Edison State College

Infobox_University
name = Edison State College
motto = Changing Lives for the Better
established = 1962


campus = Urban
type = Public community college
president = Kenneth P. Walker
city = Fort Myers
state = Florida
country = United States
students = 17,000
staff =
faculty =
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colors = Blue and white
nickname =
website = [http://www.edison.edu edison.edu]

Edison State College (ESC) is a public community college in Florida, part of the Florida Community Colleges System. The college has its main campus (Lee County Campus) in Fort Myers in Lee County, and branch campuses in Charlotte and Collier counties. The college also has an outreach program in Hendry and Glades counties. The college is named after inventor and industrialist Thomas Edison, who lived in Fort Myers during the winter months.

History

The college admitted its first students in the fall of 1962.

Edison State College was previously known as Edison Junior College (junior college), Edison Community Collegeand Edison College, before adopting its current name upon becoming a state college in 2008.

Degrees and programs

ESC offers two-year associate's degrees (both the Associate of Arts (A.A.) and Associate of Science (A.S.)), as well as the Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.S.) degrees and certificate programs. The college also has a dual enrollment program with 11th- and 12th-grade Lee County School District high school students. The college also offers non-credit continuing education courses.

Campuses

The main campus, the Lee County Campus is located on about 140 acres between College Parkway and Cypress Lake Drive in south Lee County. The campus is made up of 24 permanent buildings, including one- and two-story classroom buildings, a library, a bookstore, a cafeteria, a student center, and laboratories for science, computer science, nursing, health technologies, and college preparatory classes. The Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall located at the Lee County Campus is a venue which hosts plays, shows, and concerts. The Edison Pops Concert Series is held there annually.

The Collier County Campus is a 80-acre site near State Road 951 and Rattlesnake Hammock Road in east Naples. It opened in March 1992.

The Charlotte County Campus is a wooded site on Airport Road in Punta Gorda. It opened in 1997.

Edison also provides services to Edison State College students in Hendry and Glades counties.

Edison State College is governed by its District Board of Trustees composed of nine representatives from Charlotte, Collier, Hendry, Glades and Lee counties. The members are appointed to four-year terms by the governor of Florida. Currently about 340 professional and support staff members provide the full-time instructional and support services for the more than 15,000 credit and nearly 3,000 non-credit students who participate in Edison courses and programs each year.

Notable alumni

External links

* [http://www.edison.edu Edison State College]