“Better FAFSA, Better Future” touts itself as a “re-engineering” of the FAFSA process. The interactive article below explores these changes, as well as four major concerns raised by students, parents and spouses.
College can be expensive, lonely, confusing, and full of pressure with so many decisions to make. Phi Theta Kappa helps. PTK is a community college honor society with a chapter at UCC dedicated to helping students get scholarships, leadership experience and community service connections. “I like the competitive edge of Read more…
Frightfully fun, join ASUCC as our host Treats, games, music, and face-painting So run, fly your broom, or float like a ghost It’ll be quite entertaining-Poem by Adrien Vara / The Mainstream ASUCC is hosting food, games and interactive activities for Halloween-lovers of all ages in the Student Center on October 31st between 11 Read more…
Budgeting is an essential tool for navigating everyday life. Knowing how to utilize the proper tools for financial success is key. Managing your money enables you to have a better approach to making payments like bills and student fees. Knowledge of budgeting can help you allot money for emergency funds and future expenses. Read more…
Campus has new staff on campus in the Health, Nursing and Science Center, HNSC. Lace-Ann Rowe, assistant professor and forestry program director, Lisa Edens, anatomy and physiology professor and Andrea Thompson, full time nursing faculty are our new staff. Lance-Ann Rowe Rowe comes from a long line of people who Read more…
Remodeled and reopened, the Sue Shaffer Library is back The library staff is excited about their soft reopening on Monday, Oct. 16 and the new offerings the renovations provide, including updated study spaces, a coffee bar and more to come. “Please bear with us and be courteous; this is all Read more…
UCC is hosting a solar eclipse viewing event on Saturday, Oct. 14, at the Paul Morgan Observatory for the last eclipse visible in Douglas County until Nov. 15, 2077. The observatory is right on the centerline of the Ring of Fire eclipse path, so from 8:30 to 11 a.m. attendees Read more…
ASUCC new student leadership The student body leadership team, Associated Students of Umpqua Community College, started with an entirely new team this year from a new advisor to all new officers. Long-term advisor Marjan Coester left UCC in spring of 2023, increasing opportunities and challenges for the new staff. David Read more…
Despite summer’s cybersecurity attack — which shut down campus for a week and required a complete restart of all online systems — fall term’s financial aid repayments were doled out on-time, in accordance with the department’s new deadline. Refund checks were successfully mailed out early to students on Friday, October Read more…
Savannah Peterson and Rachel Arceo, 2023 AAOT graduates Umpqua Community College is one of those special places where the people, the location, and the activities all come together to create profound, transformative change. As graduating students, we have learned so much in our courses, but this journey has also changed Read more…
Graduating engineering student and The Mainstream’s digital editor Peyton Manning has a quiet and reserved demeanor that may make it easy for many to underestimate him; do so at your own peril. Manning doesn’t have to be loud to be a recognized force on campus. Manning makes plans “The movie Read more…
For the past school year, UCC graduate Larisa Czernowski has served as the president of ASUCC. “We help support students in the best way possible. Some of that looks like school supplies, and some of that looks like food, transportation,”Czernowski says. “We really try hard to make it an equitable Read more…
I take photos of nature on campus because I want to share the beauty I see with other people, and I enjoy the joy of seeing others light up when they see the photos I share with them. Photos have a really interesting effect on people. Some people feel instantly Read more…
One of the UCC graduates walking across the stage on June 16 is Jessica Donohue, winner of the National Adult Education Honor Society Award. She is graduating with her GED and is excited to start her college learning career soon at UCC. The journey to get her GED was strenuous. Read more…