Montgomery Advocate

09/09/2022

Meet the new Advocate staff! Thanks for attending our first meeting, here’s to many more! 😄💜

08/29/2022

The Advocate is looking for an Assistant Editor for the 2022 Fall Semester! 💜

Interested applicants send a resume and letter of interest to our Editor-in-Chief, Ayesha Adnan, at [email protected]

08/29/2022

Apply for the Advocate: Montgomery College Rockville's official student news forum! 🔥

If you're interested in journalism, news writing, photography, social issues, and much more, this is the place for you! 😊

08/01/2022

Congratulations to the Advocate podcast team for reaching 1,000 downloads this summer! 🥳🎊

05/25/2022

Want to become more aware of your surroundings? 🤔

The MC programs in applied geography, cartography, and geographic information can help with that! From deforestation, hurricane seasons, and wildfire predictions, these subjects teach students to gain control of damage before it happens.👈

Learn more in Alana's article! 🎉

05/22/2022

MC Clubs and Organizations come through! 😆

In recognition of MC students' dedication, the Rockville Office of Student Life hosts its annual End-of-the-Year Awards Ceremony on Friday, May 6th, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Check out the photography coverage from Summer Mai Li!🔥

05/22/2022

Congratulations to MC's 2022 graduates! 🎉

The 2022 Commencement was the first in-person graduation in 2 years! The 1,163 graduates walked proudly in recognition of their own accomplishments. 💜

Check out photography coverages by Summer Mai Li and Ayesha! 👏

05/22/2022

This post is for plant people!🌱

Montgomery County residents can participate in, “Weed Warriors”. An environmental program focused on curbing the county of its non-native invasive species (NNIs). 👏

Learn more from Alana's new article! 🔥

05/22/2022

Q&A 😮

A written follow-up to Nida's podcast with Montgomery College President: Dr. Jermaine Williams!👈

Check it out!

05/17/2022

The Advocate Podcast has officially reached 750 downloads! 🎉

What a fantastic way to end the Spring 2022 semester, thank you to everyone who tuned in. A special shoutout to our Podcast Editor, Nida Khan! 💜

05/17/2022

MC in art! 🎨

Artist-in-Residence Ada Pinkston continues to lead MC students in the question, "What Would a Monument that Reflects the Students of Montgomery College Look Like?" Thursday, April 21, at the Rockville Campus, Pinkston performed an interactive piece.

Find out more in Morgan's article! 👏

05/12/2022

Interested in law or politics? ⚖️

On April 28th, 2022, 30 students from Professor Gregory Sember’s political science classes visited Maryland’s capital city, Annapolis. All this to meet and explore the legislature of Maryland's statehouse.

Learn more in an article from Ayesha! 👏

05/12/2022

🎸MC's got it all!🎤

The Rockville Office of Student life and Rockville Student Senate present the MC's Got Talent Show! Thursday, March 24, 2022, the event happened at the Robert E. Parilla Performing Arts Center on the Rockville Campus.👈

Check out the highlights now in .danielle and Morgan's article!

05/10/2022

Paint 🎨 or Plants 🌱?

How about both! In celebration of Earth Week 2022, the MC Rockville Office of Student Life organized a Paint and Plant event on April 19th. 🌎

Learn more in Ayesha and Morgan's new article! 👏

05/10/2022

Want to learn even more about MC's president? 🤔💭

This podcast delves into the qualities of leadership with MC's 11th President, Dr. Williams. Tapping into his intentions for the future, Dr. Williams proves MC is in good hands! 👏

Tune into Nida Khan's latest podcast! 🎧

05/09/2022

Looking to stay virtual for Fall 2022? 💻

Over the span of five years, students and faculty have witnessed MC grow into one of the best online colleges in America. A particular course of action, separated into three phases, is being set to open MC's virtual campus! 🔥

Find out more in writer, Richa D'Mello's, new article! 👏

04/20/2022

Taking ENGL101? 🤔✏️

MC English Professor, Catherine Lutter, provides her insights on students' success in English classes. Learn the importance of writing at MC! ✍️

