Kellogg Community College
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Kellogg Community College (KCC), is a public college, which was founded in 1956, is a two-year institution of higher learning which provides academic, occupational, general, and lifelong learning opportunities on campus in Battle Creek
Battle Creek, Michigan
Battle Creek is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan, in northwest Calhoun County, at the confluence of the Kalamazoo and Battle Creek Rivers. It is the principal city of the Battle Creek, Michigan Metropolitan Statistical Area , which encompasses all of Calhoun county...

, Michigan
Michigan
Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....

, as well as at off-campus sites and online. The college has been Accredited by the Higher Learning Commission since 1965.

The KCC satellite campuses consist of the Eastern Academic Center, located in Albion, MI; the Fehsenfeld Center, located in Hastings, MI; and the Grahl Center, located in Coldwater, MI; and the Regional Manufacturing Technology Center located in Battle Creek, MI.

In 2002, it had 94 full-time faculty members and 200 part-time faculty.

History

Kellogg Community College was founded in 1956 by the Battle Creek Board of Education
Board of education
A board of education or a school board or school committee is the title of the board of directors or board of trustees of a school, local school district or higher administrative level....

 until 1970. The voters in 1970 voted to establish an area-wide district to provide service to a wider base of the community.

Degrees

Kellogg Community College offer 32 Associate Degrees in several disciplines which include; liberal arts
Liberal arts
The term liberal arts refers to those subjects which in classical antiquity were considered essential for a free citizen to study. Grammar, Rhetoric and Logic were the core liberal arts. In medieval times these subjects were extended to include mathematics, geometry, music and astronomy...

, science
Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...

, fine arts, and health science. The college also offers 42 Certificate programs in addition to the Degrees.

Sports

The athletics teams are known as the Bruins, and compete as members of the Michigan Community College Athletic Association
Michigan Community College Athletic Association
The Michigan Community College Athletic Association is an association of community college athletic departments throughout Michigan and northern Indiana....

.
Kellogg Community College is part of the is a member of the National Junior College Athletic Association
National Junior College Athletic Association
The National Junior College Athletic Association , founded in 1938, is an association of community college and junior college athletic departments throughout the United States. It is held as Divisions and Regions. The current NJCAA holds 24 separate regions.-History:The idea for the NJCAA was...

(NJCAA)in Region 12. Kellogg is also part of the Michigan Community College Athletic Association
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