| Delaware Technical & Community College (DTCC), the state’s only community college, provides post-secondary education at the associate degree level. The essence of DTCC is access, opportunity, hope, and excellence. Those core values are implemented through quality education at an affordable price, flexible schedules and learning methods, excellent child care for parents, and more — all of which have earned the college numerous accolades at both national and state levels.
As a statewide college, DTCC has campuses located in each county: the Stanton and Wilmington sites in New Castle County, the Terry Campus in Kent County, and the Owens Campus in Sussex County.
In 2006-07, the state of Delaware began a new scholarship program, Student Excellence Equals Degree (SEED). Funded by state resources, SEED provides free tuition to Delaware’s high school seniors who wish to attend DTCC in the fall after their high school graduation. Basic requirements for the scholarship are a 2.5 high school grade point average, no felony criminal convictions, and completion of the Federal Financial Aid (FASA) forms.
As of fall 2009, DTCC offers 97 associate degree programs, 41 diploma programs, and 64 certificate programs, and has formalized two-plus-two articulation agreements with Delaware State University (DSU) and University of Delaware (UD), the only state-supported universities. DTCC also has articulated agreements with four private colleges in Delaware: Goldey Beacom College, Strayer University, Wesley College, and Wilmington University, as well as out-of-state colleges including Salisbury University, Maryland and Widener University, Pennsylvania.
DTCC’s associate degree programs are centered in departments. These departments provide educational opportunities in many diverse careers ranging from Emergency Medical Technology (Paramedic) to Culinary Arts to Paralegal to Engineering Technologies to Computer Information Systems Technology to Education.
The Education Departments are located on three campuses, each of which offers Early Childhood Development - Birth to Second Grade, Elementary Education (K-6), Mathematics Secondary Education, Middle Level Mathematics, and paraeducator programs. The traditional education classroom is enhanced by Smart Boards, PowerPoint presentations, distributed learning, interactive classrooms, video, online, and CD-Rom courses.
Based at each campus is a Child Development Center which provides a lab school setting for education, nursing, and human service students. While the Early Childhood programs have been offered since the late 1990s, the Elementary Education, Math Secondary Education, Middle Level Mathematics, and paraeducator programs were developed as of 2000 to meet the demands of students and, in the case of mathematics, the state’s critical teacher shortages.
The Mathematics Secondary Education program became the first DTCC program to require students to complete their education at a four-year college in order to enter the work force as a licensed and certified teacher. The articulations with UD and DSU were developed as the Mathematics Secondary Education Associate of Arts of Teaching degree was created.
Advisory committees with membership from the local school districts, the state Department of Education, the four-year universities and college partners, and DTCC faculty and counselors, guide and advise the Education Department. |
