Laredo Community College will launch Spring 2002 registration activity with more opportunities to get in step with the New Year, including more courses, more instructional options, and more opportunities for success.
Pursuing a college education has never been more attainable with LCC's distance learning program, which offers educational outreach opportunities in sites across town and in communities more than 50 miles away. This spring, more than 50 courses are available to students through interactive videoconferencing, the Internet, and television.
What started with a class of 20 students has branched farther than the program's visionary leaders had imagined. Online coursework is available in Accounting, Biology, Management, Business Logistics, Computers, Criminal Justice, Macroeconomics, English, History, Government, Import/Export, Pharmacology, Math, and much more.
Interactive videoconferencing classes include English, Government, Algebra, and Psychology.
LCC students can also access courses taught by hundreds of other colleges as part of LCC's partnership with the Virtual College of Texas (VCT).
The LCC TV 55 channel on Time Warner Cable provides an array of educational programming, including GED TV for persons preparing to take the exam for General Educational Development Diploma.
Current high school students receive dual benefit from distance education, since LCC is also offering early enrollment opportunities for eligible high school juniors and seniors. Distance education courses are available online or in high school classrooms, allowing juniors and seniors to earn college credit ahead of high school graduation.
Financial assistance for these early-enrolled students has been available through a variety of sources. Most recently, LCC entered into a contract with the South Texas Work Force Development Board to provide a tuition-free education to approximately 500 high school juniors and seniors interested in enrolling in college courses this Spring through Summer.
For more information about distance education courses, contact the LCC Center for Distance Learning at 721-5211.
Spring 2002 registration will be January 8, 9, and 10 in the Maravillo Gymnasium. Registration will be conducted by alphabetical sequence according to last name. For a copy of the registration schedule, visit the LCC website at www.laredo.cc.tx.us or call the Office for Advancement and Public Information at 721-5140.

LCC Calendar of Events
Now through Sept. 1: Applications accepted for spring 2003 admission to LCC Vocational Nursing program, 721-5255
Jan. 18: Teleconference - Using Search Engines Effectively, 721-5842
Jan. 23: Acoustic Pop Satire by Rob Paravonian, 721-5179
Jan. 24: LCC Board of Trustees Meeting, 721-5101
Jan. 28-Feb. 1: Movie Showing - The Silence of the Lambs, 721-5179
Jan. 30: LCC Palomino Baseball vs. UT-Brownsville, 721-5326