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Pikes Peak Community College

School Overview:

School Notes:

• Whether your educational goal is to complete a two-year degree for transfer to a four-year college or university, or a two-year vocational degree or certificate emphasizing specific occupational or vocational skill, Pikes Peak Community College can help you.
• Information Technology Support Services (ITSS) provides networked computing services to students, faculty and staff. Services provided by the department include Internet access, online course support using Blackboard, computer classroom, lab and office hardware and software support to include LCD and overhead projectors, telecommunications, video conferencing, training for faculty and staff, application development for the college as well as for the Community Colleges of Colorado (CCofC), and the evaluation and implementation of new technologies consistent with the mission of the college.
• Today, PPCC has grown and expanded to become the largest postsecondary educational institution in Colorado Springs and offers the most widely accessible and affordable education in the region. Serving the residents of El Paso, Teller, and Elbert Counties, PPCC offers more than 125 programs of study in transfer liberal arts and sciences areas and career and technical training.
• Currently, Pikes Peak Community College helps over 16,000 people each year begin their education, advance their careers, and enrich their lives. Our average graduating student has student loans of approx $6,000.
• The College is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission and is a member of the North Central Association.
• Profile last updated: 08/22/2008.

In the News:

• PPCC degree goes where the wild things are (Colorado Springs Gazette)
  posted on March 9, 2010 at 11:01:01 pm
  A new two-year-degree program at Pikes Peak Community College has a classroom as big as Colorado — and then some. It stretches from Rocky Mountain National Park to the deserts of the southwest, and it includes just about any spot where you can...
• Birth of a dream (The Pueblo Chieftain)
  posted on March 8, 2010 at 10:45:23 am
  Call it serendipity or fate, coincidence or divine inspiration. Joni Fair had the idea 30 years ago that dying shouldn't be as painful or lonely as it was for many folks.
• Springs cannabis company applying for FDA approval (Colorado Springs Business Journal)
  posted on March 5, 2010 at 09:37:36 pm
  A Colorado Springs company is applying for Food and Drug Administration approval of a cannabis-based drug to treat post traumatic stress disorder. Cannabis Science is at the beginning of the application process to perform clinical trials of its drug. “Veterans reported cannabis helped nearly all the symptoms of PTSD, with special emphasis on three important components: sleep [...]
• Insurer donates $1 million to nursing (The Pueblo Chieftain)
  posted on March 5, 2010 at 11:45:50 am
  Kaiser Permanente is teaming up with nursing students at Pueblo Community College and Colorado State University-Pueblo to provide more health care workers to clinics that serve low-income people.
• PPCC cop charged with misusing badge (Colorado Springs Gazette)
  posted on March 4, 2010 at 02:46:01 am
  Police on Monday arrested a man on suspicion of using his Pikes Peak Community College Police badge to impersonate a Colorado Springs Police officer while acting as a process server. Willie Hamilton, 52, is facing the misdemeanor charge of first...

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