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Nearly 1,500 MPS Students Apply to MATC, UWM Before They Start Senior Year

Nearly 1,500 Milwaukee Public School juniors -- 40% of their graduating class -- applied to Milwaukee Area Technical College, the University of...

Double Vision: MATC Television Students Earn Pellegrini Scholarships

Two students in Milwaukee Area Technical College’s Television and Video Production program will share a scholarship founded last year in...

Guiding Light: MATC Nursing Graduate Wins State Leadership Award

MATC Registered Nursing graduate Elle Honerbaum received a Future Nursing Leader Award from the Wisconsin Nurses Association at the college's...

Happy Being Blue: Police Academy Graduate Overcomes Adversity To Earn Badge

For NiCoalle Zemanovic, wearing a badge and becoming a police officer realizes a dream nearly two decades in the making and completes an...

Joy and Pride: MATC GED/HSED Graduates Celebrate Finishing, Look to the Future

Nearly 300 Milwaukee Area Technical College students earned General Educational Development (GED) certificates, High School Equivalency Diplomas...

No Further Delays: Dream of High School Diploma Finally Comes True

After working for nearly 50 years without a high school diploma, 64-year-old Lisa Perry received her HSED at MATC’s GED/HSED completion...

Helping Hands: MATC Checota Scholar Prepared To Tackle Child Care Shortage

At 41, Levon Coger is doing something about the state's day care shortage. In the fall of 2024, she enrolled in the Child Care Services...

Head Start: MATC’s Integrated Education & Training Program Puts Students on Right Path

At the MATC Education Center at Walker’s Square on Tuesday, May 20, nine MATC students received certificates for completing the...

Brighter Futures: With MATC Welding Certificates, Nine Men In Correctional System Have A Second Chance

On Monday, May 19, nine men in the state correctional system received certificates in Welding Fundamentals through MATC’s Second Chance Pell...

Taking the Reins: MATC Graduates Prepared To Be Next Generation of Leaders

Milwaukee Area Technical College celebrated Spring 2025 Commencement on Saturday, May 17, at the UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena. Nearly 1,700 students...

Stormers Ahead: High School Seniors Celebrate Choosing MATC

More than 200 area high school students who gathered at Milwaukee Area Technical College's Downtown Milwaukee Campus on Thursday, May 15, to...

Heating Up: Graduate Finds Success in MATC, Johnson Controls HVAC Partnership

Kyree Nash-Guzman will receive a Refrigeration, Air Conditioning and Heating Service Technician technical diploma from MATC and become the first...

MATC To Graduate Nearly 1,700 Students At 2025 Spring Commencement

Milwaukee Area Technical College will host its 2025 Spring Commencement at noon on Saturday, May 17, at UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena. Nearly 1,700...

All You Need Is Love: Outstanding Associate Degree Graduate Gets Support and Finds Success at MATC

For his perseverance, his academic excellence and his community involvement, Yeng Tha Vue was selected as the college’s Outstanding Graduate...

Full Participation: President’s Award Winner Finds Success Through Involvement and Helping Others

To honor his academic achievements, his contributions to the college and his involvement in the community, Warren Murphy received the...

Inner Beauty: MATC Selects 16 Artists for Community Art Collection

The inspiration and imagination of 16 community artists will grace the walls of Milwaukee Area Technical College this summer — the fifth year...

Seeing the Forest: MATC Landscape Horticulture Instructor Competes at International Tree Climbing Event

For the past three years, Johanna O’Boyle, a Landscape Horticulture instructor at Milwaukee Area Technical College, competed in the...

Figuring It All Out: Argentine Native Earning Her Accounting Degree

While other children in Argentina aspired to be sports heroes, doctors, lawyers, chefs or firefighters when they grew up, Mariel Farina dreamed...

Employees Nominated for WE CARE Service Excellence During Inaugural Breakfast

Fifty MATC employees were honored with WE CARE Service Excellence Awards at an inaugural recognition breakfast held Monday, April 28. Each of the...

Tool Time: Scholarships Help MATC Apprentices Get Equipment Needed To Succeed

18 MATC construction and industrial trade apprentices received Tools of the Trade scholarships from the Ascendium Education Group to help buy...

From Badge to Blackboard: MATC Criminal Justice Instructor Continues To Make an Impact

Connie Prange has never stopped showing her determination: first by serving as a Milwaukee police officer and detective for 15 years, and then by...

MATC’s No. 1 Job: Making All Students Successful

On April 23, MATC faculty and staff gathered at the college’s four campuses and Walker’s Square to figure out how to eliminate or...

Rising Up: Unique Program Forming and Forging College’s Future Leaders

MATC is accepting applications for the third cohort of Emerging Leaders, a yearlong program that prepares full-time staff to be supervisors and...

MATC Students Explore ‘Endless Possibilities’ of Artificial Intelligence

For eight weeks this spring, seven MATC students explored various AI tools. They received AI training and spent two months using Gemini and other...

Celebrating Women: Tragedy Put MATC Fire Technology Instructor on Career Path

Natashia Kirch witnessed the fearsome, fatal power of fire at a young age and set her on her career path; a path that has included being the only...