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OCC Virtual Commencement Reflects Challenges of Unique Year
“Being involved in OCC built my personality and made me the person who I am today. If had to choose again whether I want to attend OCC or go straight to a four-year institution, I would definitely choose OCC again and again.” - Razan AlaliJust over a century ago, Michigan was in the grips of...
Evelyn Chan Receives 2021 Faculty Member of the Year Award
Alliance for Excellence in Online Education honors faculty for teaching excellence during the pandemicEvelyn Chan understands firsthand the challenges students face with online classes. A few years ago, she enrolled as a graduate student in an online course and has integrated that mode of learning...
OCC Alumna Receives Doctorate Degree After Overcoming Life-Threatening Accidents
As the owner of her own consulting practice, Chantal Davis developed her company motto “Where We Serve is Where We Succeed,” based on her own extraordinary experiences. She highlights a pivotal time in her life as a community college student at OCC and the caring support of a college counselor.A...
OCC Student Tala Alahmar Awarded Prestigious Community College Transfer Scholarship
Highly Competitive Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Scholarship Worth up to $40,000 to Help Complete Her Bachelor’s DegreeTala Alahmar of Rochester Hills, a student at Oakland Community College, is one of 72 recipients of the national Jack Kent Cooke Foundation’s prestigious Undergraduate Transfer...
Learn to Cook and Entertain in Style with OCC Courses on Food, Wine and Tequila
Do you want to learn about the art of fine wine or is tequila more to your liking? How about the secrets to great grilling or pairing food and wine? Oakland Community College is offering several culinary and beverage courses taught by its Culinary Arts faculty-chefs for the community this spring...
OCC Offers ServSafe Courses on Restaurant Food Safety
The importance of food safety and sanitation techniques has increased greatly in the food-service industry due to the COVID-19 pandemic. OCC’s Culinary Institute experts are addressing the demand by offering the ServSafe Certification Prep course and exam.This course is designed to provide individuals...
Baker College and OCC Announce New Articulation Agreement
Baker College, Michigan’s largest private, not-for-profit college and top private transfer school in the state, and Oakland Community College (OCC), Michigan’s largest multi-campus community college, are pleased to announce the signing of an official articulation agreement. The agreement was...
OCC Music Students Adapt to New Ways of Performing in Virtual Music Student Showcase
Making a Music Performance Worth Remembering“You pile up enough tomorrows, and you’ll be left with nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays. I don’t know about you, but I’d like to make today worth remembering.” – The Music ManThe lights may be out at the Smith Theatre but that didn’t...
Dawnmarie Yelcho Named Executive Director, Culinary and Hospitality
On the Menu: Expand Award-Winning Program’s Reach in the CommunityOCC’s Culinary Arts faculty and students have received a lot of accolades and awards over the years, and now it will have an additional advocate to help increase its reach beyond the Orchard Ridge campus.Dawnmarie Yelcho has joined...
Michigan’s Lt. Governor Serving as Keynote Speaker for OCC Virtual Commencement
Determination, ability to adapt, accomplishment characterize commencement speaker, 2021 graduatesLieutenant Governor Garlin Gilchrist II received his first computer at age 5. By 16, he was building his own, and using them to set up a computer lab at a Detroit community recreation center. This motivation,...