St. Clair County Community College

St. Clair County Community College, or SC4 [ [http://www.sc4.edu/show.php?title=Why%20SC4?&category=About%20SC4 Why SC4?] , St. Clair Community College] is a two-year community college located in Port Huron, Michigan. It serves as the primary center of higher education for the Blue Water Area. SC4 offers Associate degree and certificate programs. It also offers online classes and transfer programs to four-year institutions. In addition, working with University Center Partners, students can earn Bachelor's and Master's degrees can be earned without leaving the SC4 campus.

Classes are held in classrooms on the SC4 campus, and/or taught online. Many of the classes are held on evenings or weekends. SC4 has Learning Centers in Imlay City, Algonac, Yale, Peck, Bad Axe as well as its main campus in Port Huron. Through these regional centers, SC4 serves a large portion of the Thumb region.

History

St. Clair County Community College began as Port Huron Junior College, which was the Junior College Department of the Port Huron School District. The college was established by act of the Board of Education of the Port Huron School District under Michigan State Law in 1923 and began operation in the same year. It officially became St. Clair County Community College in 1967.

Athletics

The Skippers are affiliated with the National Junior College Athletic Association and play in the Michigan Community College Athletic Association. The school currently has a volleyball, baseball, golf, women's basketball, and men's basketball teams.

Honors program

Phi Theta Kappa, the honor society of the two year college, has repeatedly recognized SC4's own chapter, Lambda Mu as being one of the best in the nation. It won the Chapter of the Year award in 2000, and has won the distinguished chapter award for 14 years consecutively. It also the oldest society of its kind within Michigan, being founded in 1963. Its advisor is [http://www.sc4.edu/show.php?title=Tom%20Obee&category=Communications%20Faculty Thomas F. Obee] , who is also the regional coordinator for the Michigan region of Phi Theta Kappa.

"Patterns" magazine

SC4's award-winning literary and arts magazine, "Patterns", which has been published continuously since 1959, celebrates its golden anniversary in 2008. Grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Michigan Council for the Arts provide financial support for the annual Patterns Visiting Artists Forum, a visiting writers program. Visiting authors for spring 2008 are poet Franz Wright and novelists Mike Magnuson and Michael Perry.

References

External links

* [http://www.sc4.edu/ St. Clair County Community College]