Sinclair Community College history

1.) Scottish immigrant and secretary of the Dayton YMCA, David Sinclair, founded an adult training school that offered Bookkeeping and Mechanical Drawing in 1887.

55 students attended these courses, and the first diploma was awarded in 1891.

He never saw the completion of his dream, as the new building opened in 1908.

Locations changed as the school grew at 117 W. Monument Avenue in Dayton, and changed its name to Sinclair College of the YMCA in 1948.

Then in 1965, the YMCA relationship was dropped and Sinclair Community College became the official public community college of Montgomery County.

4.) A site for the newly-formed Sinclair Community College was selected and a one-mill, ten-year levy was approved in 1966 for construction of a new campus.

5.) In 1972, the new 20-acre campus was opened at 444 West Third Street.

Founded in 1977, the Clarion is the student newspaper for Sinclair Community College.

With an enrollment of approximately twenty-four thousand students in 2006, Sinclair Community College has become one of the largest community colleges in the United States.

Classes began at the Preble County Learning Facility, located next to the YMCA in Eaton, on September 9, 2009.

In March 2013 the college settled a First Amendment lawsuit by revising a speech code that prohibited students and visitors from holding signs on campus.

Also that year, the college opened a second Mason facility, "Building B." In August 2016, Sinclair Community College and the University of Cincinnati signed a partnership allowing Sinclair students attending the Mason campus to pursue a bachelor's degree in Information Technology at UC.