Now that state funding for community colleges is rising, with the economy improving, enrollment has been dropping at many campuses. That’s from a peak of 1-point-8 million in 2008, with more people seeking job training at the time, to about 1-point-6 million over the last three years. But the executive dean of the Nevada County Sierra College campus, Stephanie Ortiz, says enrollment has remained steady, at around 2-thousand…

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But when including the Rocklin campus, the District’s enrollment has dropped to levels not seen in a decade. Officials have also been reporting that entry-level and prerequisite classes in math and English were filled this fall for continuing students. Ortiz says that’s not been the case at the Nevada County campus but at the much-larger Rocklin campus, where enrollment is over 14-thousand…

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Ortiz says some students are also willing to drive to the Nevada County campus for classes that are filled in Rocklin.