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Cuyahoga Community College, Ohio's first public community college, is a two-year institution serving Greater Cleveland and environs. The College was chartered by the State of Ohio on Dec. 5, 1962, following the creation of the Cuyahoga Community College District by the Cuyahoga County Board of Commissioners. On Sept. 23, 1963, CCC opened its doors to some 3,000 full-time and part-time students. This was the largest opening-day enrollment figure in the history of the flourishing junior college movement, which now numbers more than 1,000 two-year colleges across the nation. Seven years later, CCC's total enrollment was to swell to 16,439, the sixth largest in the State of Ohio. In addition, thousands of youth and adults have benefited from the College's non-credit offerings. The College's instructional program got underway in the Brownell Building, a 19th century schoolhouse leased from the Cleveland Board of Education. Brownell was renovated and equipped through the generous support of individual donors, foundations, business, labor and industry. Acceptance of the College's evening classes for part-time students necessitated the acquisition of additional space. Arrangements were made with two suburban school districts - South Euclid-Lyndhurst and Parma - to utilize classrooms for evening instruction at Valley Forge and Br,ush High Schools. In September of 1964, a third evening Academic Center was added at East Junior High School in Maple Heights. Growing enrollments soon made it necessary for the College to expand its facilities in downtown Cleveland. Additional space was leased in the Huron Building as well as in the Gallo Building, Huron Building Annex and other buildings. The year 1966 was one of tremendous significance for Cuyahoga Community College. That September, CCC became a truly multi-campus operation with the opening of the Western Campus on the site of the former Crile Veterans Administration Hospital in Parma-Parma Heights. Western's initial enrollment of almost 2,800 helped push the College's total student body in 1966 to 10,600. But 1966 would see still another important stride in the College's growth. That October, just one month after the opening of the Western Campus, ground was broken for a $38.5 million permanent Metropolitan Campus in downtown Cleveland. Located on a 40-acre site in the St. Vincent area, the new megastructure was designed to serve some 15,000 full-time and part-time students. Sept. 26, 1968, marked an important entry in the chronicle when the College took a historic step in the fulfillment of its long-range building program to serve the county. Opening on that day was the first structure of the ten-unit Metropolitan Campus. Some 3,000 day and evening students in the Career Program began attending classes in the Science and Technology Building. By Fall of 1969, Cleveland's new downtown showpiece was 90% complete and virtually all of Metro's instructional offerings were trans-
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