A Notebook and Guide for Mount Wachusett Community College Students CHECK OUT THE NEW http://iconnect.mwcc.edu MWCC STUDENT PORTAL! www.mwcc.edu MWCC Student Schedule To access your official schedule go to www.mwcc.edu and click on Web Connect NAME: Date: DAY SCHEDULE BLOCKS Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday CRN# A CRN# B CRN# A CRN# B 8:00 Course 8:00 Course 8:00 Course 8:00 Course to Prof. to Prof. to Prof. to Prof. 9:15 Room 9:15 Room 9:15 Room 9:15 Room CRN# C CRN# D CRN# C CRN# D 9:30 Course 9:30 Course 9:30 Course 9:30 Course to Prof. to Prof. to Prof. to Prof. 10:45 Room 10:45 Room 10:45 Room 10:45 Room CRN# E CRN# F CRN# E CRN# F 11:00 Course 11:00 Course 11:00 Course 11:00 Course to Prof. to Prof. to Prof. to Prof. 12:15 Room 12:15 Room 12:15 Room 12:15 Room Community Time Community Time CRN# G CRN# H CRN# G CRN# H 1:45 Course 1:45 Course 1:45 Course 1:45 Course to Prof. to Prof. to Prof. to Prof. 3:00 Room 3:00 Room 3:00 Room 3:00 Room CRN# CRN# CRN# CRN# I J I J Course Course Course Course 3:15 Prof. 3:15 Prof. 3:15 Prof. 3:15 Prof. to Room to Room to Room to Room 4:30 4:30 4:30 4:30 CRN# K CRN# L CRN# K CRN# L Course Course Course Course 4:45 Prof. 4:45 Prof. 4:45 Prof. 4:45 Prof. to Room to Room to Room to Room 6:00 6:00 6:00 6:00 Friday or 1 day a week Web Courses CRN# M CRN# O CRN# CRN# Course Course Course Course 8:00 Prof. 2:00 Prof. Prof. Prof. to Room to Room 10:45 3:45 CRN# N CRN# P CRN# CRN# Course Course Course Course 11:00 Prof. 4:00 Prof. Prof. Prof. to Room to Room 1:45 6:45 MWCC Welcomes You! Mount Wachusett Community College Some services include: Students attending day courses at is committed to the academic success the Gardner Campus are assigned • Private math and writing tutoring of all its students. The staff and faculty advisors at the beginning • Academic advising services of the Academic Support of each semester. All students may • Transfer counseling and tours of Center can help you succeed in your access academic advising services four-year colleges studies. Services include a writing through the Advising & Counseling • Equipment loans, including laptops center, math lab, individual and group Center at the Gardner Campus or and calculators tutoring sessions, online tutoring, by appointment at the Leominster • Study skill and financial aid and adaptive technology lab, and test Campus, (978) 540-3221 or Devens seminars accommodations for students with Campus, (978) 630-9569. • A week-long summer program to documented disabilities. All services prepare students for college Not sure who your academic are provided free of charge to MWCC • Visions grant aid monies over and advisor is? Contact the records students. The center is located at the above other financial aid for office at (978) 630-9107 to find out, Gardner Campus in room 116 on the eligible students. or go online to “Web Services” at first floor. Math and writing tutors www.mwcc.edu. For answers to your are available by appointment at the Space in this program is limited. Only advising questions, email Leominster Campus by calling 200 students can be accepted each [email protected]. 978-630-9333. year. Spaces fill up early so make For more information go to sure to apply early! If you have any Students may access information on http://academicsupport.mwcc.edu/ questions, stop by room 144 at the academic programs and courses at Gardner Campus or call www.mwcc.edu/programs. Visions Program (978) 630-9297. The Visions Program is a federally Disability Services funded grant that works with students Academic Advising Services Students with documented disabilities from low income and first generation All students should seek the advice of may access information and services backgrounds, and students with an academic advisor as they proceed through the college’s disability disabilities to help them complete their through their academic course of counselors. Counselors for students associate degrees and to transfer to study. Academic advisors are both with disabilities are available to four-year colleges and universities. faculty members and college staff who assist students with academic course The program helps students by are trained to assist students in course accommodations or seek advice on providing academic, financial, and selection, schedule creation, the achieving academic success. Disability personal support. selection of a major and other course services are located in the Advising and academic related questions. & Counseling Center at the Gardner Campus and at times listed on a leading toward the completion of Jobs posted schedule at the Leominster an associate degree eligible for Many students work full or part Campus. A full explanation of services, MassTransfer or the MassTransfer time while attending college. including accommodation requests, Block. The policy benefits apply