Academic Calendar 2011-2012 - Chesapeake College

General InformationHistoryChesapeake College, founded in 1965 as Maryland’s first regionalcommunty college, was developed to serve the needs of the upperand mddle Eastern Shore. More than 40 years after ts foundng,the College contnues to respond to the growng needs of Carolne,Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne’s, and Talbot countes, whchcomprse ts servce area.In 1965, the Maryland General Assembly adopted legslaton provdngfor the creaton of regonal communty colleges. That sameyear, three members each from Carolne, Kent, Queen Anne’s, andTalbot countes’ school boards met wth representatves from theMaryland State Department of Educaton to plan for ChesapeakeCollege, whch was chartered December 22, 1965.Shortly after Dr. George Silver, the College’s first president, assumedhs dutes n July 1966, a 170-acre ste near Wye Mlls,bordered by U.S. Route 50 and Maryland Routes 662 and 213 waspurchased. The Washington, D.C., architectural firm of McLeod,Ferrara, and Ensgn was engaged to develop a master plan.Phase I construction, started that year, included five buildings:Humantes, Scence, Lbrary/Admnstraton, College Center,and Gymnasum.Classes opened n September 1967, n the Queen Anne’s CountyHgh School n Centrevlle, wth an enrollment of 260 studentstakng classes n the late afternoons and evenngs. Durng thatyear, the admnstratve staff, faculty, and lbrary were housedn the Kennard Elementary School n Centrevlle. Begnnng nSeptember 1968, ts second year, the College took gradual occupancyof the five new buildings at Wye Mills. Chesapeake Collegegraduated its first class in May 1969.The new campus was dedcated, Dr. Slver was formally naugurated,and the College held its first Homecoming Weekend duringthe 1969–70 school year. The College reached another mlestonewth full accredtaton granted by the Mddle States Assocaton ofColleges and Secondary Schools as Chesapeake’s thrd academcyear drew to a close.A new Board of Trustees, apponted by the Governor on July 1,1974, saw ground broken for constructon of the Techncal Centerand for an addton to the Physcal Educaton buldng that wouldhouse the College’s Olympc-sze pool.The openng of these new buldngs for the 1976-77 academc yearncreased the College’s ablty to serve ts publc, and the tradtonallystrong lberal arts and scences, career, occupatonal, and techncalcurrcula were expanded. These programs contnue to grow,and the College later constructed a Manufacturng Tranng Centerbuldng to house workshops, classrooms, and equpment.Dr. Robert C. Schleger was naugurated as the College’s secondpresdent n 1976. As enrollment at Chesapeake contnued to clmband campus buldngs were fully utlzed, the College offeredcredt and non-credt courses at locatons throughout the foursupport countes and n Dorchester County.The vote by Dorchester County, n June 1979, to jon Chesapeake asa full-support county was a direct outgrowth of the first full-timesatellte center n Cambrdge, whch opened n August 1978.An Early Chldhood Development Center was constructed n 1989to serve the parents of preschoolers who are students at the College,faculty and staff members, and the communty. The centeralso provdes classroom experence for students pursung a careern Early Chldhood Educaton.Dr. John R. Kotula, who assumed hs dutes as the College’s thrdpresdent n March 1992, presded over an era of expanson. TheChesapeake College Cambrdge Center, a full-servce satelltecampus, opened for the 1994-95 academc year, and the College’sCenter for Business and the Arts opened in 1996 with offices,classrooms and a 500-seat Performng Arts Center.The College, whch prevously offered only an Assocate of Artsdegree, added the Assocate of Scence and Assocate of AppledScence degrees. Three ntercollegate sports— women’s basketball,soccer and softball—have been added snce 1992, when Collegeofficials announced expansion of the athletic program.Dr. Stuart M. Bounds, the fourth Presdent of Chesapeake College,assumed hs dutes n 1997 and led Chesapeake through anothersignificant growth period involving new partnerships.In 1997, Chesapeake College and the Macqueen Gbbs Wlls(MGW) School of Nursng merged to offer nursng degrees andcertificates. The Chesapeake College MGW Nursing Program andother health career programs are based at the Chesapeake CollegeCenter for Alled Health n The Memoral Hosptal at Easton.The College contnues to reach out to all segments of the communtyby partnerng wth local organzatons, such as the WorkforceInvestment Board to provde tranng and retranng n busnessand techncal subjects. Partnershps wth Departments of SocalServce and Local Management Boards help the College to servedverse populatons wth specal needs. The Upper Shore Manufacturng& Busness Councl and the Small Busness DevelopmentCenter provde a connecton to the many manufacturngand other busness organzatons n the regon. The College alsomoved forward wth Dstance Learnng opportuntes at severalsites in the five-county region served by the College and is pursu-ng other endeavors.In 1998, Chesapeake joned wth Salsbury Unversty, Unverstyof Maryland Eastern Shore, Washngton College and Wor-WcCommunty College to form the Eastern Shore Assocaton ofColleges.In 2002 the College opened a 49,000 square-foot Learnng ResourceCenter, whch contans the lbrary, computer labs and StudentSupport Servces. The Eastern Shore Hgher Educaton Centeropened n 2003 to provde baccalaureate and graduate courseworkon Chesapeake’s campus through varous partner nsttutons.The fall of 2003 marked the end of renovatons to the DorchesterAdministration Building, where the Office of Student Success, the1