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St Charles Community College

Introduction

St. Charles Community College (SCC) is a two-year community college in St. Charles County, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. The 12 building, 235 acre campus was founded in 1986. SCC serves a large area, covering the public school districts of St. Charles, Francis Howell, Wentzville, Fort Zumwalt, and Orchard Farm. Nearly 10,000 students are enrolled at SCC in any given year. As the institution serves a wide range of community educational needs, an additional 35,000 members of the community engage with the school in one way or another.

Information Summary

Ranks 66th in Missouri and 2959th overall. See the entire top 2,000 colleges and universities list
Overall Score (about) 51.4
Total Cost On-Campus Attendance $3,764
Admission Success rate N/A
Student Ratio Students-to-Faculty 29 : 1
Retention (full-time / part-time) 65% / 39%
Enrollment Total (all students) 6,269

Academics

Degrees available from SCC include Associate of Arts (for transfer to a four year school); Associate of Arts in Teaching (for transfer to a four year school); Associate of Science (for transfer to a four year school); Associate of Applied Science (for direct work entry); and Certificate of Achievement (for direct work entry). SCC offers a transfer program to four-year schools in 41 different career programs.

The large majority of students at SCC major in the liberal arts. The average class size is 24, making for an intimate academic atmosphere. Some of the other popular programs of study at SCC include Nursing and Emergency Medicine, Computer Science and Engineering, Business and Management, Office and Administration, and Family and Social Work. Students in the Nursing, Health Information Technology, and Occupational Therapy programs have extremely high licensing rates. 85% of career program graduates work in their field of study within six months of graduation.

Distance Learning

SCC offers over 60 distance learning classes. Many are online classes, using Blackboard as a communication and learning tool, but other options include telecourses, teleweb classes, and hybrid courses. The college offers a help desk for students needing technical assistance. Video DVDs include closed captioning for the hearing impaired.

Arts in Teaching

One of the largest programs at SCC is the Associate in Arts in Teaching degree, which provides opportunities for students to observe and participate in classrooms while they learn about childhood growth and development, theories of learning, classroom management, using technology in the classroom, and strategies for assessing students.

Continuing Education

There are a wide range of non-credit classes for personal development both at the main campus and at various locations in St. Charles, Pike, Lincoln, Callaway, and Montgomery counties. Continuing education classes include several homeschool enrichment options, craft and hobby classes, cooking and gardening classes, summer camps for youth, and much more. Classes especially for those over the age of 50 include harmonica instruction, aerobics, and grandparent training.

Community Programs

SCC administrates the Missouri Dislocated Worker Program, a federally funded organization to retrain people who have lost their jobs and are unlikely to be rehired in their old fields. SCC also offers workforce development training to dozens of companies in Missouri every year.

SCC also organizes Computers for Schools Program, which collects donated computers and printers from area companies and distributes them throughout 35 school districts in Missouri.

Most Popular Fields of Study

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Admissions

Most programs at SCC have open admissions, in keeping with SCC’s mission to offer higher education to anyone who wishes it. The exception is the group of allied health programs, which have selective admission. Entrance requirements for the Allied Health programs vary by degree, but in general students are expected to submit standardized test scores and show evidence of a grade point average (GPA) of at least 2.5 prior to college entrance.

International Students

SCC also welcomes international students. To apply, students should have the equivalent of a U.S. high school education and send their application in with academic transcripts, proof of immunization, proof of medical insurance, negative tuberculosis test, and proof of English proficiency. Students who do not otherwise prove English proficiency should send a Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) score—SCC requires a score of at least 500 on the paper test, 173 on the computer test, or 61 on the internet test.

Financial Aid

In addition to the usual range of federal and state financial aid options open to college and university students in Missouri, SCC administrates their own need- and merit-based scholarships. 36% of full-time students receive financial aid of some type.

To help students manage their finances effectively, SCC partners with Nelnet Business Solutions to offer an alternative tuition payment plan through interest-free automated bank or credit card payments.

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Students

In typical fashion for a community college, most students at SCC work at least part time, and about a fourth of the students hold down full-time jobs while attending school. There is no on-campus housing available or dining hall on campus.

Clubs and Organizations

Popular student groups include Campus Crusade for Christ (CCC), Chess Club, Creative Writing Society, Global Student Network (GSN), Native American Culture Club (NACC), Quiz Bowl, Theatrical Guild, Outdoors Crew, Student Senate, and Ultimate Frisbee Club.

