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Lorain County Community College’s Class of 2021 will be honored Saturday, May 15 by U.S. Secretary of Education Dr. Miguel Cardona and Ohio Department of Higher Education Chancellor Randy Gardner.

Two Lorain County Community College students have been named in the top 100 community college students in the country and in the top 10 community college students in Ohio. Akua Agyemang, 19 from North Ridgeville, and Aidan Bundy, 20 from Lorain, were both named as scholars on the 2021 Coca-Cola Academic Team. 

For community colleges and their students, the pandemic has created a perfect storm threatening enrollments and access, and is disproportionately impacting low-income and communities of color. Lorain County Community College has adapted transfer degree programs to better equip high school students and guidance counselors to explore and begin to plan their pathway to a bachelor’s starting in high school. Read more in this article from “Inside Higher Ed.”