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January 30, 2025

City College for Municipal Employment Program Creating Bridge to Public Service Careers

CCP recently expanded its training initiatives by launching the City College for Municipal Employment (CCME) program, in partnership with the Mayor’s Office, building a skilled pipeline to open positions and advancement within the city’s offices.

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December 20, 2024

John McCabe: A True Lifetime Learner

Though he is already a published writer with a college degree, John enrolled in a screenwriting course at CCP to take his writing in a new direction.
“My writing process is enhanced by the discovery of how to go from prose to screenwriting,” John said about the course. “There is a critical use of present tense in the style that needed to be understood. We do that by example and trial and error methods in workshops and peer review.”  

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December 17, 2024

Training and Certifications for Public Health and First Responders at CCP

At Community College of Philadelphia, the health and safety of our students, faculty and staff are of utmost importance. We strive to improve in these areas any way we can. This year, we have achieved new ways of enhancing resources and opportunities for members of our community.

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December 17, 2024

Food for Thought: Quy Danh Finds Healing in Culinary Arts

Quy Danh, a Culinary Arts student and Catto Scholar at Community College of Philadelphia, hopes to someday support people struggling with food insecurity. Food— and its holistic properties and ability to bring people together—is at the heart of Quy’s personal story and is what brought him to CCP in the fall of 2023.

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December 12, 2024

CCP Recognized as a 2024 ALL IN Most Engaged Campus for College Student Voting

In November, Community College of Philadelphia was recognized by the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge as a 2024 ALL IN Most Engaged Campus for College Student Voting. ALL IN is a national nonpartisan initiative that strives to change civic culture and institutionalize democratic engagement activities on college campuses. The goal is to make voter participation a defining feature of campus life.

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December 12, 2024

Student Group WEALTH•NESS Brings New Approach to Personal Finance for Students

At the end of the Spring 2024 semester, Kaley Cant, a Business – General major, came to Wenonah Carney, a Financial Literacy success coach, with an idea for a new student organization that would blend holistic wellness practices with personal finance. Little did Kaley know, that’s exactly what Wenonah had been working toward through her role in CCP’s Single Stop office.   

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December 3, 2024

Get to Know CCP Faculty: Meliss Wright, Assistant Professor, Economics and Statistics

Q: How do you look forward to impacting our students with your academic/field training? 

A: I look forward to showing students that they already apply economics principles in their daily lives and encouraging them to challenge the content we cover. Sometimes, students confuse their spot-on intuition for not understanding the content. I hope students leave my class confident enough to question policy and assessments of the economy.  

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November 20, 2024

Get to Know CCP Faculty: Esra Abumounshar, Architecture, Design and Construction

Q: If you are new to the College: Why are you excited to join Community College of Philadelphia? 
A: I am excited to teach where I started my journey as a student 10 years ago to study architectural design! 
I also want to advance the program and bring new insight to the Architecture, Design and Construction department from a practitioner perspective, and enable students to have that direct link into the workplace.  

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November 14, 2024

Dontae Bacon Receives Joseph and Marie Field Opportunity and the First Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia Scholarships

Community College of Philadelphia is pleased to announce that Dontae Bacon is a recipient of both the Joseph and Marie Field Opportunity and First Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia Scholarships.

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November 13, 2024

Get to Know CCP Faculty: Mitsy-Ann Rapley, Assistant Professor, Tourism and Hospitality Management 

I know the powerful impact community colleges can have on students from diverse backgrounds, empowering them to reach their full potential and connecting them with meaningful career paths. Community colleges have a special way of fostering growth and providing opportunities that go beyond academics, and I’m happy to be part of that mission here at CCP.

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November 11, 2024

Gabriela Hevia: From CCP to the 2024 Paris Olympics 

In the nearly nine years that Gabriela Hevia has lived in the United States, she has learned English, graduated from Community College of Philadelphia, discovered her passion for digital art and landed a prestigious internship with NBC Sports during the 2024 Olympic Games. Originally from Venezuela, Gabriela said she spoke little to no English when her family first came to the U.S. to flee political unrest in their home country. After completing a year at Philly’s Northeast High School, Gabriela started taking English classes at CCP. Once she had a strong enough handle on the language, she decided to start studying what she was truly passionate about: digital video production. 

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October 16, 2024

Diagnostic Medical Imaging Students’ Extraordinary Achievement:  A 100 Percent Radiography Exam Pass Rate Extending 20 Years

Students in the College’s Diagnostic Medical Imaging (DMI) program are ready to start careers as radiologic technologists after graduating and passing the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT) certification examination in Radiography, which is necessary to work in the field. For the past 20 years, students have achieved a 100 percent pass rate on the exam, on their first try, within six months of graduation. 

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