| HACC, Central Pennsylvania's Community College | |
|---|---|
| Motto | Scientia Restituo Verum (Knowledge Restores Truth) |
| Established | 1964, accredited in 1967 |
| Type | Public, Community College |
| Endowment | US$30.2 million |
| President | Dr. John J. Sygielski |
| Admin. staff | 255 full-time, 700 part-time |
| Undergraduates | 21,000 |
| Location | Harrisburg, PA, USA (main campus) |
| Campus | Harrisburg Campus Gettysburg Campus Lancaster Campus Lebanon Campus York Campus |
| Mascot | Hawks |
| Website | www.hacc.edu |
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. The name HACC formerly was an anagram for Harrisburg Area Community College.
HACC serves 21,000 degree-seeking students as well as 50,000 in noncredit programs for personal and professional growth opportunities.[1] The College has 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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HACC, established in 1964, was the first community college in Pennsylvania. It currently consists of five 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 York became the fifth major campus. These facilities enroll over 18,000 degree students within a ten-county region.[2]
HACC recently enlarged its Midtown site, located in the Midtown neighborhood of Harrisburg, along with the Penn Center in Uptown Harrisburg. The Midtown site—part of the Harrisburg Campus—is the former Evangelical Press building, which is being renovated to become the urban campus.&coll[3] The 125,000-square-foot (11,600 m2) 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 on 4th Street is now part of the Midtown site with Boyd Street (now a walkway) connecting to the other Midtown building.
A block-long park and walkway will replace an alley near Harrisburg Area Community College's Midtown campus. Full of trees and greenery, the park will replace Boyd Street between the 1500 blocks of North Third and North Fourth streets.
C.J. Elder, president of the neighborhood development group Friends of Midtown, said the meadow will give a "sense of renewal" to the alley. "I'm a firm believer in greening up spaces," Elder said. "It's always better to add a tree than to add a parking lot." [1]
HACC students at the Harrisburg campus recently began extramural competition within the Eastern Pennsylvania Collegiate Conference (EPCC), 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 (HACC JACC), Live Action Role Players of HACC (LARP), and the Computers and Networking Technology Club.
The Lancaster Campus has: Environmental Science Club, and a Soccer Club that plays in a tournament .
In 2005, Harrisburg Area Community College adopted the slogan: Central Pennsylvania's Community College. While Harrisburg Area Community College remains the college's full legal name, the college registered the legal alias HACC, Central Pennsylvania's Community College in 2007 and began using that name almost exclusively.[5]