Woodland Community College announced a continued partnership with the Sacramento State College of Continuing Education to expand their Bachelor of Arts in Child Development: Early Development, Care, and Education degree completion program to the Woodland campus starting in fall 2020.

The program, which was launched in the fall semester of 2019 at the Lake County Campus, started with 22 students enrolled in the first cohort. This partnership was developed to addresses a labor market need for those students who are interested in the Early Childhood Education fields. In collaboration with Sacramento State, College of Continuing Education, students will now be able to complete their general education lower-division courses at the Woodland campus and also complete their course work to earn a bachelor’s degree.

This proven cohort model offers several benefits to both students and the public. For students, this translates into a pathway to increased earning potential to students who continue on to earn a bachelor’s degree. For the public, this partnership will increase the proportion of bachelor’s degree level child development experts working with children in our community.

WCC’s Career and Technical Education division is already planning to expand this model by offering a second cohort during the fall 2020 semester at the Woodland campus.

Students who are interested in participating in this cohort at either the Lake County or Woodland campus can visit any one of our locations to learn about start dates.

“These types of partnerships really help to increase and develop the higher education pipeline,” stated WCC President Art Pimentel. “Affordability and transportation are often a challenge for many of our rural communities, and this partnership helps to address some of those challenges. In addition, these models help to respond to industry needs, and our hope is to expand these cohort models in other subject areas by further partnering with our regional four-year institutions.”

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