About Us
Rose State College offered its first classes on September 21,
1970. Originally named Oscar Rose Junior College in memory
of the well-known Midwest City-Del City Superintendent of
Schools, the school was renamed Rose State College effective
on November 1, 1983. In December 1973, the College became
a member of The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education,
after approval from the College's Board of Trustees. The
College has grown from an initial enrollment of 1,700 in
1970 to a regular fall enrollment of approximately 8,200.
The campus now includes twenty-one buildings on approximately
116 acres.
RSC Mission Statement
Rose State College, a public, open admissions, associate degree-granting
institution, provides avenues for successful lifelong learning
through programs and services for a diverse community.
Vision Statement
By constantly creating and improving learning programs and services
that are measurably effective and keenly matched to the needs of
our students and community, Rose State College will be recognized
as one of the nation’s premier two-year colleges, distinguished
by:
- Superior student retention and success rates;
- A growing multi-cultural and multi-generational student body
- Development and efficient use of fiscal resources
- Exceptional quality and diversity of programs and personnel.
College Functions
Rose State College has been authorized by the Oklahoma State Regents
for Higher Education to provide programs and activities in the following
areas:
- General Education
- Student Development Services
- University Transfer Education
- Economic Development Services
- Career and Technical Education
- Continuing Education and Contract Training Programs
- Developmental/Remedial Education
- Selected Statewide Educational Services
- Community Services
- Institutional Research
College Core Values
The Rose State College values that guide institutional philosophy,
operation, and planning are:
- Learning: The institution is a learning-centered
environment where students will be afforded ample opportunity
to succeed in meeting their educational goals as partners in the
pedagogical process.
- Excellence: The institution makes a commitment
to internal and external constituents to make each program and
service one of excellence by establishing high standards that
sustain and promote higher education in an innovative, learning-centered
environment.
- Integrity: The institution maintains fair,
honest, accurate, and consistent policies and procedures monitored
by measures of institutional effectiveness to ensure credible
actions are taken to further a diverse learning-centered environment
of individuality and collegiality.
- Service: Through teamwork on campus and in
partnership with the communities served, the institution strives
to improve the quality of life in an urban setting by offering
programs and services based on the needs of students and citizens
and designed for measurably improving the aesthetic, physical,
economic, social, political, and intellectual environment.
Accreditation
Rose State College has developed under the guidelines established
by the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education and has received
full accreditation by that body. This accreditation assures the
transferability of credits from this College to senior colleges
and universities within the state of Oklahoma. This transferability
has been further strengthened by an articulation policy which states
that students who graduate with either an Associate in Arts or an
Associate in Science degree from the accredited community colleges
within the state will be able to transfer and have lower-division
general education requirements satisfied at most of the public colleges
and universities within the state. Rose State College has been accredited
as a degree-granting institution by the following professional groups:
- American Bar Association
- Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs
(CAAHEP)
- Commission on Dental Accreditation
- Joint Review Committee on Education in Radiologic Technology
- National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences
- National Court Reporting Association (NCRA)
- National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission
- The Higher Learning Commission; Member North Central Association
- 30 North LaSalle Street,
- Suite 2400
- Chicago, IL 60602-2504
- Telephone: 1-800-621-7440
- Oklahoma Board of Nursing
- Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education
- State of Oklahoma State Accrediting Agency
Cooperative Agreements and Extrainstitutional Learning Agreements
are signed with educational, business and industry, and governmental
training programs that hold specialty, regional, or national accreditations
in their associated fields.
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