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2022-2023 Cheerleading and Mascot Try OutsActivity Center (located at the Moberly campus)Saturday, August 6, 202210:00 am – 2:00 pmScholarships available to students and awarded on a competitive basis. The number […]

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On behalf of the Moberly Greyhound Booster Club, I would like to invite you to participate in our Annual Cotton Fitzsimmons Memorial Golf Tournament scheduled for August 29, 2022.  You […]

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Sour vs. Sweet Lemonade-It Is Up To Us

August 4, 2022

From the time these two were born there have been feed buckets, garden beans, and calf bottles in their hands. We have even joked with Gussie that he is named

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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Ambassador Scholarship Announcement

July 25, 2022

MACC’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee is seeking students to fill five DEI Ambassador positions. The Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Ambassador Scholarship is a special recognition to be awarded

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Spring 2022 President’s & Dean’s Lists

July 21, 2022

Moberly Area Community College (MACC) proudly announces that three hundred twelve (312) students obtained a 4.00 grade point average in twelve or more semester hours excluding developmental classes for the

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July is Disability Pride Month

July 12, 2022

July is Disability Pride Month, a celebration of the pride felt by individuals with disabilities. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed into law on July 26, 1990. It

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We are seeking a daytime adjunct English instructor for our Columbia, Missouri campus.

July 12, 2022

Description MACC – Columbia is seeking candidates interested in teaching as a part-time Language and Literature instructor (adjunct faculty). These positions are contracted for a semester with pay on a

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Practical Nursing students from MACC-Mexico attended a training on “Mass Casualty Events” in preparation for their upcoming pinning ceremony

July 8, 2022

Practical Nursing students from MACC-Mexico attend training on “Mass Casualty Events” in preparation for upcoming pinning ceremony The event was held on the Mexico Campus for Practical Nursing students scheduled

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Workforce Development in Hannibal

July 8, 2022

Ever wonder what types of jobs are available in the Hannibal Area? What types of products and services are offered by area employers? What pay and benefits are available? What

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POLICY ON THE USE OF ALCOHOL AND OTHER DRUGS

June 29, 2022

The College is committed to the education and development of students, faculty, and staff regarding the prevention of the abuse of alcohol and other drugs. In order to provide the

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What is Juneteenth?

June 17, 2022

As we approach June 19, some of you may be wondering: What is Juneteenth? Juneteenth is a federal holiday that commemorates the effective end of slavery in the United States.

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Change is good. We’re going paperless.

June 16, 2022

Change is good. We’re going paperless. MACC’s Business Office is transitioning to PAPERLESS BILLINGS and ONLINE PAYMENTS! Help us save some trees! So what’s new? You will no longer receive

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August 15, 2012

Quenna Kovar

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“MACC’s nursing program was difficult, but the instructors really care about the students. They told us, ‘We don’t want average people taking care of us, so we’re making sure you’re exceptional nurses.’ And we are!”

When Quenna Kovar awoke in the ICU after being life-flighted from a car wreck, it just so happened that her nurse was an MACC alum. In the haze of her pain, she remembers quite clearly being excited to watch the nurse caring for her injuries knowing that she would be starting the MACC Associate Degree Nursing Program in just a few months and that someday she would be returning the favor to her own patients. That was in 2007 and Quenna Kovar made good on her promise to return the favor. She is now a circulating nurse in the Operating Room at Boone Hospital and one of her main jobs is patient advocacy. She educates patients about their procedures, sits with them through out the surgery and cares for them post-op.

Quenna’s hugely rewarding career began with certified nurse assistant (CNA) classes she took in high school at the Columbia Career Center.

“I had an awesome nursing instructor at the Columbia Career Center that really made nursing real for me,” she said.

Using her CNA license, Quenna got a job at Boone Hospital as a nurse tech. She worked with nurses and learned what they did on a daily basis. Watching them administer meds and care for patients fueled her desire to continue her education.

Quenna chose Moberly Area Community College because she was an A+ student from Hickman High School. She basically earned her nursing degree for free through that scholarship. MACC was also close to home for her. She attended the Columbia location for her general education classes and then commuted to Moberly for the actual nursing program.

MACC’s Allied Health Programs are notoriously difficult. And Quenna’a experience was not unique.

“The curriculum was very difficult, but it made the transition from nurse tech to RN very easy. Over the course of the program, we took hundreds of difficult tests, however at the end of the program when we had to take the big NCLEX exam, it made it less stressful. And I passed on the first time,” Quenna explained.

“So if you’re excited about going to nursing school, it’s worth it. All of the hours and the tests and everything you put into it is definitely worth it when you’re sitting there with your patient, holding their hand telling them it will be okay, telling them what to expect in surgery and afterwards, and teaching them how to take care of themselves when they go home. The gratitude the patient and family gives you makes it all worth it,” said Quenna.

Quenna and many of her fellow MACC Nursing Program alums that work at Boone Hospital are in the process of earning their Bachelor’s of Nursing at area four-year institutions.

“The instructors in MACC’s Nursing Program really do care about the students. They told us, ‘We don’t want average people taking care of us, so we’re making sure you’re exceptional nurses.’ And we are!” commented Quenna.

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August 15, 2012

Tina Montgomery

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“My job is simply to restore my patients’ dignity. I give them independence, and in return they give me an exciting reason to come to work everyday.”

Tina Montgomery is a classic case of corporate downsizing being a blessing in disguise.

Tina earned her bachelors in physical education, but somehow ended up owning video stores and working in the banking industry instead.

At the age of 24, Tina watched her mother lose her battle with cancer. During the treatment process, she witnessed Occupational Therapists working with her mother to provide her with tools to give her dignity and a better quality of life. Tina was fascinated and forever changed by this experience.

After her mother’s death on March 18, 1986, she and her sister began a volunteer hospice program in her memory. The Fitzgibbon Mary Montgomery Hospice is still a non-profit hospice that is part of the Fitzgibbon Hospital in Marshall, MO today. It was one of the first hospice centers in the state of Missouri to receive Medicare certification in 1993 and is highly respected in the region.

Tina spent the next 17 years in banking working in nearly every position available. Unfortunately, she ended up a mortgage loan officer in 2009 when the housing bubble burst and was downsized rather quickly.

By that point, Tina was a breast cancer survivor herself, a single mom with a 11-year-old son and she decided it was time to quit daydreaming about being an Occupational Therapist and find a program to enter.

She found MACC’s program through the Missouri Health Professions Consortium on our website and eagerly began classes. Tina graduated with the Consortium’s first OTA class in 2010 and has been in heaven ever since. She is now changing lives and restoring dignity and quality of life everyday to the patients at Golden Living Rehab in Mexico, MO.

One of her special patients, Frank Kramer, 86, said, “Before Tina, I was a quadriplegic looking for a way to do myself in. I just wanted to die. She worked with me for hours a day and gave me many stern talks about how I could make it. Now I’m walking and moving just like the next guy.”

Tina is giving people a reason to live, and they are giving her the joy she has been longing to have everyday since 1986. Tina gives back to the OTA program every year, by speaking to prospective and current students, assisting MHPC with the interviewing process.

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