Foundation Summer Scholarships Application
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Questions?
Contact the Office of Institutional Advancement at 860-215-9207 or bbaillargeon@threerivers.edu.
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Questions?
Contact the Office of Institutional Advancement at 860-215-9207 or bbaillargeon@threerivers.edu.
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Two Three Rivers Community College students, Jean Charles and Weili Li, were chosen to join the prestigious Phi Theta Kappa All-Connecticut Academic Team. They will be recognized at a virtual ceremony on Friday, April 16, 2021 at 3 pm.
Jean Charles, from New London, is majoring in Electrical Engineering. Weili Li, from Norwich, is majoring in Liberal Arts & Sciences. Both students plan to transfer to a four-year university upon graduation from Three Rivers, and both are members of Alpha Mu Gamma, the Three Rivers chapter of Phi Theta Kappa.
President Jukoski is thrilled with the news that Three Rivers Students were inducted into the Phi Theta Kappa All- Connecticut Academic Team. She said, “The dedication to these students have shown to their studies during the COVID pandemic is a testimony to their resilience and fortitude. I am so proud of them both. I know they have made sacrifices to make this happen.”
Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) is the international honor society of two-year colleges and academic programs, and the All-Connecticut Academic Team is one of the All-USA Community College qualifying teams. This honor recognizes high achieving two-year college students who demonstrate academic excellence, leadership, and service beyond the classroom.
To be considered for the PTK All-Connecticut Academic Team, the students completed a competitive application process that considered their academic standing, community involvement and volunteerism, as well as complete a “Significant Endeavor” essay. Both students will now received the national honor and benefits of being named to the PTK All USA Academic Team.
READ MOREThree Rivers Community College Hosts Week-Long Virtual Open House Monday, November 16 – Friday, November 20
Three Rivers Community College is holding a Week-Long Virtual Open House for prospective students of all ages to attend from the safety of their homes. This event is an opportunity to learn more about Three Rivers and the flexible, affordable college education it offers. The Virtual Open House will be held each day from Monday, November 16 through Friday, November 20 from 12:00–1:30 p.m. It is free and open to all, and attendees can join at any time.
The Open House features speakers from a variety of departments. Financial aid will demystify the FAFSA process and discuss ways to pay for college through grants, scholarships, and loans. Staff will explain how full-time students can finish in just two years, earn an associate degree, and seamlessly move on to a bachelor’s degree program as a junior or start work in their chosen career. Learn about the excellent faculty, career-forward programs, fully-online programs, transferrable credits, and a price tag that is the lowest in the state.
In addition, attendees will be given an overview of student clubs (Three Rivers has over 30!) as well as learn how active and welcoming the campus is. The all-encompassing support, such as tutoring and advising, and veterans and accessibility services at Three Rivers will also be explained.
Each day, there will be different breakout sessions available from 1:00-1:30 pm that will cover different degrees and academic departments, from Visual Fine Arts to Criminal Justice to the Business Department and more. For a full list of the breakout sessions and to attend the open house, visit www.threerivers.edu/open-house. For additional details, call 860-215-9000, e-mail at TR-Admissions@threerivers.edu or visit www.threerivers.edu.
READ MORERegistration Open October 26 for 3-week Winter Courses that start December 26
Registration opens on Monday, October 26 for the Winter Session at Three Rivers Community College. Courses fill quickly so early registration is encouraged. Winter Session classes run from Tuesday, December 29 to Tuesday, January 19, enabling students to earn 3-4 credits in just three weeks. 
Most of the courses are offered completely online, enabling students to take classes from the comfort of home. Classes cover a broad variety of subjects and fulfill general education requirements. They range from U.S. History to Principles of Sociology to Architecture of the World and more. For a complete list of offerings, visit threerivers.edu/winter.
Visiting students, who attend another college, can enroll in a course and transfer the credit to their home institution. Students intending to transfer credits should have the credits approved by their college prior to registering to guarantee the transfer of credits.
Winter Session course and registration information can be found at www.threerivers.edu/winter. Or to talk to an advisor, call 860-215-9017.
READ MOREThree Rivers College Foundation Awards Over $425,000 in Scholarships
The Three Rivers College Foundation’s twenty-seventh annual Scholarship Awards were announced on Monday, May 18, 2020. Generous contributions led to over $425,000 in scholarships awarded to a record-breaking 174 students.
