October 27, 2008
Top Tech-Smart Community Colleges Get Ranked
The top tech-smart community colleges have been named by the Center for Digital Education and the American Association of Community Colleges. The center conducted a survey to highlight colleges that provide a high level of information-technology service to students and faculty. The survey examined colleges’ offerings in such areas as online admissions, student access to transcripts and grades, information security, campus-security alerts, and online-library capabilities.
Institutions were placed in three categories, based on the number of students enrolled in 2007. The top three winners in each category were:
- 7,500 or more students:
Montgomery County Community College, Blue Bell, Pa.
Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale, Va.
Florida Community College, Jacksonville, Fla. - 3,000 to 7,500 students:
Laramie County Community College, Cheyenne, Wyo.
Darton College, Albany, Ga.
Tompkins Cortland Community College, Dryden, N.Y. - Fewer than 3,000 students:
Carl Sandburg College, Galesburg, Ill.
Central Wyoming College, Riverton, Wyo.
Minnesota West Community and Technical College, Worthington, Minn.
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I’d like to know how Ivy Tech (of Indiana) ranked. I know one special-needs student who is being served quite well, thank you. We have been very favorably impressed by IT’s willingness and ability to accommodate special-needs students, and we urge other students and parents to check out their local CC. Technology and the ability to use it rationally are key to the effort.
It’s definitely Indiana, not heaven. But believe me, compared to the fleeting attention you’ll get from the biggest state schools, including my alma mater, not to mention the more expensive small, private colleges, it’s quite an outreach.
— Dan Oct 28, 08:22 AM #
It’s pretty sad that California, with well over 100 community colleges (many of which have made significant investments in technology), and Arizona (with the huge Maricopa system) could not place a single institution within the top 31. In fact no college west of Wyoming made the list.
— Anthony P Oct 28, 08:39 AM #
This is a hoax. You answer 20 multiple choice questions and then you are in the top ten. No verification or other backup required. You get a tacky certificate too.
— Dan Nov 4, 07:20 AM #