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Council lends support to college name change

STERLING JOURNAL-ADVOCATE, Jan. 15 — The Sterling City Council agreed Tuesday night to lend its support to changing the name of Northeastern Junior College.

Northeastern President Jay Lee gave a presentation at the council’s regular meeting, explaining that the Colorado Legislature is slated to take up a request from the Colorado Community College System this session that would allow the state’s three remaining junior colleges — Northeastern, Otero and Trinidad State — to drop the “junior” from their names.

Lee shared some history on the rise and fall of junior colleges, noting that there are only 15 institutions in the U.S. that are still named as such.

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