Betty Baillargeon, Director of Institutional of Advancement stated, “An unprecedented time in our country forced us to cancel our in-person celebration. While we all do our part to stop the spread of the corona virus, we still have much to celebrate, especially these deserving students. So, we have posted a special presentation acknowledging all of the students, their scholarships and the donors.” The video presentation can be found at www.threerivers.edu/2020scholarshipvideo .
The total scholarships awarded came to just over $425,000, which includes $50,000 in summer scholarships. The majority of the scholarships support students through the fall and spring semesters, but many students who have exhausted their financial aid and cannot afford summer courses benefit from the summer scholarships which helps expedite their path to graduation.
The attached excel file lists fall and spring scholarship recipients and has been ordered by town. Please contact Alexa Shelton with questions if you have any difficulty with this file.
See the list of all scholarship recipients ordered by town here.
READ MOREThree Rivers College Foundation Awards $410,000 in Scholarships
The Three Rivers College Foundation held the twenty-seventh annual Scholarship Awards Ceremony on Tuesday, May 7 at Three Rivers Community College. Generous contributions led to over $410,000 in scholarships awarded to a record-breaking 188 students.
Ahamed.jpeg: Ann Ahamed and Sully Ahamed present the Ann M. Ahamed Scholarship, a full-tuition scholarship, to Donald Duca (center), a graduating senior from Norwich Tech.
Proud families and friends packed the room during the hour-long ceremony as close to $7,000 was given away per minute! The total scholarships awarded came to just over $410,000, which includes $50,000 in summer scholarships. The majority of the scholarships support students through the fall and spring semesters, but many students who have exhausted their financial aid and cannot afford summer courses benefit from the summer scholarships which helps expedite their path to graduation. The summer scholarship program was incredibly successful last year.
See the list of fall and spring scholarship recipients ordered by town here.
READ MOREIn the News | New dean joins Three Rivers, eyes improving retention
Norwich, Connecticut (The Day, January 7, 2019) — There is a phrase Robert Farinelli suspects his colleagues at the College of Southern Maryland got tired of him uttering, and he suspects the same will be true for his new colleagues at Three Rivers Community College.
He doesn’t recall where he got the refrain, but he likes to say, “Access provides education but completion changes lives.”
It reflects one of his top priorities as the new academic dean at Three Rivers: to boost retention.
“It’s the right thing to send students out there with a degree or a certificate, as opposed to just a collection of credits,” Farinelli said in an interview with The Day last week.
He wants to make sure there aren’t barriers to completing course registration, to keep students from “leaving with 20 extra credits than their degree calls for,” and to eliminate roadblocks that can send students out the door.
Robert Farinelli , photographed in the school’s gallery on Thursday, January 3, 2019, is the new academic dean at Three Rivers Community College in Norwich. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)
Farinelli, 55, began as dean of academics at Three Rivers on Nov. 30. He took over the role from Jerry Ice, who served as interim dean for two and a half years.
Farinelli, a Pittsburgh native, came to Three Rivers from the College of Southern Maryland, a community college where he had worked since 2003. He rose from math professor to STEM director to associate vice president of academic affairs, and felt that serving as dean of academics was “the next step logically.”
Upon interviewing at Three Rivers, he felt the college would be a good fit, citing the collegial atmosphere and the management style of President Mary Ellen Jukoski.
As for his own management style, Farinelli commented, “I’m not a micromanager at all; I would call myself a macromanager, if that’s a word. I like to empower people.”
He also liked that Jukoski said he could still teach two classes every semester; he is teaching algebra and statistics in the spring. Farinelli said staying in the classroom keeps him honest and helps him understand what issues could arise from different policies.
At the College of Southern Maryland, one of Farinelli’s proudest achievements was working on developing the engineering partnership with the University of Maryland and the U.S. Navy.
He explained that the Navy struggled to keep recent engineering graduates at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, because they’d come from other states, get a few years of experience and then leave.
With the partnership, students can take courses their first two years at CSM, and then the University of Maryland offers courses for juniors and seniors at the Southern Maryland Higher Education Center. If students entering their junior year are accepted into its internship program, the Navy provides tuition assistance and a stipend for books.
