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Health, Fitness and Nutrition programs thrive at HCC
By Ronni Gordon Cori Muddiman was an overweight Home Depot contractor from Springfield who lost more than 100 pounds and became increasingly interested in physical fitness. Omri Rachmut, a native of...
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HCC readies for expansion
By Chris Yurko Health care has long been a robust industry. It accounts for nearly one-sixth of the U.S. economy. Even during the recent recession, as unemployment rose, the nation added health-care...
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Student Profile: Olga Moreno
“Hi” and “Bye” were the first two English words Olga Moreno ever learned. Sometimes, however, she mixed them up. “I would say them at the wrong time,” says Moreno. That was in 2003 when she moved to...
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Outlook good for jobs in nonclinical healthcare fields
By ALANA WIENS Healthcare is projected to make up the largest segment of the U.S. economy by 2020. While we often think of doctors and nurses when we consider jobs in healthcare, 42 percent of all...
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HCC Health Services
By RONNI GORDON HCC Health Services is more than a place to go when you are sick or in need of immunizations or sports physicals, though it is those things too. Mitchell Pysznik, a registered nurse...
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Faculty Profile: Mónica Torregrosa. ‘Speak your mind’
Growing up in Chile under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, Mónica Torregrosa knew that speaking your mind could lead to imprisonment, exile or even death. “We had very little chance to speak our...
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Learning to Teach
With her sights set on becoming a teacher – a profession with a long history in her family – Maldonado, 27, encouraged Texeira, 22, to join her at Holyoke Community College and earn a degree in...
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Student Profile: Steven Jones Success the second time
Steven Jones’ first shot at college ended in failure. He’d entered HCC right after graduating from Smith Vocational High School in Northampton. Working nights as a dishwasher, he got out at 2 a.m.,...
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Fertile Ground HCC Sustainability Programs Grow
By Janice Beetle Leigh-Ellen Figueroa, ’13, is feeding children in Holyoke, West Springfield and Chicopee with organic food they helped to grow – and planting seeds of knowledge about building a...
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Welcome from the President
Since its launch in 2009, HCC’s Sustainability Studies program has grown, not only in the numbers of students and course offerings, but also in its influence on our community. The founder of the...
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