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February 25, 2021 Community colleges in southwestern Connecticut are offering students a guaranteed pathway to bachelor s degrees thanks to a new agreement reached with Lees-McRae College. Dr. Thomas G. Coley, Regional President at Shoreline-West Connecticut State Community College and Dr. Lee King, President of Lees-McRae College signed a memorandum of understanding on February 24 at a virtual signing event that helps students transfer and obtain a bachelor s degree.
Subscribe Other signers to the agreement included Dr. William T. Brown, CEO, Gateway Community College (GCC); Dr. Dwayne Smith, CEO, Housatonic Community College (HCC); and Cheryl C. DeVonish, Interim CEO, Norwalk Community College (NCC); as well as representatives from LMC, including Kevin J. Phillips, VP for Enrollment Management; Wayne M. Leon, Executive Director of Distance Learning and Transfer Programs; and Amanda Merritt, Director of Admission.
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Representatives from area community colleges and Lees-McRae College virtually sign an agreement creating a pathway for students to attain Bachelor’s degrees.
Community colleges in southwestern Connecticut are offering students a guaranteed pathway to bachelor s degrees thanks to a new agreement reached with Lees-McRae College. Dr. Thomas G. Coley, Regional President at Shoreline-West Connecticut State Community College and Dr. Lee King, President of Lees-McRae College signed a memorandum of understanding on February 24 at a virtual signing event that helps students transfer and obtain a bachelor s degree.
Other signers to the agreement included Dr. William T. Brown, CEO, Gateway Community College (GCC); Dr. Dwayne Smith, CEO, Housatonic Community College (HCC); and Cheryl C. DeVonish, Interim CEO, Norwalk Community College (NCC); as well as representatives from LMC, including Kevin J. Phillips, VP for Enrollment Management; Wayne M. Leon, Executive Director of Distance L
Opinion: Merger plan best course for community colleges By Jane Gates
The Gateway Community College graduation at the Webster Bank Arena in Bridgeport in 2019.
There is no sugarcoating it. Connecticut’s community colleges face two systemic challenges that spill beyond the walls of higher education and affect the state and its economy at large.
First, we are not meeting our goal or those of the state when it comes to student success and equity. Second, our colleges face persistent structural budget deficits made worse by the pandemic-driven drop in enrollment. Rather than being complacent and allowing these challenges to threaten our ability to continue operating all of our campuses and programs, the Board of Regents for Higher Education the governing body that oversees the state’s 12 community colleges, four state universities, and Charter Oak State College is taking a proactive approach, moving to merge the community colleges into a single accredited