“Engineering used to be one of the lowest of our programs at CSM,” Farinelli said. “Now it’s one of the top five programs.”
Another project in which Farinelli was involved at CSM was starting a new math program for non-math majors, which involved putting together a quantitative literacy and reasoning class.
“It’s giving them math that’s meaningful for them, so instead of doing high-powered simple manipulation, they’re doing things that are relevant to their lives, their professions,” Farinelli said. He added that his favorite remark from a student was, “You snuck in the math when we weren’t looking.”
Farinelli noted that communications majors were typically taking botany or zoology as their science requirement, and so following the math model, faculty developed a course on science in society.
At Three Rivers, Farinelli’s goals for this semester are to “just get to know the faculty a little more, and figure out some different ways we could improve student retention.” He also wants to keep students on campus more, making the library “the hub of activity.”
“The most successful way to do things is to do small, incremental changes over a period of time,” he said.
By Erica Moser, Day staff writer
The original article can be found here: ‘New dean joins Three Rivers, eyes improving retention’
New academic dean at Three Rivers focusing on increasing graduation rates
Norwich, Connecticut (Norwich Bulletin, December 24, 2018) — Robert Farinelli began serving as the new dean of academics at Three Rivers Community College in late November, but he is already hard at work to help make sure students who start at the school leave with a degree.
Farinelli, originally of Western Pennsylvania, has worked in education for 30 years, working at both the Community College of Allegheny County in Pennsylvania, and more recently at the College of Southern Maryland, where he served as Associate Vice-President of Academic Affairs.
School President Mary Ellen Jukoski said the school identified Farinelli after conducting a national search through a search committee. She said an initial candidate pool of 80 was whittled down to 10 individuals, of which three were granted interviews.
Of the three candidates interviewed, Jukoski said evaluations from those participating in the interviews were presented at a college-wide meeting, where it was largely agreed that Farinelli best fit the school’s needs.
“It was very clear that (Farinelli) was the right choice,” Jukoski said. “It was unanimous.”
Jukoski said she has three major goals for Farinelli as academic dean.
She said she expects Farinelli to take steps to better connect students to academic advisers, create opportunities to better allow students — especially those who are balancing work, family, and their education — to earn their degrees, and to raise the graduation rate, preparing students for additional educational opportunities at four-year colleges and universities.
Farinelli said the goals laid out by Jukoski align with his own priorities in the new role, particularly helping students find pathways to graduation.
“The idea of helping students finish what they started, that’s a priority,” Farinelli said. “We want to avoid having students accumulate credits and not earning a degree. We want college graduates, not college students.”
He said part of that priority is to enhance the school’s summer offering, allowing students a more continuous educational experience.
Farinelli also said he has been working to streamline internal processes and develop new programs, such as information technology and cyber security, which better align with student needs and goals.
By Kevin Aherne, Norwich Bulletin staff writer
The original article can be found here: ‘New academic dean at Three Rivers focusing on increasing graduation rates’
READ MOREIn the News | Three Rivers Community College grads celebrate many paths to success
Norwich, CT (The Day, May 23, 2018) — On a picture-perfect late afternoon Wednesday, the 53rd graduation of Three Rivers Community College featured all the stories often associated with one of the state’s more affordable college choices, with students juggling school, work, family life and career changes.
Business studies graduate Luis A. Delgado Jr. is congratulated as he comes off the stage with his diploma at the 53rd commencement exercises for Three Rivers Community College on Wednesday, May 23, 2018, in Norwich. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
“I came here for an affordable education and a flexible schedule so that I could work, study and care for my kids,” Nataliia Romanenko of Niantic, Class of 2018 valedictorian, told fellow graduates during her speech Wednesday. “I didn’t expect much from it, but I was so wrong. I am greatly impressed and deeply touched by the quality of education, faculty qualification and warm and supportive environment here.”
Romanenko received an associate degree in computer science technology Wednesday and also was one of seven graduates to receive the Medallion of Excellence for earning a 4.0 grade point average. Class Salutatorian Zaha Bush and graduates Chelsea Ahmed, Rebecca Cipriani, Allison Grills, Debra Kerby and Patrick Meagher joined her in the medallion presentation.
Among the 580 students receiving degrees and certificates Wednesday were mothers and daughters walking together, a husband and wife celebrating their third anniversary with degrees and even two high school classmates receiving associate degrees before they get their high school diplomas.
