May brings beautiful weather and summer ambitions, but it also encompasses studying and preparing for final exams, which involve a lot of time management and focus as a student.

MATC is keeping with the practice of doing what’s best for students.  The college   is offering 12 new academic programs for 2013-2014. 

Human Resources program graduates first students

At the end of the spring 2013 semester, a pioneering group of students will graduate with an associate degree in Human Resources, a watermark for the human resources industry as well as for MATC and the state of Wisconsin.  

These were planned events around campuses that were scheduled before the release of this issue.

The induction ceremony for students selected into Phi Theta Kappa and the National Technical Honor Society was held Friday, March 22 at the downtown campus.

At the 29th National College Journalism Convention in San Francisco which is held by the Associated Collegiate Press (ACP), MATC Times’ very own editor-in-chief, Jim Nance, was invited to be a panelist for a session entitled, “Managing a Two-Year Newspaper.”

Planet Earth is always evolving to sustain life for its inhabitants.  It is our job to be its caretaker, knowing that it needs proper care and maintenance.   Back in 2003, a group of individuals knew what they needed to do in Wisconsin to bring that awareness; they started a conference called “The Wisconsin Renewable Energy Summit.” With much growth and participation, attendees were able to see their social responsibilities to the environment and help green businesses flourish and look at making energy-efficient products and renewables.

On March 7, the Sustainability Summit welcomed hometown hero, Will Allen, Founder and CEO of Growing Power, who spoke on a subject that is not only dear to his heart but is a subject of much importance in terms of his company and, more importantly, the future of mankind: sustainable food systems.

A life-changing experience is how several students described the 10th Annual Sustainability Summit and Exposition hosted by MATC March 6 and 7 in Milwaukee’s Delta Center.  The feedback from Summit attendees - students and nonstudents alike - has been overwhelmingly positive.

The Sustainability Summit was home to the sustainable cities and infrastructure plenary noon session.

Many organizational leaders and aspiring students came together on March 6 - 7 to celebrate the 10th annual Sustainability Summit inside the enormous Delta Center in Downtown Milwaukee.

Director from NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Dr. James E. Hansen, spoke at the Sustainability Summit and focused on stabilizing climate for the younger generations.“The earth has become warmer in the last century by eight-tenths of a degree, and the next decade will be warmer,” said Hansen.

At the end of the opening day of the Sustainability Summit, all the guests came to one of the ballrooms of the Delta Center for the summit reception.

Chronologically challenged students are not over the hill – they’re on top of it!

Baby boomers are coming here to further their education or start a career. Not having grown up in the high tech age, vital skills are being sought to keep them at par with the current workforce. Educational dreams are being fulfilled as a wave of boomers head back to college – at MATC. The timing couldn’t be better.

On March 31, 2011 President Barack H. Obama signed into Proclamation April of each year to be designated as Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM).

Policy changes discussed at recent District Senate meeting

The District Student Senate (DSS) had their first meeting on Friday, Feb. 1 at the West Allis Campus to discuss previous plans and new business.