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The Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD), also known as Maricopa Community Colleges, is a public community college district in Maricopa County, Arizona. Headquartered in Tempe, MCCCD is among the largest community college districts in the United States, serving more than 100,000 students each year in the Phoenix metropolitan area.
Students may also partake in a dual enrollment program through Rio Salado College to receive college credit for classes they are already taking. Brophy offers a variety of technology-based classes for first year students like the "Introduction to Innovative Technologies".
Dual enrollment. In the United States, dual enrollment (DE), also called concurrent enrollment, programs allow students to be enrolled in two separate, academically related institutions. Generally, it refers to high school students taking college or university courses. Less commonly, it may refer to any individual who is participating in two ...
Salado culture, or Salado Horizon, [1] was a human culture in the upper Salt River (río Salado) [2] of the Tonto Basin in southeastern Arizona from approximately 1150 CE through the 15th century. Distinguishing characteristics of the Salado include distinctive Salado Polychrome pottery, communities within walled adobe compounds, and burial of ...
Westwood High School is a 4-year public high school in the western part of Mesa, Arizona, United States under the jurisdiction of Mesa Public Schools. It was opened in 1962 with Elias Brimhall as the founding principal. [3] In the 1983–84 school year, it was honored as a Blue Ribbon school. [4] In 2018 it was reclassified as a "A" school ...
Concurrent enrollment is sometimes considered a subset of dual enrollment, and can be seen as a solution to the perceived quality problems associated with dual enrollment. Other terms that encompass concurrent enrollment are dual credit, college in the high schools, Postsecondary Enrollment Options (PSEO), pre-college programs or accelerated ...
Yavapai College was established in 1965 by means of a countywide election. In the four years that followed, a board was appointed, a bond was passed, college personnel were hired, and curricula were established. The first classes were held in fall 1969. In February 1970, the college district dedicated its first buildings in Prescott on a 100 ...
The Rio Salado is a tributary of the Rio Grande in the U.S. state of New Mexico. From its source in northeast Catron County it flows about 86 miles (138 km) [4] generally east to join the Rio Grande just north of Polvadera and about 15 miles (24 km) north of Socorro. [1] The name Río Salado is Spanish for "salty river".