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McDowell Technical Community College company history timeline

1964

1964: Established as the Marion-McDowell Industrial Education Center in downtown Marion.

McDowell Technical Community College was founded in 1964 as a satellite of Asheville-Buncombe Technical Institute.

1970

1970: First buildings on new/current 31 acre campus at I-40 and 226.

1971

Second Name: McDowell Technical Institute, 1971, by the NC General Assembly.

1979

Third Name: McDowell Technical College, 1979, by the NC General Assembly.

1988

1988: MTCC Downtown Center was established at the original site of Marion-McDowell Industrial Education Center to offer Continuing Education classes.

1997

1997: Comprehensive Articulation Agreements established by the Community College System and the State University System allowing seamless transfer of designated classes between the institutions.

1997: The Downtown Center moved to 35 South Main Street in Marion to co-locate with the Accelerated Learning Center of McDowell County Schools and McDowell County JobLink Career Center.

1999

Doctor H. Edwin Beam: Interim President, approximately 8 months, 1999.

2008

2008: The W. Harold Smith Building was completed and named for Harold Smith, a local businessman who left his estate to further educational opportunities for young adults from McDowell County.

2014

2014: The Universal Advanced Manufacturing Center opened in a portion of the former Universal Furniture plant that had been purchased by the McDowell County Commissioners.

2015

MTCC has since continued to expand to include new buildings and a walking trail in 2015.

2018

McDowell Academy for Innovation is a STEM early college created in 2018.

In 2018, the college opened a new laboratory to educate and train students for a myriad of careers in the health field

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