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(Archive March 2019) Associate Dean of Student Services Set to Retire

By Charlie Grecco | Observer Contributor

Photo by Observer contributor

Gregory Clement, Associate Dean of Student Services, announced his early retirement after 15 years of innovative and dedicated service to MWCC. 

Clement has spent the past 38 years as an academic forerunner in the psychology of embracing commuting students, emboldening their college experience, while at the same time contributing significantly to the culture and life-blood of the campus. His success is well documented by the impact he has made on the lives of so many students who, for logistical reasons, would have missed out on the comradery of campus life and most importantly, the friends and memories that students treasure for a lifetime. read more

Fond Farewells

Retiring MWCC Professors Leave Behind Legacies of Learning

by Elysian Alder | Editor-in-Chief

As the spring semester comes to a close, the Mount is bidding farewell not only to the 527 students who are graduating (between December 2023 and May 2024), but also to several faculty who are departing for their well-deserved retirements. Among them are two professors from the English department and three from the Health Sciences department.

Paula Pitkiewicz has been a professor in the English department for 41 years. “I was a student at MWCC,” she explained. “So, in a way, you could say that I have grown up at the college.” read more