Bringing college to neighborhood learning center
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The Lone Star system offers a similar model of learning at its Montgomery campus that includes partnerships with Texas A&M University and Prairie View A&M University.
Laughter said LSC will play a "landlord" role in the process of admitting students to the new learning center, which will offer traditional and distance-learning courses via the Internet.
"Students will apply to the universities partnering with us," Laughter said. "They will pay their tuition rates and be admitted by them."
LSC administrators are expecting as many as 10,000 students to enroll at the center over the course of the next two years, once a coordinating council has approved the proposed degree programs.
With Spring Independent School District home to an estimated 70 percent of economically disadvantaged students, "there is probably no more critical time than now that we can provide these kinds of opportunities," said Lone Star College Chancellor Richard Carpenter. "With demographics that are diversifying rapidly…we believe the partnership with the universities and the Lone Star College System can contribute to increased number of degrees achieved in Texas."
