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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 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...
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,...
Task Force Reconvenes to Guide Oakland County’s Recovery from Pandemic
OCC Chancellor Peter Provenzano, Jr. is part of a respected group of business and community leaders who will advise Oakland County on how to leverage its $244 million share of President Joseph R. Biden’s American Rescue Plan (ARP) to bring about short-term recovery and long-term transformation.Many...
OCC Receives National Award for Budget and Financial Planning
Going above and beyond. Knowing your values and sticking to them. Hard work and a great team. These are the traits of an award-winning organization and OCC has done it again. This time in the area of budget and finance – key to any organization’s operations and ability to manage unexpected challenges.The...
OCC Dean Receives Distinguished College Administrator Award
Cindy Carbone Honored at International Student Event, Tops in Southeast MichiganThe Michigan chapter of Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society (PTK) announced Oakland Community College Academic Dean Cindy Carbone received the Distinguished College Administrator Award. PTK is the premier international honor...
OCC Student Elected International President of Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society
OCC’s PTK Chapters Also Win an Impressive 30 Awards in Michigan Regional Competition and Five National ScholarshipsPhi Theta Kappa (PTK), the primary honor society for two-year colleges, has elected Oakland Community College student Tala Alahmar of Rochester Hills as 2021 international president....
OCC Partners with Beaumont, Oakland County Michigan Works! to Offer New Training Course
12-Week Course Addresses Need for Sterile Processing Technicians, Hot JobsOakland Community College’s Economic and Workforce Development department is partnering with William Beaumont Hospital and the Oakland County- Michigan Works! Agency to offer a unique training program to prepare students...