堪萨斯城's first public institution of higher 教育, Missouri's first community 大学
In the early 1900s, a trend was emerging in 堪萨斯城: More and more families were sending their children to high school for a fifth year. 为什么? 大多数人都在寻找 a close-to-home, affordable option for higher 教育. 第五个人有个问题 year of high school, though, was that the additional year of coursework wasn't accepted 就像大学学分一样.
By the 1913-14 school year, there were so many fifth-year high school students in 堪萨斯城 that overcrowding had become a problem. KC学区考虑过 segregating fifth-year students and devising a 大学-level curriculum for them. School officials in 1915 invited a University of Missouri representative to the Knife and Fork Club, a dinner club for civic leaders, to present this plan. 但是讨论 quickly evolved into starting a junior 大学 (as community 大学s were then known) 而不是.
堪萨斯城 Superintendent Ira Cammack, in a May 20 report, recommended establishing the 堪萨斯城 Polytechnic Institute, with a junior 大学 as one of its divisions. The Polytechnic Institute was officially launched by the school board on May 29, 1915, becoming the city's first public institution of higher 教育 and the first junior 密苏里大学.
The school district had already begun offering evening and summer vocational courses at its high school, a response to a shortage of graduates trained in areas such as 商业、工程和教学. At the same time, the junior 大学 movement 在全国范围内加速发展. The first one, Joliet Junior College, was established in Illinois in 1901; there would be 20 across the nation by 1909. 就像堪萨斯 City model, Joliet was an extension of high school, which was often true for these 大城市新建大专院校.
堪萨斯城 Polytechnic Institute began on Sept. 1915年7月7日，共有566名学生入学 in post-secondary classes by the end of that week. 入学人数远远超出预期， and the school district had to find teachers for 15 additional classes. 该研究所 was housed in the former Central High School building at 11th and Locust streets downtown.
The president of the University of Missouri and the chancellor of the University of Kansas were both on hand for the Polytechnic's formal opening on Sept. 11, 1915.
The Polytechnic Institute didn't charge tuition for students who lived within the 学区的边界. Students who lived outside the district paid $60 per year in 1915-16 and $45 per semester for at least the next two school years. 学费 for out-of-district students would continue to increase over the years while remaining 地区居民免费.
The Polytechnic Institute offered not only classes that prepared students for additional 大学 work, but also courses that could lead to profitable employment. 一开始， the Institute included the junior 大学, a teacher training school, a high school, a mechanic arts school, a trade school and a business training school. 护理课程 是在1920- 1921年间加入的吗.
The junior 大学 division quickly became the most popular; its curriculum mirrored the course offerings at 大学s of arts and sciences. 由于大专的原因 demands for space in the aging building, the other divisions were spun off or discontinued in 1916-17. The trade school division, for instance, was transferred to the Lathrop 机械贸易学院.
Because the junior 大学's student body included some who had attended out-of-town 大学s the year before, the two-year Polytechnic junior 大学 program held a graduation ceremony at the end of its first academic year, in the spring of 1916.
一个新的名字，一个国家的典范
The Polytechnic Institute got a new name on Sept. 1919年4月4日，成为著名的少年 College of 堪萨斯城 (but often referred to as "堪萨斯城 Junior College" or just “大专”). It was one of the first two-year 大学s in the United States to award the associate degree and became a national model for two-year post-secondary 教育.
Even before the name change, the institution gained accreditation from the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools in 1918, its third year of operation.
The community was excited: 父母 viewed the Junior College as an answer to the call for more post-high school options, and the 堪萨斯城 school board saw it as a way to put well-trained people into the local workforce.
In 1942, the same year the 大学 moved to the former Westport Junior High School building 麦基街3845号., it got a longer name - but just briefly. 堪萨斯城学校 District merged the Junior College and its Teachers College, renaming the institution the Junior and Teachers College of 堪萨斯城. 它将恢复到以前的名字 in 1944.
成为“大都会”
从1915年到1964年, the KC school board operated the College. 1964年5月，堪萨斯城的选民 district and seven suburban school districts - Belton, Center, Grandview, Hickman Mills, Lee's Summit, North 堪萨斯城 and Raytown - approved the creation of the Junior College District of Metropolitan 堪萨斯城. 同年，公众选举 a 董事会 of Trustees, which began governing the 大学 now known as Metropolitan Junior College-Kansas城市.
As 堪萨斯城 expanded into the suburbs during the 1960s, so did Metropolitan Junior College, which opened the Longview, Maple Woods and Penn Valley campuses starting in 1969. The institution would become the "都会社区学院s," reflecting the three campuses scattered around town, in 1975.
Four additional K-12 school districts would vote to join the community 大学 district in the 1980s and '90s: Blue Springs (1984), Park Hill (1986), and Independence and 奥塞奇堡(1993年). 十大娱乐彩票平台-Blue河 in Independence became the fourth campus in 1997. 业务 & 科技园区于2002年出现.
