The NCCC Foundation offers funding for a variety of courses, scholarships, cultural events, as well as support for the Northwestern Connecticut Community College itself including the NCCC Awards Convocation. Without the Foundation’s support, none of these amazing opportunities would be possible.

 

Funding for College Courses

Art History Courses with Field Trips:

Spring 2015 – Museum Treasures: The Art of Collecting – Isabella Stewart Gardner; Her Museum

Fall 2014 – Museum Treasures: Welcome Home! Getting Re-acquainted with the Clark Collection

Spring 2014 – Museum Treasures: Boston MFA Masterpieces & More

Fall 2013 – Museum Treasures: Be Dazzled at NBMAA

Spring 2013 – Museum Treasures: Women Artists: A New Look

Fall 2012 – Museum Treasures-Exploring Genre

Fall 2011 – Museum Treasures-Pissarro

Spring 2011 – Boston Museum of Fine Arts

Fall 2010 – Another Look: Picasso & Degas

Spring 2010 – Museum Treasures – Re-View

Fall 2009 – Italian Renaissance Sculpture

Spring 2009 – Yale Center for British Art

 

Music History Courses:

Spring 2015 – Special Topics: Keep on Dancing

Fall 2014 – Special Topics: Richard Strauss (1864-1949), The Last Romantic

Spring 2014 – Special Topics: Musical Prodigies

Fall 2013 – Special Topics: Benjamin Britten & 20th Century English Music

Spring 2013 – Special Topics: Alkan & Chopin

Fall 2012 – Claude Debussy

Spring 2012 – Vienna, Waltz, Strauss Family

Fall 2011 – Liszt

April 29, 2011 – Plagiarism in Film Composing

Spring 2011 – Music Inspired by Goethe

Fall 2010 – Herbert to Kern

April 30, 2010 – Music and Film – Part II

Spring 2010 – Shakespeare in Music

Fall 2009 – Offenbach

Spring 2009 – Musical Juxtapositions

 

Scholarships Funded

Awarded 26 scholarships in 2016 for a total of $35,742

Awarded 22 scholarships in 2015 for a total of $29,436

Awarded 18 scholarships in 2014 for a total of $19,616

Awarded 24 scholarships in 2013 for a total of $20,450

Awarded 16 scholarships in 2012 for a total of $14,750

Awarded 19 scholarships in 2011 for a total of $17,750

Awarded 21 scholarships in 2010 for a total of $21,800

 

Support for the College

Awards Convocation

Commencement

CT League for Nursing Annual Student RN Day

English Department: Mad River Anthology

History Club

Phi Theta Kappa

Student Senate: National Leadership Conference

 

Cultural Events Open to the Public/Community

Amber Chand – dramatic performance

Core Ensemble

Dorothy Leeds – dramatic performance

Kirk Sinclair – The Hiking Humanitarian

Jann Klose

Tres Vidas

 

Literary & Art Events

Annual Mad River Literary Festival

Author Talks

Shakespeare Company

Storytelling and Book Events

Student Art Exhibit

The Highwaymen Art Exhibit and Lecture