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New Food Pantry to Assist Struggling OCCC Students
Oklahoma City Community College will have its first food pantry in order to address student hunger, its president said recently. OCCC President Jerry Steward said the student dropout rate has... Read More →
Teachers Fed Up With Low Education Funding
Allie Morris, is an aspiring teacher in Oklahoma. Today, Morris faces a reality that all public-school teachers in the state face: the average teacher’s salary is aorund $42,000 a year,... Read More →
Poetry Connects Humans Through Experience
National Poetry Month is the largest literary celebration in the world, with tens of millions of readers, students, K-12 teachers, librarians, booksellers, publishers, bloggers, and, of course, poets marking poetry’s... Read More →
Teachers Push for Increase in Education Funding
Monday, thousands of school teachers, students and others gathered around the Oklahoma State Capitol building to call to attention the poor funding public schools have received. Teachers from across Oklahoma... Read More →
Staff Spotlight: Meet Chiaki Troutman
Chiaki Troutman says the World Languages and Cultures Center at Oklahoma City Community College is a culture-rich experience. Troutman has been the lab coordinator of the WLCC since it first... Read More →
Teachers Plan Walkout In Oklahoma
Oklahoma public school teachers are about to walk out. After West Virginia teachers went on strike for nine days and ended up getting a 5 percent salary increase, Oklahoma... Read More →
Pathways Students Remember Parkland Victims
Pathway High School students at Oklahoma City Community College decided to walkout to remember students who lost their lives due to gun violence. Oklahoma City Community College Division Assistant, Rochelle... Read More →
OCCC Regents Meeting Reveals Decreased Student Enrollment
Oklahoma City Community College is losing more students. This semester alone, the school lost 406 individual students, school officials told members of the Board of Regents last week. So far,... Read More →
OCCC Celebrates Higher Education Act’s 52nd Anniversary
Wednesday, November 8th, marks the 52nd anniversary of the Higher Education Act. It was established November 8, 1965 by President Lyndon B. Johnson to provide financial aid for college students.... Read More →
