JJC Staff/Alumni: Rich Rivera
For nearly four decades, JJC has been a second home to Rich Rivera. He has seen the college grow from 17 temporary buildings housing just over 4,000 students to multiple campuses and a tripled student population.
He enrolled in '72, studying horticulture and shortly after began working in the grounds department as...
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JJC Faculty: Melissa Szymczak
Melissa Szymczak is an assistant professor of child development at JJC. She works collaboratively with the college’s Early Childhood Center (ECC), which serves both the college and community. Below, she shares what makes her profession—and the services the JJC Early Childhood Center provides—so important.
Take a video tour of the JJC Early...
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JJC Student: Ashley Dedin
This fall, Ashley Dedin traveled nearly 700 miles, forging through the Upper Midwest from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minn. to Joliet Junior College—a journey, she says, that was carved from fate.
Dedin, a former JJC student, returned to campus to disassemble "From the Red River Valley," an exhibition she curated of...
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