Central Piedmont Community College (Central Piedmont) Central Piedmont Community College (Central Piedmont) is a public community college in Charlotte, North Carolina. With an enlistment of in excess of 50,000 understudies yearly, Central Piedmont is the second-biggest community college in the North Carolina Community College System and the biggest in the Charlotte metropolitan region. The college has six grounds and three focuses and offers almost 300 degrees, confirmation, and declaration programs.

The college was established in 1963, the year the North Carolina General Assembly passed the state community college bill. It is the consequence of consolidation between Mecklenburg College and the Central Industrial Education Center.

History

From 1923 to 1959, Central High School was situated on Elizabeth Avenue at Kings Drive, where Central Piedmont Community College is presently found. In 1959 its understudies moved into the new Grainger High School.] With the structure, empty Charlotte College (later UNCC) utilized the space. Beginning in 1959, the Central Industrial Education Center shared the old secondary school. Because of the 1963 N.C. Community College Act, the Central Industrial Education Center, and the dark Mecklenburg College consolidated to become Central Piedmont Community College.] The three-story Central High structure is presently the most seasoned structure on the CPCC grounds. CPCC trustees in July 2002 endorsed changing the structure’s name from Grainger Hall to the Central High School building, and a gathering pledges crusade for the structures remodel was arranged The Central High School Legacy Fund supported the redesign of the Central High structure, utilized for regulatory workplaces and affirmations, and gave grant cash. A rededication occurred on September 30, 2007, after the rebuilding of the first exterior.

WTVI Charlotte’s PBS member, presently run by Central Piedmont Community College, will turn into a research center for the college’s new partner degree program dispatching in August 2015 in communicating and creative innovation.

Campuses

Initially named “Upper east Campus,” it is situated close to Reedy Creek Nature Reserve and was opened in the Summer of 2002 with two structures adding up to 50,000 sq ft (4,600 m2). Worked to assuage stuffing at Central Campus, this current area’s center region is cultivation because of its sloping and obscure landscape, closeness to nearby stops, and simple entry to the remainder of the district. It is likewise situated in the University City segment of Charlotte, the grounds are just 3 miles from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, giving closeness to understudies of the two organizations to take classes at one or the other grounds.

In the Summer of 2005, the grounds were renamed after Wayland H. Cato, a retailer who gives to the college. The grounds additionally saw extension and has since added another structure; be that as it may, the fundamental focal point of the Cato Campus is still cultivation and turf the board.

Cato Campus

Initially named “Upper east Campus,” it is situated close to Reedy Creek Nature Reserve and was opened in the Summer of 2002 with two structures adding up to 50,000 sq ft (4,600 m2). Worked to assuage stuffing at Central Campus, this current area’s center region is cultivation because of its sloping and obscure landscape, closeness to nearby stops, and simple entry to the remainder of the district. It is likewise situated in the University City segment of Charlotte, the grounds is just 3 miles from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, giving closeness to understudies of the two organizations to take classes at one or the other grounds.

In the Summer of 2005, the grounds were renamed after Wayland H. Cato, a retailer who gives to the college. The grounds additionally saw extension and has since added another structure; be that as it may, the fundamental focal point of the Cato Campus is still cultivation and turf the board.

Harper Campus

Opened in the Winter of 1998 as the Southwest Campus, these satellite grounds are situated on Hebron St. off of Nations Ford Rd. in Southwest Charlotte. The grounds center around development advancements, welding, HVAC frameworks, visual depiction and expressions, and general investigations.

Levine Campus

Opened as the ‘South Campus’ in the fall of 1998, these satellite grounds are situated in southeast Mecklenburg County, in Matthews, North Carolina. The grounds opened with a 116,000 sq ft (10,800 m2) expanding on 32 sections of land, pointed toward soothing the congestion at the Central Campus. The grounds include a book shop, a PC lab, and a food court in a three-story building. The grounds were renamed and expanded to 220,000 sq ft (20,000 m2) with the plan to make the new Levine Campus into undeniable college grounds. In late 2005 the Levine Campus developed again when NASCAR proprietor Rick Hendrick gave cash to fabricate the $4 million, 25,000 sq ft (2,300 m2) office, ‘Joe Hendrick Center for Automotive Technology.

With the development of I-485 right nearby, the college has extended the job for the grounds, especially for PC and data innovation, as the Levine Campus houses the biggest enlistment of this sort of all Central Piedmont grounds.

Maracas Campus

The first of Central Piedmont’s satellite grounds, it was opened in 1990 as the North Center, at last developing with the expansion of the Public Safety working in 1996 and being renamed the North Campus. The grounds are found north of Charlotte, in Huntersville, North Carolina. These grounds are home to the college’s Public Safety and Transportation Systems programs. In 2011 the college renamed the grounds to the Maracas Campus, after long-lasting givers Casey and Anker Merman’s and their Maracas Foundation.

Harris Campus

Harris Campus opened in the West Charlotte region in 2001. It is situated close to the Charlotte-Douglas International Airport. The grounds house meeting and show spaces.

Online Learning

Central Piedmont is licensed by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) and offers online courses (completely online courses, incomplete web-based courses, and mixture online courses) to address the issues of understudies.