Bliss Electrical School
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Montgomery Junior College |
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| Motto | Make Your Move |
| Type | Community College |
| Established | 1946 (as Montgomery Junior College) |
| President | Dr. DeRionne P. Pollard |
| Students | Nearly 60,000 credit and noncredit students |
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Montgomery County, Maryland 39°05′53″N 77°09′33″W / 39.09818°N 77.15906°WCoordinates: 39°05′53″N 77°09′33″W / 39.09818°N 77.15906°W |
| Campus | Campuses in Rockville, Germantown, and Takoma Park/Silver Spring |
| Colors | Purple, Silver, Black, & White |
| Mascot | Raptors (est. 2012) |
| Website | www |
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Montgomery College (MC) is a public, open access community college located in Montgomery County, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C.. The college has three campuses, the largest of which is in Rockville. Its other campuses are in Takoma Park/Silver Spring and Germantown. Its off-campus sites include the Business Training Center in Gaithersburg and Westfield South in Wheaton, which are operated by the college's Workforce Development and Continuing Education Division.
This college was organized in 1946 as "Montgomery Junior College," with its campus located at the Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School. In 1950, the college moved to Takoma Park, absorbing the Bliss Electrical School, a private, for-profit institution formed in 1893, and that had occupied the site since 1908. During World War II Bliss had the distinction of being selected by the U.S. Navy as one of six engineering schools to give Primary School in the Electronics Training Program and it graduated over 3,000 students.
The Rockville campus opened in 1965, and the Germantown campus opened in early 1970s, occupying its present permanent site since 1978. Montgomery College also offers learning opportunities through its extensive Workforce Development and Continuing Education programs.
The Takoma Park campus began expanding into neighboring Silver Spring, with the opening of a new Health Sciences Center in January 2004. The campus expansion in Silver Spring included the addition of The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Arts Center, which opened in fall 2007. The building houses the campus visual arts programs and the School of Art + Design, formerly the Maryland College of Art and Design, which merged with Montgomery College in September 2004. To reflect the campus's expansion into Silver Spring, the Board of Trustees renamed the Takoma Park campus as the "Takoma Park/Silver Spring Campus" in June 2005.
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