Wilbur Wright College
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Former names
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Wright Junior College |
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| Motto | Education that Works |
| Type | Community |
| Established | 1934 |
| Affiliation | City Colleges of Chicago |
| Chancellor | Cheryl L. Hyman |
| President | David Potash, Ph.D. |
| Vice-president | Nicole Reaves, Ph.D. |
| Students | 9000 |
| Location | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Campus | Large City |
| Colors | Brown, grey |
| Athletics | Basketball (Women), Basketball (Men) |
| Mascot | Rams |
| Website | http://www.ccc.edu/colleges/wright/Pages/default.aspx |
Wilbur Wright College, formerly known as Wright Junior College, is a public community college in Chicago. Part of the City Colleges of Chicago system, it offers 2-year associate's degrees, as well as occupational training in IT, manufacturing, medical, and business fields. Its main campus is located in the northwest side, Dunning, Chicago neighborhood.
Wilbur Wright College was established in 1934 by the Chicago Board of Education as one of the system of three city junior colleges designed to serve the post-secondary educational needs of Chicago residents. For a three-year period during World War II, the U.S. Navy leased the facilities and trained thousands of men as part of the Electronics Training Program. The college remained in its initial location at 3400 N. Austin Ave. until moving to a new campus in 1993.
In 1966, Wright and the other city colleges were reorganized into a new community college district, named the City Colleges of Chicago, with its own Board of Trustees and taxing authority. This system includes colleges which, in turn, are a part of the State system comprising 40 public community college districts and 49 individual colleges.
Under the City Colleges of Chicago's new College to Careers initiative, Wright is City Colleges of Chicago's hub for Information Technology.
Wright College was originally located in a large building at 3400 N. Austin Avenue, in Dunning. The original Wright campus is now home to the Chicago Academy Elementary School, the Chicago Academy High School, and the Academy for Urban School Leadership's central office. Due to needs for additional space and more specialised facilities, in 1993 it moved to a 23-acre parcel at 4300 N. Narragansett Avenue, at a cost of $90 million. The campus was designed by renowned Chicago-area architect Bertrand Goldberg In 2013, the school began a $3.5 million project to renovate and install new HVAC systems in the Learning Resource Center, a pyramid and one of the campus' landmarks.
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