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…
When graduating transfer student and The Mainstream managing editor Savannah Peterson first began at UCC, she was still heavily considering skipping college and going straight to beauty school. However, as a young swimmer, she had been inspired by her own observations of the impact of good nutrition. She dreamed of 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…
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…
Health and human performance professor Rod Snook retires this summer from the full-time position he’s held for 37 years. Snook’s office walls are plastered with three decades’ worth of photographs, articles and other physical commemorations of the innumerable student and personal accomplishments he’s brought about throughout his career. Assistant to Read more…
Being a college student is so much more than getting a degree. Being a student means that, for the next several years of your life, you are consumed with not only receiving an education but learning how to cope with life. Something that many people who are no longer in Read more…
Just three weeks away, and it’s time for Graduation. “Graduation is a milestone for students whether they’re doing a two-year associate degree or a certificate or their GED, and it’s a time to celebrate what your family and friends and UCC faculty and staff have done to assist you. Even Read more…
Zainab Ibrahim is an up-and-coming woman’s wrestling athlete, high-achieving transfer student and devout Muslim. She has managed to juggle all three well, until recently when she was shut out from competing in World Trials, hosted by USA Wrestling, because of modesty alterations to her uniform in alignment with her Muslim Read more…
The Spanish Club, as well as other interested students, is traveling abroad in June of 2024 to Spain and Morocco for 10 to 11 days guided by EF Tours, an educational tour company. The group will travel to four locations in Spain and four in Morocco, Africa. Students will sign Read more…
The deadline for transfer student applications is now. The process can be scary, nerve-racking, and thrill-seeking all at the same time. UCC Advisor Dan Ruch and Associate Director of Oregon State University Rick DeBellis want to help make transferring easier for students. “The best place to look for transfer (events) Read more…
When doesn’t the education system feel like a steep mountain that students and faculty have to hike up? A good team helps, though. A good leader helps even more. Rachel Pokrandt, UCC’s president, shares what her educational hike has looked like. Pokrandt doesn’t want students to confuse easy with success. Read more…
Five paid internship opportunities through the USDA are reserved this summer for UCC students: facility and civil engineering technician positions, facility and water/wastewater system crew member and botany intern. Science instructor Bryan Benz, current natural resources, science and temporary forestry program coordinator, recently sent out applications to several qualifying students Read more…
Suitable housing is one of the biggest challenges students face as part of their college journey. UCC has recently purchased three new buildings in Downtown Roseburg. In the UCC Invests in Students and Downtown Roseburg press release, students can find where they can reside: “The college has been renting the Read more…