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Joliet Junior College

School Overview:

School Notes:

• Joliet Junior College is a comprehensive community college. The college offers pre-baccalaureate programs for students planning to transfer to a four-year university, occupational education leading directly to employment, adult education and literacy programs, work force and workplace development services, and support services to help students succeed.
• JJC, America's oldest public community college, began in 1901 as an experimental postgraduate high school program. It was the "brain child" of J. Stanley Brown, Superintendent of Joliet Township High School, and William Rainey Harper, President of the University of Chicago. The college's initial enrollment was six students. Today, JJC serves more than 10,000 students in credit classes and 21,000 students in noncredit courses.
• Joliet Junior College's Main Campus is located at 1215 Houbolt Road, Joliet. The Main Campus facility boasts the Arthur G. and Vera C. Smith Business and Technology Center, a 90,000-square-foot building which houses several state-of-the-art microcomputer labs used by many of JJC's academic departments. In 2000, the college opened the Veterinary Technology and Industrial Training Building, which houses the faculty, classrooms and laboratories of the Veterinary Medical Technology degree program and facilities for the Institute of Economic Technology to conduct industrial training programs for business and industry.
• The Main Campus also has a full-service cafeteria, kitchen for Culinary Arts students, the Fine Arts Theatre, the Laura A. Sprague Art Gallery, the Herbert Trackman Planetarium, the Cyber Café, the Fitness Center, gymnasium, business offices, including the President's Office, human resources, financial aid, registration and payment center, and many other amenities.
• Profile last updated: 08/22/2008.

In the News:

• Scouting the 2009-10 Prairie State College women's basketball team (The Times of Northwest Indiana)
  posted on November 5, 2009 at 08:04:51 pm
  Scouting the 2009-10 Prairie State College women's basketball team
• Chuck Pine's is smokin', just like his mentor, Rick Bayless (SouthtownStar)
  posted on November 5, 2009 at 11:10:46 am
  Chuck Pine was so busy opening up his new restaurant last month that he to had turn down a catering job for his mentor, Rick Bayless. The new place, opened Oct. 2, features pretty much the same menu, although Pine said some changes are in the works. He's considering a lunch buffet to speed things along.
• Briefs: Malak sisters have MGM Grand time (The Herald News)
  posted on November 3, 2009 at 06:49:21 am
  Two Lemont sisters, 14-year-old Lanaea Malak and her 10-year-old sister Breanna, recently placed in the Toyota Arenacross Nation Championships at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.
• Ice cream social to aid seniors (The Herald News)
  posted on November 1, 2009 at 10:27:14 am
  Joliet Junior College is hosting a fundraiser for the Senior Services Center of Will County on Nov. 6.
• Defense powers JJC past DuPage (The Herald News)
  posted on November 1, 2009 at 10:27:13 am
  Joliet Junior College football coach Jeremy Richardson "guaranteed" a victory Saturday against College of DuPage in the first round of the Region IV playoffs.

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