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Gadsden State Community College

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School Notes:

GSCC consists of the following campuses, centers, and instructional sites in Alabama: Wallace Drive, East Broad, and Valley Street campuses (Gadsden) and Ayers Campus (Anniston); McClellan Center; and Piedmont High School, Pell City High School, Cherokee County, Cleburne County, and St Clair Correctional Facility (IEP) instructional sites. By offering a broad spectrum of programs, GSCC provides all its students with opportunities for education, personal, and professional advancement. A wide range of academic courses prepares students to transfer successfully to four-year institutions. Technical programs equip students to master certain skills, as well as to utilize them through job entry. The College provides a wide range of support services that enable students to function in a collegiate environment and to make decisions appropriate to both their personal and their educational goals. The College has committed itself to becoming an integral part of the lives of those communities that it serves. Continued cooperation with civic, business, and industrial leaders strengthens the ties between the College and these communities. GSCC is pledged to offering quality education in both academic and technical fields to all citizens within its service area. Always receptive to the specific needs of individuals, groups, businesses, and industries, GSCC provides, through specialize courses and training, the knowledge and the techniques necessary for success in several occupational fields. In addition, classroom and on-site experiences further develop students' understanding not only of their immediate environment but also of the larger world around them. The College fosters a spirit of internationalism through cultural exchanges within the communities served.
• Profile last updated: 08/22/2008.

In the News:

• Leave policy freeze extended for lawmakers (The Times-Journal)
  posted on February 6, 2010 at 07:06:01 pm
  Two members of the DeKalb legislative delegation who are also employees of the two-year college system won another reprieve Friday as a judge extended his order blocking a policy that made it harder for them to serve at the Statehouse.
• Legislators’ lawsuit ultimately will go to Supreme Court (The Gadsden Times)
  posted on February 6, 2010 at 05:55:14 am
  By Dana Beyerle Times Montgomery Bureau MONTGOMERY — The judge hearing the 2007 lawsuit filed by legislators who work for two-year colleges said the Alabama Supreme Court ultimately will decide whether the college system can enforce its work rules. Montgomery County Circuit Judge Johnny Hardwick on Friday granted another stay of a college system rule that requires legislators to...
• Enrollment up at Gadsden State (The Gadsden Times)
  posted on February 5, 2010 at 04:09:44 am
  By Katherine Poythress Times Staff Writer Enrollment at Gadsden State Community College has increased 14 percent over last spring's enrollment numbers.
• Carver legacy lives on in alumni (The Gadsden Times)
  posted on February 4, 2010 at 02:17:29 am
  By Katherine Poythress Times Staff Writer Although Gadsden's Carver High School was closed nearly 40 years ago as a casualty of integration, and later demolished, its spirit of pride and community throbs on in the hearts of alumni like Bettye Knowles.
• ‘I have waited so long for this’ (The Sand Mountain Reporter)
  posted on February 2, 2010 at 12:30:32 am
  Tabetha Casey Helms has endured more in her life than many twice her age. She got pregnant as a teenager, dropped out of school and watched her husband die.

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