Orange County’s own community college has seen its winter session enrollment grow by 22 percent from last year, according to a recent statement by the State University of New York (SUNY) Orange.
It marks the eighth consecutive academic session in which the college saw enrollment growth among its credit programs after a big hit during the COVID-19 pandemic years.
Enrollments at community colleges across New York state had been declining slowly for years before the steep plunge related to the pandemic.
During the recent rebound, SUNY Orange was ranked third among the 30 or so community colleges in terms of the speed of enrollment recovery, according to data published by SUNY last fall….