By WHITNEE ICE
St. Joseph Post
2022 will be a year of new for the St. Joseph school system.
North Central Missouri College will soon be the primary community college for Buchanan County students, school districts, businesses, and industries.
A memorandum of understanding was agreed upon this week between North Central Missouri College (NCMC) of Trenton and Metropolitan Community College (MCC) of Kansas City. This understanding will change the service region for Buchanan County.
North Central President Lenny Klaver says NCMC will begin service in Buchanan County after the spring 2022 semester.
“We’re going to do our best to research this over the next year and take the input of business and industry to determine what are the best programs to offer here and how we can market that to not just the high school age population, but the adult learners in the community as well” Klaver tells St. Joseph Post.
Klaver says classes through MCC at Hillyard Technical Center will continue for the time being.
“Hillyard is part of the St. Joseph school district so we will be in conversation with them about transitioning some of our programs and classes there, but there’s a lot unknown,” says Klaver. “This memorandum of understanding was just the start to a change of service region.”
Klaver says they are going to do their best to research what the school should offer for the county.
“We have a long way to go in what we are going to plan and there’s nothing definite right now about what we’re going to do but by the time we offer programs here and probably before that we’ll make it well known.”