After winning their first Region XV Division III championship, the DCC Women’s Volleyball Team will move on to the NJCAA National Tournament in Rochester, Minn., which starts on Nov. 11.

DCC received a $150,000 grant to help students with housing and food insecurity. The funding, secured by NYS Assemblymember Didi Barrett and the DCC Foundation, and administered by DCC CARES, will help alleviate homelessness and hunger for young, low-income DCC students.

Dutchess Community College (DCC) is welcoming four new members to its Board of Trustees. They include Aminah Mikaylah Augustin-Muhammad, student trustee; Frank M. Castella, Jr., president & CEO of the Dutchess County Regional Chamber of Commerce; Darrah Cloud, an award-winning playwright, creative writing instructor and former town supervisor of Pine Plains, N.Y., and Linda Pratt, co-owner/literary agent of the Wernick & Pratt Agency.

Dutchess County Executive Marcus Molinaro, DCC Board Chair Michael Francis Dupree, DCC President Peter Grant Jordan and DUE President Werner Steger were joined by Dutchess County Legislature Chair A. Gregg Pulver and DCC faculty and staff for a signing ceremony on Wednesday, September 21.