The planned expansion includes a parking structure as well as a fully modeled streetscape for Police-Fire-EMS-SWAT training. Pending a referendum on the November 2010 Ballot, the college plans on keeping the current tax rate where it is, where in turn, the college plans on constructing finishing the three-phase project for the Homeland Security Education Center. This spring the college will break ground on a Culinary Arts and Hospitality Center as well as a Homeland Security Education Center. The college is currently involved in an extensive remodel of the BIC building as well as construction of a College Center located on the north side of the BIC building. The college library is located in the SRC building. Under it the Early Childhood Education Center, or ECEC building, was built, and the Health & Science (HSC) and Technology Education Centers (TEC) buildings opened during the summer of 2009. Currently the facility master plan calls for expanding the campus. Others to follow were the Seaton Computer Center (named for a prominent COD Board trustee) or SCC, the Art Center (now the McAninch Arts Center, named for the College's second President) also called The MAC, the Student Resource Center, or SRC, and the Physical Education Building. The A-Building was later named the Instructional Center, or IC building, and is now named the Rodney Berg Instructional Center, or BIC, after the College's first President. The first such building was A-building with the first two of its three floors opened for use in the fall of 1973. The first permanent buildings were constructed on this site in the 1970s. Initially there were temporary buildings on the West side of the campus, and they are still up today. The main campus is also home to WDCB 90.9 FM, a public radio station founded in 1977, as well as the literary magazine Prairie Light Review, founded in 1982.ĬOD has expanded much over the years. Due to the college's early students having to run from building to building for classes, the Chaparral was adopted as the college's mascot. That very same year the student newspaper, The Courier published its first issue and has been printing ever since. The college was established in 1967 in Glen Ellyn, with temporary facilities at 22nd Street (now Fawell Boulevard) and Lambert Road. The college serves students residing in Illinois' Community College District 502, which is most of DuPage County and parts of Cook County and Will County. The college also owns and operates facilities in the Illinois communities of Addison, Bloomingdale, Carol Stream, Naperville, West Chicago, and Westmont. College of DuPage, or COD, is a two-year community college in Glen Ellyn, Illinois.
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