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Cedar Valley College

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School Notes:

• Cedar Valley College and North Lake College opened in 1977. Brookhaven, the final college in the seven-college master plan, opened in 1978.
• Cedar Valley College is located on more than 300 acres in southern Dallas County. Cedar Valley's award winning architecture and careful attention to landscaping have given the college a reputation for being one of the most scenic business sites in the Dallas area. The campus plan takes advantage of the site's natural beauty, which includes a gazebo and a pedestrian walk along two sides of a 17-acre lake. Cedar Valley has a 350-seat performance hall, gymnasium, baseball field, and a surgery facility and barn for the Veterinary Technology program.
• Cedar Valley College is located in southern Dallas County. It's one of seven colleges in the Dallas County Community College District (DCCCD). More than 4,000 students benefit from its comprehensive curriculum, which includes for credit academic transfer career programs and non-credit continuing education courses such as real estate, computer technology, foreign language and music.
• Cedar Valley College offers a wide range of degrees and certificate programs to choose from and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award the associate degree.
• Profile last updated: 08/22/2008.

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• Vaccines Arrive as Flu Claims Young Mom (FOX 4 News Dallas - Fort Worth)
  posted on October 5, 2009 at 10:37:11 pm
  The first doses of the H1NI flu vaccine have made it to Dallas County just as public health officials confirm another swine flu-related death.
• Young Mother Dies from Swine Flu (FOX 4 News Dallas - Fort Worth)
  posted on October 5, 2009 at 01:22:10 am
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