforts to prepare students to graduate from high school, enroll into a post-secondary program and complete their programs of study. Funding will be distributed over the next five years to offer pre-college support services to 131 students a year.

The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo has donated $25,000 to support HCC’s Public Safety program and students. The donation was made before the HCC Board of Trustees at a meeting on May 19, 2022. Since 2017, the longtime area organization has awarded $200,000 to the HCC Public Safety Center of Excellence and an additional $20,000 in private scholarships to HCC students.

The HCC Dean of Material Science & Smart Manufacturing Alberto Urbina was recognized at the American Welding Society, District 18 meeting on May 19.

A team of Houston Community College leaders and educators has won the 2021-2022 Innovation of The Year Award from the League of Innovation in the Community College, an international nonprofit organization with a mission to cultivate innovation in community colleges.

On Monday, May 16, the new HCC Katy campus officially opened its doors at its new location at 22910 Colonial Parkway, Katy, Texas, 77493. HCC Katy’s Foxlake location is now closed as all operations and classes are now at the new location.

The HCC Katy campus Emergency Medical Services (EMS) program has moved from Katy to its new home at the HCC Spring Branch campus, just in time for the 2022 summer sessions. Students will now be able to take basic Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) courses and Advanced Emergency Medical Technician (AEMT) Paramedic 1 coursework at the Spring Branch campus, located at 1010 Sam Houston Parkway.

For the third straight year, Houston Community College dual credit students who are also Stafford High School seniors simultaneously received their high school diplomas and associate degrees from HCC.

Houston Community College (HCC) has been named one of 10 national finalists to receive a $1 million grant from the Lumina Foundation of Indianapolis, IND. Through its Million Dollar Community College Challenge, the foundation will award $1.9 million in grants and technical assistance directly to community colleges, with one college receiving $1 million and nine colleges receiving $100,000 each.

On Tuesday, April 19, 2022, a Houston federal court issued two orders in the case of Brown v. Houston Community College.

A summer camp at Houston Community College’s Stafford campus will introduce high school juniors and seniors to smart manufacturing and the basics of computer-aided design, plasma cutting and the role of robotic instrumentation. Offered by the HCC Material Science and Smart Manufacturing Center of Excellence, the June 6-10 camp is especially aimed at students interested in learning more about smart manufacturing careers.

A first-of-its-kind, free, two-day career fair and exposition focused on green energy jobs, career training and education will take place at HCC Central South Campus on Friday and Saturday, April 22 and April 23. Green Opportunities Houston will feature more than 300 job openings from dozens of employers, including the City of Houston, CenterPoint Energy – in a festival-like atmosphere with music, food and green energy activities. Registered guests will have a chance to win a laptop, tablet or

Houston Community College has been designated the seventh most “military friendly” large community college in the nation for 2022-2023. The ranking was made by Military Friendly, a national advocacy organization that encourages investments by schools to recruit, retain and advance veterans as students or employees.

Two Houston Community College leaders have been named fellows of the American Council on Education for 2022-2023. Dr. Desmond Lewis, associate vice chancellor for College Readiness, and Dr. Colleen Reilly, dean of the Center of Excellence for Media, Visual and Performing Arts, were selected after a rigorous nomination and application process.

There is one certainty in today’s competitive workforce: employees need new skills and knowledge to keep from being left behind. To help those seeking a way to get a leg up, Houston Community College has just launched a new suite of short-term, Micro-Learning courses. Each bite-sized course is designed to focus on specific, relevant skills employees need to become more valuable to their current or future employers.

A manufacturing industry organization has donated $40,000 to Houston Community College to help students to succeed in skilled trade careers. The PVF Roundtable donation this month brings the organization’s total charitable contributions to the college to $150,000 since 2017 to fund scholarships for students to pursue jobs in manufacturing such as a welder, manual machinist, CNC machinist and industrial mechanic.

As an institution of higher education, Houston Community College (HCC) proudly embraces all students, faculty, and staff, including those from around the world. HCC has long led the nation’s community colleges in international student enrollment – today over 2,400 dedicated international students, including those from Ukraine and Russia.

Spring 2022 Newsletter from Trustee Dr. Cynthia Lenton-Gary, District VII

Spring 2022 Newsletter from Trustee Eva L. Loredo, District VIII

Spring 2022 Newsletter from Trustee Monica Flores Richart, District I

Spring 2022 Newsletter from Trustee Dr. Reagan Flowers, District IV

Spring 2022 Newsletter from Trustee Robert Glaser, District V

Spring 2022 Newsletter from Trustee Dr. Adriana Tamez, District III

Spring 2022 Newsletter from Trustee Dr. Pretta VanDible Stallworth, District IX

Houston Community College has won the 2022 Bellwether Award for its outstanding and innovative workforce development program: HCC’s Entrepreneurial Initiatives. The Bellwether Awards are widely regarded as one of the nation’s most competitive and prestigious recognitions for community colleges.

Earning an HCC diesel maintenance and repair certificate is a challenge that requires mechanical knowledge and the ability to master technologies used in the much-in-demand field. HCC student Leon Hosea is working hard to achieve that goal. But mastering the curriculum and showing his skills aren’t the only hurdles he must clear. Hosea lost his vision in 2014, which meant suspending his career as an aviation mechanic.

After two years of academic grind, Denzel Wilson is counting the days to a milestone in his quest for a tech career. In May, he will walk the stage for a degree in artificial intelligence. Wilson, 25, will be among the initial AI graduates from Houston Community College, the first community college in Texas to launch an AI Associate of Applied Science degree program in summer 2020.

The Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Installer Certificate at Houston Community College Central has been certified by the North American Board of Certified Energy Providers (NABCEP), the most respected, well-established and widely recognized certification organization for professionals in the field of renewable energy.

Houston Community College’s Interior Design program has been named one of the state’s best in a recent ranking by EdReformer, an online resource for students seeking higher education programs that best suit their budget and career aspirations.

Houston Community College’s Black History Scholarship Gala takes place 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Thursday, February 24 as an online fundraiser in partnership with ABC13 Houston/KTRK-TV. The theme is Black History is Everyone’s History. Millard House II, superintendent of the Houston Independent School District, will serve as the keynote speaker.

Suzette Brimmer, HCC Central College's Dean of the Consumer Arts & Sciences Center of Excellence, has been selected to participate in an elite national mentoring program for emerging leaders seeking to become the next generation of higher-education presidents.