

Geology courses that are offered for students under the A.S. Each discipline at EPCC reports to a dean assigned to that discipline to help facilitate projects or issues within the discipline.ĮPCC offers an Associate of Science in Geology and currently has over 60 students enrolled as Geology Majors. The geology discipline at EPCC is composed of five full-time faculty members, one lecturer, and on average 10-15 part-time instructors. EPCC's enrollment has been increasing dramatically over the last decade, from 19,859 in fall 2002 to 30,176 in fall 2012, an increase of 34%. EPCC is also one of the top 25 community colleges enrolling Latinos and the top 25 of institutions awarding Associate Degrees to Latinos. Despite these statistics two-year colleges have not received the same level of funding or attention for innovative programs and activities that four-year institutions typically have.Įl Paso Community College has 5 campuses spread over El Paso County with each serving a unique socio-economic segment of El Paso's diverse society. attending a two-year institutions (community colleges) and more than 40% of recent graduates in science and engineering attending a community college at some point in their education, community colleges are becoming recognized as a rich source of untapped academic talent in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. With over 45% of all college students in the U.S. Information for this profile was provided by Joshua Villalobos, Geology.
