Delta College (Michigan)

Delta College
Established	1961
Type	Community College
Endowment	$18 million[1]
President	Jean Goodnow
Academic staff	212[2]
Administrative staff	559[2]
Students	16,000[3]
Location	University Center, Michigan Postal designation for an unincorporated area which includes parts of Bay County, Michigan and Saginaw County, Michigan, USA
Colors	Evergreen and white
Nickname	Pioneers
Website	www.delta.edu

Delta College Health Professions Building

Delta College is a two-year community college located southwest of Bay City, Michigan, United States. Delta College's district had its beginning in 1955 with Saginaw, Midland, and Bay counties making up the district. In 1957, the voters of the tri-counties approved the construction of the college, and it opened for classes in 1961. Delta College replaced Bay City Junior College, established in 1922, because the junior college could no longer support the growing enrollment. With Saginaw Valley College established in 1964, later renamed Saginaw Valley State College in 1975, and finally named Saginaw Valley State University in 1987, both Delta College and Saginaw Valley State University form University Center, Michigan.

Off-campus centers

Delta College has off-campus centers in each of its three neighboring counties: Delta College Planetarium and Learning Center in Bay City; Delta College Midland Center in Midland; and the Ricker Center in Saginaw.

Degree programs

Degree and certificate programs offered by Delta College include:

Athletics

Delta College offers six varsity sports competing in the NJCAA, and is in the MCCAA's conference. The Pioneers compete in men's basketball and women's basketball, baseball, softball, women's soccer and men's golf. Delta has won two national championships, in men's basketball in 1989 and softball in 1999. The women's soccer team and baseball teams were added as varsity sports during the 2011-2012 academic year. www.deltapioneers.com

Media

The college owns and operates WDCQ-TV (Q-TV), the region's PBS station; and WUCX-FM (Q-90.1), the NPR affiliate, owned by Central Michigan University (CMU) and co-operated by Delta College and CMU. Collectively, these stations are known as Delta College Quality Public Broadcasting and they serve an audience of 1.2 million people in mid-Michigan.^[4]

The college's student-run newspaper is the Delta Collegiate and has been published since the college opened in 1961. The newspaper prints a new issue every two weeks during the fall and winter semester.^[5] The Library Learning Information Center (LLLC) now has an online archive of the first 50 years of the Delta Collegiate.^[6] www.deltacollegiate.com

Recent developments

'2014 - A $4-million grant from the Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation allows Delta to move forward with plans to build a STEM Explorer—a 38-foot vehicle set to travel the Great Lakes Bay Region offering enhanced science, technology, engineering and mathematics education to middle- and high-school students.

2013 - Health Professions Building undergoes $20-million makeover. The building represents about 10 percent of Delta's campus. However, nearly 50 percent of students take classes there.

2011 - Delta College celebrated its 50th year as a community college; its 50,000th student graduated.

2010 - An $800,000 federal grant will allow Delta to train students and healthcare professionals in the newly emerging field of electronic medical records systems, allowing them to receive a Health Information Technology certificate/degree.^[7]

2010 - Vice President Joe Biden came to campus to highlight the success of the Chemical Process Technology Program and its partnerships to get displaced workers retrained and back into the workforce.^[8]

2010 - Sets enrollment record with 11,787 students in Winter 2010.^[9]

2009 - Named “Great College to Work For” in a survey done for The Chronicle of Higher Education.^[10]

2008 - Students contributed 95,525 service hours to the Great Lakes Bay Region and beyond. The value of this volunteer time is estimated at just under $2 million.^[11]

2008 - A 16-week training program called Fast-start was created in response to alternative energy growth and partnerships with regional chemical, solar and industrial companies

See also

• WDCQ-TV
• WUCX-FM

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Delta College (Michigan).

• Delta College's Website
• Delta College Planetarium & Learning Center Located in Bay City, Michigan.
• Delta College Athletics
• Delta Collegiate Newspaper
• Delta Collegiate Archive

Coordinates: 43°33′32.3″N 83°59′10.1″W / 43.558972°N 83.986139°W / 43.558972; -83.986139