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Jefferson State Community College

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The Jefferson campus is located in the northeast section of Birmingham, approximately 10 miles north of I-20/I-59, just off Highway 79 and Carson Road and one mile west of Center Point. The beautiful, wooded 200 acre campus is located in a suburban area. The college is built on one of the highest elevations in Jefferson County. Almost a million people live in the area served by the college. Jefferson State offers a comprehensive approach to customized workforce training through an ACT Center, Training for Business and Industry, GED programs, adult education, remedial education, workforce readiness training, and programs to assist dislocated workers, displaced homemakers and other special populations. Jefferson State is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award the Associate Degree. Individual academic programs are nationally accredited by 10 different professional evaluating organizations.
• Profile last updated: 10/29/2009.

In the News:

• Next 2-year chancellor faces tough decision (The Tuscaloosa News)
  posted on October 18, 2009 at 08:51:58 am
  By Dana Beyerle Montgomery Bureau Chief Near the top of the list of tough decisions for the next chancellor of the state's two-year college system is whether to move forward with a plan to buy a centralized computer system that already is mired in controversy.
• Controversial decision awaits new chancellor (The Gadsden Times)
  posted on October 18, 2009 at 04:17:01 am
  By Dana Beyerle Times Montgomery Bureau The next two-year college chancellor will have to make a controversial decision to recommend or pull the plug on a contract to buy a $15 million, unified computer system.
• Jeff State Weekend Classes to Relocate (CBS 42 Birmingham)
  posted on October 15, 2009 at 07:48:37 pm
  Due to power outages at the Birmingham campus of of Jefferson State Community College, some weekend classes, Friday October 16 & Saturday 17, have been temporarily moved to the Health and Sciences and General Studies building at the Hoover-Shelby campuses.  For a complete listing of the re-located classes, simply click on the highlighted link.
• The Clanton Advertiser (Clanton Advertiser)
  posted on October 6, 2009 at 03:56:33 am
  Chilton County Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Penny Broussard has been named the C.I.T.Y. Program’s Citizen of the Year for 2009. “I know there are many other people out there who deserve this honor,” Broussard said at a gathering of other citizen of the year on Monday.
• During crisis, friends support Jefferson County Commission President Bettye Fine Collins (Birmingham News)
  posted on September 20, 2009 at 12:17:47 pm
  After decades of service on school boards, councils, the commission and state and national party offices, the 74-year-old's political future is uncertain

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