SCC has a particularly strong Quiz Bowl team with a national reputation for excellence. They won the Division II Intercollegiate Championship Tournament in 2010.

Child Care

The St. Charles Community College Child Development Center meets the needs of students with children from ages 6 weeks to 10 years. The center collaborates their services with Early Head Start and the Division of Family Services to meet their clients’ needs.

Student Services

Services available to all students at SCC include academic advising, assistance for students returning to school later in life, tutoring services, career counseling,

In keeping with their mandate and federal law, SCC provides a variety of services to students with disabilities. Services provided include registration assistance, accommodations for assessment testing, coordination of classroom accommodations, alternate formats for exams, specialized software for learning, and assistance with online learning.

Student Enrollment Demographics

Athletics

The athletics department at SCC is known as the Cougars. The school mascot is “Scooter McCougar” and the colors are maroon and gray. The Cougars compete in varsity intercollegiate sports through the NJCAA and the Midwest Community College Athletic Conference. The four intercollegiate teams are men’s soccer, baseball, women’s soccer, and softball.

SCC facilities include a fitness center, a weight machine circuit, and basketball courts for student use. Free fitness assessments and conditioning classes are provided at the fitness center. Popular intramural sports include basketball, cheerleading, and roller hockey.

Local Community

The area around SCC is characterized by prairies and small stands of open forest. It experiences hot, humid winters, severely cold winters, wet springs, and relatively lovely autumns. SCC serves an area of Missouri close to St. Louis, which is where most students go for dining, recreation, and entertainment. Other colleges and universities in the St. Louis area include Saint Louis University, University of Missouri St. Louis, Concordia Seminary, Fontbonne University, Webster University, and the St. Louis Community Colleges.

Athletics

Popular St. Louis sports include the baseball team St. Louis Cardinals, hockey team St. Louis Blues, and football team St. Louis Rams.

Cultural Attractions

St. Louis is known for its Gateway Arch, which is the tallest manmade monument in the nation. Downtown St. Louis is also home to Citygarden, a 3 acre urban sculpture park. Other popular museums and cultural attractions include the City Museum, the St. Louis Art Museum, the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Missouri History Museum, and the Contemporary Art Museum of St. Louis. St. Louis has a thriving midtown theater district, with more than 80 dance and theater companies.

Outdoor Attractions

Forest Park is one of the largest city parks in America, larger even than Central Park in New York. The Missouri Botanical Garden is one of the best in the world. It includes English gardens, Japanese gardens, and a controlled climate experiment known as the Climatron. St. Louis is also home to Saint Louis Zoological Park, one of the largest and best-known zoos in America.

Music in St. Louis

The Saint Luis Symphony Orchestra is internationally recognized for excellence. It has received 56 nominations for Grammy Awards and won 6. Other well-known classical music groups include the Saint Louis Chamber Chorus, the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Union Avenue Opera, and the Arianna String Quartet.

St. Louis has long been a jazz time (and blues town, and ragtime town). Miles Davis, Ike and Tina Turner, Little Milton, and Bennie Smith all made their beginnings in St. Louis. When it comes to contemporary music, St. Louis is home to Sheryl Crow, Modern Day Zero, Ludo, The Urge, Uncle Tupelo, Nelly, Ali, The Saint Lunatics, The Bottle Rockets, Huey, and Akon.

Industry and Employment

Medicine and biotechnology are major industries in St. Louis. Commodities and goods transport are also important elements in the St. Louis area economy. The Port of St. Louis is the third-largest inland port in the country, and is seminal in moving goods such as coal, salt, grain, and petroleum products throughout the United States.

Some of the largest employers in the area include St. Louis-based Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Boeing Defense, Anheuser-Busch, Energizer, Graybar, Scottrade, Purina, Playtex, Monsanto Company, Wells Fargo Advisers, Citimortgage, and MasterCard.

Bibliography

Catalog. St. Charles Community College. Web. 4 May 2011.

FAQs. City of St. Louis. Web. 4 May 2011.

Fiske, Edward B. Fiske Guide to Colleges 2011. Chicago: Sourcebooks, 2010. Print.

Pope, Loren. Looking Beyond the Ivy League: Finding the College That’s Right for You. New York: Penguin. 2007. Print.

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