Division Objectives

Allied Health and Public Service

The Allied Health and Public Service Education Division provides students with opportunities at the postsecondary level to acquire knowledge, skills, and attitudes that will enable them to become effective and safe members of health care and public service teams.

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Arts and Sciences

The objective of the Division of Arts and Sciences is to provide, in a learning-centered environment, academic instruction which enables students to acquire A.A. or A.S. degrees (including pre-majors), to complete general education support courses for other certificate, diploma, or degree programs, and/or to meet personal and professional interests through specific courses.

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Business and Hospitality Education

The Business and Hospitality Education Division provides technical postsecondary education for students of business programs, computer technologies, and culinary/hospitality education. Programs of study emphasize critical skill development for successful entry into the job market.

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Continuing Education

Continuing Education provides vocational education opportunities for the unemployed, upgrading courses for those already employed, adult basic education for those seeking a higher educational level, and certain avocational courses for individual enrichment.

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Engineering and Applied Technology

The Engineering and Applied Technology Division offers a variety of Associate in Applied Science degree programs in engineering technologies and diploma programs in applied technologies. Degree-level students are provided an appropriate blend of engineering, scientific, and mathematical theories with applications. Diploma-level students are provided training that is closely related to the industrial work environments. Appropriate related and general education courses are provided in support of these programs.

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Learning Resources Center

The mission of the Learning Resources Center is to support the mission of the College and to enhance the teaching/learning process through provision of adequate, up-to-date resource collections in formats consistent with prevailing technologies; provision of access to the collections of other libraries; promotion of user-directed electronic database searching; provision of instruction in the use of resources to enable users to function in an information-driven society; and promotion of life-long learning opportunities.

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Objectives

1. To assume an integral support role in fulfilling the mission of the College.
2. To provide library services designed to support and enrich College 
   instructional programs.
3. To provide audiovisual services to the faculty, staff, and students of the College. These services will include production, materials, and equipment to support the instructional program and related activities. Telecommunications and satellite reception will be provided for seminars and conferences.
4. To provide a learning environment in which the students can be free to explore interests, with a learning pace and manner specifically tailored to individual needs.
5. To provide for the special academic needs of disabled students.
6. To support community needs for instructional and resource materials and services consistent with the mission of the College.

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