Muskegon Community College history

By 1934, enrollment of both the College and the high school had grown beyond the capacity of a single building.

In April 1963, the county overwhelmingly approved the recommendations of the committee and elected the first Board of Trustees.

The first addition to the new campus was the Frauenthal Foundation Fine Arts Center, completed in 1968 and named for the Muskegon industrialist whose gift had made the Center possible – A. Harold Frauenthal.

When the new district was created, the name of the College was changed to Muskegon County Community College; but in the spring of 1969, at the request of the Board of Trustees, the State Board of Education approved changing the name once again to Muskegon Community College.

As the college continued to grow, the Stevenson Center for Higher Education opened on campus in January 1995.

2000 – Susan Harrison (former Muskegon Chronicle columnist)

In January 2006, the college opened the Hendrik Meijer Library Information Technology Center, offering the latest in technology.

In 2011 he hosted the 8-part series The Wild Within on Travel Channel.

Taylor will be inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in June 2012.

In September 2014, MCC signed a purchase agreement with The Herald Publishing Co.

In August 2015, MCC opened its $9.6 million Science Center, home to the MCC Life Sciences Department and the College’s biology labs and research areas.

The building opened in 2016 at the MCC Lakeshore Fitness Center.

In December 2017, the Peter and Carolyn I. Sturrus Technology Center opened as the new home to MCC's Applied Technology programs in CAD, Electronics/Automation, Engineering, Machining, Metal Casting, Materials, and Welding, as well as to MCC's Experiential Learning Program.