April 2, 2014
SMCC to cut welding, medical degree programs
Southern Maine Community College will eliminate several welding classes along with degree programs in medical health information technology and radiation therapy that it expects will save the college around $250,000 a year.
Jane Sortor, vice president and dean of academic affairs at SMCC, told the Portland Press Herald that not enough students were completing its one-year certificate program or two-year associate degree program to maintain its welding program. Low enrollment also prompted the college to convert its radiation therapy degree program into a certificate program in advanced radiography. A loss of federal grant funding prompted the elimination of the college’s medical health information technology degree program.
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