March 20, 2024 | News Story
Strong Presence by New Jersey’s Community Colleges at Senate Budget Hearing in Newark Asking to Restore $20 Million in State Funding
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New Jersey’s Community Colleges are committed to partnering with high schools across the state to help prepare more students for post-secondary education. Such efforts are critical to state efforts to increase the attainment of post-secondary degrees and credentials to 65% by 2025 and to closing troubling gaps in college completion by race and ethnicity.
Local Collaboration to Ensure Student Success
Local Collaboration to Ensure Student Success
The purpose of the College Readiness Now program is to support projects designed to get more students college-ready by the time they graduate from high school. Each individual project involves a locally designed collaboration among Community Colleges and area high schools that target and identify students who are not “college ready” through diagnostics and other measures provided by the local high school.
Once identified, the students in grades 9 through 12 are invited to participate in a transition or bridge course or courses designed to improve their academic, study and test-taking skills. The bridge course may be delivered by the college or by the high school; however, faculty from both institutions must provide guidance to the development and delivery of the instruction. At the end of the bridge course, the students’ skill levels will be reassessed to determine the success of each program.
Making Education a Priority
Making Education a Priority
Students living below the poverty line are the target population. Since the inception of the College Readiness Now program, 50% of participating students have become fully college-ready, while the remaining participating students moved up significantly in the developmental course sequence, saving themselves thousands of dollars in developmental education costs and accelerating time to degree completion.
Some students are also able to participate in free dual-enrollment opportunities to earn college-credit prior to graduating high schools, and all students who participated in the program are given an opportunity to interact with college faculty for the first time, learn how to navigate the college admissions process, study on campuses and meet their peers from other local high schools in their districts.
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Ocean County College
1 College Dr, Toms River, NJ 08754, United States
Phone: 732-255-0482
Email: hub@ocean.edu
Passaic County Community College
1 College Blvd, Paterson, NJ 07505, United States
Phone: (973) 341-1600
Email: admissions@pccc.edu
Website: https://pccc.edu/admissions/
Mercer County Community College
1200 Old Trenton Rd, West Windsor Township, NJ 08550, United States
Phone: 609-586-4800
Email: admiss@mccc.edu
Warren County Community College
475 NJ-57, Washington, NJ 07882, United States
Phone: (908) 835-2300
Email: StudentServices@warren.edu
Hudson County Community College
70 Sip Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07306, United States
Phone: (201) 714-7200
Email: col@hccc.edu
Bergen Community College
400 Paramus Rd, Paramus, NJ 07652, United States
Phone: (201) 447-7200
Email: admissions@bergen.edu
Sussex County Community College
1 College Hill Rd, Newton, NJ 07860, United States
Phone: 973-300-2223
Email: admissions@sussex.edu
Website: https://www.sussex.edu/admissions/
Camden County College
200 N Broadway, Camden, NJ 08102, United States
Phone: (856) 227-7200
Email: admissions@camdencc.edu
Website: https://www.camdencc.edu/admissions-financial-aid/how-to-apply/
Brookdale Community College
765 Newman Springs Rd, Lincroft, NJ 07738, United States
Phone: 732-224-1857
Email: admissions@brookdalecc.edu
Website: https://www.brookdalecc.edu/admissions/getting-started/
Essex County College
303 University Ave, Newark, NJ 07102, United States
Phone: (973) 877-3186
Email: ESX@essex.edu
Website: https://www.essex.edu/admissions/
Salem Community College
460 Hollywood Ave, Carneys Point, NJ 08069, United States
Phone: 856-299-2100
Email: admissions@salemcc.edu
Website: https://www.salemcc.edu/admissions
Union College of Union County, NJ
1033 Springfield Ave, Cranford, NJ 07016, United States
Phone: 908-709-7590
Email: denisa.klinkova-bace@ucc.edu
Raritan Valley Community College
118 Lamington Rd, Branchburg, NJ 08876, United States
Phone: 908-526-1200
Email: admissions@raritanval.edu
Atlantic Cape Community College
5100 Black Horse Pike, Mays Landing, NJ 08330, United States
Phone: (609) 343-5000
Email: admissions@atlantic.edu
County College of Morris
214 Center Grove Rd, Randolph, NJ 07869, United States
Phone: 973-328-5100
Email: admiss@ccm.edu
Website: https://www.ccm.edu/admissions/
Rowan College at Burlington County
900 College Circle, Mount Laurel, New Jersey 08054
Phone: (856) 222-9311, ext. 1199
Email: admissions@rcbc.edu
Website: https://www.rcbc.edu/admissions
Middlesex College
2600 Woodbridge Avenue, Edison, NJ 08818
Phone: 732-548-6000
Rowan College of South Jersey
1400 Tanyard Road, Sewell, NJ 08080 (Gloucester); 3322 College Drive, Vineland, NJ 08360 (Cumberland)
Phone: 856-200-4848
Email: admissions@rcsj.edu
Website: https://www.rcsj.edu/apply