Tom Dowling
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PCC Enrollment Increases 6 Percent

01/19/2007: Polk Community College’s spring registration recently ended and enrollment is up 6.3 percent from last year. PCC’s total credit enrollment (after Late Registration) is 6,816. Last year at this same point enrollment was 6,411. That’s a six percent increase.

            PCC President Eileen Holden was very pleased with this news. “Although enrollment trends are difficult to predict, I believe that the increase we are experiencing this term is due in part to the efforts of our dedicated Student Services staff as well as our enhanced marketing efforts,” she said.

“We made personal calls to students, sent postcards, advertised in local media, offered weekend and online assistance, and utilized other recruitment and retention efforts to get our message out about the importance of education. Our academic affairs deans responded to student needs with increased course offerings and convenient times and days. It was a collaborative effort by all PCC employees that we will continue to do.”

Polk Community College students pay the lowest per credit hour cost of any college in the county and they receive an excellent education. Classes are much smaller than in universities and PCC’s faculty and staff are dedicated to student success.

There are two tracks students can take:

• Associate in Arts degree (AA) which transfers to a four-year university working on a bachelor’s degree.

• Associate in Science degree (AS)- Students learn the skills necessary for immediate employment in a high wage career in technology or health care fields.