2005年12月 the 五个 campuses became known as a singular unit: 都会社区学院. The goal of "One 十大娱乐彩票平台" - one 大学 with 五个 campuses - was to create a more unified 大学 district to serve the needs of students all over the Greater 堪萨斯城 region.
2021年4月, a majority of voters in the Grain Valley, Liberty and Oak Grove school districts chose to "attach" to the 十大娱乐彩票平台 taxing district. K-12学校系统的数量 are "in-district" with the community 大学 now stands at 15.
Today, 十大娱乐彩票平台 is one of the largest public 教育 providers in the area. 有5个 campuses on the Missouri side of Greater 堪萨斯城 and a robust online program, 十大娱乐彩票平台 serves about 20,000 students annually through credit and noncredit courses and 业务服务. From the beginning, 十大娱乐彩票平台 has been a vibrant and ever-changing system that works to create a better community through 教育.
时间轴
1915: 堪萨斯城学校 District creates the 堪萨斯城 Polytechnic Institute at 11th and Locust streets to provide convenient postsecondary 教育 for students.
1919: The Polytechnic Institute becomes the Junior College of 堪萨斯城. 战后的 1 .入学人数增至1341人.
1942: 学院迁至麦基街3845号.前韦斯特波特初中. 这 facility offers four floors of classrooms and a chemistry lab as well as a cafeteria, men's and women's gyms, and a swimming pool.
1945: G的段落.I. Bill and the return of veterans from World War II overloads 麦基设施. As a result, classes are scheduled from 7 a.m. 到10点.m. 五个 一周几天.
1954: The segregated Lincoln Junior College is consolidated with the Junior College of 堪萨斯城. 这是具有里程碑意义的一年.S. 最高法院布朗诉. 董事会 of Education, which found separate public schools for black and white students to 违宪.
1964: The Junior College District of Metropolitan 堪萨斯城 is created when seven suburban school districts join forces with the 堪萨斯城 School District. 新的400平方英里 十大娱乐彩票平台 district includes parts of four counties and is governed by a 董事会 of Trustees. To that point, the junior 大学 had been run by the KC district.
1965: Voters approve a $25 million bond issue for construction of new campuses.
1960年代末: The Junior College District leases a building at 560 Westport Road to alleviate crowding 在主校区. Meanwhile, the College hires a consulting firm to recommend sites 新校区. Land for the north and south campuses (which would become Maple Woods and Longview, respectively) is easily obtained, but the "urban" campus (eventually Penn Valley) presents the challenge of finding a tract that is large enough, affordable 并且位于市中心.
1969: The three campuses open in interim facilities. 传输程序和业务、数据 processing, engineering, law enforcement and secretarial science classes are offered 在这三个地点. More expensive specialized programs are assigned to single campuses: health occupations at Penn Valley, automotive technology at Longview, and 在枫树森林进行航空维修.
1976: 十大娱乐彩票平台 launches Pioneer, its fourth campus, as a "大学 without walls" to bring classes to the community at convenient locations throughout the district. 先锋公司 administrative offices and classrooms at 18th Street and Prospect Avenue, was absorbed by Penn Valley in 1987 and eventually closed.
1997: A fourth permanent 十大娱乐彩票平台 campus is created by consolidating locations in Blue Springs (opened in 1984) and Independence (opened in 1995) to form the Blue River campus at its current location in eastern Independence.
2001: 十大娱乐彩票平台's Longview campus is singled out for national praise in a special issue of Time magazine produced in conjunction with the Princeton Review. 朗维尤被命名为“学院” of the Year" because of its Writing Across the Curriculum program.
2002: 业务 and Technology location expands to create a 340,000-square-foot facility that includes an exhibit hall and expo center. 这是十大娱乐平台排行榜的第五个永久校区.
2010: The 十大娱乐彩票平台 Foundation holds its inaugural Five Star Gala at the Marriott-Muehlebach 塔. 这次筹款活动是为了纪念亨利. 布洛赫和布洛赫学者项目.
2012: 十大娱乐彩票平台's first unified, all-campuses commencement is held at Municipal Auditorium downtown.
2014-15: 都会社区学院 celebrates its 100th birthday with a visit from Kansas City Mayor Sly James, the unveiling of a new 十大娱乐彩票平台 seal at the 100th commencement exercises, 和百年庆典晚会.
2017年春季: The College announces plans to consolidate memberships in the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) from four campus memberships to one 大学-wide membership. 这 change, effective with the 2018-19 school year, means students at any campus can play for any 十大娱乐彩票平台 sports team regardless of that sport's home campus.
2018: The 大学 community selects "Wolves" as the mascot for 十大娱乐彩票平台 sports teams and the 整个机构.