Outreach

The GCCC Outreach Program offers a selection of hometown college courses at sites and communities throughout Southwest Kansas. For enrollment or information, please contact the local coordinator in your community. Names and contact information for the coordinators follows. You may also contact Mary Olson at GCCC, 620-276-9535 or mary.olson@gcccks.edu.

Outreach Opportunities

GCCC offers college credit courses at nine communities within the college service area. Courses are offered to help students complete requirements for a degree or to give students the opportunity to improve their skills for better occupational opportunities. The college strives to offer a high level of learning in these centers, equivalent to that on campus. Course offerings are developed primarily by student requests to meet needs for a particular semester.

Most classes are taught by local community instructors who have met standards set forth by the college. Testing, advising and other services are provided at these sites to help students take the courses that will assure them the opportunity to succeed. Coordinators, who live in the communities, are employed by the college to assist students in planning courses that will be most beneficial.

In the spring of 1997, Garden City Community College opened a permanent facility at Scott City, Kansas. The newly remodeled Bryan Education Center at 416-418 Main Street includes a comfortable reception area, two large classrooms, and a computer lab equipped with Internet and email access to the college and the world. The Bryan Center maintains both daytime and nighttime hours, and those seeking information can call 620-872-2155.

With access to a state-of-the-art interactive television classroom on the main campus, the college now broadcasts classes to Scott City, Lakin and Deerfield. This enables the college to offer courses to small groups of two or three students at the respective ITV outreach locations. In the future the college plans to offer mediated courses using Internet, email, chat rooms, and other technologies which will make the outreach program even more responsive to the individual needs of time and place bound students who cannot access on-campus programs.

Area Coordinators