Clatsop Community College is a public, two-year institution serving northwest Oregon and southwest Washington since 1958. Since its founding, CCC has generated a wide array of benefits for students and the community. Those benefits represent the return on investment that students, their families, and the local community make in the educational opportunities provided by CCC.
In 2023, the college received the results of a new, independent economic impact study conducted by Lightcast that documents the significant role that Clatsop Community College plays in the local economy. This study updates the results of similar studies that were conducted in 2012 and 2006, and was commissioned by the Oregon Community College Association. The results of this study can be viewed by clicking on the following links:
- Main Report – download 81 pages (.pdf, 736 KB)
- Executive Summary – download 6 pages (.pdf, 688 KB)
- Overview Fact Sheet – download 1 page (.pdf, 95 KB)
- Business Perspective – download 1 page (.pdf, 199 KB)
- Social Perspective – download 1 page (.pdf, 304 KB)
- Social and Taxpayer Perspectives – download 1 page (.pdf, 125 KB)
- Student Perspective – download 1 page (.pdf, 248 KB)
- Taxpayer Perspective – download 1 page (.pdf, 285 KB)
Beginning in 2000, CCC and the other Oregon Community Colleges began participating in economic benefits studies conducted by CCBenefits, an organization that has conducted such studies for over 500 community and technical colleges in the United States and Canada. The results of their analysis for 2006 can be viewed by clicking on the links below.
- Volume 1: Main Report – download 105 pages (.pdf, 640 KB)
- Volume 2: Detailed Results – download 12 pages (.pdf, 236 KB)
- Executive Summary – download 6 pages (.pdf, 228 KB)
- Taxpayer Perspectives – download 1 page (.pdf, 140 KB)
- Fact Sheet: Economic Impact of Clatsop Community College – download 1 page (.pdf, 168 KB)