I am often asked, why do we need to expand? Aren’t we right sized already? The answer to this is simple:
2,000 and 5,000
- 2,000 represents the approximate number of students MCC enrolled in the mid-1960s
- 5,000 is where we are now given current projections, and where we have been for the previous three years
We now enroll 3,000 or 2 ½ times more students than we enrolled in the 1960s.
Let’s look at this another way. When our Quarterline and Marquette campus opened in 1967:
- Lyndon Baines Johnson was president of the United States
- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy were still living
- The Green Bay Packers were crowned champions of Super Bowl One
- Gasoline averaged 33 cents per gallon
- NASA astronauts had not yet landed on the moon
- The first ATM (Automatic Teller Machine) is put into service in Barclays Bank in London
- Carl Yastrzemski of the Boston Red Socks was the last baseball Triple Crown Winner prior to Miguel Cabrera of the Detroit Tigers
- The parents of many of our current students were not yet born
Clearly, our current campus was constructed a long time ago. The time has come for a major enhancement of our facilities.
Please feel free to reply or contact me at president@muskegoncc.edu.