MCC has received national recognition as an educational innovator.

• The $40 million Regional Technology Center (RTC) has received funding from the National Science Foundation and others to develop new high-tech curriculum.
  
  
• Open Entry/Open Exit programs are making class time completely flexible and responsive to the individual student.
  
  
• MCC’s Distance Learning program has been a national pioneer.
  
  
• President Bill Clinton came to MCC in 2000 to dedicate one of our Community Technology Centers, a cutting edge project to bridge the “digital divide” and bring the whole community into the Information Age.

For more than 80 years, MCC has been finding new ways to meet the educational and career needs of this area.