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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:

• Elephants don donkey masks to win in south suburbs (SouthtownStar)
  posted on November 20, 2009 at 05:28:15 pm
  Two Chicago Heights politicians with longtime ties to the Republican party will be appearing on the ballot in February ... as Democrats. Bloom Township Supervisor TJ Somer is running in the Democratic primary to be a Cook County judge in the 15th Subcircuit. He ran for the same position last year, also as a Democrat, and lost. Joining Somer on the Democratic ballot is Chicago Heights Ald. Joseph ...
• Local News Digest (SouthtownStar)
  posted on November 17, 2009 at 10:16:51 am
  LEMONTFire disrupts commuter traffic A fire at a scrap processing plant Monday afternoon caused delays for commuters trying to head home by train and car. The fire began about 4 p.m. at Lemont Scrap Processing, 16229 New Ave., and was extinguished about 7:30 p.m., according to fire officials. They said the fire was contained to scrap material and cause no structural damage or injuries. Traffic ...
• Sauk Village official to fill PSC trustee role (The Times of Northwest Indiana)
  posted on November 17, 2009 at 01:00:05 am
  CHICAGO HEIGHTS | The Prairie State College Board of Trusteesrecently selected Brunetta Hill-Corley to serve as interimtrustee.
• Scouting the 2009-10 South Suburban College women's basketball team (The Times of Northwest Indiana)
  posted on November 4, 2009 at 03:00:12 am
  Scouting the 2009-10 South Suburban College women's basketball team
• PSC taking registration for spring classes (The Times of Northwest Indiana)
  posted on November 3, 2009 at 06:50:02 pm
  CHICAGO HEIGHTS | Registration for spring 2010 classes at Prairie State College is under way.

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