  kalamazoo valley community college is a two-year community college in southwest michigan that offers degrees and certificates in scores of academic programs, occupations and trades. it prepares students for transfer to any four-year university in the country and for entry-level jobs after training in nationally accredited vocational, business, technology, and health-care programs. it also offers workshops and seminars for law enforcement professionals, health care professionals, personal development, supervisory management, computer software, manufacturing processes and many more. ==locations==  kalamazoo valley community college (kvcc) has locations in downtown kalamazoo and southwest of kalamazoo, in texas charter township. the original campus, referred to as the texas township campus, is outside of kalamazoo's city limits, near the i-94 and us-131 interchange, and adjacent to the al sabo preserve. kvcc's arcadia commons campus in downtown kalamazoo includes anna whitten hall, the center for new media and the kalamazoo valley museum. the groves center which is a workforce-development and training entity for southwest michigan, is located on the groves campus near the texas township campus. the groves is the college's business-education-technology park that was established in 2001 as an economic-development initiative.http://www.kvccgrovescenter.com/   ==history== the community college district was established by voters in 1966, enrolled its first students in the fall of 1968, and currently enrolls more than 13,500 students. with the selection of marilyn j. schlack as its second president in 1982, kvcc was the first two-year college in michigan to have a female president. as recommended by a citizens committee, kvcc assumed the governance of kalamazoo's public museum, passed a charter tax to support its operations, and successfully completed a $20-million capital
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