College Facts

Student Body

Enrollment (2006-2007) academic year:

• Approximately 33,853 students taking credit and noncredit courses.
• Approximately 14,403 full-time-equivalent students.
• Approximately 26,157 students enrolled in credit courses.

Student Characteristics

• The majority (53%) are 25 or older and the median age is 26.
• There are more women (67%) than men.
• There are diverse groups of students:
  African American 51.3%
  White 27.1%
  Asian/Pacific Islander 7.9%
  Spanish Hispanic 13.2%
  Native American 0.5%
  
• Approximately 73% are minority students.
• More than half (60%) are enrolled in transfer or general studies programs; 17% enrolled in career programs; 23% enrolled in noncredit, continuing education coursework.

Faculty and Staff

• 468 full-time faculty
• 850 part-time faculty
• 442 administrative and support staff

Academic Offerings

• More than 70 career and transfer programs in Business, Humanities, Allied Health, Science and Technology and the Social and Behavioral Sciences.
• Day, evening and weekend classes for full-time and part-time students. Credit and noncredit courses at the Main Campus, three Regional Centers and more than 20 neighborhood and corporate locations.
• Distance Education Courses.
• Comprehensive academic academic support services and programs, services for students with disabilities and other support services available.
• Customized courses for business and industry.

Degrees Granted

Associate in Arts (A.A.)
Associate in Science (A.S.)
Associate in Applied Science (A.A.S.)

Accreditation

• Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools
• Department of Education, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
• Council of Higher Education

Specific program accreditation information is available.

2007-2008 Budget

$118.6 million
($109.4 operating; $9.2 capital)

Financial Aid

Approximately 69% of full-time students and 57.5% of all students receive some type of financial aid.

Funding

Operating costs are shared among the students, city and the commonwealth. Capital costs are funded by the city and the commonwealth.

Educational Impact

We are the largest institution of higher education in Philadelphia and the sixth largest in Pennsylvania. The College has served more than 581,871 since it began operation.

Over half (68%) of graduates in transfer programs continue on to four-year institutions.

The College is ranked #6 nationally in the number of assciate's degrees awarded to African-American students (U.S. Department of Education).

Economic Impact

$64,747,493 annual payroll (2007)
$2,668,313 in wage tax (2007)
$39,500,800 in expenditures (2006-2007)
$75,535,953 in federal and state revenues (2006-2007)
80% of recent College graduates who were working at a job eight months after graduating from the College were employed in the city

Locations

• Main Campus, 1700 Spring Garden Street
• Northeast Regional Center, 12901 Townsend Road
• West Regional Center, 4725 Chestnut Street
• Northwest Regional Center, 1300 West Godfrey Avenue
• More than 20 neighborhood and corporate locations citywide

President
Stephen M. Curtis

Governance
15-member board of trustees, appointed by the Mayor.

Board officers:
George E. Davis, Chair
Thomas J. Butler, Vice Chair
Varsovia Fernandez, Vice Chair
Gilbert A. Wetzel, Vice Chair
Dorothy Sumners Rush, Secretary
Thomas Hawk, Treasurer


Johnny J. Butler, B.A., LL.M., J.D.
Judge
Commonwealth Court of pennsylvania

Thomas J. Butler, B.A., M.Ed.
Executive Director
Core Philly Scholarship Program

Rhonda R. Cohen, B.A., J.D.
Former Partner
Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll

Michael G. Crofton, B.S.
President and CEO
The Philadelphia Trust Company

George E. Davis, B.S.
Retired Senior Vice President, Human Resources
Lincoln Financial Group

Varsovia Fernandez, B.S.
President & CEO
Greater Philadelphia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

Sallie A. Glickman, B.A., M.Ed.
Executive Director
Philadelphia Workforce Investment Board

Daniel P. McElhatton, B.A., J.D.
Christie Pabarue Mortensen and Young, P.C.

Albert B. Murphy, II, B.A., MBA
Principal
PMG Advisors, LLC

The Honorable James R. Roebuck, Jr.,
B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
State Representative

Carole I. Smith, B.S., M.S.
Executive Director of the
Mayor's Commission on Technology

Dorothy Sumners Rush, B.S., M.Ed.
Vice President
Philadelphia Board of Education

Gilbert A. Wetzel, B.S.
Managing Director
Mayer & Associates

Jeremiah J. White, Jr., B.S., M.A.
Chairman
Osiris Group

Marcellete Wise Ellison, B.S., M.S.
Director of Commercial Capabilities
GlaxoSmithKline

Trustees Emeritus

Jane S. Abrahams (d)
Robert S. King
Isadore A. Shrager (d)