Calhoun Community College

John C. Calhoun Community College

Type	Community college
Established	1946
Endowment	$9.06M (2021)
President	Jimmy Hodges
Students	8,480
Location	Decaturand Huntsville , Alabama 34°38′53″N86°56′53″W / 34.648°N 86.948°W /34.648; -86.948
Campus	110 acres (45 ha)
Mascot	Warhawks
Website	http://www.calhoun.edu/

Calhoun Community Collegeis a public community college inDecatur, Alabama. It is the largest of the 24 two-year institutions that make up theAlabama Community College System.

The college was founded in 1946 and named afterJohn C. Calhoun, the 7thVice President of the United States. He was aWar Hawkof 1812, hence the Calhoun athletic teams names.

The Huntsville Campus opened in 2006. The Sparkman Building was originally a Chrysler electronics factory. The building was purchased by Calhoun Community College for $4.5 million, which included $2 million for a 5-year cleanup of the site.^[1]

Construction of the Math, Science, and CIS building began in 2014, and was opened in 2016.^[2]

In addition to its main 110-acre (45 ha) campus in Tanner, the college has sites at Huntsville/Cummings Research Park, the Alabama Center for the Arts in downtown Decatur, and at theLimestone Correctional Facility. The campus sits adjacent to Pryor Field Regional Airport along Highway 31.

Calhoun serves just over 8,000 students. It offers 49 associate degree programs and 52 career and certificate programs. Of Calhoun's 302 full-time employees, 133 serve on the college faculty. Over 80% of the full-time faculty possess at least amaster's degreeand approximately 15 percent hold adoctorate.

The Decatur campus serves as home for the Warhawks athletic teams. Both baseball fields, and the Carlton Kelly Gymnasium, are housed on the campus.^[3]Calhoun participates inbaseballandsoftballin theAlabama Community College Conference.

Due to the small size of bothDecaturandAustin High School'sgymnasiums, the rivalry basketball game is held each year at the 3,000-seat Carlton Kelly Gymnasium to accommodate the large crowds. However, this gym is still not the correct size for the event as crowds up to 4,000 in size attempt to attend the event and upwards of 1,000 can be turned away at each rivalry game.^{[citation needed]}

• Bo Bice,American Idolrunner-up, graduated May 1997
• John D. Douglas, basketball player (Los Angeles Clippers), coach, graduated 1976
• Micky Hammon,Republicanmember and Majority Leader of theAlabama House of Representativessince 2002.^[4]
• Jorge Posada,catcher,New York Yankees, graduated 1991
• Gary Redus,Major League Baseballplayer, graduated 1977

• List of colleges and universities in Alabama

• Official website