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The Commission is a nonprofit, volunteer membership association for Pennsylvania’s 14 community colleges. Its members include the college presidents, members of colleges’ boards of trustees and key college administrators.

The Commission primarily represents the interests and advocates the collective needs of the community colleges to federal and state policymakers. The Commission also serves its members in the following ways:

  • assists colleges in developing positions on their issues of concern
  • facilitates the information exchange among colleges
  • collects and coordinates the collection and dissemination of data to support colleges’ advocacy efforts
 
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Featured Member College

luzerne.jpgLuzerne 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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Click HERE to download the most recent issue of FOCUS! This issue focuses on the value of community colleges to the student, community, and economic well-being of the state.
 
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.