Around the College
Meet Rhianna: From Foster Care to Honors Program Student
“Just because we are a community college does NOT mean that the education we gain from here is any less than of a typical 4-year University.”
Rhianna Dupla thought she was “never smart enough, or even good enough to attend college and even possibly graduate high school…” She grew up in foster homes and group living and graduated from high school with a 2.5 GPA.
After deciding she didn’t want “to be a statistic…aged out foster/state youth that struggles throughout their life and never achieves their goals and aspirations,” she applied to HACC.
To continue reading Rhianna’s story, please see our website.
2019-20 HACC and HACC Foundation Annual Report is Now Online!
The 2019-20 HACC and HACC Foundation annual report is now available online. This year’s report shows HACC’s HEART.
Did you know?
HACC developed a landing page about the global pandemic.
The HACC Foundation developed the Fund for Excellence for CARE to help address the needs of our students.
HACC continues to ramp up our Open Educational Resources (OER) project, supporting faculty as they adapt and create educational materials to be incorporated into courses at no cost to students.
Please read more in our interactive annual report.
Thank you for participating in National College Colors Day!
Meet Nathaniel: All-Star Achiever
As a high school student, Nathaniel Boyd already had an impressive resume. He was the captain of his school’s basketball team, earned more than 20 college credits as a dual enrolled student and worked as a research lab assistant at the Penn State Cancer Institute in Hershey. Read more about Nathaniel here.
Our Promise to Students: YOU are the Priority
The coronavirus pandemic has created new challenges for students and employees. The spring semester was a historic experiment in how to move quickly and adjust to constantly changing dynamics. Together, we did it.
Now, students and faculty are preparing for the fall 2020 semester. Most classes will be taught through remote instruction or virtual learning. Even though this is not what many of us planned for, students will receive the same level of support and instruction that they need from HACC. Our faculty will keep their promises, be there for students and continue to make them the priority!
Engaging with HACC on Social Media
Where are you on social media? Do you prefer Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or LinkedIn? HACC is on all of those platforms and more! In fact, we have more than 12,000 likes on our collegewide Facebook page and more than 5,800 Twitter followers!
Check out hacc.edu/SocialMedia to find a list of all of our pages and accounts.
Please follow us and engage with us on social media.
If you have photos of yourself working from home or one of a group on Zoom, please tag us in it. Prior to sharing a group photo on social media, please request permission from everyone in the photo.
If you’d like for us to share a photo on our collegewide Instagram account, please fill out this online form.
Perhaps you’d even like a Facebook group created for your HACC program. Please fill out a communications hub request, and the Office of College Advancement will be happy to work with you to create one. We can link the newly created Facebook group to an existing HACC Facebook page for more exposure.
We hope to see you in the social media world! #HACCproud
These stories are part of our “HACC Heroes” series. We recognize the severity of the global coronavirus pandemic and its impact on our communities. During this challenging time, we want to thank and recognize some of the many HACC employees, students and others who are making a difference.
Face Masks Made Out of Kindness
Anju Singh, Ph.D., an adjunct faculty member at HACC, recently sewed and distributed approximately 500 reusable, cloth face masks as a generous act of kindness. To read the full story, please visit our online newsroom.
HACC Nursing Program Donates Face Masks
A dedicated employee involved with the Nursing Program at HACC wanted to recognize nursing graduating students by doing something special. These hardworking graduating students were not able to celebrate their pinning due to the global coronavirus pandemic.
To read the full story, please visit our online newsroom.