The Maricopa County Community Colleges District (MCCCD)
established in 1962 extends throughout the Phoenix Metropolitan
area, and includes 10 colleges.
During the 1980's metropolitan Phoenix underwent extraordinary population growth which resulted in burgeoning MCCCD enrollments. Current year-round enrollment in the ten MCCCD colleges is 200,000, with more than 60% of the upper division undergraduate enrollment at Arizona State University coming from students with transfer credits earned from Maricopa Community Colleges. Roughly 50% of ASU's undergraduate students earned course credits from Maricopa Community Colleges. Hence there is a strong link and history of collaboration and course articulation between the Maricopa Community Colleges and Arizona State University.
Within the next ten years, the population in metropolitan Phoenix is expected to increase by one million to a population of 3,000,000. Enrollment in the Maricopa Community Colleges is expected to mirror the population growth in the Phoenix area. The Maricopa Community Colleges create and continuously improve affordable, accesible, and effective learning environments for the lifelong educational needs of the diverse communities it serves in the Phoenix metropolitan area.
ACEPT science and math reforms have been implemented in most of the Maricopa Community Colleges. MCCD faculty collaborate in the ACEPT Summer Faculty Enhancement Workshops.
Other collaborators
Phoenix Urban Systemic Initiative
Diné College
Arizona Science Center
Arizona State
University