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For those students who may have missed the March 4 orientations, Gateway Community College’s (GCC) Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society will hold another orientation on March 9, from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. in S109. Students who have completed 12 hours of course work while achieving a grade point average of 3.5 or higher are encouraged to attend. The mission of the Phi Theta Kappa is to...

The Black Student Association (BSA) honored the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a January 30 panel discussion on the topic “Stand Your Ground” – what it meant in Dr. King’s time and what it means in 2013. The panel included Thomas Ullmann, a clinical visiting lecturer in Law at the Yale Law School and a public defender for the New Haven Judicial District; ...

The Black Student Association (BSA) honored the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a January 30 panel discussion on the topic “Stand Your Ground” – what it meant in Dr. King’s time and what it means in 2013. The panel included Thomas Ullmann, a clinical visiting lecturer in Law at the Yale Law School and a public defender for the New Haven Judicial District; ...

Patreese Charles arrived for his first day of classes at Gateway Community College (GCC) in 2008. In his eyes, he was an average student who didn’t know what the rest of his life might look like. He laughs now recalling that although he had notebook in hand, he hadn’t actually registered for his classes and had to take whatever courses were left. “I didn’t know how to go ab...

A resume isn’t just a chronology of where an individual has worked. To get noticed, a resume needs two ingredients, says Kellie Byrd Danso, M.Ed., NCC, Gateway Community College’s (GCC) director of Career Services: professional polish and some serious swag. Swag is loosely defined as style, but Byrd Danso calls it “flavor.” A resume with swag is professional and confident. ...

Two Gateway Community College (GCC) students started an eyeglass donation drive as a service project in their Learning in the Clinical Environment class this semester and members of the GCC community have already donated more than 220 pairs. The used glasses will be donated to the Lion’s Club Low Vision Center in Bristol to be recycled, refurbished and given to people who ne...

Gateway Community College’s Student Community Outreach Programs through the Office of Student Activities and Leadership Programs and the Center for Service-Learning will be leading an Alternative Spring Break to Annville, Pennsylvania in March 2013. The trip is part of Habitat for Humanity’s Collegiate Challenge. Applications are due by Friday, January 25 . Students can find...

Gateway Community College (GCC) student Lauren Manuck has been cooking since she was a little girl. Whenever her mother was making dinner, Manuck would pull over a kitchen chair, scoot next to her mom and help. Those early lessons paid off December 10. Manuck's entry, a delicious Sun Dried Tomato Crostini, won her the $200 first prize in the GCC Dietetic Technology Program’s...

The International Club hosted December 4 an International Discussion with Signora Anna Gambacorta Sincavage from Skappo and Skappo Merkato, an Italian wine bar and gourmet food market in New Haven. Signora Anna discussed Italian culture, tradition and her personal experiences on being Italian and an immigrant to the U.S. She shared stories about the Italian language, music, ...

Through the Birch Group and the College of Technology, Connecticut college students in technology and engineering programs can apply to participate in an annual program to work with other students from community colleges and 4-year colleges on life support and sustainable living (LSSL) projects. This program has been available to Connecticut college students for several year...

Sixty-one academically outstanding students were inducted November 30 into Gateway Community College’s (GCC) Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society in a ceremony at the Church Street campus. The mission of the Phi Theta Kappa is to recognize and encourage the academic success of students attending two-year colleges. Members have the opportunity to participate in honors and leadershi...

Chris Warner makes pancakes for his grandfather each Saturday morning. Sometimes, as he races to his Entrepreneurship class at Gateway Community College (GCC), having skipped breakfast, he wishes he’d had those pancakes. The hunger pangs led to an idea for a business - Pancake Power – a food cart that sells pancakes and coffee to the 25,000 students, doctors and business pro...

Megan Eaton says that she has always been extremely shy. Just walking in the door at the Grove Friday night at the kickoff of Startup Weekend New Haven was a huge step. She wasn’t certain if she could summon up the nerve to pitch an idea or become part of a team or if she would just watch. Mike Roer, her Entrepreneurship instructor at Gateway Community College (GCC), had qui...

They arrive with an idea, a creative spark and the willingness to roll up their sleeves and work as a team for 54 hours until they turn that idea into a working business model. They are a new generation of entrepreneurs competing in StartupWeekend New Haven, a global grassroots movement of active entrepreneurs learning how to create tech-based startups and launch successful ...