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Community Guide - Education Opportunities

Adult education

Published 4/25/2009 in Community Guide - Education

Adults in southwest Kansas looking for learning opportunities have several places to turn.

Garden City Community College's Adult Learning Center has programs in English as a Second Language and civics, plus assistance for those wishing to take the General Education Development (GED) tests, the equivalent of a high school diploma. Extra academic and financial support is available to migrant ...

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Budget squeeze has districts pinching pennies

Published 4/25/2009 in Community Guide - Education

By MONICA SPRINGER

mspringer@gctelegram.com

Garden City is one of many school districts in Kansas that is coping with budget cuts this year and an undetermined amount of budget cuts next year.

"Superintendents throughout the state are nervous," said USD 457 Superintendent Rick A ...

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Distance learning

Published 4/25/2009 in Community Guide - Education

Garden City is almost 140 miles from the nearest four-year university, but a number of distance learning programs allow residents to stay home while earning degrees beyond what Garden City Community College can offer.

AccessUS, a consortium of three state universities and six community coll ...

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Garden City Community College Audio file with this story

Published 4/25/2009 in Community Guide - Education

801 Campus Drive
Garden City, KS 67846
276-7611 or (800) 658-1696
www.gcccks.edu

President's Office

President: Carol Ballantyne, 276-9533, carol.ballantyne@gcccks.edu

Athletics

Athletic director: Bob Larson, 276-9595, robert.larson@gcccks.edu

Assistant athletic ...

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GCCC personal enrichment classes

Published 4/25/2009 in Community Guide - Education

By EMILY BEHLMANN

ebehlmann@gctelegram.com

Cake decorating is not what you'd think of as a typical college course. It's not academic, nor is it necessarily career-oriented.

Self-defense? Not something you'd expect to be an offering of a Garden City Community College instructor i ...

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