Southern Maine Community College is celebrating its 75th anniversary to honor its proud past and aspire to an even stronger future. To commemorate its founding in 1946, SMCC is inviting current and former students, faculty and staff, community and business partners, and others to join in our 75th anniversary celebration. We invite all to share… More »
SMCC students have provided a boost to the restoration efforts of a historic building in Portland that is recognized as the nation’s third-oldest African-American meeting house. For their Honors in Action project for the Phi Theta Kappa honor society, students launched an awareness and fundraising campaign last fall to benefit the Abyssinian Meeting House, a… More »
Southern Maine Community College has received the 2021-2022 Military Friendly® School designation, given to institutions for their commitment and dedication to students who have served in the military. The designation was awarded by Military Friendly®, which evaluates colleges and universities using public data and responses from a proprietary survey. Institutions are measured on student retention,… More »
Julia Zampini, a Culinary Arts student at Southern Maine Community College, has been awarded a Jean Ginn Marvin Scholarship by the Maine Community College System Board of Trustees. The scholarship, which covers all tuition and fees for a year, is awarded to second-year Culinary or Hospitality students at SMCC and York County Community College. It… More »
Southern Maine Community College employees have been named recipients of the A Light on the Point President’s Award for their tireless work and dedication over the past year. In making the presentation at Thursday night’s virtual A Light on the Point event, President Joe Cassidy said faculty and staff found new approaches to continue delivering… More »
Eleven students and two faculty members spent a week over winter break immersed in an intensive virtual genetics course hosted by MDI Biological Laboratory in Bar Harbor. For the class, students focused on computational skills, bioinformatics and limb generation in the axolotl, an amphibian that is sometimes called the “Mexican walking fish.” Students analyzed data… More »
February is Financial Awareness Month aimed at informing students about financial management tools that can help them be smart with their finances and the costs of their education. During Financial Awareness Month, SMCC’s Financial Aid Office is encouraging students to fill out the FAFSA, sign up for the iGrad financial literacy tool, and learn about… More »
Emma Bourne came to SMCC in hopes of exploring her academic interests at an affordable price before transferring to a four-year institution to continue her education. She hasn’t been disappointed. After graduating high school in Vermont, Emma took off a year to work and travel. She then came to SMCC in 2019, attracted by the… More »
Camdan Carmichael is in his first year studying Fire Science at SMCC. But even before he completed his first semester, he was hired as a full-time firefighter in his hometown. Camdan knew at a young age while growing up in the western Maine town of Rangeley that he wanted to be a firefighter. He served… More »
Southern Maine Community College will celebrate its 2021 graduates with a virtual graduation ceremony to mark their success as they move forward to bright futures. Given the continued higher numbers of COVID-19 cases in Maine and CDC guidelines around gatherings, the College has decided that it would be unsafe to hold a traditional in-person commencement… More »