Danville Community College

About Danville Community College

Danville Community College (DCC) is a public community college in Danville, Virginia. It is part of the Virginia Community College System (VCCS). 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. The college has an 86-acre (350,000 m2) campus 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 (1890 to 1939) housed prisoners of war during World War II (1944–1945), was home to the off-campus engineering division of Virginia Polytechnic Institute (named VPI Extension - fall 1946 to 1950, Danville Branch of VPI - 1950 to 1965, and Danville Division of VPI - 1965 to 1968), and shared the campus with Danville Technical Institute (formerly Danville Texti

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