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Community colleges highlight workforce training, early college gains and budget risks
Summary
Community College System officials told the committee the system serves about 24,000 students across credit, early‑college and workforce programs, emphasized rapid expansion in healthcare and trades credentials, and warned cuts to early college or workforce funding would reduce capacity for in‑state workforce pipelines.
Mark Rubinstein, chancellor of the Community College System of New Hampshire, and Shannon Reid, director of government affairs and communications, described the system’s role in supplying credentialed workers for the state and outlined budget items the House trimmed from the governor’s proposal.
Rubinstein said the system served roughly 24,000 students in the last year: about 12,000 in credit programs leading to degrees and certificates, roughly 10,000 in early college programs (high‑school students earning college credits) and around 2,500 in noncredit workforce programs, including apprenticeships. He told…
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