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What are the most significant student demographic changes at this school over the past ten years?

The most significant changes at the school include Edison's expansion of its child care facilities and its single parent assistance program. These have been instrumental in enabling more women with children to attend the school and helped more women make the transition from stay-at-home motherhood back or into the workforce. Also, Edison has grown more professional in its orientation, and attracted a wider range of people studying for their Bachelor's because of its expanded course offerings. Its demographics remain constant in some ways: according to the College Board, 96% of students are in-state, 78% are White/Non-Hispanic, 9% are Hispanic, and 8% are Black, with less than 1% Asian/Pacific Islander, American or Alaskan native, and 1% unreported.
However, Edison has become more diverse in other ways. During the 1990s, Edison's expansion of its physical space and added academic offerings, including twenty new programs of study, as well as a host of new professional development and continuing education offerings created a more pluralistic student body, drawn by the new offerings. Recognizing the need for a technically trained labor force, "all of the newly developed programs were workforce related," including both for-credit and non-credit professional training programs ("History of Edison Community College," 2008, Edison Community College)

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