WARWICK – As a means to help students who delayed their decisions to enroll in college this fall for a variety of reasons, including COVID-19-related reasons, the Community College of Rhode Island unveiled Tuesday a new opportunity for prospective students to enroll full-time this fall and start classes at a later date.
CCRI will hold an 11-week condensed fall term, called “Last Call for Fall,” beginning Sept. 28 and will offer more than 200 online/remote course selections across the college’s seven academic and career paths. The condensed semester, which is set up similarly to CCRI’s summer term with the same academic hours in a shorter period of time, is being offered in addition to the traditional fall term that began Monday.
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“This is an opportunity for students who thought it was too late to enroll in college this year,” CCRI spokesperson Amy Kempe told Providence Business News Tuesday.
Kempe also said the current pandemic required CCRI to become innovative in offering opportunities for students to access higher education. Registration for the new academic term began Tuesday and will run through Sept. 28, CCRI said, and the condensed term will end at the same time as the traditional fall term.
The new fall term is open to all students, including those eligible for the Rhode Island Promise program, CCRI said, provided that they enroll at the college full-time.
Last Call for Fall is also a push for CCRI to increase its enrollment. Currently, a little more than 13,000 students have enrolled at the college as of Aug. 28, Kempe said, and final enrollment totals won’t be available until October. However, CCRI is still projecting its fall enrollment to be by about 10-18% less than last year’s enrollment as a result of the pandemic.
James Bessette is the PBN special projects editor, and also covers the nonprofit and education sectors. You may reach him at Bessette@PBN.com. You may also follow him on Twitter at @James_Bessette.
