Century College
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| Motto: | Higher Education. Lower Tuition. |
| Established: | 1967 |
| Type: | Public Community college |
| President: | Dr. Larry Litecky |
| Students: | 12,040 |
| Location: | White Bear Lake, Minnesota, USA |
| Campus: | Suburban, 170 acres |
| Nickname: | Wood Ducks |
| Website: | www.century.edu |
Century College is a two-year community college located in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. As a part of the MnSCU system, it is the largest two-year community and technical college in Minnesota. Century was founded in 1967 as Lakewood Community College but in 1996 it merged with Northeast Metro Technical to become Century College.
Century offers liberal arts transfer degrees and professional programs. Century College also offers over 60 different career programs and short-term certificate programs. Classes are offered during the day, in the evening, on weekends, and online.
2006 marked the grand opening of Century College’s Kopp Technology Center, named after Lee and Barbara Kopp who donated over $1.2 million in student scholarships. Century also received $19.9 million from the state legislature to build a new science and library center on campus. This new building is scheduled to open in the fall of 2008.
Century College is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission, a commission of the North Central Association. This accreditation facilitates the transfer of credit to Minnesota universities and colleges as well as to institutions throughout the United States.
[edit] Honors and achievement
- For three consecutive years, Century College won top honors for being both the best in the state and the best in the region in the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC) Student Mathematics League Contest. Century is in AMATYC’s Central Region, which consists of 12 states.
- Century’s debate team was the number-two-ranked community college debate team in the country for 2005-2006. Since its inception in spring semester 2004, the Century debate team has won trophies in several national tournaments, competing against such teams as the University of California, Berkeley and Notre Dame.
- The Phi Theta Kappa national honor society chapter at Century was recognized in 2006 as one of the two top chapters in the Midwest Region among 56 chapters.
- The ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) Institute, a cooperative venture with Metropolitan State University and private funders such as Bremer Bank, received the “Outstanding Partnership” award from the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system.
- The National Women's Studies Association honored Professor Judith Roy, the chair of Century's Women and Gender Studies Program, by electing her as the association's national president. This is the first time that a two-year college faculty member has been named to the top leadership role in an association that includes public and private higher education institutions offering baccalaureate and graduate degrees.
- Century College received its first National Science Foundation grant in 2005 for “Investigative Sciences in Law Enforcement Technology.”
- Century was one of 10 colleges nationally to receive a grant from the Fetzer Institute to promote the “Deepening the American Dream” project.
- Century received $130,000 from 3M and Delta Dental to start a community dental clinic in summer 2006 to serve low-income patients.
- Century's "Phantasmagoria" is the only literary journal/magazine published at a two-year college in Minnesota.
- Century’s Teaching Circles were among the 10 finalists for the national Bellwether Award for outstanding academic innovation in 2005.
