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Community college forms as an extension of high school adding 5th and 6th years; the first community college forms in Illiniois, called Joliet.
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Phoenix College forms with Weston W. Carpenter as first dean. Extension of high school.
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Phoenix College establishes its first student government.
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PC mascot is formed.
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Phoenix College begins its first student-run newspaper system.
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Women begin to take a stand and participiate in sports!
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The Great Depression strikes America and takes the educational world by storm; community colleges become a major player in providing training and job programs for the unemployed.
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Students seek out community colleges as refuges to escape the draft
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The first state Junior college bill is introduced, HB 238.
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Maricopa community colleges emerge from the Junior college district and Phoenix Union High School; Phoenix College joins Maricopa Community colleges.
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Land is purchased to create Glendale Community College.
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Maricopa Skills Center is opened.
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Mesa Community College begins.
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No more segregation in schools!
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Funding is approved to create Scottsdale Community College.
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Scottsdale Community College opens for enrollment.
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The first "honors" community college opens for Maricopa county.
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Rio Salado become accredited.
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Chandler Gilbert Community College Opens
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Estrella Mountain Community College opens.