Liberal arts and sciences graduate Zoe Hayn sports cartoon birds on her mortarboard during the 53rd commencement exercises for Three Rivers Community College on Wednesday, May 23, 2018, in Norwich. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
That was the case for Jaeden Spitale, 17, of Baltic and Alexi Switz, 17, of Stonington. The two were classmates not only at Three Rivers Community College but also at the Three Rivers Middle College High School on the same campus. The high school for 11th- and 12th-graders offers the chance to earn dozens of credits toward college degrees during high school studies.
Spitale and Switz took it a step further by graduating from college Wednesday with associate degrees in general studies one month before they will graduate from high school. Spitale said he was under a bit of sibling pressure, because his sister, Madison Spitale-Hansen, did the same two years earlier at Three Rivers.
Both plan to remain classmates in the honors program at the University of Connecticut in Storrs in the fall. Spitale will bring 57 credits with him to UConn to study environmental sciences in preparation for a law degree, and Switz will start her biomedical engineering studies with a goal of becoming a medical doctor with 69 credits already in hand.
“I’m saving two years of college for zero dollars!” Spitale said Wednesday.
Graduates celebrate with beach balls during the 53rd commencement exercises for Three Rivers Community College on Wednesday, May 23, 2018, in Norwich. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
Melissa Girardin, 21, of Preston didn’t have to look far to find her mother in the overflow crowd on the Three Rivers green Wednesday. Mom, Nancy Girardin, 51, would be marching to the stage with her to get her associate degree in nursing.
The younger Girardin earned her associate degree in accounting and already has two jobs in the field, including one at her father, Dennis Girardin’s Broad Brook Heating & Cooling in Jewett City. Melissa Girardin isn’t done, though. She plans to go to Eastern Connecticut State University to pursue a degree as a certified public accountant.
Her mother, too, is putting her new degree to use, working at Bride Brook Health & Rehabilitation Center in Niantic. Nancy Girardin said she has been going to Three Rivers part time for the past seven years, while Melissa, a 2015 Norwich Free Academy graduate, told her mom she would “hurry up” to complete her studies so they could graduate together.
Three Rivers President Mary Ellen Jukoski highlighted several such stories Wednesday, asking graduates to stand as she announced their accomplishments.
Heather and Adam Dyer were married on May 23, 2015, Jukoski said. “As Heather says, ‘We will both be celebrating our third year anniversary today by walking down the aisle again once more, but this time to get our associate degrees.’”
The youngest graduate Wednesday was Christopher Annino, 16, with an associate degree in applied sciences in construction management. Gary Tobias, 68, was the oldest, with an associate degree in science in hospitality.
“Today I speak to all our graduates and say, this is your day to celebrate your commitment to learning,” Jukoski said, “the effort and dedication you invested to pursue your education, and your perseverance to make this day possible.”
Keynote speaker Matt Fleury, president and chief executive officer of the Connecticut Science Center and chairman of the state Board of Regents for Higher Education, told graduates his own winding career road that started with a degree in theater arts from Berkshire Community College in Massachusetts. From there, he pursued careers in broadcasting, communications, management and finally business, with a degree from the University of Connecticut.
Fleury lamented that community colleges are often looked down on as the poor sisters of higher education. He told Three Rivers graduates they should expect and demand respect and then turned his voice beyond the green, to Washington, D.C.
“Hello!” he shouted. “These people have jobs! These people have families! … They should get respect!”
— By Claire Bessette, Day staff writer
The original article can be found here: “Three Rivers Community College grads celebrate many paths to success”
READ MOREThree Rivers College Foundation Awards $410,000 in Scholarships
Proud families of Three Rivers Community College students packed the room on Wednesday, May 2, when the Three Rivers College Foundation (TRCF) held the twenty-sixth annual Scholarship Awards Ceremony.
Generous contributions led to a record-breaking number of scholarships awarded to 212 students. The total sponsorships awarded came to just over $410,000 which includes $50,000 of summer scholarships. Many students who have exhausted their financial aid and cannot afford summer courses benefit from the summer scholarships which helps expedite their path to graduation. The summer scholarship program was incredibly successful last year.
See the full list of scholarship recipients ordered by town here.
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