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The Mississippi Virtual
Community College (MSVCC) is a consortium of 14 of Mississippi's community
colleges that makes it possible for MSVCC colleges to leverage their distance
learning resources -- including faculty, courses, support services, and
technology. . Through MSVCC, students may take courses from community
colleges anywhere in Mississippi while getting support services from a local
college. To take a course from a remote
(provider) college, a student enrolls at a local (host) community
college. The host college supports the student with a full slate of student
services, including advisement and counseling, financial aid, and learning
resources. The host college awards credit for the course. The remote
(provider) college provides the course instruction.
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Mission
The mission of the Mississippi Virtual Community College is to provide
educational opportunities to constituencies who live within the various
community and junior college districts in Mississippi and to others beyond those
boundaries. The mission includes providing access to instructional offerings
through advanced technologies for those individuals who currently cannot take
advantage of the offerings of the community and junior college through
traditional means and to those individuals who are seeking alternative
educational delivery systems.
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Rationale
College
instruction has traditionally been offered to those individuals who appear
at the door of an
institution of higher learning, present some evidence of having
met certain
criteria for admission, complete the necessary forms, pay their money,
meet classes at
prescribed times, places, etc. There are many people in
Mississippi who
cannot attend college for various reasons of finance, travel,
family
constraints, work schedules, etc. In a number of cases these individuals
are capable of
improving their capability to earn a livelihood if provided access
to higher
education opportunities. There is a need to provide educational
opportunities for
individuals who cannot physically attend classes in accordance
with time and
place constraints as traditionally applied to the typical institution of
higher learning.
This need can be met to some level of satisfaction by offering
courses and services by various means of distance learning.
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