Article by Advocate writer: Nida Khan 🔥

04/12/2022

MC students learn about the Chesapeake Bay from local agricultural workers! 👨‍🌾

A vibrant group of 20 MC students spanning across the Rockville, Takoma Park Silver Spring, and Germantown campuses enjoy an Alternative Spring Break! Students joined the Calvert Marine Museum in Solomons, MD; Flag Pond Park in Lusby, MD; and Claggett Farm in Upper Marlboro, MD. 🌱💚

Check it out in another article from Alana! 👏

04/10/2022

Get to know MC through The Office of Student Life! 👏

In January 2022, students and faculty participated in diverse online and in-person events. Keeping our students engaged, even in a pandemic, remains important to creating a safe and fun community at MC. 💜

Discover more in an article by Danielle Costa!

04/07/2022

MC offers funds and grants for financial aid!🗣

Monetary assistance for the pandemic continues despite the removal of COVID-19 mandates across Maryland and the U.S. If you demonstrate financial need, there are grants and funds available for you at MC!👈

To find out where you can apply, read Adedokun's article!

04/05/2022

Become a Certified Medical Assistant through MC! ⚕️

💉Medical officials who take your vitals are "the fifth most in-demand essential workers in the DMV (pre-pandemic)." The MC Rockville Campus opens new classes for the cost and time-effective Certified Medical Assistant Program. 🏥

Learn more from our writer, Alana! 🎉

03/31/2022

The Advocate is looking for an Assistant Editor for the 2022 Fall Semester! 💜

Interested applicants send a resume and letter of interest to Advocate Editor-in-Chief Danielle Costa at: [email protected].

03/31/2022

Graduate students will now have an in-person ceremony! 🎉

Through the shared effort of hundreds of students, such as Miguel Rodriguez, MC has renounced its previous decision to hold the 2022 Commencement Ceremony virtually. 👈

Learn more about how this happened from Advocate writer, Eve Elias Stowell!😊

03/31/2022

👉If you're interested in Critical Race Theory (CRT) this article is for you!👈

The Office of Equity and Inclusion talks Reframing the Criminal Justice System through a CRT Perspective; exposing systematic racism particularly in policing. The program notes the importance of community college discussions on CRT as it strengthens college and institutional relationships.💯

Student Representative at the Office of Equity and Inclusion, and our very own Editor-in-Chief, .danielle breaks down the event in her latest article! 👏🔥

03/31/2022

🎭Interested in pursuing a Theatre Major?🎭

Learn more about what MC offers, the Black Box Players, ongoing Theatre department productions, multicultural festivals, and more! MC welcomes ambitious students for the performing arts. 🎤✨

Discover more in Alana's new article!🔥

03/31/2022

This post is for first-year students at MC!👐

Being in college is hard, especially amidst a global pandemic. Students dive back into life at MC as the school slowly transitions back to in-person courses. New and growing groups of incoming college students work hard to adjust.

Learn more from a new article from Advocate writer, Karen!👏

03/31/2022

Let's hear it for MC's own basketball teams! 🏀🔥

The men's and women's MC Raptors took on the Catonsville Cardinals in an intense Raptor Pride Night. Both teams celebrate their last home game of the regular-season. 🎉

For more MC sports coverage, check out the new article by our writer, Temwa!

03/11/2022

🎊Give our podcast team a hand!👏

The Advocate podcast has officially been downloaded 500 times! We’re so proud of our hardworking staff and look forward to sharing more with you in the future! 💜

03/10/2022

‼️MC has a new president!‼️

🤗Welcome Dr. Jermaine F. Williams! This month, Montgomery College creates a space for student leaders, faculty, and staff to voice their concerns. Dr. Williams talks educational expansion and diversity at MC.

Learn more in a new article by 🔥

01/25/2022

Are you a freshman at MC and don't know where to start your college life? 😮

👉This list will help new students prioritize tasks and give a to-do list to check off to be ready for a first semester at Montgomery College in Spring 2022!

Check out a list of 10 steps to prioritize and organize yourself as the semester starts:
https://mcadvocate.com/16739/news/carousel/essential-to-do-list-for-montgomery-college-students-before-starting-spring-2022-classes/

By writer Ayesha Adnan

12/22/2021

Montgomery College Student, Jonathan Spires, Participates in the Event: Conversation with Michelle Obama

If you had the opportunity to meet Michelle Obama, what would you ask?

