Moraine Valley Community College
| Motto | Changing lives for a changing world |
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| Type | Community college |
| Established | 1967 |
| President | Dr. Sylvia Jenkins |
| Vice-president | Dr. Pamela Haney, Dr. Normah Salleh-Barone |
| Students | 36,000 |
| Location |
Palos Hills, Illinois, United States 41°41′35″N 87°50′16″W / 41.69306°N 87.83778°WCoordinates: 41°41′35″N 87°50′16″W / 41.69306°N 87.83778°W |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Colors | Green and white |
| Athletics | Basketball, baseball, softball, soccer, golf, tennis, cross country running |
| Mascot | The Cyclones. |
| Website | www |
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Moraine Valley Community College, is located in Palos Hills, Illinois, a southwest suburb of Chicago. Founded in 1967, it is the second largest community college in Illinois. It has an enrollment of approximately 36,000. The main campus of 294 acres (119.0 ha) is nestled in the Cook County Forest Preserves. The college also operates satellite facilities in Blue Island and Tinley Park, Illinois.
MVCC has a total enrollment of 16,106 students, 6,764 of whom are full-time students. Tuition and fees for in-district for 2013-2014 were $3,786. In-state tuition and fees for the same year were $8,406. Out-of-state tuition and fees were $9,726. MVCC offers degree and certificate programs in 16 fields, the highest of which is an associate's degree. https://www.usnews.com/education/community-colleges/moraine-valley-community-college-CC05582
MVCC offers its students many accommodations to help them succeed. Night and weekend classes, distance learning, and on-campus day care are all made available to students. Career counseling and services are also available to help students secure jobs after they leave college. To help alleviate the financial burdens that students bear, the college offers employment to its students. Additionally, the college offers athletic scholarships to help some of its students obtain an education more easily.
In 1967, the college was officially created after two years of effort, which included proposals, approval, and planning. It opened its first temporary office in Oak Lawn, IL. A year later, a contest was held to give the college its name, Moraine Valley Community College. The name was chosen because of its location: “where the Valparaiso and Tinley moraines meet to form a valley.“ Since no campus was yet established, the first classes were held in leased warehouses in Alsip, IL.
A year later in 1969, seven temporary buildings opened on the Palos Hills campus. In 1970, with enrollment at 4,089, construction began on the first permanent building on the campus, which opened two years later in 1972. From that point on, buildings have been continually added to the campus until as recently as 2008, while the temporary buildings were torn down until the last one in 1994. In 2004, the first extension site, The Moraine Valley Education Center, opened in Blue Island, IL. On October 6, 2010, the college’s second extension site, the Southwest Education Center, was opened in Tinley Park, IL. The US Green Building Council awarded that facility LEED Platinum certification for its high level of "green" performance.
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