Mesa Community College
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| Established: | September, 1963 |
| Type: | Community College |
| President: | Shouan Pan |
| Faculty: | 1,100 |
| Students: | 28,000 |
| Location: | Mesa, Arizona, United States |
| Campus: | Main Red Mountain |
| Colors: | Blue, Red, White & Black |
| Nickname: | Thunderbirds |
| Website: | http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/ |
Mesa Community College (MCC) in Mesa, Arizona, is the largest of the 10 community colleges in the Maricopa County Community College District. Enrollment in the spring of 2007 topped 25,000 full- and part-time students. It was founded in 1963 as a branch campus of what is now Phoenix College but later was granted independent status.
MCC offers transfer degrees of Associate in Arts, Associate in Business, Associate in Science, Associate in Transfer Partnership, Associate in General Studies and the Arizona General Education Core (AGEC) which is a 35-38 hour block of general education courses. MCC also offers more than 100 degrees of Associate of Applied Science and Certificate of Completion, which prepare students for immediate entry to the job market
Additionally MCC Continuing Education and Community Education offer hundreds of non-credit classes providing opportunities for lifelong learning in the arts, technology, fitness and personal development for all age groups.
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[edit] Campuses
The college has two full-service campuses and additional branch campuses:
- Southern and Dobson, in the western part of Mesa, Arizona (full-service)
- Red Mountain, in northeast Mesa (full-service)
- Williams Gateway, at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport
- Mesa Downtown Campus
- MCC Online
[edit] Accreditation
This community college is accredited by the North Central Association, the same organization that accredits ASU. There are classes that are required to transfer, called CAS classes listed on the AZ-CAS page at http://az.transfer.org/cas/students/index.html.
[edit] Recent Transitions
On February 7, 2007, chancellor Rufus Glasper announced that he had asked MCC college president Larry Christiansen to resign in response to the criminal investigation by the Maricopa County Attorney. During this transition, MCC was lead by a series of acting and interim presidents: Patricia Cárdenas-Adame, Wayne Giles and Bernie Ronan. Following a national search, Dr. Shouan Pan was selected as the 6th president of MCC.
