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Total enrollment: 3,025
FTE enrollment: 865.14
Full-time students: 805
Part-time students: 885
Degrees & certificates: 272
Student age range: 9-95

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Aug 7, 2018
Fall registration under way now

Fall registration at Columbia Gorge Community College (CGCC) is under way now, and students are encouraged to register early so they’re ready for the start of classes Sept. 24.

CGCC offers nearly 40 programs leading to associate degrees and certificates. Students may choose educational options that range from workforce training to two-year degree programs to community education courses.

Jul 24, 2018
CGCC Adds Workforce Development Programs

Columbia Gorge Community College has assumed operations of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Adult/Dislocated Worker program, joining the WIOA Youth program CGCC began managing in 2017. These programs were previously administered by Mid-Columbia Council of Governments and are contracted through the East Cascades Workforce Investment Board.

The on-campus CGCC Youth Success program provides individuals 16-24 years old with GED preparation, career planning, mentoring, paid work experiences with area businesses, and more.

Jul 18, 2018
Car-free Columbia Gorge

In Oregon and Washington, groups collaborating as the Columbia Gorge Tourism Alliance are stewarding Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area resources by connecting people to recreation experiences using car-free means.

The Columbia Gorge National Scenic Area, like National Parks and other highly visited federally managed public lands, suffers damage and congestion from too many cars. Too many cars similarly degrades visitor experiences when people are stuck in traffic, unable to find parking, and required to navigate unsafe road conditions.

Jul 16, 2018
Pytel attends STEM Educator Solar Institute

Jim Pytel, electro-mechanical technology instructor at Columbia Gorge Community College, recently joined other educators from throughout the nation at the annual STEM Educator Solar Institute sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the Center for Renewable Energy Advanced Technological Education. The event was held July 10-12 at Madison Area Technical College.

Participants used tools of the trade to install several residential solar energy systems and connect them to the electrical grid. Instructors explored fundamental solar and electrical principles, and learned processes to ensure electrical safety and code compliance. During the Institute, participants also practiced hands-on classroom lab activities that bring solar energy to life for students.

Jul 9, 2018
College offers new incentive for full-time enrollees

Students considering full-time enrollment at Columbia Gorge Community College now have special incentive in the form of free tuition for selected college credits.

The college’s budget committee this year approved a plan to encourage full-time enrollment through a tuition exemption applied for qualifying credit loads. Under the “15 th Credit and Above Free” incentive, students only pay tuition for the first 14 credit hours per term; no tuition is charged for the 15 th credit, or for any credit hour beyond that up to 20 credits per term. (Students must obtain special permission to take more than 20 credit hours.)

Jul 6, 2018
College offers Mandarin language starting this fall

The study of any new language opens a journey of discovery into the culture behind that language, and few cultures are as diverse, geopolitically relevant and economically vital as China’s.

With that in mind, Columbia Gorge Community College this fall launches a five-credit, three-term class in Mandarin Chinese, taught by native speaker Yu Chin Tsai. Originally from Taiwan, Yu Chin was an exchange student in the People’s Republic of China, studied the instruction of Chinese as a second language at National Taiwan University, and earned her Master’s in teaching Chinese at National Chengchi University, Taiwan. She began her instructional career as a teaching assistant through the Fulbright international exchange program at Pacific University, taught in a Master’s program in International Studies at National Chengchi University, and has been tutoring professionals from around the world since 2012. She’s fluent in Mandarin, Taiwanese and English.

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