to These jobs may be the first is described on the MWCC disability students who plan to transfer for the stop on a career path or part of a lengthy services website www.mwcc.edu/ fall 2010 semester or later. career in a particular industry. Whatever services/disability. the case, students may seek assistance For more information, visit the in their job search process through job MassTransfer Massachusetts Department of Higher placement services. Full and part time MassTransfer has two main purposes: Education MassTransfer website at job openings are posted at the Gardner www.mass.edu/masstransfer. Campus and online at www.mwcc.edu/ • Provide community college services/job/opportunities.html. students who complete associate Career Services degrees and enroll in linked Choosing a career is no easy matter! Students training or retraining for MassTransfer programs with the Students should not worry if they are new careers may seek assistance with full transfer of credit, guaranteed uncertain about their choice of major resume writing, interview skills admission, and a tuition discount or career choice. Like everything else and access to various job seeking (each based on final GPA); and in college, making this choice is a tools. Speak with the job developer in process that students go through room 135 for additional information • Provide any student in the at their own pace and that the staff on placement services. For more Massachusetts public higher and faculty will support along the way. information, go to www.mwcc.edu/ education system who completes Career counselors are available services/job/default.html. the MassTransfer block with the in the Advising & Counseling Center. benefit of satisfying the general Career assessments as well as many Paying for College education/distribution/core informational resources are available Payment of charges is due by the date requirements at any other public to students in the center and online at specified on your bill. Beginning in July higher education institution (with www.mwcc.edu/prospective/advising. 2010 all student bills will be sent to the receiving institution able to add html. your student email account. Students no more than six additional credits whose account is not paid in full, or or two courses). cleared through other sources such as Students who matriculated in fall financial aid, is subject to cancellation 2009, as well as currently enrolled of class enrollment. Payment is students, may accumulate courses accepted via cash, credit card, waivers, scholarships, financial aid, third party payments, and through the monthly payment plan. For more information, go to http://studentaccounts.mwcc.edu. “Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.” - Henry Ford Staying Well. Being Smoking - Gardner Campus can enjoy their studies and overallSafe. be granted to those students who Smoking is only allowed in personal college experience. present a certificate from a physician vehicles and in parking lot “C” - The annual security report, issued who believes that the health of the designated smoking area only. For the each fall, describes safety measures, student would be endangered by such complete smoking policy go to crime statistics and other related an immunization and to students www.mwcc.edu click on policies. The report may be accessed who state in writing that such an “college catalog.” at: http://www.mwcc.edu/pdfs/ immunization would conflict with Parking - Gardner Campus securityreport.pdf their religious beliefs. If there is any Parking stickers are not required for Health Insurance doubt of immunization, the person students. Handicapped parking and All students enrolled in nine or more is to be considered non-immunized. parking by special permit are provided. credits are required to carry health Information concerning immunization Appropriate handicapped placard or insurance for the period of their may be obtained from the services plate is required. If you are in need of enrollment. Students may produce website at www.mwcc.edu and click temporary handicap parking, please proof of health insurance coverage on the “Current Students” tab. contact the health services office. or purchase the student health Inclement Weather Policy insurance made available through the In Gardner, student parking is available MWCC campuses will remain open Massachusetts Community College in parking lot B, C, and D and along unless conditions are so extreme that system. For more information the Fitness & Wellnes Center roadway. parking lots and sidewalks cannot be on the college’s health insurance Students may not park in lot A, along safely cleared and/or major streets program, check the college the perimeter sidewalks of lots B & C and highways leading to campuses are catalog on page 11, or online at (designated for handicap, faculty, staff, clearly dangerous.