DC finally gets a CC

According to reports, Washington DC will open its first community college, fall 2009. The new community college will fall under the rubric of the University of the District of Columbia (UDC). UDC will turn SEU into a "workforce training oriented" CC, and UDC will become a "flagship university" and raise tuition (somebody has to pay for the flag.)

Press accounts are sketchy on the precise details (here, here, and here). But it appears that the public University of the District of Columbia will take over (or merge) with DC's private Southeastern University (SEU).

By all accounts, SEU was failing and flailing; it was forced to discontinued a number of programs this fall.
Rather uniquely, SEU offered associate degrees in addition to bachelors and masters degrees.

Questions remain about UDC's ability to take a private university and turn it into a community college. Neither institution is centrally located within DC - might they both offer community college classes?

Whatever the case, a CC in DC is long overdue. To my knowledge DC is the only state (um, pseudo state) in America without a community college system. Glad to see that change.

Final note: as I predicted (#3), another private university bites the dust. Not to gloat...