Community Colleges with Foremost Use of Digital Technology Announced!

e.Republic’s Center for Digital Education and Converge magazine have announced the winners of their fifth annual Digital Community Colleges Survey. Those named are the leading community colleges across the U.S. that offer exceptional technology support to students and educators. The survey addressed multiple areas in digital technology, including online registration, distance learning, tutoring and advisory services; technology training for students and faculty; and Web 2.0 social and collaborative capabilities.

Community colleges were placed in three categories based on size of enrollment for the 2008-09 academic year. College officials supplied answers to survey questions and the top colleges in each of the enrollment categories were named.

Marina Leight, vice president of the Center, said, “Community colleges, year after year, impress us as forward thinking and quick to adapt. Our survey results show overwhelmingly that community colleges are fast embracing cyber technologies used by “First Digitals” fostering collaboration in learning by using tools students are familiar with. Those institutions chosen as this year’s top community colleges are exceptional examples of this investment in learning.”

2009 Digital Community Colleges Survey Winners – Congratulations!

Large colleges – 7,500 students or more:

1st: Montgomery County Community College, Blue Bell, Pa.

2nd: Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale, Va.

3rd: Tidewater Community College, Norfolk, Va.

4th: Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, N.Y.

5th: Howard Community College, Columbia, Md.

6th: Anne Arundel Community College, Anne Arundel, Md.

7th: Macomb Community College, Warren, Mich.

8th: Delaware Technical and Community College, Dover, Del.

9th: San Antonio College, San Antonio, Texas (tie)

9th: Scottsdale Community College, Scottsdale, Ariz. (tie)

10th: Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kan. (tie)

10th: Rio Salado College, Tempe, Ariz. (tie)

Mid-sized colleges - between 3,000 and 7,500 students:

1st: Laramie County Community College, Cheyenne, Wyo.

2nd: Tompkins Cortland Community College, Dryden, N.Y.

3rd: Darton College, Albany, Ga.

4th: Rappahannock Community College, Warsaw, Va. (tie)

4th: Walters State Community College, Morristown, Tenn. (tie)

5th: Carl Sandburg College, Galesburg, Ill. (tie)

5th: Lord Fairfax Community College, Middletown, Va. (tie)

6th: Mountain Empire Community College, Big Stone Gap, Va.

7th: Lake Superior College, Duluth, Minn.

8th: Western Wyoming Community College, Rock Springs, Wyo. (tie)

8th: Southwest Virginia Community College, Richlands, Va. (tie)

9th: Raritan Valley Community College, Somerville, N.J.

10th: Patrick Henry Community College, Martinsville, Va. (tie)

10th: Piedmont Virginia Community College, Charlottesville, Va. (tie)

Small colleges - less than 3,000 students:

1st: Panola College, Carthage, Texas

2nd: Dabney S. Lancaster Community College, Clifton Forge, Va.

3rd: Mesabi Range Community and Technical College, Virginia, Minn.

4th: Kirtland Community College, Roscommon, Mich.

5th: Minnesota West Community and Technical College, Worthington, Minn.

6th: Montgomery Community College, Troy, N.C.

7th: Zane State College, Zanesville, Ohio

8th: Halifax Community College, Weldon, N.C.

9th: Kennebec Valley Community College, Fairfield, Maine

10th: South Arkansas Community College, El Dorado, Ark.

The Center and Converge magazine thank the survey underwriters for their support of community colleges across the nation:

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For more information on the Digital Community Colleges Survey, please contact Janet Grenslitt at jgrenslitt@centerdigitaled.com (916) 932-1363.