Central Piedmont Community College
| Type | Community College |
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| Established | 1963 |
| Endowment | US$16.7 million |
| President | Dr. P. Anthony (Tony) Zeiss |
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Administrative staff
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over 2,500 |
| Students | 61,454 |
| Location | Charlotte, North Carolina, USA |
| Campus | Urban |
| Colors | Black and Green |
| Website | www |
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Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC) is a large community college in Charlotte, North Carolina. Named Central Piedmont Community College by statute and commonly known as CPCC or Central Piedmont, its more than 70,000 students make it one of the largest community colleges in the North Carolina Community College System.
The school was founded in 1963; it is the result of a merger between Mecklenburg College and the Central Industrial Education Center. Now the College consists of six satellite campuses and an extensive "Virtual Campus", all in the Charlotte metropolitan area.
In 2012, US President Barack Obama invoked CPCC in his State of the Union Address.
From 1922 to 1959, Central High School was located on Elizabeth Avenue, where Central Piedmont Community College is now located. When the county and city school systems merged in the early 1950s, the building went unused until 1959 with its students moving into the new Garinger High School. With the building vacant Charlotte College (later UNCC) used the space. Starting in 1959, the Central Industrial Education Center shared the space in the old high school. The three-story building later became Garinger Hall and was once again named the Central High Building in 2002. As a result of the 1963 N.C. Community College Act, the Central Industrial Education Center and the black Mecklenburg College combined to become Central Piedmont Community College.
WTVI Charlotte’s PBS affiliate, now run by Central Piedmont Community College, will become a laboratory for the college’s new associate degree program launching in August 2015 in broadcasting and production technology.
Central Campus is in the Elizabeth neighborhood (adjacent to Independence Park and the Little Sugar Creek Greenway). The campus is set up more like a traditional university campus, housing many buildings on many different blocks. Currently, certain buildings on campus are being expanded and renovated, while others are being replaced all together.
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