“I have always found a calling with taking care of people, and COVID patients are no different than anyone else,” said Rebecca Strausser in a Citizen's Voice article last week. Recently, she received a nursing degree from Luzerne County Community College and will now join the team at Commonwealth Health Regional Hospital of Scranton as a registered nurse.

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak, Rachel Fleagle, a communications student at HACC, Central Pennsylvania's Community College, has been proactively helping faculty and students and has created an informative instructional video to help students with the transition to using Zoom software.

Upon completion of a nationwide search, Montgomery County Community College’s (MCCC) Board of Trustees announced that Dr. Victoria L. Bastecki-Perez has been selected to serve as the college’s sixth President. While Dr. Bastecki-Perez served as Interim President, MCCC earned the prestigious Achieving the Dream Leader College of Distinction award.

" Mayor Jim Kenney and I agree that a community college degree is essential to reducing poverty and closing the equity gap," said Dr. Donald Guy Generals , President of Community College of Philadelphia , in a recent letter to the Philadelphia Tribune about the newly c reated Octavius Catto Scholarship .

Pennsylvania community colleges continue to be proactive in their response to COVID-19. As guidance changes, the most up-to-date information from each community college is available on the Commission's website.