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Fashion Statements: MATC Students Learn How To Dress for Success

  • Mark Feldmann, feldmam1@matc.edu
  • 24 September 2025

MATC staff on Tuesday, Sept. 23 impressed upon students the importance of professionalism, polish and punctuality at a career fashion show called...

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Special Occasion: MATC Celebrates Presidential Investiture

  • Mark Feldmann, feldmam1@matc.edu
  • 22 September 2025

On Friday, September 19, Dr. Anthony Cruz reached a professional and personal pinnacle by being vested as the 11th president of Milwaukee Area...

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Viva MATC! Hispanic Heritage Month Gets Off to Exuberant Start

  • Mark Feldmann, feldmam1@matc.edu
  • 17 September 2025

MATC students, faculty and staff got National Hispanic Heritage Month off to a rousing start on Tuesday, Sept. 16, by dancing, eating, singing and...

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Day of Remembrance: MATC Honors Lives Lost in 9/11 Attacks

  • Mark Feldmann, feldmam1@matc.edu
  • 12 September 2025

On Thursday, September 11, 2025, MATC students, faculty and staff who gathered at the college’s Oak Creek Campus to remember that day 24...

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‘I’m Reborn’: MATC Helped Student Recently Released From Prison Rebuild His Life

  • Mark Feldmann, feldmam1@matc.edu
  • 12 September 2025

Thanks to Milwaukee Area Technical College’s Second Chance Pell grant program, Tanzel Norman earned an associate degree and a Microsoft Desk...

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MATC Graduates Spotlighted in BizTimes

  • Mark Feldmann, feldmam1@matc.edu
  • 09 September 2025

Four MATC graduates were among the 2025 Notable alumni featured by the BizTimes.

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Acing It: MATC Opens New Testing Center at Downtown Milwaukee Campus

  • Mark Feldmann, feldmam1@matc.edu
  • 29 August 2025

MATC has opened a new testing center at the Downtown Milwaukee Campus. The space, where thousands of students and community members take placement...

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Opening Up: New MATC Healthcare Pathway Office Designed to Better Serve Students

  • Mark Feldmann, feldmam1@matc.edu
  • 22 August 2025

MATC officials gathered on Monday, Aug. 18 to celebrate the opening of the new Healthcare Pathway offices at the Downtown Milwaukee Campus.

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Envisioning His Future: Student With Deafblindness Attending MATC

  • Mark Feldmann, feldmam1@matc.edu
  • 18 August 2025

Siddartha Miller, who is completely blind in his right eye, legally blind in his left eye and wears hearing aids in both ears, is studying graphic...

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Discovering a New World: Albania Native Finds Her Passion and Purpose at MATC

  • Mark Feldmann, feldmam1@matc.edu
  • 05 August 2025

Alda Malaveci arrived from Albania in 2011 uncertain and unsettled. While serving as a volunteer at a Walker's Point clinic, she discovered a...

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On the Cutting Edge: MATC Cosmetology and Barber Students Showcase Talents

  • Mark Feldmann, feldmam1@matc.edu
  • 31 July 2025

MATC Cosmetology and Barber students on July 29 showed off their imagination, creativity, individuality and expertise at the “Edge of...

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MATC President Reflects on His First Year, Looks to Future

  • Mark Feldmann, feldmam1@matc.edu
  • 24 July 2025

Milwaukee Area Technical College President Dr. Anthony Cruz recently looked back on his first year on the job with the Milwaukee BizTimes,...

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Best in Class: MATC Instructor Named State’s Respiratory Therapist of the Year

  • Mark Feldmann, feldmam1@matc.edu
  • 11 July 2025

MATC instructor Jessica George, who has taught at the college since August 2024, was recently named the Wisconsin Respiratory Therapist of the...

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Read All About It: Spring 2025 Issue of Transformations Magazine Spotlights MATC

  • Mark Feldmann, feldmam1@matc.edu
  • 08 July 2025

Read all about what makes Milwaukee Area Technical College one of the best educational options in the region in the spring 2025 issue of...

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Midsummer Night’s Dream: MATC Graduate Performs at Summerfest

  • Mark Feldmann, feldmam1@matc.edu
  • 24 June 2025

Jaquawn Gaston, a 2021 graduate of Milwaukee Area Technical College’s Audio Production program, realized a lifelong dream June 19 when he...

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Logging On: Artificial Intelligence Tool Now Accessible to All at MATC

  • Mark Feldmann, feldmam1@matc.edu
  • 08 June 2025

MATC is the first college in Wisconsin, and one of the few in the Midwest, to make AI accessible to all students, faculty and staff.

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Double Vision: MATC Television Students Earn Pellegrini Scholarships

  • Mark Feldmann, feldmam1@matc.edu
  • 30 May 2025

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

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Guiding Light: MATC Nursing Graduate Wins State Leadership Award

  • Mark Feldmann, feldmam1@matc.edu
  • 30 May 2025

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

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

  • Mark Feldmann, feldmam1@matc.edu
  • 30 May 2025

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

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

  • Mark Feldmann, feldmam1@matc.edu
  • 30 May 2025

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

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

  • Mark Feldmann, feldmam1@matc.edu
  • 29 May 2025

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...

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

  • Mark Feldmann, feldmam1@matc.edu
  • 27 May 2025

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...

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

  • Mark Feldmann, feldmam1@matc.edu
  • 22 May 2025

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

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

  • Mark Feldmann, feldmam1@matc.edu
  • 18 May 2025

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

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Stormers Ahead: High School Seniors Celebrate Choosing MATC

  • Mark Feldmann, feldmam1@matc.edu
  • 17 May 2025

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