Onondaga Community College's Learning Center is giving students the assistance they need to do well in their coursework. The Learning Center is open 7 days a week and the services provided there are free.
The Learning Center will serve more than 1.000 students during the fall semester.…
During Governor Andrew M. Cuomo's cornavirus-related press conference Friday, March 20 he emphasized how desperately the medical community needed supplies. Less than 24 hours later an Onondaga Community College van filled with medical supplies made a special delivery to the OnCenter in downtown…
Dr. Danielle Berry came to Onondaga Community College with a newly found passion and turned it into the foundation for a career. "Attending OCC was the best choice for me to begin my college education because it was affordable and it allowed me to stay home. I knew about the quality of the…
Dr. Frank Skurpski's daily life looks very different than it did three months ago before coronavirus. Now his days consist of triaging patients in tents outside of the hospital, struggling with shortages of PPE (personal protection equipment), and dealing with the harsh realities of the…
Ten years ago Eva DeCharleroy became the first member of her family to go to college. A decade later she's on the brink of becoming an attorney. Her journey through higher education began at Onondaga Community College after she graduated from Fayetteville-Manlius High School in 2011. "My parents…
Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, OCC Alumnae Grace Cogan, '16 and Monu Chhetri, '12 have served as interpreters for Onondaga County Executive Ryan McMahon's press briefings. Cogan's specialty is American Sign Language (ASL), while Chhetri's is Nepali Sign Language (NSL). It is rare for press…
Onondaga Community College will always be a special place for Jill Richmond, '88 and her family. It's where she met her husband, where she earned her first college degree, and where her daughter is now working toward her first college degree.
Richmond grew up in Syracuse, graduated from…
Onondaga Community College has provided Karinda Shanes and her entire family with the educational foundation they needed to build their professional success upon. All five family members earned associate degrees here. Karinda's was in Criminal Justice, husband Leonard studied Mechanical…
Lanessa Owens-Chaplin, '03 always had big dreams but never knew if she could overcome significant life challenges to make any of them come true. By age 17 she was living on her own while attending Henninger High School. After receiving her diploma she decided to come to OCC and major in…