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Oakland Community College
Focused on Community Need...
Then. Now. Always.
Oakland Community College (OCC)
recently celebrated a half century serving its
community. Over the last 50 years, OCC
contributed significantly to southeast
Michigan:
❯ Enrolled more than one million students
seeking degrees, certificates, expanded skills,
personal enrichment and lifelong learning.
❯ Prepared more than 30,000 graduates
in Applied Technologies and Business
Administration for local employers, and
7,000 nurses for healthcare systems.
❯ Graduated more than 5,000 emergency
responders who serve as firefighters, police
officers, EMTs and dispatchers.
❯ Forged over 200 college and university
transfer agreements enabling OCC students
to go on to a myriad of professions,
including doctors, lawyers, engineers and
even an astronaut!
❯ Granted degrees and certificates to more
than 81,000 graduates.
❯ Retrained thousands of dislocated
workers when unemployment spiked in the
1980s and again in 2008.
❯ Delivered in excess of $45 million in
corporate training to businesses including
General Motors, Chrysler, HP, Kelly
Services, Garden Fresh and hundreds of
other employers large and small.
While there is much to celebrate, OCC is
focused on increasing accountability to
taxpayers, the community, students,
businesses, industry, accreditors and state and
federal government for achievement of
outcomes, and most importantly, ensuring
students succeed.
How is OCC poised to address this higher
level of accountability? With renewed
emphasis on student goal attainment, not
Clockwise from top: OCC advanced manufacturing students service a robotic arm; OCC is one of the
largest providers of nursing graduates in Michigan; OCC’s Combined Regional Emergency Training
Services (CREST) facility trains nearly 90 percent of Oakland County emergency responders.
just access to higher education. equipment and led dual enrollment and
OCC recently joined the Higher Learning early-college initiatives in Oakland County
Commission’s Student Persistence and by partnering with K-12 systems—centered on
Completion Academy focused on improving student success.
significantly improving graduation
rates by 2018. The College also conducted
groundbreaking research on for another half century of innovation,
Oakland Community College is positioned
transferability of courses to four-year partnership and development of a
institutions, obtained grants to upgrade prosperous community.
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