Oklahoma City Community College (OCCC) is a public community college located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The college was founded in 1972 as South Oklahoma City Junior College. OCCC has a current enrollment of 19,668 students and is the second largest community college and the fifth largest public higher education institution in Oklahoma. OCCC operates a main campus and three satellite locations in the south metro. The president of Oklahoma City Community College is Dr. Jerry Steward. Steward became the 10th president of the college after the retirement of Paul Sechrist in 2015. OCCC is fully accredited by The Higher Learning Commission. The name of the college is most often pronounced as "O-Triple-C."
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Academics
OCCC offers 36 Associate in Arts and Associate in Science degree programs, 24 Associate in Applied Science degree programs, and 18 Certificate of Mastery programs. Most courses are structured in a semester or 16-weeks. Some courses can be completed in little as 8, 5, or 4 weeks.
Courses are mostly taken at the campus itself, with average of 21:1 student to teacher ratio. Courses are also being offered online.
The faculty consists of 134 full-time professors, and 400 adjunct professors. Oklahoma City Community College is a post-secondary school. Students take classes for a variety of reasons: working towards an associate degree, certificate, transfer course work to a university, or to obtain technical skills.
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History
Oklahoma City Community College was initiated by the South Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce in March 1969. The Chamber petitioned the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education to create a local junior college. From there building began in 1972. September 25, 1972 marked the first day of South Oklahoma City Junior College with an enrollment of 1,049. The Board of Regents voted in 1983 to change the name to Oklahoma City Community College.
Development
In 1996, the college added a new library, the Keith Leftwich Memorial Library, and the Robert P. Todd SEM (Science, Engineering, and Mathematics) Center. From 1989 until 2015 the college also had an Olympic-sized pool that was paid for with donations by local Oklahomans and is used for swim meets, children's swimming lessons and general community recreation. The college is also host to an annual Fall Arts Festival on Labor Day weekend.
In 2011, OCCC dedicated the Family And Community Education (FACE) center at the former John Glenn Elementary School, which houses the Child Development Center and Lab School as well as adult basic education courses including GED and ESL.
As of August 1, 2011 all of Oklahoma City Community College's campus is smoke-free. On August 15, 2011, the college established the Oklahoma City Community College Police Department.
On April 13, 2012 The Pioneer, OCCC's student newspaper uncovered alleged open records abuses by OCCC's Marketing and Public Relations Department. The story was picked up both locally and nationally by FOI Oklahoma and the Student Press Law Center.
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