Niagara County Community College

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== ==Niagara 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.

Contents 1 History 2 Campus 3 Distinguished Alumni 4 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 Henrietta G. Lewis Library 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, student lounges, a game room, a bowling alley.
• The Health Education Center includes a gym, which seats 2,000, fitness center, and a swimming pool, which seats 200.

6% of all african americans attend the college.

Note (Not a complete list of specialties):

A - Building - Administration - Named The Ernest Notar Administration Building , But Still Called A Building

B - Building - Business Classes / Computer Classes / Secretarial Science / Accounting Classes

C - Building - Science / Physics / Astronomy / Chemistry / Math / Computer Networking / Robotics Classes

D - Building - Library / Art Gallery / Day Care / Digital Media Classes / TV Studio / Open-Access Computer Lab

E - Building - English / Social Science / Psychology / Astronomy Planetarium / Foreign Language Classes

F - Building - Fine Arts / Speech, Public Speaking Classes / Auditorium / Ceramics Studio / Drawing Studio's

G - Building - Student Center, Food Services / Culinary Art Classes / Security / Alumni Offices

H - Building - Gym / Pool / Racket & Squash Courts / Weight Training / Health Classes

[edit] Distinguished Alumni

George Maziarz, a New York State Senator

Ferrari (Wrestler), a professional wrestler

Rashad Evans, a mixed martial artist

[edit] External links

• Niagara County Community College webpage.

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