The college also maintains satellite campuses in Allentown, also in the Lehigh Valley, and Tamaqua in Schuylkill County.

The school serves as the primary granter of associate degrees in the Allentown metropolitan area.

College administrators selected the school's current name in 1994 with the goal of increasing enrollment from nearby Carbon County.

Until its sale in 2013, the college operated a campus radio station, WLHI, which was streamed globally on iHeartRadio.

They previously operated the Carbon Center in Jim Thorpe, which was closed in 2020 due to a lack of enrollment and an increasing number of students taking classes online.