Kankakee Community College shall offer a comprehensive program as defined by the Illinois Community College Board. The college will offer programs which respond to the educational needs of the citizens of the district, including:
Pre-Baccalaureate Curricula
The college will provide its students with a broad offering of curricula which will allow transfer at the junior class level to a senior college or university.
The college will make a continuous effort to ensure articulation between its curricula and the curricula of other colleges and universities, and will conduct follow-up studies of transfer students, which, along with other factors, can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of the baccalaureate-oriented curricula.
Occupational Curricula
Occupational, technical, vocational, and career curricula will be designed to provide students with planned, coordinated, comprehensive experiences with the goals to provide job training, retraining, and/or upgrading of skills to meet individual, local, and state manpower needs.
General Studies Curricula
Preparatory and adult basic education instructional offerings will be designed for the purposes of developing basic skills in mathematics, reading, and English for adults and for helping individuals acquire other educational skills and knowledge necessary for pursuing other educational offerings at the community college. The college will offer courses leading to the attainment of high school equivalency certification.
Vocational skills certificate curricula and courses will be developed to provide for retraining, upgrading, or advancement in a specific occupation or groups of occupations. Other general studies instructional offerings will include curricula and courses which are approved under the following areas: personal development; homemaking; improving family circumstances; intellectual and cultural studies; health-safety and environment; and community and civic development.
Community Education
Community education includes those activities which are instructional in nature, are established to provide an educational service to the public, and are not part of degree-credit or certificate-credit programs. Community education includes non-credit classes, short courses, workshops, seminars, and videoconferences organized in a classroom format. Community education courses will not offer credit applicable to either a certificate or an associate degree.
Public and Community Service Activities
The college will provide public service activities of an educational nature which may include workshops, seminars, forums, cultural entertainment, community surveys, facility usage, and studies designed to meet community service needs. All public service activities conducted by the college will be part of a unit of public service approved by the ICCB.
Community Services include such community outreach activities as consulting, analyzing community needs, counseling, referral and related services which are community improvement oriented--as opposed to hobby, leisure, recreation or public relations oriented--and which ordinarily support the non-credit community education activities and/or the instructional programs of the college.
Student Services
The college will offer a program of services to students which will include admissions, academic advising, testing, tutoring, financial aid, student activities, placement and special assistance for educationally and economically disadvantaged students.
Economic Development Services
The college will provide services to the businesses, industries, and communities of the district toward the goal of the economic development of the entire district.