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.