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Bishop State Community College

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The four campuses make Bishop State the most convenient college option in Mobile. All four campuses -- Main, Baker-Gaines Central, Carver and Southwest -- are located within the city limits. The Main and Baker-Gaines Central campuses offer day-care services for parents enrolled in Bishop State classes. There are seven off-campus sites located in Mobile and Washington counties -- Alma Bryant, Baker, Citronelle, Mary Montgomery, McIntosh, Theodore and Washington County high schools. Bishop State offers high quality educational and support services in each of the College's six academic divisions: Education, Humanities, Natural Science and Mathematics, Business and Economics, Social Sciences, and the Health-Related Professions. Bishop State offers academic and institutional scholarships, athletic scholarships, Federal Pell grants, work study programs and other forms of financial assistance. Bishop State Community College is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS), the Alabama State Board of Education, the National League for Nursing, the Commission on Accreditation for Physical Therapy Education, the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education, the American Culinary Federation Education Institute Accrediting Commission, the American Board of Funeral Service Education, and the Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs.
• Profile last updated: 06/22/2009.

In the News:

• Bishop State clears hurdle as U.S. education department stops 'heightened cash monitoring' after financial aid fraud (Mobile Press-Register)
  posted on March 20, 2010 at 02:07:50 pm
  MOBILE, Ala. -- Bishop State Community College has cleared its last hurdle toward recovery from findings of academic and financial aid fraud.
• Bishop State whistleblower pleads guilty to misdemeanor theft, gets probation (Mobile Press-Register)
  posted on March 11, 2010 at 12:47:39 pm
  Robert Mansfield Horn, 35, was ordered by Mobile County Circuit Judge Robert Smith to pay $4,059 in restitution. He will be on probation until the money is repaid, according to prosecutors. Once Horn makes full restitution, the misdemeanor charge against him will be dismissed, said Assistant District Attorney Nicki Patterson.
• Mobile man ordered to pay restitution and sentenced to informal probation for role in Bishop State Community College ... (Mobile Press-Register)
  posted on March 10, 2010 at 05:37:50 pm
  MOBILE, Ala. -- Robert Mansfield Horn was sentenced to informal probation today and ordered to pay more than $4,000 in restitution in connection with a financial aid scandal at Bishop State Community College, according to prosecutors.
• Michael Baisden airing live from Mobile (FOX10 Mobile)
  posted on March 9, 2010 at 06:25:36 pm
  The Michael Baisden Show will broadcast live from Mobile as part of The One Million Mentors Campaign, which is designed to encourage qualified adults to sign up as mentors.
• Bishop State employees get probation after pleading guilty to theft charges (Mobile Press-Register)
  posted on March 9, 2010 at 11:37:50 am
  Marlene A. French, 37, and Emma Alexander Perkins, 56, were each sentenced by Mobile County Circuit Judge Robert Smith to a year in jail, but in each case Smith suspended the sentence. Each will be on probation for two years

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