Introduction
In 1962, Mid Michigan Community College was still a dream amongst residents of Clare and Gladwin Counties, but within three years, that dream would begin its path to reality. The Citizens Advisory Council, created by the two counties that year, began studying whether a community college would be financially realistic.
By 1965, the council decided a community college would be an asset to residents of Clare and Gladwin Counties and within months the Michigan Department of Public Instruction gave the project of building Mid Michigan Community College its seal of approval.
The community then voted in favor of the community college in September 1965, giving the go-ahead to begin construction on the 25th community college in Michigan. Construction would begin in 1968, the same year classes began at the college’s temporary campus in the Clare County Building and in the nearby community of Mt. Pleasant.
A year later, Mid Michigan Community College began serving community college students on its brand-new campus in Harrison while continuing to maintain its Mt. Pleasant campus. More than three decades later, in 1993, the Mt. Pleasant campus purchased a state-of-the-art office building that was converted to classrooms.
The Herbert D. Doan Center for Science and Health Technologies was unveiled in 2008 and is home to the college’s ever-expanding allied health and nursing programs.
Today, Mid Michigan Community College continues to grow to ensure it provides students with a world class education as its population has soared from its initial 196 students back when the college first opened to 6,000 current students.
