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Delta College
Delta-college-logo.jpg
Motto Experience the Delta Difference
Established 1961
Type Community College
Endowment $13.9 million[1]
President Jean Goodnow
Academic staff 565[2]
Admin. staff 435[2]
Students 11,299[3]
Location University Center, Michigan
Postal designation for an unincorporated area which includes parts of Bay County, Michigan and Saginaw County, Michigan, USA
Colors

Evergreen and white

           
Nickname Pioneers
Website www.delta.edu
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Delta College is a two-year community college located southwest of Bay City, Michigan. Delta College's district had its beginning in 1955 with Saginaw, Midland, and Bay counties making up the district. In 1957, the voters of the tri-counties approved the construction of the college, and it opened for classes in 1961. Delta College replaced Bay City Junior College, established in 1922, because the junior college could no longer support the growing enrollment. With Saginaw Valley College established in 1964, later renamed Saginaw Valley State College in 1975, and finally named Saginaw Valley State University in 1987, both Delta College and Saginaw Valley State University form University Center, Michigan.

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[edit] Off campus centers

Delta College has off campus centers in each of its three neighboring counties: Delta College Planetarium and Learning Center in Bay City; Delta College Midland Center in Midland; and the Ricker Center in Saginaw.

[edit] Degree programs

Degree and certificate programs offered by Delta College include:

  • Academic Career Experience
  • Accounting
  • Alternative Energy - Wind Turbine Technology
  • Architectural Technology
  • Art and Design
  • Automotive Service Educational Program
  • Automotive Service Technology
  • Aviation Flight Technology
  • Chemical Process Technology
  • Chemical Technology
  • Child Development
  • Communication
  • Computer Aided Drafting
  • Computer Numerical Control
  • Computer Science And Information Technology
  • Construction Management
  • Criminal Justice
  • Customer Energy Specialist
  • Dental Assisting
  • Dental Hygiene
  • Diagnostic Medical Sonography
  • Digital Film Production
  • Electrical Utility Worker
  • Electronic Media Broadcasting
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Environmental Technology
  • Fire Science Technology
  • Global Peace Studies
  • Group Fitness Instructor
  • Health Fitness Specialist
  • Industrial Technology Education
  • International Studies
  • Journalism And Emerging Media
  • Lean Resource Management
  • Legal Support Professional
  • Liberal Arts
  • Management
  • Manufacturing And Industrial Technology
  • Massage Therapy
  • Mechanical Engineering Technology
  • Medical Office Professions
  • Nursing
  • Nursing Rn Transition Track
  • Office Professions
  • Personal Trainer
  • Physical Therapist Assistant
  • Practical Nurse
  • Pre-apprentice Skilled Trades
  • Professional Studies In Office Administration
  • Quality Assurance
  • Quality Management
  • Radiography
  • Refrigeration, Heating, Air Conditioning Service Technology
  • Residential Construction
  • Respiratory Care
  • Skilled Trades (apprenticeship)
  • Surgical Technology
  • Water Environment Technology
  • Welding Engineering Technology
  • Writing - General Writing
  • Writing - Technical Writing
  • Youth Services Certificate

[edit] Athletics

Delta College has five varsity sports competing in the NJCAA, and is in the MCCAA's Eastern conference. The Pioneers compete in the following varsity sports:

Men's

Women's

They have two national championships in varsity play, with the men's basketball team winning in 1989 and the softball team winning in 1999. The Women's soccer team also won the MCCAA Title in the 2011 season, which was also the girls' first year as a varsity team.

The school also has four club sports, which are baseball, hockey, dodgeball and golf.

[edit] Media

The college owns and operates WDCQ-TV (Q-TV), the region's PBS station; and WUCX-FM (Q-90.1), the NPR affiliate, owned by Central Michigan University (CMU) and co-operated by Delta College and CMU. Collectively, these stations are known as Delta College Quality Public Broadcasting and they serve an audience of 1.2 million people in Mid-Michigan.[4]

The college's student-run newspaper is The Collegiate and has been published since the college opened in 1961.

[edit] Recent developments

2011 - Delta College celebrated their 50th year as a community college; their 50,000th student graduated.

2010 - A $800,000 federal grant will allow Delta to train students and healthcare professionals in the newly emerging field of electronic records systems, allowing them to receive a Health Information Technology certificate/degree.[5]

2010 - Vice President Joe Biden came to campus to highlight the success of the Chemical Process Technology Program and its partnerships to get displaced workers retrained and back into the workforce.[6]

2010 - Sets enrollment record with 11,787 students in Winter 2010.[7]

2009 - Named “Great College to Work For” in a survey done for The Chronicle of Higher Education.[8]

2008 - Students contributed 95,525 service hours to the Great Lakes Bay Region and beyond. The value of this volunteer time is estimated at just under $2 million dollars.[9]

2008 - A 16 week training program called Fast-start was created in response to alternative energy growth and partnerships with regional chemical, solar and industrial companies

[edit] Notable alumni

Distinguished Alumni Award Recipients

  • 2007 - Alice M. Gerard, RN, MSN (President, Bay Regional Medical Center)
  • 2006 - Dr. Jack Nash
  • 2005 - Joseph Rivet (Bay County Drain Commissioner, former state representative)
  • 2004 - Wilmer Jones Ham McZee (former mayor of Saginaw, Michigan)
  • 2003 - Joaquin Guerrero
  • 2002 - Steven J. Morello
  • 2001 - Dr. Audrey "Dree" Stryker
  • 2000 - Scott Seeburger
  • 1999 - Paul A. Rowley
  • 1998 - Dr. Roger Kahn (state senate, former state representative)
  • 1997 - Penny M. Phelps
  • 1996 - Charles E. Braddock
  • 1995 - David R. Gamez
  • 1994 - William J. Hargreaves

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ As of June 30, 2011. "U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2011 Endowment Market Value and Percentage Change in Endowment Market Value from FY 2010 to FY 2011" (PDF). National Association of College and University Business Officers. January 17, 2012. p. 21. http://www.nacubo.org/Documents/research/2011_NCSE_Public_Tables_Endowment_Market_Values_Final_January_17_2012.pdf. Retrieved March 22, 2012. 
  2. ^ a b http://www.delta.edu/humres/statistics-employee.aspx
  3. ^ http://www.delta.edu/aboutdelta/facts.aspx
  4. ^ DeltaBroadcasting - About Us
  5. ^ Delta College
  6. ^ Vice President Joe Biden praises stimulus, points to Delta College as job training hub | MLive.com
  7. ^ Delta College
  8. ^ Great Colleges to Work For, 2009 - The Chronicle of Higher Education
  9. ^ Delta College

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Coordinates: 43°33′32.3″N 83°59′10.1″W / 43.558972°N 83.986139°W / 43.558972; -83.986139

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