
Alumni of U.S. community colleges include:
• California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
• NASA space shuttle commander Eileen Collins.
• Star Wars movie series producer/director George Lucas.
• Film actors Tom Hanks and Clint Eastwood.
• Fashion designer Calvin Klein.
• Human genome scientist Craig Venter.
Community colleges educate 59 percent of new nurses and the majority of other new health-care workers.
Close to 80 percent of firefighters, law enforcement officers and emergency medical technicians (EMTs) are credentialed at community colleges.
Students at 41 percent of public community colleges can earn a degree entirely online, and 92 percent of all institutions offer at least one Internet-based course.
(Sources: The American Association of Community Colleges and the U.S. Census)
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