To College of Eastern Idaho President Rick Aman, it shouldâve happened sooner.
âThis shouldâve happened, in my mind, 20 years ago,â Aman said.
Aman came to Idaho more than a decade ago to head student services at College of Western Idaho in Boise, just as that college was founded. The stateâs then two other community colleges, North Idaho College and College of Southern Idaho, were founded before the millennium.
Eastern Idaho was the last part of the state to see a community college, after voters approved property tax raises to fund turning Eastern Idaho Technical College into a two-year program which students could use both to hone career skills, earn two-year associate degrees and notch preliminary college courses for four-year degree programs.