Jonathan Spires, a Montgomery College’s student and current Editor-In—Chief of the MC Takoma Park/Silver Spring newspaper, had the opportunity to meet and ask two questions to Michelle Obama.

The event moderated by Grown-ish actress and activist Yara Shahidi was held on November 9th, 2021. Twenty-two students were selected to have a conversation centered around Obama’s 2018 memoir, Becoming.

Spires reached out to the community on the two questions to ask, and these were the questions:
“Which roles and jobs would Obama suggest young people aim to occupy in order to benefit their community.”
“How to get one’s community to use the resources available to them.”

Check out the story to read about Obama’s answers, and learn more about Spires experience.



https://mcadvocate.com/16718/news/montgomery-college-student-jonathan-spires-participates-in-the-event-conversation-with-michelle-obama/

The former first lady of the United States, Michelle Obama, spoke with a panel of students from 22 national colleges and universities including Montgomery College on November 9th, 2021. The conversation, which was moderated by Grown-ish actress and activist Yara Shahidi, centered around Obama’s 20...

12/22/2021

If you had the opportunity to meet Michelle Obama, what would you ask?🤔

Jonathan Spires, a Montgomery College’s student and current Editor-In—Chief of the MC Takoma Park/Silver Spring newspaper, had the opportunity to meet and ask two questions to Michelle Obama.

The event moderated by Grown-ish actress and activist Yara Shahidi was held on November 9th, 2021. Twenty-two students were selected to have a conversation centered around Obama’s 2018 memoir, Becoming.

Spires reached out to the community on the two questions to ask, and these were the questions:
“Which roles and jobs would Obama suggest young people aim to occupy in order to benefit their community.”
“How to get one’s community to use the resources available to them.”

Check out the story to read about Obama’s answers, and learn more about Spires experience.



https://mcadvocate.com/16718/news/montgomery-college-student-jonathan-spires-participates-in-the-event-conversation-with-michelle-obama/

12/20/2021

Montgomery College Seeks Three Students to be MC Votes Ambassadors

MC Needs You!! ✊

MC Votes at Montgomery College is a voter education group formed by faculty, staff, and students who encourage, educate and engage students to vote. Now MC votes seeks for three students ambassadors to join the cause and help to promote voter education to the college and community.

👍 Do you think you could be a good fit? Click the link in the BIO to read the requirements and how to send your appplication!



https://mcadvocate.com/16712/news/montgomery-college-seeks-three-students-to-be-mc-votes-ambassadors/

MC Votes at Montgomery College is a voter education group formed by faculty, staff, and students who encourage, educate and engage students to vote. The MC votes group is responsible for supporting and promoting the voting among peers. At MC votes, everyone is welcomed.MC Votes needs you! The group....

12/20/2021

MC Needs You!! ✊

MC Votes at Montgomery College is a voter education group formed by faculty, staff, and students who encourage, educate and engage students to vote. Now MC votes seeks for three students ambassadors to join the cause and help to promote voter education to the college and community.

👍 Do you think you could be a good fit? Click the link in the BIO to read the requirements and how to send your appplication!

12/20/2021

International Education Week: The STEM Education Community Club on The Effects of Climate Change on International Communities

Our writer Soribel, attended the Montgomery College's Office of Student Life annual International Education Week. The week long event embrace Montgomery College’s diversity by student clubs doing presentations and organizing activities.
Soribel specifically focus on The STEMEd club, members of the club presented about “climate change and its global impact.” Amani Mbonimpa, a STEMEd club member, discuss how “elevated temperatures lead to rising sea levels and extreme weather like floods, wildfires, tsunamis. In addition, severe weather changes negatively impact populations by destroying their homes. As a result, people must be relocated to other areas…”
The article goes in depth about the effect of climate change on communities and the world in general.

https://mcadvocate.com/16707/news/international-education-week-the-stem-education-community-club-on-the-effects-of-climate-change-on-international-communities/

Montgomery College’s Office of Student Life hosted its annual International Education Week between November 15th and November 19th. Student Clubs incorporated activities and educational presentations to embrace Montgomery College’s diversity across its campuses embodied by staff and students. Th...

