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Prairie State College

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School Notes:

• Prairie State College's 123-acre campus is located at South Halsted Street and Vollmer Road in Chicago Heights, Ill. Our north campus facilities, to the north of Vollmer Road, include the Health/Tech Center, Child Care Center, Physical Plant and Facilities warehouse and headquarters, the Illinois Employment and Training Center, plus four wooden temporary structures where our Adult Education programs are held. Here you'll find English as a Second Language, Literacy, Adult Basic Education and GED classes, and adult education computer labs.
• The main building, to the south of Vollmer Road, houses faculty and administrative offices, classrooms, laboratories, and student services facilities. A four story-building, the main campus building includes a Technology Center, where programs such as Automotive, Welding, Manufacturing Technology and Air Conditioning and Heating programs take place.
• Prairie State College, Illinois Community College District 515, serves thousands of residents each year in the Chicago Southland region. We additionally serve a growing number of people outside our geographic district through our corporate training and international student programs.
• Founded in 1957 as Bloom Township Community College, our first classes were held in 1958 in the basement of the First Christian Church. The College has come a long way since then. Bloom Community College was originally established to offer transfer liberal arts courses and occupational courses. Most students graduating in the early 1960s earned degrees in the liberal arts. Today, the College serves a more broad population, offering five types of associate's degrees (associate in arts, associate in science, associate in fine arts, associate in applied science, associate in general studies), two types of certificates (technical and career studies) and training in many other areas.
• Part of PSC's growth began back in 1967 when the College was reorganized as a Class I junior college. Then, with the combining of four high school districts into an enlarged territory, the College was renamed Prairie State College. The Beecher district was added to District 515 in 1989 by the Illinois Community College Board.
• The college is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.
• Profile last updated: 08/22/2008.

In the News:

• Ancilla College squares record at 2-2 with sweep (Niles Daily Star)
  posted on March 15, 2010 at 12:58:51 pm
  Posted 5 minutes ago at 8:53 am. CHICAGO HEIGHTS, Ill. – The Ancilla softball team travelled to Prairie State College (IL) and picked up their first two wins of the season, defeating the Pioneers 17-9 and 16-0.
• PSC program paves path for trucking careers (The Times of Northwest Indiana)
  posted on March 15, 2010 at 12:04:51 am
  CHICAGO HEIGHTS | Prairie State College is paving a path forthose interested in a career as a truck driver with its truckdriver training program.
• Recession pushes parents to enroll at community colleges along with kids (Chambersburg Public Opinion)
  posted on March 14, 2010 at 07:09:56 am
  CHICAGO (MCT) -- Lucy Horton -- just one of the millions of Americans out of work -- rushes out of English class at Harper Community College, a requirement for the associate degree she is seeking in search of a better life.
• Scouting the 2010 South Suburban College softball team (The Times of Northwest Indiana)
  posted on March 12, 2010 at 03:35:03 am
  Scouting the 2010 South Suburban College softball team
• Briefly (SouthtownStar)
  posted on March 11, 2010 at 10:03:26 am
  St. Xavier job fair: St. Xavier University will host its 12th Annual Job Fair from noon to 3 p.m. March 30 in the Shannon Center, 3700 W. 103rd St., Chicago. The event is free and open to the public. Attendees are encouraged to bring resumes and dress professionally. Employers that will attend the job fair include Cardinal Fitness, the Chicago Police Department, Ingalls Memorial Hospital ...

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