Holyoke Community College
Holyoke Community College’s mission is to serve the Pioneer Valley by providing comprehensive, high-quality educational opportunities that are responsive to community needs and meet the intellectual, esthetic, and practical needs of a diverse student body. The college offers the full range of programs and services appropriate to a community college as defined by the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education’s generic system-wide community college mission statement. In addition, the college will continue to focus upon the following strengths that distinguish Holyoke Community College from other colleges.
Holyoke Community College (HCC) ranks among the best community colleges in the U.S. for 2021, according to Academic Influence, a technology-driven education-evaluation group. HCC was listed 20th out of 839 community colleges nationwide.
In particular, HCC was noted for the strength of its academic programs in criminal justice, nursing, computer science, business, education, and engineering.
Holyoke Community College, Pickleball
Holyoke Community College 303 Homestead Ave, Holyoke, MAHolyoke Community College (HCC) will host its first-ever American Sign Language (ASL) immersion pickleball tournament on Saturday, April 19. Sponsored by the HCC Deaf Studies Department, the HCC ASL Club, and the HCC Office of Student Engagement, the tournament will run from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on the pickleball courts inside the Bartley Center…
Holyoke Community College, Jazz Festival
Holyoke Community College 303 Homestead Ave, Holyoke, MAThe annual Holyoke Community College Jazz Festival returns for its 26th year on Friday, March 28, with pianist, composer, and educator Earl MacDonald joining the Amherst Jazz Orchestra and members of the HCC jazz faculty for a big-band concert. The Friday show begins at 8 p.m. in HCC’s Leslie Phillips Theater in the Fine &…
Volleyball Hall of Fame, Girls High School All-Star Showcase
Holyoke Community College 303 Homestead Ave, Holyoke, MAThe IVHF All-Star Showcase will feature the top players in Western Massachusetts in two showcase matches. The event will start with a 3-set 2nd team all-star match at 6:00pm followed by the award presentation and a 3-set 1st team match at 7:30pm. Adult tickets are $10, Seniors 65+ are $5 and Students/Children are FREE. Admission…
Phillips Festival – from Concept to Curtain …. IN ONE DAY
Holyoke Community College 303 Homestead Ave, Holyoke, MAThe 7th Annual Phillips Festival, a thrilling 24-hour theatrical marathon, returns to Holyoke Community College (HCC) on Saturday, September 28th, at 7:30 PM. This innovative event challenges participants to write, direct, and stage original short plays within a single day. Celebrating Creativity and Leslie Phillips' Legacy. The Festival honors Leslie Phillips, the esteemed founder of…
Holyoke Community College, Artists Reception
Holyoke Community College 303 Homestead Ave, Holyoke, MAOpening Reception: Human Erratics Human Erratics is a series of movement-driven digital and analog films and photographic works created by Marie Lynn Haas and Tori Lawrence. Their site-specific, environmentally attuned projects emerge through partnership with the natural world and the spaces we create, inhabit, and neglect across its terrain. These works explore personal and collective…
