Richland Community College

About

Welcome to Richland Community College! We are dedicated to helping you achieve your academic, personal, and overall education goals.

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Follow us on other social media accounts:

Instagram - @richlandcc
Twitter - https://twitter.com/RCCDecaturIL
Youtube - http://www.youtube.com/user/RCCDecaturIL
Linked-In - http://www.linkedin.com/edu/richland-community-college-32388

Policy 5.17 Official College Sponsored Social Media
It is the policy of the Board of Trustees of Richland Community College to acknowledge that social media plays an important role in the lives of the community, students, faculty, and staff. Richland Community College will maintain official social media sites to support the College in accomplishing its mission and vision, achieving its goals and objectives, and advancing the College’s Core Values.

The President or designees shall be responsible for disseminating public information about the College through the use of official College sponsored social media.

Richland Community College encourages feedback and comments from our followers, which include prospective students, current students, alumni, staff and members of the community. We remain committed to maintaining these sites as a safe and family-friendly forum for sharing information.

In the spirit of maintaining a positive environment to our site visitors, Richland Community College reserves the right to remove any comments or wall postings from official college-sponsored pages that are inappropriate, inflammatory or damaging to Richland Community College or any individual.

Richland’s Facebook Rules for Users
1. You are welcome to talk as much as you want on Richland’s Facebook page!
2. If you wouldn’t say it to your granny, don’t post it on our page.
3. Our page is not a forum for a cage match. Your posts must not contain insults, personal attacks, profanity, illegal suggestions or nudity, or it is subject to be removed.
4. Treat others as you want to be treated.
5. If your words are meant to hurt someone, whether it’s inappropriate, offensive, violent, graphic, hateful, discriminatory, sexually explicit or threatening, then your post will be subject for removal.
6. If this is your first time visiting our Facebook page, we encourage you to “like” us, write on our wall, say hello, and share a photo or whatever you like!
7. We’re glad you’re here! This page is for YOU! We encourage your interaction on our page.

Mission

The mission of Richland Community College is to provide innovative educational environments, opportunities, and experiences that enable individuals, communities, and the region to grow, thrive, and prosper.

The College's Mission is partially prescribed by the State of Illinois, and it responds to the purposes of a comprehensive community college. Briefly stated, the College achieves its mission and purposes by offering the following programs:

• The first two years of a baccalaureate education
• Technical courses, certificates, and degrees designed to provide job training,
retraining, and upgrading of skills
• Basic educational skills designed to prepare students to engage in college-level
study
• Continuing and community education courses and programs designed to
provide and encourage opportunities for lifelong learning
• Student development programs and services designed to help students
identify educational and career goals, set realistic career paths, and develop
skills necessary to achieve intellectual and personal growth
• Academic programs and services that provide supplemental support to both
teaching and learning
• Community education activities and programs that complement, enhance, and
contribute to the growth and enrichment of students and the community, both
inside and outside of the classroom
• Community service activities and programs that promote linkages with
business, industry, and governmental agencies designed to meet the
changing needs of the market place and promote economic growth in Central
Illinois