Danville Community College
Danville Community College is one of the twenty-three two-year colleges in the Virginia Community College System. It is located in Danville, Virginia. Unlike many of the other VCCS schools, it predates the formation of a statewide body for junior colleges. Its roots began in 1936 as Danville Textile School. In addition, a branch campus of Virginia Tech located in Danville was folded into the college in 1968. Danville Community College also has a baseball team, which won the Virginia Community College System state baseball championships in 2006 and 2007.
Danville Community College is an institution of higher education serving the City of Danville, Pittsylvania County and Halifax County. The main campus is located on South Main Street in Danville, consisting of 11 college buildings.
Beginning as early as 1890, the campus of Danville Military Institute housed prisoners of war during World War II, was home to the off-campus engineering division of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and shared the campus with Danville Technical Institute from 1945 to 1966, until DTI merged with the Danville Division of VPI to form Danville Community College.
Danville Community College is governed by an advisory board of nine members. The college is supervised by the Virginia Community College System and State Board for Community Colleges, and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award associate degrees to those students successfully completing a curriculum.Extra-curricular offerings
Athletics
- DCC Knights baseball
- DCC Knights men's and women's basketball
- DCC Knights soccer
- DCC Knights Women's volleyball
Clubs and organizations
- Afro-American Culture Club
- Alpha Beta Gamma - International Business Honor Society
- Better Earth & Animal Treatment Society
- College Entrepreneurs’ Organization
- Christian Student Fellowship
- DCC Gospel Choir
- DCC Graphics Club
- DCC Knights Cheerleaders
- Honors Program
- International Association of Administrative Professionals
- American Criminal Justice Association-
- National Technical Honors Society
- Phi Theta Kappa
- Sigma Kappa Delta
- Student Government Association