Garden City Community College - Broncbuster Yearbook (Garden City, KS)

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Program started to accommodate COLLEGE OUTREACH Eleven years ago a program was initiated called Outreach. The purpose of the program was to make college courses available to surrounding com- munities. Eight counties were selected and the largest town in each was the designated location for the classes. The towns included Dighton, Healy, Scott City, Leoti, Tribune, Syracuse, Lakin and Deerfield. A coor- dinator was named for each county. One of their jobs was to listen to the community in order to determine what courses should be offered. They then reported to the col- lege which classes were in highest demand. The coordinators also did all of the enrollment, grade sheets, paperwork, and were responsible for turning them in to the college. In between all of the decisions and paper- work they were also required to evaluate the instructors. All together-Students of Dennis Elam's Defensive Tactics class prac- tice a Kata. Outreach opportunity-Clarice Kohlhorst takes advantage of Jim Talley's computer class in Syracuse. Gene Schneider, Dean of Community Services, was in charge of Outreach. According to Schneider, The coor- dinators were in tune with the community and encouraged participation in the program. The typical student varied from town to town. High school students were allowed to participate if they had com- pleted 15 units towards graduation. Some high school counselors encouraged students not to attend for fear of them missing out on the high school atmosphere,' Schneider said. 1 Many students were adults who either graduated or had recieved their GED. Older students were adults who were anxious to return to school. At first it was hard for them to adjust because they had a more mature attitude than the younger students, but they caught on easy and found that returning to school was more than they had an- ticipated, Schneider said. Most adults took the courses with a particular goal in mind, to help their job economically or to gain or perfect certain skills, he said. The most widely chosen classes were computer related. With technology advancing at such a pace, everybody wants computer literacy Schneider said. This knowledge of computers may help them keep or advance in their jobs. In Leoti, the employees of the courthouse enrolled in a class to help them learn a new computer system that was be- ing put into use, Schneider said. Tuition for courses offered was S16 per credit hour, mak- ing it no different than courses taught on campus. Academics!Outreach 1 O 1