Collin County Community College District

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Collin College
Motto: "We have a passion for: Learning, Service and Involvement, Creativity and Innovation, Academic Excellence, Dignity and Respect, and Integrity"
Established: 1985
Type: Community college
President: Cary Israel
Students: 45,000
Location: Collin County, Texas, USA
Mascot: Cougar
Website: http://www.ccccd.edu/

The Collin County Community College District is a community college district which serves Collin and Rockwall Counties, located north and northeast of Dallas. Founded in 1985, the district has grown as the county has grown: from around 5,000 students in 1986 to about 45,000 in 2008. Recently, the college rebranded itself and is now known purely as "Collin College." Among the locals it is known as "Quad C" after the four 'C's in the former name's acronym.

As defined by the Texas Legislature, the official service area of CCCCD is the following:[1]

  • all of Collin and Rockwall Counties, and
  • those portions of Denton County within the cities of Frisco and The Colony, and those portions of the county included within the Celina, and Prosper school districts.

[edit] Campuses

Collin College Spring Creek Campus

The Central Park Campus in McKinney is undergoing a major expansion expected to be completed in 2009. The current building has been renovated, and new features include a multi-story parking garage, library and clock tower. The new Jeffersonian-style library will total 73,500 square feet (6,830 m2) and will be larger than the college's Preston Ridge Campus library in Frisco. The official groundbreaking took place Aug. 28 2007 and the library is expected to be open in the summer of 2009.

The Preston Ridge Campus in Frisco opened in July 1995. It is located north of SH 121 and east of Preston Road. The campus recently opened its new 70,000-square-foot (6,500 m2) "D" building including 26 general classrooms and four science labs. Collin College's business and high-tech programs are centered at Preston Ridge, and the culinary arts program will move there in 2009.[2]

The system's largest campus, Spring Creek, in Plano, in addition to general classes houses the college system's honors programs and fine arts program. For arts, the campus has a 30,000-square-foot (2,800 m2) Arts Gallery and the John Anthony Theatre. Spring Creek campus is the only campus with student housing.[3]

Collin College also has campuses of smaller capacity in Allen, located in Allen High School, in Plano, for continuing education, and one in Rockwall, (located in neighboring Rockwall County) within the Rockwall Independent School District’s Administration/Education Center.[4]

  • Collin College@ALLEN
  • Central Park Campus
  • Courtyard Center
  • Higher Education Center at Rockwall
  • Preston Ridge Campus
  • Spring Creek Campus
  • Higher Education Center McKinney (Open By Spring 2010)
  • Farmersville (Future Campus Site which already has signs stating what's to come)
  • There are also plans to purchase 75 acres to open up a campus in Celina[5]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Texas Education Code, Section 130.175, "North Central Texas College District Service Area".
  2. ^ http://www.ccccd.edu/aboutus/prestonridge.html
  3. ^ http://www.ccccd.edu/aboutus/springcreek.html
  4. ^ http://www.ccccd.edu/aboutus/campuses.html
  5. ^ http://www.planostar.com/articles/2009/01/15/celina_record/news/4.txt

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