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Reading Area Community College

School Overview:

School Notes:

• Reading Area Community College is an open enrollment, fully accredited two-year educational institution that awards associate degrees in career and transfer programs. Affordable tuition costs are maintained through sponsorship by the County of Berks and support from the Pennsylvania Department of Education. Over 5,000 students are currently enrolled in credit courses on campus and over 25,000 people in Berks County participate annually in various non-credit vocational and continuing education training courses.
• Reading Area Community College was founded on October 1, 1971, and sponsored for 20 years by the Reading School District. Classes were held for the first time on October 13, 1971, with an enrollment of 265 students. The college operated from several buildings throughout Reading during its early years until it acquired the Holiday Inn (the current Berks Hall building) in 1978. In 1996, the college completed a campus expansion plan that transformed it into an attractive city-based campus. In the fall of 2002, enrollment was at a record high of 3,800 credit students.
• Reading Area Community College is approved by the Department of Education of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as an institution of higher education, and is authorized to award the Associate in Arts Degree, the Associate in Applied Science Degree, the Associate in General Studies Degree, and the Certificate of Specialization, as well as appropriate diplomas and certificates. The Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Commission on Higher Education Philadelphia, has granted full accreditation to Reading Area Community College.
• Profile last updated: 08/22/2008.

In the News:

• Daily planner: Sunday (Reading Eagle)
  posted on March 21, 2010 at 04:27:07 am
  Route 222 (Kutztown Bypass): Lane restrictions around the clock. Anna Gunn stars in "Breaking Bad" at 10 p.m. on AMC.
• Ex-drug addict holds fundraiser in Muhlenberg Township for children with cancer (Reading Eagle)
  posted on March 21, 2010 at 04:26:38 am
  Cheri Fleming knows what it means to be down and out. Homeless for six years, and addicted to drugs, Fleming has made a dramatic transformation in her life. She's drug-free, living in Cumru Township, and attending classes at Reading Area Community College.
• Holistic whole foods find home in Hamburg (The Hamburg Area Item)
  posted on March 21, 2010 at 03:31:11 am
  In recent years, the trend toward searching for and eating organic foods is grabbing the attention of more and more consumers, especially with research building the argument for how counterproductive unnaturally produced and processed chow-time ingredients can be to establishing good health.
• Concert review: Turtle Island String Quartet doesn't disappoint in Jazz Fest return (Reading Eagle)
  posted on March 21, 2010 at 03:00:12 am
  Reading, PA - The Turtle Island String Quartet returned to the Berks Jazz Fest, having performed here several times; this time they brought with them the eminent jazz pianist, Cyrus Chestnut—a collaboration made in heaven.
• Daily planner: Saturday (Reading Eagle)
  posted on March 20, 2010 at 04:08:06 am
  You have two chances to greet spring: Spring Equinox Celebration, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, Hawk Mountain Road near Kempton; or Pagoda Skyline Vernal Equinox Celebration, with ghost stories by Charles J. Adams III, 6:13 p.m., William Penn Memorial Fire Tower, Skyline Drive.

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