Niagara County Community College

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Niagara County Community College is located in Sanborn, New York, USA northeast of the City of Niagara Falls. NCCC offers associate's degrees in many programs.

Niagara County Community College was founded in 1962 and is sponsored by Niagara County and SUNY. The new campus opened in 1972.

Dual admissions programs facilitate transfer to four-year colleges upon completion of the two-year degree programs.

1 History
2 Campus
3 Henrietta G. Lewis Library
4 Distinguished Alumnus
5 External links

[edit] History

NCCC was founded November 8, 1962 and was opened on September 30, 1963 to 343 students. The original campus was just the old office for the Nabisco factory in Niagara Falls, New York, and was nicknamed "Nabisco Tech". As the college grew, more buildings were acquired: the old Third Street School, several houses, the Olin Laboratory, a Mormon Church, the Parkway Inn, the Waldorf-Niagara Motel, and part of the DeVeaux School. It was not until the move to Sanborn that the college offered more than five curricula.

[edit] Campus

The campus is located on the corner of New York State Route 31 and New York State Route 429. It consists of 287 acres of semi-wooded land and eight interconnected buildings described as "architecturally striking."

The Ernest Notar Administration Building contains the colleges administrative offices. It is named for Dr. Ernest Notar, the first president of the college from 1962-1975.
The Business Education Building is the location of the Business Division.
The Science/Technology Building is the home of the Life Sciences, Nursing, and Mathematics/Computer Science/Physics and Engineering/Technology/Chemistry Divisions.
The Library Learning Center is the most architecturally striking building and has a collection of 95,391 books.
The Humanities/Social Sciences Building houses the English, literature, linguistics, languages, philosophy, history, government, psychology, sociology, anthropology, and economics departments.
The Fine Arts Building contains the Fine Arts Division and the college's auditorium.
The Student Center holds culinary arts classes, the college bookstore, lounge rooms, a game room, a bowling alley, and more.
The Health Education Center includes a gym, which seats 2,000, and a swimming pool, which seats 200.

[edit] Henrietta G. Lewis Library

In 2005, the Library Learning Center was given this name because of a one million dollar grant from the Grigg-Lewis Foundation, the largest gift in the college's history. The Library has 95,391 books, 565 subscriptions, 195 microform titles, 279 linear feet of archive titles, 6,747 multi-media titles, and 157.3 linear feet of special collections. It also has an online catalog and web-based reference sources. It is open 64 hours a week, including Saturdays.