The widely recognized “Denunciation” series of paintings by David Lax has joined the permanent artwork collection at DCC. It will be displayed in the DCC Mildred I. Washington Art Gallery from Feb. 10 – 19, then housed in the College’s Hudson Hall.

Click here to register for the Math and Science Matters ... Especially for Young Women program. The event is geared toward girls in grades 5-9.

High school students with an interest in architecture will spend a day working with experts in the field at the Fifth Annual Dutchess Community College Day of Design on Feb. 6.

A gospel concert, Kwanzaa celebration and dance exhibition are just a few of the events Dutchess Community College is offering to celebrate Black History Month. All activities will be held at DCC’s Poughkeepsie campus, 53 Pendell Rd., and are free and open to the public.

The deadline is nearing for Dutchess Community College students to apply for $110,000 in scholarships offered by the College Foundation. The 150 scholarships are available to students who will be enrolled at DCC in the fall, as well as those who will transfer to four-year colleges.

Select works by students in Dutchess Community College fall 2009 art classes are on display in the College’s Mildred I. Washington Art Gallery until Jan. 29. The exhibit includes work in mediums including paint, ceramics, photography, graphic design and calligraphy.

Approximately 200 Dutchess County business and community leaders, friends and donors gathered on January 7 for the 17th Annual Dutchess Community College President’s Breakfast held on the College’s Poughkeepsie campus.

On January 14, Dutchess Community College will host Dr. Rebecca Edwards, the Eloise Ellery Professor of History at Vassar College, for a lecture titled “The Lost Decade of the 1880s in American Politics.”

Dutchess Community College’s website, which was redesigned and unveiled in January, was recently honored with the Gold Medallion Award from District 1 of the National Council for Marketing and Public Relations (NCMPR).

The next exhibit in Dutchess Community College’s Mildred I. Washington Art Gallery will feature the work of graphic artist Woody Pirtle.

Dutchess Community College’s Fall 2009 enrollment is 9,791, up more than 14% from last year.

On October 27, Dutchess Community College hosted a ceremony dedicating the College’s archives in honor of Dr. Jerry A. Lee, DCC’s third president who served from 1982 to 1992.

The Board of Trustees of Dutchess Community College will hold a workshop session on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 beginning at 5:30 p.m.  The session will be held in the Bowne Hall board room on the main DCC campus. The regular meeting of the Board of Trustees previously scheduled for 7 p.m. has been canceled. 

Modern Dance Company to Visit DCC for Lyceum Program

Poughkeepsie, N.Y. – Linda Diamond & Company, an award-winning professional dance group, is coming to Dutchess Community College on October 15 at 12:30 p.m. in the James and Betty Hall Theatre on DCC’s main Poughkeepsie campus.

The group’s performances feature a multi-cultural dance repertoire combined with different visual themes to produce a show that appeals to all ages. A section from the award-winning DanceVisions of Picasso will be incorporated into the DCC performance.

Choreographer Linda Diamond has received several Dutchess County Arts Council Awards for her Woodstock Diamond Dance Festival projects.

The show is part of the College’s Lyceum series, and is free and open to the public.

For more information, contact DCC’s Student Activities office at 845-431-8050.

Founded in 1957, Dutchess Community College is a two-year community college with more than 50 years of service to the residents of Dutchess County. Visit www.sunydutchess.edu.

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Learn more about upcoming tours and information sessions for prospective students.

Dutchess Community College is offering a series of tours and information sessions aimed at students interested in attending DCC.

Click here for more about Phil Plait's lecture at DCC.

Click here for more about the upcoming lecture by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Paul Ingrassia,

The United States auto industry will be the focus of a lecture by Paul Ingrassia, a 31-year veteran of The Wall Street Journal. Mr. Ingrassia won a Pulitzer Prize in 1993 as the Journal's Detroit bureau chief for coverage of the prior year's crisis at General Motors.

Twin brothers David and Jonathan Bisson graduated first and second, respectively, in the 2009 graduating class of Pine Plains High School, and both have chosen to take advantage of the Charles E. and Mabel E. Conklin Scholarship for Academic Excellence offered by Dutchess Community College for students who have graduated in the top 10% of their high school class.

The United States auto industry will be the focus of a lecture by Paul Ingrassia, a 31-year veteran of The Wall Street Journal. Mr. Ingrassia won a Pulitzer Prize in 1993 as the Journal's Detroit bureau chief for coverage of the prior year's crisis at General Motors.

For the latest information about Swine Flu, visit the DCC web page here.

Dutchess Community College is partnering with the World Affairs Council of the Hudson Valley to host Shahid Javed Burki, the former finance minister of Pakistan and current visiting fellow at the Peterson Institute of International Economics.

Dutchess Community College's annual celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month will begin soon, with a series of fun and educational events kicking off on September 22 and running through October 20. The theme for this year's series of events is "In Search of Identity."

Dutchess Community College's Mildred I. Washington Art Gallery just launched an exhibit featuring artwork created by DCC students in the spring and summer 2009 semesters.

Five students who made up the first ever Patient Care Technician (PCT) class at Dutchess Community College graduated in a recent ceremony.

The Dutchess Community College Music School will host its annual Fall Welcome Day on September 5 from 11 a.m. to noon in the Dutchess Hall Lobby on DCC's main campus in Poughkeepsie.

The annual Sing-a-Thon/Play-a-Thon hosted by the Dutchess Community College Music School will be held on August 1 from 2-5 p.m. in the James and Betty Hall Theatre on the main DCC campus in Poughkeepsie.

The annual Sing-a-Thon/Play-a-Thon hosted by the Dutchess Community College Music School will be held on August 1 from 2-5 p.m. in the James and Betty Hall Theatre on the main DCC campus in Poughkeepsie.

The Dutchess Community College Office of Community Services and Special Programs has just announced the listing of Summer 2009 Enrichment Academies for children. For a PDF of the brochure, click here . For information on how to register, click here .

Dutchess Golf and Country Club was packed on June 1 with foursomes shooting for a good cause - student scholarships.

A piano duet from Dutchess Community College Music School faculty members, Valentina Shatalova and Carol Losee, will be one of the pieces featured during the DCC Music School Faculty Concert on July 1 at 4 p.m. in the James and Betty Hall Theatre on the College's main Poughkeepsie campus.

A piano duet from Dutchess Community College Music School faculty members, Valentina Shatalova and Carol Losee, will be one of the pieces featured during the DCC Music School Faculty Concert on July 1 at 4 p.m. in the James and Betty Hall Theatre on the College's main Poughkeepsie campus.

Dutchess Community College welcomed more than 200 guests to the 2009 Poughkeepsie Journal Businessperson of the Year luncheon on June 2 to honor this year's award recipient, Joseph Kirchhoff, founder and president of Kirchhoff Construction Management.

One hundred and forty seven scholarship awards were handed out at Dutchess Community College's Honors Convocation on May 21, an increase of 10 from one year ago.

More than 1,000 students graduated on May 21 in Dutchess Community College's 50th Commencement exercises.

Dutchess Community College's Laboratory Nursery School, which opened in 1963, will be named in honor of June Roush-Pierson, who was instrumental in the creation of not only the nursery school itself, but the Early Childhood academic program with which it is associated.

The Delta Zeta chapter of the Alpha Beta Gamma (ABG) International Business Honor Society inducted 27 new members in a ceremony held April 21 at Dutchess Community College.