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News: Roane State Middle College program continues to grow

Sept. 21, 2018

By Bob Fowler
Roane State staff writer

Just four years into this groundbreaking program, Roane State’s Middle College program has hit an all-time high in enrollment.

There are now 127 Middle College students from six area school systems, with 88 of them entering as freshmen in the new fall semester.

In Middle College, rising high school juniors take college courses at a Roane State campus in the mornings and return to their respective high schools in the afternoons. By the time they graduate from high school, the Middle College students also receive an associate’s degree from Roane State, giving them a two-year jump on earning their bachelor’s degree at colleges and universities.

Boosting Middle College enrollment this semester are 13 students from Cumberland County’s two high schools who have registered for the inaugural Middle College on Roane State’s Cumberland County campus.

Also new are 15 students from Oak Ridge High. A Mechatronics Middle College program – where students learn how to maintain and update automated machines - is in the works at Roane State’s Higher Education and Workforce Training Facility in Clinton.

Other Middle College students are from school systems in Anderson, Campbell and Roane counties, as well as students from Oneida City Schools.

Roane State’s Middle College program started in the fall of 2014, and the 20 participants from Roane County Schools graduated two years later.

Roane State Middle College coordinator David Lane said he set a goal of adding a new school system as a partner each year. Anderson County Schools joined the Middle College program in 2015. That was followed by Campbell County Schools in 2016 and the Oneida City School System in 2017.

The program produced 45 and 44 graduates respectively in 2017 and 2018. It’s projected that 39 Middle College graduates will receive high school diplomas and associate degrees in the Class of 2019.

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