2009 Performance Accountability Report Vol. 2 - Maryland Higher ...

Community Outreach and Impact
Prince George’s Community College strives to realize its vision of becoming ever more
“accessible, community-centered, technologically advanced, and responsive to the educational
needs of a richly diverse population and workforce”. This commitment shows in our progress on
metrics measuring extent of community outreach and impact. For example, the college’s 2006­
2007 unduplicated headcount of students in non-credit community service and lifelong learning
course enrollments reached the highest level ever in 2007 (8,574, a 10% improvement over the
2006 figure), and such course enrollments held close to that level in fiscal year 2008 (8,359)
(PAR 29a). The recent figures for numbers of course enrollments of this type were even better –
36,497 in 2008, up over a thousand from 2007. At this rate of growth, the college should
approach its benchmark goal in 2010. Furthermore, the college’s 2007 assumption of county
A.B.E., G.E.D. and E.S.L. educational programs added 2,549 students and 2,625 course
registrations that year, and saw almost a doubling of unduplicated headcounts in these courses
(4,444) and a more than doubling of course registrations (5,813) in fiscal year 2008.
Besides its regular workforce development and continuing education course offerings, Prince
George's Community College strives to involve its employees and students in the life of the
larger community and to promote economic, physical and emotional well-being in the county
through a large array of activities it hosts, sponsors or produces. Last year’s highlights in the
economic area included the continuation of the Technology Resource Center’s “TechKnowledgy
Exchange” program, a community forum on the use of high technology and job opportunities;
Prince George’s Community College’s annual Spring Job Fair featuring 55 major employers and
drawing more than 300 community job seekers; the 2009 Science, Technology and Research
Training Conference (START) sponsored by the college’s science and technology department
promoting science as a career; the Business Networking And Entrepreneur Forum sponsored by
the college's business management department; the Bernard Center for Business Management
and the Hillman Entrepreneur Program; the fifth Annual Journalism and Communications
Workshop designed to help high school students prepare for journalism and communications
careers, attracting more than 100 participants; the second annual Emerging Student Leadership
Pathways Conference, attended by over 70 students from college and high schools interested in
leadership development; Prince George’s Community College’s first Construction
Education/Career Fair; and the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Program that assisted
600 county residents with preparing their Federal and State county resident tax forms. The
college also promoted community civic values by inaugurating citizenship training workshops
for the county’s growing immigrant population.
Important 2008-2009 health area events were free community and student/staff screenings for
depression, sleep disorders, liver and kidney problems by the college’s Health Education Center
Staff and other professional medical personnel, resulting in over 187 examinations during the
kidney screening alone; the provision of free flu shots to the campus and larger community; the
support of World AIDS Day with an AIDS issue conference and free HIV testing; hosting a free
service mammogram van on campus; a bone marrow drive to locate potential donors; a summer
blood donation drive in cooperation with Inova; participation of 34 student and employee teams
in “Relay for Life”, a breast cancer prevention and cure fundraising event; and the hosting of a
Holiday Food and Fitness Expo.
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