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Table Games Training Offered

Community College News
The Meadows Racetrack & Casino officials have selected the Community College of Beaver County (CCBC) to provide table games training for its current and future employees. Click here for more information.

PA Community Colleges Support Erie

Community College News
Pennsylvania's 14 community colleges welcome the efforts in Erie County and hope that the county can move the community college concept to reality within the next few short years. Click HERE for the full article.

PA Community College Funding Model

Community College News
Pennsylvania's community college funding model gets questioned in tough economic times. Read the full story HERE.

Erie County Council Approves Community College

Community College News
After more than a year of debate, the push to establish a local community college got the major boost it needed from Erie County Council. Council on Tuesday night voted 5-1, with one abstention, to approve a resolution that makes county government the state-required sponsor for a new local community college. Read the full article HERE.

PA Group Awarded Nearly $100 million in Federal Funds to Develop Broadband Network

State News

The Obama Administration today awarded $99.6 million in federal stimulus funding to the Keystone Initiative for Network-Based Education and Research (KINBER), a coalition of Pennsylvania colleges and universities, research and health care organizations and economic development entities that submitted a joint application for the construction and management of a robust, statewide broadband network.
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Luzerne County Community College (LCCC) provides quality learning opportunities throughout northeastern Pennsylvania. Through its 167-acre main campus located in Nanticoke, four off-campus centers and eight off-campus locations, LCCC offers students more than 100 academic and technical credit programs and noncredit career training programs in traditional classrooms and distance learning environments. LCCC has the largest credit enrollment and is the largest provider of workforce development programming in the county.

1333 S. Prospect St.
Nanticoke, PA 18634-3899
570-740-0300
http://www.luzerne.edu

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Enrollment as measured by Full-Time Equivalent students (FTEs) has set a record high for the third consecutive academic year. The 132,440 total FTEs in 2009-10 represents an 8.4% increase from last year. All of the 2009-10 increase is in credit programs. Credit FTEs increased 11.5% from 2008-09 to nearly 119,000 – a 63.2% increase during this decade.