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SNA Healthcare Career Fair a Success!

The Moraine Park Technical College FDL Student Nurses Association hosted their second biannual Healthcare Career Fair recently, featuring 11 local employers, 8 continuing education universities, MPTC counselors, and SNA booth with candy bar and t-shirt sales!

There was even a booth to visit for fun entitled “Looking your best for the interview.” Continue reading

April 24, 2017by Barbara Brown
Financial Aid, Student Services & Support

Writing a winning scholarship essay

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Many scholarship applications will require an essay or a personal statement. Check out these tips to write an effective essay!
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February 20, 2017by Julie Waldvogel-Leitner
IT & Web

Bad Things Come in Small Packages

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This week may mark the start of the Chinese New Year, but for us, this will definitely not be the Year of the Rooster. Clearly, based on the phone calls I am receiving as well as vendor solicitations, 2017 is poised to become “The Year of Ransomware”. Growth of Ransomware in the first half of 2016 showed an increase of 259% over December of 2015. This growth rate has not slowed by any measure.

Ransomware, (one of which is called Cryptolocker) is one of the more nasty threats in existence, facing computer users and businesses. Technically considered malware, this is most often spread through booby-trapped email attachments or even via hacked or malicious web sites. Continue reading

January 26, 2017by Larry Plamann
Student Services & Support

10 tips to prepare new students for the Fall Semester

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As Advisors, we get questions all the time from students who are registered but don’t know what to do next. And I can’t tell you how many phone calls we get that start off with, “I have a really stupid question…”  They aren’t stupid questions, they’re the same questions everyone asks and the reason that we’re here.  But for those of you afraid to ask, here is a list of things we want you to know/do before you start classes in August that will ease your minds: Continue reading

July 28, 2016by Renae Fischer

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