New Partnership Allows SCC Energy Generation Students to Continue Online

Graduates of Southeast Community College’s (www.southeast.edu) Energy Generation Operations program can continue their education online through a college in New York without ever leaving Nebraska. The program has secured an academic partnership with Excelsior College in Albany, NY to make it easier for Energy Generation Operation students to complete their bachelor’s degree in Nuclear Engineering Technology. The classes are all available online.

“Excelsior is essentially taking all of our energy credits, as well as some general education courses so that our alumni will start this online Bachelor of Science degree program as juniors,” said John Pierce, chair of the Energy Generation Operations program at SCC.

SCC has similar partnerships with Bismarck State College in Bismarck, North Dakota and Thomas Edison State University in Trenton, New Jersey.

“These three partnerships are a direct result of our partnership with Cooper Nuclear Station and our joint involvement with the Nuclear Uniform Curriculum Program, a project of the Nuclear Energy Institute,” Pierce said.

Energy generation operators typically work in power plants. SCC’s program offers focus areas in Industrial Process Operations, Nuclear and Military Operations.