News and Events from the Greater Garden City Area
Nursing students at Garden City Community College will benefit from a new, high-tech medication dose delivery systems, thanks to a recently-approved grant from the Kansas Board of Regents. KBOR approved $32,022 from the Kansas Nursing Grant Initiative last week, providing about half the funds necessary to purchase two high-tech medication […]
The Garden City Community College Endowment Association will be holding the 2020 Endowment Auction online from June 24-28, 2020. The annual auction, GCCC’s signature scholarship fundraiser, was originally scheduled for March 27 but postponed due to the COVID-19 health pandemic. The Endowment Association has partnered with Scott Auction to host […]
Alpha Xi Upsilon, the Garden City Community College chapter of Phi Theta Kappa, welcomed over 60 new GCCC students into its honor society this past academic year. Induction into PTK is by invite only. Students must meet rigorous academic merits set by the national honor society in addition to local […]
Garden City Community College is offering up to 150 new laptops at no cost to students who need reliable computer access for their studies. The new laptops – Lenovo Thinkpads, valued at just under $500 each – will be made available to degree-seeking students who demonstrate substantial need through an […]
By Mike Pilosof Garden City, KS-After nearly a decade, the Broncbuster softball program has a new face with Amy Schmeckpeper taking the reigns as the team’s next Head Coach, college officials announced on Friday. “Amy has so much passion for softball; that was apparent when we first interviewed her,” Director […]
By Mike Pilosof Garden City, KS-Garden City women’s basketball is getting a complete facelift for the upcoming season. A month into his inaugural tenure as Head Coach, Antwain Scales is remaking the Broncbuster program in his own image, hiring Coleman Bender as his lead assistant. “He is a very fundamental […]
By Mike Pilosof Photo by Brad Nading Garden City, KS-Joe Slobko, the face of a program, and the man that brought Garden City Community College baseball to extraordinary heights in more than two decades in the dugout, passed away on May 5. He was 83. “Joe will always be […]
Garden City Community College is the recipient of a $16,000 Rural Business Development Grant for its new fall carpentry program. This news was presented by GCCC administration during a regularly scheduled meeting of the GCCC Board of Trustees, which met Tuesday. The grant, awarded by the Rural Development division of […]
The next meeting of the Garden City Community College Board of Trustees will be held via Zoom and will begin at 6 p.m. CST on May 12, 2020, at https://zoom.us/j/95038159058. Requests to make public comments during the May 12 meeting must be made in advance (by 5 p.m. CST on […]
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