Cerro Coso Community College

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Active In Achieving the Dream:

2013 - Present

Leader College:

2016 - 2019
College Website
“Achieving the Dream is the right work at the right time as we establish a culture of inquiry that will assist in serving students. ”
–Jill Board, President, Cerro Coso Community College

Who We Are

Cerro Coso Community College is one of three colleges in the Kern Community College District. The College is charged with the responsibility of providing educational opportunities for the widely separated desert, mountain, and valley communities within a sweeping 18,000 mile, four county, region of eastern California. Cerro Coso, as an institution, has a long history of valuing students as individuals with unique capabilities and needs and a teaching-learning process that motivates students towards excellence.

What We Are Doing

Interventions

College Characteristics

  • IPEDS UNITID: 111896
  • HBCU: No
  • Tribal: No
  • Degree of Urbanization: Rural: Fringe
  • Geographic Region: Far West (AK CA HI NV OR WA)
  • Institution Size Category: 1,000 - 4,999
  • Carnegie Classification: Associate's--Public Urban-serving Multicampus
  • Total Enrollment: 4,549
  • Full-time Enrollment: 951
  • Part-time Enrollment: 3,598
  • First-time Degree Seeking: 531
  • Part-time First-time Degree Seeking: 328
  • Black or African American Grouping: 0 to 20% Black
  • Hispanic/Latino Grouping: More than 25% Hispanic/Latino
  • Pell Recipients Grouping: 0 to 20% Pell Recipients

Percent of total enrollment that are...

  • American Indian or Alaska Native: 3%
  • Asian: 4%
  • Black or African American: 6%
  • White: 54%
  • Hispanic/Latino: 27%
  • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander: 0%
  • Women: 64%
  • Two or more races: 5%
  • Race/ethnicity unknown: 0%
  • Pell Recipients : 17%

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