HACC, Central Pennsylvania's Community College

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HACC, Central Pennsylvania's Community College
HACC
Motto: Scientia Restituo Verum
(Knowledge Restores Truth)
Established: 1964, accredited in 1967
Type: Public, Community College
Endowment: US$30.2 million
President: Edna V. Baehre, Ph.D.
Staff: 255 full-time, 700 part-time
Undergraduates: 18,000
Location: Harrisburg, PA, USA
Campus: Harrisburg Campus, 212 acres (857,934 m²)
Gettysburg Campus
Lancaster Campus
Lebanon Campus
York Campus
Midtown Harrisburg campus
Penn Center
Community Center for Technology and the Arts (CCTA)
Mascot: Hawks
Website: www.hacc.edu

Formerly known as Harrisburg Area Community College (HACC), HACC, Central Pennsylvania's Community College is a community college in the United States serving the greater Harrisburg, Pennsylvania metropolitan area. HACC is accredited by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. In 2005, Harrisburg Area Community College adopted the slogan: Central Pennsylvania's Community College. On January 30, 2008, the name of the college officially changed to HACC, Central Pennsylvania's Community College.[1]

HACC’s combined credit and noncredit programs serve approximately 60,000 persons annually as an increasing number of people turn to the College for personal and professional growth opportunities. The College’s more than 30,000 alumni, many of whom support the College with both their time and gifts, have achieved distinction in almost every field, including business, medicine, law, the arts, education, human and public service, the military, and the technologies.

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[edit] Campuses

HACC, established in 1964, was the first community college in Pennsylvania. It currently consists of four major campuses throughout south-central Pennsylvania, as well as several off-site centers, and a virtual campus, that provides online distance education courses. The college maintains its 212 acre (857,934 m²) central campus in Harrisburg and others in Gettysburg, Lancaster, and Lebanon.[2] In the Fall of 2007 the York Center has become the fifth major campus. These facilities enroll over 18,000 degree students within a ten-county region.[2]

[edit] Urban Campus

HACC is currently creating a Midtown campus, located in the Midtown neighborhood of Harrisburg, along with the Penn Center in Uptown Harrisburg. The Midtown campus is the former Evangelical Press building, which is being renovated to become the urban campus.[3] The 125,000-square-foot project is to become the center for HACC's building and trade programs and is expected to bring more than 2,500 students to Midtown each day, beginning in Fall 2007.[4] The leasing of the new building has also helped spur new commercial and residential construction throughout the Midtown area. The Community Center of Technology and the Arts will continue to exist on 4th Street, with a walkway connecting to the Midtown campus. Midtown, according to President Baehre, will for the time being, be a division of the Harrisburg campus of HACC, which is considered the main campus, located in uptown Harrisburg.

[edit] Activities

HACC students at the Harrisburg campus recently began extramural competition within the Eastern Pennsylvania Collegiate Conference, competing in the sports of Volleyball, Basketball and Soccer.

There are three organizations on the Harrisburg Campus: Student Government Association, or SGA, The Fourth Estate, and the Students of Wildwood Activities Team, or more commonly, SWAT.

There are a number of clubs on the Harrisburg campus, including several honors fraternities, major-related clubs, multicultural clubs such as: International Awareness Club, Mosaico, and clubs for fun, such as the Japanese Animation Culture Club, Live Action Role Players of HACC, and the Computers and Networking Technology Club.

[edit] References

  1. ^ About Us-Public Relations
  2. ^ a b HACC Facilities. Harrisburg Area Community College (2007). Retrieved on 2007-01-31.
  3. ^ HACC Current Projects. Harrisburg Area Community College (2007). Retrieved on 2007-01-31.
  4. ^ Luciew, John (2007). New Office Complex to tie in with College. The Patriot-News. Retrieved on 2007-01-31.

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