Sponsors

 

College Cooperative Southeast

 

 

The College Cooperative Southeast (CCS) is a collaborative effort of the State’s postsecondary institutions to provide postsecondary education opportunities to meet needs of time-and place-bound students in Southeastern Indiana. The CCS focus is to provide access to postsecondary learning opportunities and services that enhance the quality of life in southeastern Indiana. The CCS initiative is designed to promote and increase services that enable students to access and enroll in certificate, associate, bachelor, and graduate degree programs in a wide spectrum of academic areas that will provide postsecondary credit degree completion and workforce development opportunities. The initiative identifies and responds to the individual, community, workforce and economic needs of students and communities of southeastern Indiana.

The CCS is uniquely a “community” organization that encourages cooperative and collaborative efforts of post-secondary institutions, and sponsors staffed learning centers oriented to "customer-friendly" delivery of distance education. CCS is dedicated in promoting expansion of electronic delivery of programs/courses to learning centers through the utilization of asynchronous programs/courses which meets the needs of the community center learner in Southeastern Indiana. CCS focuses on promoting postsecondary opportunities that satisfy identified needs of constituent groups and individuals in a collaborative, coordinated, articulated manner without duplication of effort by participating institutions.

Presently, College Cooperative Southeast has community learning centers in 10 southeastern counties: Brookville (Franklin Co.) Franklin Co. H.S., Greensburg (Decatur Co.) Greensburg Community Learning Center, Lawrenceburg (Dearborn Co.) Ivy Tech Community College, Madison (Jefferson Co.) Ivy Tech Community College, North Vernon (Jennings Co.) Jennings Co. Public Library, Rushville (Rush Co.) Rush-Shelby Energy Bldg., Scottsburg (Scott Co.) Scottsburg Lifelong Learning Center, Shelbyville (Shelby Co.) Blue River Career Center, Versailles (Ripley Co.) Southeastern Career Center, and Vevay (Switzerland Co.) Switzerland County Public Library. The CCS Regional Office is located at the Greensburg Community Learning Center.

Indiana State University serves as the fiscal agent and broker of educational services for CCS.

South Central
Educational Association

 

The Community Learning Centers of South Central Education Alliance (SCEA) partners with Ball State University, Indiana University, Indiana State University, Ivy Tech State College, Purdue University, University of Southern Indiana, and Vincennes University, among others, to host face-to-face and distance education courses providing local citizens with access to higher education. The SCEA Learning Centers—located in Greene, Jackson, Lawrence, Martin, Orange and Washington counties—provide proctoring services, enrollment and advising support, computer labs, satellite and two-way video technology for students taking distance education and face-to-face courses. The Learning Centers also offer professional development courses, personal enrichment courses and job skill development courses.

Community Learning Centers are a great place to start or continue your education. CLC is dedicated to delivering programs and services that respond to individual, community, workforce, and economic development needs and plans. By creating a comfortable atmosphere for learning, providing a very broad range of continuing education opportunities, and emphasizing one-on-one assistance — the Community Learning Centers’ staff will help you step up and reach your goals.