CCAC

in full Community College of Allegheny County

meaning an abbreviation for the four-campus two-year educational institution comprised of Allegheny, Boyce, North and South campuses

as in

date circa 1972

authority "North Hills Campus Gets $257,000." The Pittsburgh Press, 20 June 1972, 4.

and in 1965, then County Commissioner William D. McClelland said that a college education no longer is a luxury for a few. 20 years later, celebrating its anniversary, CCAC reflected that the school and its faculty "began here in the mid-60s, members of a small fraternity of risk-takers who were challenged by a new concept in education. There were no guarantees at that time--for students as well as faculty--that the College would ever be accredited. Their first offices were in trailers or, as in the case with Allegheny Campus, in what used to be the servants' quarters of an old mansion. Their classrooms were in high schools and stores and even churches. Many of their students were not considered college material--at least that's what the other colleges thought, not the community college. Today the College's Open Door Policy is taken for granted (that college board scores and other entrance examinations were not required for admission to CCAC), but in 1965 the idea was radical. They were part of a young faculty which was idealistic and excited about 'this new idea,' the community college concept."

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Sources:

"Allegheny College Protests Name of County School; Meadville Official Raps New Northside Campus Label, Cites Possible Complications." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 6 July 1966.

"College Marks 20th Anniversary." The Communicator (September/October 1985).

Snyder, Thomas P. "College Urged by McClelland; Says Commissioner Cites Needs to East Liberty Chamber; Says Education No Luxury." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 5 May 1965.

Stein, Herbert G. "Monument Hill First County College Site; 2nd Location Studied; Both Open in Fall." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 6 April 1966, 1, 4.

"The Way We Were." The Communicator (September/October 1985).