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Historic Timeline: 2010-2020

2010

  • Pima is a finalist in the 2010 Bellwether Awards, which recognize innovative community college initiatives. 

2012

  • Pima begins renovating TUSD’s unused Roberts Elementary School, which becomes Pima’s 29th Street Coalition Center, housing Adult Education and the Public Safety and Emergency Services Institute. 

2013

  • On July 1, Chancellor Lee D. Lambert begins his tenure at Pima. 

2014

  • Pima hold its first Futures Conference, in which community leaders and Pima employees collaborate on ways to improve the College. 

2015

  • Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez tours Pima’s Aviation Technology Center.

2016

  • 98 students pledge to begin or continue their education at Pima at NC3 National Letter of Intent Career and Technical Education Signing Day. In 2020, that number had risen to nearly 400. 

2017

  • Pima is named one of the top 150 community colleges in the U.S. by the Aspen Institute. 

2018

  • Pima begins demolition of the Fortuna Inn and Suites near Downtown Campus. The project will culminate in a new Center of Excellence in Applied Technology. 

2019

  • Pima is again named one of the top 150 community colleges in the U.S. by the Aspen Institute. 
  • Pima announces it will build a $35 million facility as part of its Center for Excellence in Health Professions. 

2020

  • Pima wins a national Bellwether Award for its innovative redesign of Developmental Education.

 

29th Street opening

Lee Lambert

tour of Aviation

Downtown Campus digging for construction

Downtown Campus construction

Downtown Campus rendering

Bellwether awardg

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