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About Redlands Community College

Our Mission

Redlands Community College provides a learner-centered environment committed to academic excellence strengthened through service and civic engagement.

Our Values

1.  Learner-Centered Environment: Provide a rich academic environment in which learners engage in designing and completing individual educational goals.

2.  Academic Excellence: Provide opportunities for continuous academic growth through a challenging and rigorous curriculum enhanced by the application of research and technology.

3.  Collaboration and Service: Provide learning opportunities in collaboration with public and private partners that reinforce the value of service to others and strengthen ethical development and civic engagement.

Our Strategic Plan

Goal 1: Improve Redlands Student Enrollment, Retention, Success, and Completion rates

Goal 2: Elevate Teaching and Learning

Goal 3: Cultivate Community Integration

Goal 4: Maintain operational accountability by maximizing effective uses of resources

Goal 5:  Utilize technology to support and enhance college operations

Goal 1: Improve Redlands Student success, retention and graduation rates

Objectives

  • Improve college awareness and increase student enrollment by 10%
  • Increase full-time student retention rates by 10%
  • Increase student credit completion and academic success  
  • Increase student completion rates by 10%

Goal 2: Elevate Teaching and Learning

Objectives

  • Prepare students to enter the workforce by offering degrees that are in alignment with the projected workforce growth as well as provide interdisciplinary and hands-on training.
  • Promote and extend a collaborative student learning environment.
  • Develop an effective and user-friendly online strategy for teaching and learning.
  • Evaluation of faculty teaching.
  • Develop, support and recognize faculty in the use of innovative practices leading to enhanced teaching, student learning and student opportunities.
  • Ensure student learning outcomes are being met.
  • Enhance partnerships and/or collaboration with other educational institutions to further academic opportunities.

GOAL 3: Cultivate Community Integration

Objectives

  • Promote service learning initiatives to complement academics and partnerships within the community, including community-building activities.
  • Develop and leverage collaborative and cooperative agreements and memberships with local, regional and national partners.
  • Promote and market Redlands Community College as a central and western Oklahoma hub for community and educational resources and outreach.
  • Cultivate alumni relationships to increase alumni engagement and participation and expand donor database.

Goal 4: Maintain operational accountability by maximizing effective uses of resources

Objectives

  • Continue regular communication of the budget to the College Board of Regents and the public.
  • Evaluate all programs and services for demonstrable value to students, business industry, and/or community.
  • Pursue private or grant/contract funding as a funding resource for campus programs. 
  • Enhance partnerships and/or collaboration with other educational institutions that have common funding priorities, including Fiscal Solutions, Efficiencies, Affordability, and Technology.
  • Continually update and prioritize the master/financial plan for capital funding needs across campus. 
  • Continue to monitor and evaluate student fees and tuition rates and communicate the need to students. 
  • Launch Campus Capital Campaign to raise funds for facility upgrades and expansion.    

Goal 5:  Utilize technology to support and enhance college operations

Objectives

  • Ongoing analysis for network and datacenter improvements
  • Continue upgrade/replacement of classroom instructor workstations, computer lab workstations, classroom equipment (projectors, doc cams, etc.)
  • Partner with DELT Committee in support of online course enhancement and uniformity
  • Assist with design and analysis support for the Early Alert System with Retention Office
  • Provide ongoing support of Public Marketing Website with Communications Office (new website)
  • Continually research, propose, and provide avenues for network/data security
  • Enhance communication and disbursement of IT objectives college wide
3 out of 4 graduates
have degrees that can transfer to a 4-year college
$154.84 per credit hour
That's below the state average for public institutions
6 different countries 
represented by international students since 2012

 

72 student apartments
available in Cougar Crossing, our modern on-campus residences
13% lower tuition
than state average for public universities
70+ faculty members
with Master's Degree or higher subject-specific education

 

Redlands Community College History

Redlands Community College is a fully accredited two-year college in the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education. The College was founded in 1938 under the auspices of El Reno Public Schools, District I-34 and was originally housed in the basement of El Reno High School. Later, the College moved to the former El Reno Post Office, which was converted into classrooms, laboratories and offices for the growing institution.

In 1971, the public school district Junior College ceased to exist and the people of the district voted to establish a full-fledged Junior College district under the governance of the El Reno Junior College Board of Regents. Later, in 1974, legislation was passed establishing the College as a full member of the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education. On September 1, 1991, the name of the College was officially changed to Redlands Community College.

Redlands Community College undertook the first phase of construction on its present site north of Interstate 40 at 1300 S. Country Club Road in 1971. Over the years, the campus has grown to include numerous buildings and now encompasses 54 acres. The 150-acre Darlington Agriculture Education and Applied Research Center and the 310-acre Redlands Royse Ranch are located north of El Reno and house all agriculture operations. The Redlands Community College Foundation was the beneficiary of the Austin Family Estate, which includes 1,275 acres in western Canadian County.

In addition to traditional classrooms, Redlands Community College facilities include an Art Gallery, Cultural Center, Austin Family Conference Center, eSports lab, Cougar Crossing Apartments, and a Fitness Wellness Center.

Redlands Community College serves the needs of nearly 5,000 urban and rural credit students each year, offering a variety of programs and semester plans. From art to zoology, there’s something for both degree seekers and lifelong learners.

Each year, hundreds of high school students surrounding communities earn college credit through concurrent classes. Internships, co-op education and clinical nursing experiences offer practical, hands-on learning throughout area industry and clinics.

Our competitive teams, including NJCAA sports such as baseball, basketball, cross country, women’s golf, and soccer as well as eSports, the academic team, shooting sports, livestock judging and beef team, are a vital part of life at the College. With numerous student organizations ranging from the book club and Dungeons & Dragons to Student Government Association and Student Nursing Association, we have something for everyone.