McCook Community College

McCOOK, Neb. — A public “meet and greet” for McCook Community College’s next top leader is set for Monday from 5:30-6:30 p.m. Kelly Rippen, who has served as Mid-Plains Community College’s Area Dean of Enrollment Management since 2011, was recently named Vice President of McCook Community College and Area Vice President of Student Affairs...

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. — The Mid-Plains Community College board of governors is proposing a budget $1 million higher than last year. Meeting Wednesday in North Platte, the board agreed to publish a proposed total 2018-19 budget of $42,315,104, including general fund expenditures of $26,852,913 and capital fund expenditures of $5,154,509...

McCOOK, Neb. — With the start of fall classes Sunday at McCook Community College, enrollment numbers are again looking strong, but what has college officials really excited this year is the record number of returning students and the increasing number of top-tier academic students now choosing MCC...

McCOOK, Neb. — Chuck Salestrom, area vice president of public information and marketing, was honored upon his retirement at a meeting of the Mid-Plains Community College board of governors Wednesday night. He will retire Aug. 3. In other business, the board approved a bid from Arthur J. Gallagher and Co., the college’s current insurance provider, for athletic insurance for the 2018-19 academic year. The company submitted the low bid of $71,900...

BROKEN BOW, Neb. — Without going into a scheduled executive session, the Mid Plains Board of Governors approved a new three-year contract for MPCC President Ryan Purdy. The contract pays $230,000 per year, a 1.5 percent increase, and adjusts the retirement match to the same 9 percent match received by other Mid-Plains employees...

Tickets go on sale Monday for the 2018 Mid-Plains Community College raffle car. This year’s car is a 1932 Ford Roadster. It was built by students in MPCC’s Classic Car Restoration, Automotive Technology and Auto Body Technology programs and is the result of a partnership with Lincoln-based Speedway Motors. ...

McCOOK, Neb. — Jessica Bortner, RN, BSN, MBA, was hired as the Community Hospital Health Foundation Executive Director, according to Troy Bruntz, Community Hospital President and CEO. Her duties begin May 29. Bortner is replacing Terri Shipshock, who retires in June...

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. — Mid-Plains Community College administrators will receive a 2.33 percent salary package increase following action by the board of governors Wednesday night. The increase was the same as that negotiated for faculty salaries. President Ryan Purdy’s contract is separate and was tabled until the June 27 meeting...

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. — Contracts for non-negotiated staff and the college president are on the agenda for the Mid-Plains Board of Governors meeting this week. It is set for Wednesday at the North Campus of North Platte Community College, Room 200 of the W.W. Wood Building. A work session is set for 4:30 p.m. and the regular meeting follows at 6:30 p.m...

McCOOK, Neb. — Nigerian native Chinedu Okonkwo, selected as student speaker for McCook Community College’s commencement ceremonies today, appropriately enough, quoted his mother two days before Mother’s Day. “My mother always says to me, that son, “Ije uwa adiro ezi” (I bet your mother says that once in a while to you). ‘A journey of a thousand miles begins with a step.’...

McCOOK, Neb. — McCook Community College math instructor Susi Curl was named winner of the 2017-18 Dr. Gene A. Budig Outstanding Faculty Award at MCC. Budig, an MCC graduate, provides a $1,000 award each year to recognize and honor outstanding educators...

McCOOK, Neb. — Barely one month after thinking he’d realized the dream of a lifetime in McCook, Chinedu Myles Okonkwo -- from the Enugu state of Nigeria, Africa -- crawled into his bed in Brooks Hall, screamed into his pillow, and wept in shame. As a McCook Community College freshman, he’d missed a few classes, he’d disappointed his basketball coaches, his body was betraying him, and he dreaded going to practice, where his deficiencies would be on blatant display...

McCOOK, Neb. — Lynn Salyer was teaching high school math and science in Medicine Valley in the early 1980s and was making plans to abandon teaching to become a part of the new wave of technological opportunities being created in the home computer industry...

McCOOK, Neb. — Program reviews, equipment and a new student organization for veterans are on the agenda for a Mid-Plains Community College board of governors meeting here this week. The board meets at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in Room 213 of Mcillen Hall on the McCook Community College campus...

McCOOK, Neb. — The directorial debuts of two McCook Community College sophomore theater majors are set for this weekend when a pair of one-act plays will be staged at the Weeth Theater in Tipton Hall on campus. Luis Guardado will direct “The Actor’s Nightmare” and Brandon Molcyk directs “Trifles,” in three performances Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m...

McCOOK, Neb. — McCook High School, Dundy County/Stratton and Eustis-Farnam claimed the top academic team honors Wednesday among the 19 schools that competed in McCook Community College’s Inter-High Day. McCook High School was tops in the large school division. Southern Valley was second and Southwest High School was third...

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. — The Mid Plains Board of Governors approves raises for academic and vocational instructors Wednesday night. Meeting in North Platte, the board approved negotiated salary increases of 2.5 percent for the Mid-Plains Education Association, and 2.25 percent for the Mid-Plains Vocational Education Association...

NORTH PLATTE, Neb — The Mid-Plains Community College board of governors is expected to take action on teacher salary packages during a regular meeting Wednesday. The board plans a work session at 4:30 p.m. in Room 200 of the W.W. Wood Building on the North Campus of North Platte College, with topics including the budget, a McCook housing study, facilities master plan, three-year capital improvement plan and 2018-19 instructional equipment plan...

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. — Mid-Plains Community College students will pay $3 more per credit hour beginning the fall 2018 term. The MPCC Board of Governors voted to raise resident tuition from $89 per credit hour to $92, an increase of 2.88 percent, at their meeting Wednesday night. ...