Mesa Community College Timeline

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  • First community college - Joliet Community College

  • First 2 postgraduate students at Phoenix Union High School

  • Start of Phoenix Junior College

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    Community Colleges begin to offer job training programs

  • Creation of Maricopa County Community College District

  • Mesa campus set up as extension of Phoenix College

  • Period: to

    Increase in CC enrollment

    Baby boomers enter college

  • Mesa Extension opens

    Site is now the Landmark Restaurant
    330 students registered

  • Land is purchased for Mesa Community College

    at Southern and Dobson

  • MCC enrollment is 814 students

  • MCC enrollment is now 1,369 students

  • MCC is officially made separate entity and named

  • MCC's first graduation

  • MCC ground breaking ceremony

  • MCC opens Southern & Dobson campus

  • Groundbreaking for library & physical sciences building

  • MCC enrollment is 2717 for day students

  • SCC opens as extension of MCC

  • MCC mascot changed from Hokam to Thunderbird

  • Helena Howe becomes president of MCC

    First woman president in MCCD

  • Grounbreaking for the Outback Theater

  • 55% of CC students are women

  • MCC's Children's Center opens

  • MCC Red Mountain campus opens

  • Groundbreaking for Eisner Library

  • Grand Opening of MCC Red Mountain campus

  • New Physical Sciences building and Planetarium opens at MCC