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GTCC’s mission has basically remained unchanged: the institution is charged to give the people of Guilford County the training and education they need to compete in the job market. [3] For the 2008-09 academic year, GTCC is offering 93 degrees, 26 diplomas and 78 certificates, a total of 197 awards from 90 unique programs.
The state's flagship public university is the University of Connecticut, [1] which is also the largest school in the state. The remainder of the state's public institutions constitute the Connecticut State Colleges & Universities, comprising four state universities, twelve community colleges, and an online school, Charter Oak State College. [2]
Gateway Community College (GCC) is a public community college with its main campus in New Haven, Connecticut, and an automotive technology campus in North Haven.As of February 17, 2010, GCC had the highest credit enrollment among Connecticut's community colleges, with 7,416 [2] students enrolled in for-credit classes. [3]
Guilford Technical Community College; In addition to course registration and library privileges, students attending the colleges in Greensboro itself (UNC-Greensboro, NC A&T, Guilford, Greensboro, Bennett, Elon School of Law, and Guilford Tech) have free access to the HEAT (Higher Education Area Transit) bus which makes stops throughout Greensboro.
The Accrediting Council for Continuing Education and Training is a private, non-profit organization in the United States that provides national accreditation to private, post-secondary educational institutions offering non-collegiate vocational, avocational and English-language training which may be approved to award validated CEUs, certificates and/or an Occupational Associates Degree.
The college, four regional state universities, and Charter Oak State College are governed by the Connecticut Board of Regents for Higher Education, [8] established in 2011 [9] to license and accredit the institutions and their programs, approve budgets, support planning, and coordinate technology operations.
Twenty-four years later, in 1983, the colleges became universities in recognition of their greater mission and strategies. Today, the Connecticut State University System is the largest public university system in Connecticut. From 1849 to 1965, the four institutions were administered by the Connecticut State Department of Education.
Cornell University was among higher education institutions that began offering university-based continuing education, primarily to teachers, through extension courses in the 1870s. As noted in the Cornell Era of February 16, 1877, the university offered a "Tour of the Great Lakes" program for "teachers and others" under the direction of ...