| Motto | Education that Works |
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| Type | Community college |
| Established | 1970; 55 years ago (1970) |
| Affiliation | City Colleges of Chicago |
| Chancellor | Juan Salgado |
| President | Kimberly Hollingsworth (interim) |
| Location | , U.S. |
| Campus | Urban |
| Nickname | Purple Panthers |
| Website | ccc |
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Olive–Harvey College is a public municipalcommunity college in thePullman community area in the far south side ofChicago, Illinois, United States. It is part of theCity Colleges of Chicago system.
Olive–Harvey College began serving residents of the South Side in the late 1950s with the opening of the Fenger and Southeast campuses of the City Colleges of Chicago. These two campuses were then consolidated and renamed Olive–Harvey College in 1970. The 67 acres (27 ha) college is the largest campus of any of the City Colleges.
The school's name is derived from two ChicagoanMedal of Honor recipients who lost their lives in theVietnam War:Milton Olive, III, paratrooper, andCarmel B. Harvey, infantryman. Both were posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.[1]
Besides its main building in thePullman Community Area, Olive-Harvey also includes theSouth Chicago Learning Center located at 3055 E. 92nd Street, a facility that provides vocational training, technical training and adult education courses to adults in the Chicago region.
Accredited by theNorth Central Association of Colleges and Schools, Olive-Harvey offers manyAssociate's degree, certificate and short-term training programs to prepare students to transfer to bachelor's degree programs or to move directly into the workforce.
In 2012, it was announced that Olive-Harvey will focus on transportation, distribution, and logistics (TDL) as part of City Colleges of Chicago's College to Careers program. Part of this refocus includes the building of a new, $42.2 million TDL building. The new facility will train students for what is projected to be more than 100,000 job openings over the next 10 years.[2] The new facility will train students for what is projected to be more than 100,000 job openings over the next 10 years.[3] The new TDL facility is part of a five-year, $524 million capital plan for all sevenCity Colleges of Chicago. The center at Olive-Harvey will be funded by $31.6 million from the state and $13.2 million from City Colleges.[4]
Olive–Harvey College is located in Chicago's Pullman neighborhood just off the Bishop Ford Freeway at 10001 S. Woodlawn Avenue. TheChicago Transit Authority serves the campus via the 28 Stony Island and 106 East 103rd buses.
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