Carroll Community College
Fall 2003, No. 13


Contents

College Launches Academic Communities Initiative

College Identifies FY2005 Budget Priorities

Speech Team Starts Year with Awards

Fall Headcount Up Nearly 9 Percent

Faculty Share Images of India

Don Elwell to Head Theater Program

Carroll Community College 10 Year Anniversary

College Milestones

Plan to Attend Financial Aid Workshop on December 9

Student Profile: Nina Stewart

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Carroll Community College 10 Year Anniversary
Current President,
Dr. Faye Pappalardo

"As I reflect on the past ten years, I see a continuum of the college striving to provide the highest quality education to our students. We have always endeavored to comport ourselves with integrity. We have never wavered from our commitment to putting students first and ethically and truthfully representing this college to our students and the community.

Watching the growth of Carroll Community College is thrilling. One of my joys is seeing how engaged the students are with the college. When we started, you might have to look long and hard to find students in the buildings after two o'clock. Today, you see students conversing, studying, working in groups or participating in clubs or organizations all the time. The students know this is their college and that they belong here."

Dr. Faye Pappalardo
President

First President,
Dr. Joseph Shields		 Great Hall under construction — 1989

 

Carroll Community College — 1989 First Board of Trustees — 1993

 

Groundbreaking for the Random House Learning Resources Center — 1994

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College Milestones
1974 Carroll County Commissioners appoint 10-member citizens' committee to recommend higher education alternatives for the county.
1975 Advisory Committee appointed by County Commissioners to oversee introduction of a community college campus in the county.
1976 College opens in vacated Robert Moton Elementary School on South Center Street as a branch campus of Catonsville Community College; enrolls 750 students.
1978 Carroll County purchases 80-acre parcel of land on Washington Road for possible future campus.
1983 Maryland General Assembly passes legislation permitting Carroll County to apply for state capital funds for community college construction.
1984 County Commissioners and the Maryland State Board for Community Colleges approve campus Master Plan.
1985 Groundbreaking ceremony for new Washington Road campus.
1989 County Commissioners appoint 15-member Future of Carroll Community College Task Force.
1990 Task Force recommends separation from Catonsville Community College and appointment of transition team; Washington Road campus opens in August with Great Hall, Classroom Building I. College celebrates official dedication of campus on October 21, 1990 with Governor William Donald Schaefer presiding.
1991 Dr. Joseph Shields is appointed Executive Dean in July, charged with leading the effort to establish Carroll as Maryland's next community college with accreditation by the Middle States Association of College and Schools.
1993 College gains independence with appointment of its first Board of Trustees, degree-granting authority from the Maryland Higher Education Commission, and candidacy for accreditation status from the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association. The Board appoints Dr. Joseph Shields as the college's first president. The Multi-purpose Building, funded entirely by the County, is completed.
1994 First graduating class of Carroll Community College. A total of 172 students graduate, with Commencement ceremony held May 25.
1995 College serves 10,081 students in credit and noncredit courses in academic year 1994-95, the first time annual unduplicated headcount exceeds 10,000.
1996 College gains initial accreditation from the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.
1997 Random House Learning Resources Center opens; first Random House Book Fair to Benefit the Carroll Community College Foundation.
1998 Rotary Amphitheater completed.
1999 Dr. Faye Pappalardo becomes college's second president.
2000 Groundbreaking for a fine and performing arts center, business training center, and life fitness building takes place October 4.
2001 College accreditation reaffirmed by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.
2002 Robert Annis and Phyllis Barrett Scott Center for the Fine and Performing Arts, the Business Training Center, and the Life Fitness Building, officially open in October. College adopts new brandmark.
2003 College breaks ground for new Nursing and Allied Health Building on April 3, 2003. Fall credit enrollment exceeds 3,000 for the first time, with 3,012 students enrolled as of the official third week statistical date.

 

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