Barton Community College will host a blood drive from 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Feb. 24 in the Kirkman Practice Gym. Donors will receive a $10 amazon gift card.

The drought monitor report as of Tuesday, February 7 indicates no change.  The forecast isn’t likely to help alleviate these extreme and exceptional drought conditions in the near term. 

The Barton Community College Library will once again team up with the English department and Barton’s literary annual “Prairie Ink” staff to host a “Writing Workshop” from 6-8 p.m. Feb. 23 in the Cavanaugh Room in the Barton Library.

Due to the popularity of the first installments of Barton Community College’s Barton Dance Theatre’s fundraiser, Dancing with the Cougars,” an additional evening has been added from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Feb. 23 in the majestic Shafer Gallery.

If you’ve ever wanted to learn how to weld, now is your chance thanks to Barton Community College’s spring stick welding class, which will be offered from 6-9 p.m. Monday and Wednesday nights from March 6 through May 11 in the welding lab in the Technical Building.

As Barton Community College welcomed the start of 2023, it also welcomed a significant milestone in its efforts to help students save additional dollars. In total, students who have enrolled in classes with no-cost or low-cost course materials have saved over $500,000. These courses are known in higher education as Open Educational Resources (OER).

Barton Community College has named 256 students to the President’s List for the fall 2022 semester. To qualify for this honor students must have been enrolled in a minimum of 12 credit hours and maintained a grade point average of 4.0 on a 4.0 or "A" letter scale.

Barton Community College has named 283 students to the Dean’s List for the fall 2022 semester. To qualify for this honor, students must have been enrolled in a minimum of 12 credit hours and maintained a grade point average of 3.5 to 3.99 on a 4.0 or "A" letter scale.

Children aged three to twelve years who love fairytales will enjoy this camp full of creative magic led by the Barton Dance Theatre students from 2-5 p.m. Feb. 12 in the Fine Arts Building.

Barton Community College has offered dual credit courses at Larned High School since the early 2000s. Because of this partnership, some of LHS’s teachers are also Barton adjunct faculty. Students can enroll in general education courses such as college-level math and English to help get a head start on their college coursework. Now carpentry has joined the lineup.