12/20/2021

Our writer Soribel, attended the Montgomery College's Office of Student Life annual International Education Week. The week long event embrace Montgomery College’s diversity by student clubs doing presentations and organizing activities.
Soribel specifically focus on The STEMEd club who presented about “climate change and its global impact.” Amani Mbonimpa, a STEMEd club member, discuss how “elevated temperatures lead to rising sea levels and extreme weather like floods, wildfires, tsunamis. In addition, severe weather changes negatively impact populations by destroying their homes. As a result, people must be relocated to other areas…”
The article goes in depth about the effect of climate change on communities and the world in general.

Read more about first hand accounts of the effect of climate change from fellow students.
Check out the story in the bio!

12/10/2021

The MC Advocate Podcast

In today's episode, we had Miranda Garcia hosting her first podcast at the Advocate. She interviewed the English professor, Dr. Elizabeth Benton, on the Humanities Day's Event called "What Happened to You: What Can We Learn from Post-traumatic Wisdom". Miranda discusses how trauma works, how we may have been affected by the pandemic, and the post-traumatic wisdom we can learn from that.

Listen to learn more!

https://mcadvocate.com/the-mc-advocate-podcast/

12/08/2021

Office of Equity & Inclusion at Montgomery college Presents: Critical Race Theory Forum – Reframing the Narrative

Editor in chief Danielle Costa, attended on October 28th, the “Critical Race Theory – Reframing the Narrative” forum. The forum was available for students, faculty, staff, and community guests in a LIVE format. The forum aimed to informed what critical race theory is and is not.
In this article, Danielle narrates her experience attending the forum: “As students, we ask, why? All the misconceptions feel almost like a driving force leading us to fear Critical Race Theory. It is possible to smell it in the air, but we do not even know why we should be afraid of it. Aware of this, the forum intended to answer all the questions that many of us may have and examine what critical race theory (CRT) is—and what it is not.”

Check out the story to learn more about critical theory.

https://mcadvocate.com/16687/opinions/office-of-equity-inclusion-at-montgomery-college-presents-critical-race-theory-forum-reframing-the-narrative/

On October 28th, 2021, Montgomery College’s Office of Equity, and Inclusion, in partnership with Montgomery County’s Office of the County Executive and The Universities at Shady Grove, hosted a hybrid forum called “Critical Race Theory – Reframing the Narrative.” The forum happened in pers...

12/02/2021

Montgomery College’s International Education Week: “In Our Own Voices” a Conversation on International Student Experiences

For his second story, writer AJ attended the event “In Our Own Voices.” The event featured the experience of a diverse group of international students. This event was part of Montgomery College's International Education Week: “During this virtual event, MC students were able to hear the voices of fellow students: both international students and those with international experiences. “
Check out the story to broaden your perspective!

https://mcadvocate.com/16675/news/montgomery-colleges-international-education-week-in-our-own-voices-a-conversation-on-international-student-experiences/

Hearing the experiences of international students has the benefit of opening a person’s perspective. Such was the case at the “In Our Own Voices” event on November 17th. This event was part of Montgomery College’s International Education Week, which lasted from November 15th through November...

11/23/2021

Annual Montgomery College Humanities Days 2021: “What Happened to You?”

Our talented writer Miranda Garcia attended Montgomery College’s 9th annual humanities days. This year’s theme was: The Human in Humanities: Understanding Ourselves and Others. “Through virtual mediums, students, staff, and faculty had the opportunity to learn more about what it means to be human through culture, history, art, and language.”
Dr. Elisabeth Benton, interim Dean of the RV English and reading department, hosted the event: “Mind Over Matter: What Can We Learn From Post-Traumatic Wisdom?”

https://mcadvocate.com/16651/news/carousel/annual-montgomery-college-humanities-days-2021-what-happened-to-you/

This past October saw the ninth annual Humanities Days at Montgomery College. The week-long special featured 30 virtual events that took place between October 25th and October 29th. The interdisciplinary celebration is a collaboration between Montgomery College’s humanities institutes: The Global ...