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This weeks featured school.
Jefferson Davis Community
College
Jefferson Junior College is one of 64 campuses--and one of 30 community
colleges--which comprise the State University of New York (SUNY) system; it
is the only college of higher education whose campus is within a 50 mile
radius of the city of Watertown, NY.
The school is supervised by the State University of New York and is also
sponsored by Jefferson County. Its service area is mostly rural, with
tourism and agriculture the dominant industries. In 1985, the US Army
posted the 10th Mountain Division at nearby Ft. Drum, bringing some 30,000
new residents to the area and doubling the population of the Watertown
metropolitan area.
Jefferson admitted 119 full- and 221 part-time students to its first
class in September of 1963. In the fall 2003 semester, Jefferson's total
headcount was 1,866 full-time and 1636 part-time students.
The College offers 16 A.A.S. career curricula, 10 transfer A.A. or A.S.
curricula and 6 certificate programs. Along with its credit bearing
programs, the College offers a variety of workshops, seminars and workforce
training opportunities. Cultural events, open to the public, routinely
include film and theatrical events, lectures, seminars, and art exhibitions.
The library resources are open to the public, and community members are
encouraged to use them. Personal, academic, and vocational counseling are
provided to both students and the community. A SUNY Small Business
Development Center was opened on the campus in 1986.
Technology plays an important role in supporting the educational process
at the College. There are 5 instructional computer classrooms and one open
computer resource center which are all connected to a campus-wide network.
Faculty and staff have access to the same campus-wide network from their
offices for application and information sharing as well as email and
Internet access. Members of the campus community also have access to aspects
of the campus-wide network via wireless technology from many areas on
campus. In addition, there are several computer clusters in areas such as
geology, biology, physics, nursing and criminal justice. Sixteen electronic
classrooms provide access to on and off-campus resources for multimedia
presentations.