Sinclair Community College
Nontraditional Students Featured in Dayton Daily News Article
Sinclair's nontraditional student population was featured in a Dayton Daily News article on March 26:
Jobs drive boomers to acquire new skills
With high unemployment, low home values and downsized retirement accounts, hundreds of thousands of baby boomers are turning to college to boost their job skills.
The number of students ages 50 to 64 increased 17 percent nationwide between fall 2007 and fall 2009, according to the latest data available from the National Center for Education Statistics.
In southwest Ohio, that number has grown at an even faster rate at many technical and community colleges, which handle the bulk of nontraditional students.
Read the full story at Dayton Daily News.
Did You Know?
Sinclair is one of only 12 Vanguard Learning Colleges in the U.S. and Canada, named for our "outstanding record of achievement in learning-centered education."
Out of 1,200 community colleges in the nation, Sinclair is one of 20 board member colleges of the League for Innovation in the Community College.
Sinclair's student/faculty ratio of 19 to 1, among the lowest at Ohio's colleges, allows students to receive more individual attention.
Sinclair awards on average $80 million in financial aid and scholarships each year.