The strength of rural community colleges in America

The Rural Community College Alliance (RCCA) are advocates for the nation's rural community colleges. The RCCA helps its member institutions serve the 89.3 million people who reside in rural America. There are 600 publicly controlled rural community and tribal college that provide access to general education for transfer, as well as techncial, vocational and occupations programs.

Joel and Leigh were joined by members of the RCCA board, that include Dr. Leah Barrett of Northeast Community College in Nebraska, Dr. Jon Bauer, East Central College in Missouri and Dr. Ron Slinger of Miles Community College in Montana.

The college presidents share their impressions and opinions of the value and importance of the nation's community colleges.

More information about RCCA can be found at https://ruralccalliance.org/

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