Mcc

Mesa Community College

By victoriaheil
  • First American Junior College

    First American Junior College

    1901, Joliet Community College in
    Illinois—the Nation’s first junior college—added a fifth and
    sixth year of courses to a high school curriculum.
  • MCCCD Created

    MCCCD Created

    Celebrate MCCCD In 1962, the Maricopa County Community College District was created in response to the Valley's explosive growth and the region's need for accessible and affordable higher education.
  • Period: to

    50 Years of MCCCD

  • Mesa Community College Born

    Mesa Community College Born

    MCC operates as an extension of Phoenix College, with 3 buildings and 2 houses on ¾ acre of land. Today this site is the Landmark Restaurant.
  • MCC First Semester

    MCC First Semester

    Mesa Community College welcomes 330 students who register for classes in the college's first semester.
  • MCC Campus Land Purchased

    MCC Campus Land Purchased

    Land is purchased for the new Mesa Community College campus at Baseline and Southern Roads, Mesa.
  • MCC First Graduating Class

    MCC First Graduating Class

    Mesa Community College’s first graduating class of 27 students conducts their commencement ceremony on the Phoenix College athletic field.
  • MCC Campus Opens

    MCC Campus Opens

    Mesa Community College opens at its new site at the corner of Dobson and Southern. The buildings are the student center, the science building, the maintenance building, and 26 portable classrooms.
  • MCC Accreditation

    MCC Accreditation

    Phoenix College, Glendale Community College and Mesa Community College and the district receive institutional accreditation from North Central Association.
  • Night Enrollment

    Night Enrollment

    Fall enrollment shows 19,864 night to 17,229 daytime students across GCC, Maricopa Tech, MCC, PC and SCC.
  • Dept. of Occupational Education Established

    Dept. of Occupational Education Established

    The Maricopa Community Colleges established the Department of Occupational Education, later to become the Office of Business & Workforce Development.
  • ACE Program Launched

    ACE Program Launched

    The ACE Program is launched at South Mountain Community College. ACE (Achieving A College Education) is an early outreach, scholarship based, college preparation program.
  • MCC Clock Tower

    MCC Clock Tower

    Workmen from Tempe Welding and Steel help construct the clock tower, a central landmark at Mesa Community College.
  • MCCMortuary

    MCCMortuary

    Dr. Tom Taggert develops Arizona's only mortuary science program at Mesa Community College.
  • MCC Red Mountain

    MCC Red Mountain

    Construction begins at Mesa Community College's Red Mountain campus
  • President Bush Visits MCC

    President Bush Visits MCC

    Mesa Community College was recognized by the President of the United States as a model for workforce development in the Information Technology industry; President George W. Bush visited the college and led a discussion with a panel of students.
  • ASU Transfer Program

    ASU Transfer Program

    Leaders of the Maricopa Community Colleges and Arizona State University sign an agreement that provides for smoother transfers of thousands of students from the community colleges through the MAPP program with 100+ majors eligible.
  • MCC VICC

    MCC VICC

    Mesa Community College opens the Virtual Incident Command Center (VICC), offering emergency response training through geo-spatial and simulation technology to students, local, state, and regional fire-fighting professionals and emergency response workers.