College to Hold Health Care Career Information Session

March 9, 2022
East Central College will hold a virtual informational session to highlight health care careers, and the programs ECC offers to prepare students for those fields. Director of Nursing Nancy Mitchell, MSN, RN, will be the keynote speaker for ECC’s Health Care Career meeting March 22 from 6-7:30 p.m. Mitchell also is the College’s dean of… View Article

Class of 2022 Grads Can Apply for rootED Transfer School Scholarship

March 8, 2022
Last year, East Central College graduate Benjamin Schwanitz received a rootEd Community College Transfer Scholarship that changed the trajectory of his college career. Schwanitz, who is now a student at Truman State University, Kirksville, was awarded up to $10,000 through the scholarship, which provided the funding necessary to attend the university. “I am attending Truman… View Article

ECC Hosts Academic Challenge; Winners Announced

March 2, 2022
There were Eight teams from six schools in the region that came to East Central College to compete in the annual Academic Challenge. There were about 100 total competitors who came to the College to compete in the competition, which was designed to challenge the best and brightest high school students. Teams from Linn, Washington… View Article

Area Companies Gift Supplies to ECC Welding Program

March 1, 2022
Donations totaling over $5,000 dollars in materials to the East Central College Welding Program are providing much-needed metals for hands-on learning in the welding lab. But the donations provide much more than materials — it also builds relationships.        That’s according to Bobby Bland, welding program instructor, who said the donations have sparked… View Article

ECC Students Selected to Show in Art St. Louis Exhibition

February 25, 2022
East Central College art students Madison Barbarick and Emily Knoppe will show their works in the 26th annual “Varsity Art” exhibit presented at Art Saint Louis. Barbarick, Washington, and Knoppe, New Haven, were selected by the ECC Art Department to show at the “Varsity Art XXV,” a multi-media invitational visual art exhibition, from March 4-31…. View Article

Rolla Nursing Student Receives Scholarship

February 22, 2022
East Central College nursing student Tela Connors is the recipient of a $1,000 scholarship from the Missouri League for Nursing (MLN). Connors, of Salem, is studying to be a Registered Nurse and is slated to graduate in May. She will be recognized at the ninth annual Student Nursing Convention April 6-7 in Osage Beach. The… View Article

Rolla ELA Student Working Hard to Become Citizen

February 21, 2022
Tsiala “Manana” Alaverdashvili began attending English Language Acquisition (ELA) classes in Rolla in 2016. Her instructor, Jean Craft, said that she studies very hard. “She studies all the time, especially for the citizenship test. I think she knows all of the answers,” asserts Craft. In English class, Manana works on reading, writing, listening and speaking… View Article

Omir Santos, Former MLB Player, Reflects on ECC Days

February 14, 2022
In 2001, Omir Santos was the catcher for the last East Central College baseball team to take the field in more than 20 years. After the 2001 season the ECC baseball field was empty for years to come, but Santos was just beginning his career in professional baseball. “I was sad when I heard there… View Article

Trustees Approve New Monument, Memorial Policy for ECC Campus

February 11, 2022
East Central College Board of Trustees approved a new monument policy Feb. 7, paving the way for a memorial remembering Erastus Brown, who was lynched in 1897. The new policy comes on the heels of a request be the Franklin County Remembrance Project Coalition to establish a memorial garden on campus for Brown, a black… View Article

Trustees Approve Slight Tuition Increase

February 9, 2022
The East Central College Board of Trustees on Feb. 7 approved a slight increase in tuition costs beginning in the fall 2022 semester. There will be a $5 credit hour tuition bump for students who live within the district, outside the district and for international students. ECC Vice President of Finance and Administration DeAnna Cassat… View Article