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Houston Community College Students learned from renowned ceramic artist Natasha Hovey, getting the chance to pick her brain at an art reception hosted in the West Loop Campus Art Gallery.

HCC is one of the most diverse community colleges in the nation with Hispanics making up 35 percent of the student population.

HCC, the official Education Partner of the Texans, was on hand to celebrate the team's first game of the 2015 campaign.

Houston Community College Chancellor Dr. Cesar Maldonado and HCC Board of Trustees members Dr. Adriana Tamez and Eva Loredo were on hand for the Fiestas Patrias Breakfast, which is dedicated to honoring the area's Hispanic leadership.

The CCI program is a program of the U.S. State Department that provides participants with quality educational study at U.S. community colleges and is designed to build technical skills, enhance leadership capabilities, and strengthen English language proficiency.

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has awarded Houston Community College $4.2 million to fund registered apprenticeship and pre-apprenticeship programs in the emerging Healthcare and IT industries, as well as upgrade an existing program in plumbing occupations. HCC is the only college in Texas to receive the DOL American Apprenticeship Grant.

HCC’s STAR Parties are back at the West Loop and Stafford campuses this fall.

Houston Community College is among colleges and universities chosen to receive a portion of an exploratory grant totaling more than $1.5M from the Gulf Research Program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The grant is intended to catalyze innovative thinking in one of two themes:

The HCC Central Art Gallery opens the fall season by headlining the “With the Grain” art exhibit, featuring local artist whose work focuses on using material from abandoned, demolished or historical buildings.

The one-day entrepreneurial experience brought together high school students and their parents from communities all over the greater Houston area to learn about entrepreneurship as a viable career option.