MCCS in the News

Life after the mill. EMCC is helping one group of laid off millworkers train for new careers in culinary arts. Read More

Some of the biggest enrollment gains in early college programs in Maine are at the community colleges, which have seen enrollment jump 71 percent. Read More

Calling Maine’s community colleges “reliable and flexible” The Hinckley Co. credits EMCC and the Maine Quality Centers program with helping it to hire skilled workers. Read More

SMCC dedicated its newest building on the Midcoast Campus in honor of major support to the campus by L.L.Bean, Inc. and Leon and Lisa Gorman. Read More

Maine’s community colleges welcome back students for the fall semester. At SMCC residence halls are full with 400 students living on campus. Read More

From MCCS President Derek Langhauser: Leon and his wife Lisa, long-time Vice Chair of the Foundation for Maine’s Community Colleges Board of Directors, were the driving forces behind the creation of our remarkably successful Foundation.  Together with L.L. Bean, Leon and Lisa have been without peer in their personal and… Read More

Maine’s community colleges offer affordable, customized training and continuing education that give business and employees the skills they need to compete. Read More

Joseph Cassidy, president of WCCC, will provide leadership to EMCC while a search is underway for a new president. Read More

The new agreement will help ensure that the same learning outcomes, same expectations, and same credit apply to general education courses across the two systems. Read More

Through a gift from the Next Generation Foundation, the Maine Community Foundation will create the Adult College Completion Fund at EMCC and WCCC. Read More