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31-403: OCC may refer to: American colleges [ edit ] Oakland Community College , Michigan Oakton Community College , Illinois Ocean County College , New Jersey Onondaga Community College , New York Orange Coast College , California Ozark Christian College , Missouri Business and government [ edit ] Office of

62-492: A June 1962 report, which recommended the construction of three campuses across the county, funded by a millage . A proposed 1-mill tax appeared on the June 1963 ballot, along with referendums to establish OCC and a board of trustees; the latter two were approved by voters, but the tax to fund the college was not. The three issues appeared on ballots again a year later in June 1964, when all three were approved. With revenue secured,

93-572: A United States Marine Corps training program Official Charts Company , a UK-based company compiling various official UK music record charts Ohno continuous casting , a special process to produce oxygen-free copper Old Corrugated Cardboard, a fiber grade separated in a materials recovery facility Onnuri Community Church , a South Korean megachurch Ontario Crafts Council , a Canadian nonprofit arts service organization based in Toronto Open Cloud Consortium ,

124-459: A central space where a large physical facility or physically dispersed service can be monitored and controlled. Central control rooms came into general use in factories during the 1920s. Control rooms for vital facilities are typically tightly secured and inaccessible to the general public. Multiple electronic displays and control panels are usually present, and there may also be a large wall-sized display area visible from all locations within

155-687: A clearing organization Orange County Choppers , a custom motorcycle manufacturer Organic composition of capital , a theory in Marxian economics Osborne Computer Corporation , an American computer company Computing [ edit ] Occasionally connected computing Optimistic concurrency control On-chip controller, a power and thermal monitoring component of the IBM's POWER8 processor Sports [ edit ] OC Châteaudun , French association football club Oceania Club Championship , an international club competition organised by

186-526: A fire can be completely extinguished. Openings in such spaces must therefore be kept to a minimum to prevent the escape of the suppression gas. A mobile control room is designated as particularly in high risk facilities, such as a nuclear power station or a petrochemical facility. It can provided a guaranteed life support for the anticipated safety control. The design of a control room incorporates ergonomic and aesthetic features including optimum traffic flow, acoustics, illumination, and health and safety of

217-404: A new skilled trades and industrial technology center at Auburn Hills. OCC offers nearly 100 certificate and degree programs. The college's Professional Training Centers also offer hands-on experience in many programs. Oakland Community College holds in-person classes at five campuses throughout Oakland County. OCC has also offered online classes since the early 2000s. The Auburn Hills campus

248-500: A non-profit organization Operation Christmas Child , an outreach program run by Samaritan's Purse Operations Control Center Orange County, California Oregon Convention Center , a convention center in Portland, Oregon The Oxford Companion to Chess Science Communication Observatory (Catalan: Observatori de la Comunicació Científica ) Francisco de Orellana Airport IATA code OOO Combo Change Series,

279-821: A record for the largest opening enrollment of any community college in the United States. That December, ground was broken on OCC's third campus, named Orchard Ridge, in Farmington Township . Designed by a consortium of Perkins & Will and Detroit-based Giffels and Rosetti, the Brutalist campus was inspired by similar colleges in California, and reportedly won a 1966 award from the American Association of Architects. The campus opened in phases from 1967 to 1968. From OCC's inception,

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341-926: A similar plan, the Board then purchased a second site, the disused Oakland County Tuberculosis Sanitarium in Waterford , and promptly began renovations. Amid public concerns that the former hospital's use for classes could pose a health risk to students, Tirrell commissioned the county's health department to inspect it; once it was cleared, he famously declared that the campus would be "as safe as your living room." Renovations to both campuses were completed in time for OCC to welcome its first students in September 1965. Following two days of orientations, classes commenced at both campuses, dubbed Auburn Hills and Highland Lakes, on September 11, 1965. 3,860 students attended OCC during its first semester, exceeding projections, and setting

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372-456: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Oakland Community College In August 1960, an advisory council, consisting of 85 citizens from Macomb , Monroe , Oakland, St. Clair , Washtenaw , and Wayne counties, published a report calling for the establishment of five community colleges across the six-county region. A similar commission of Oakland County residents echoed this need in

403-413: Is governed by a seven-member board of trustees elected by the voters of Oakland County to eight-year terms. Operations Control Center A control room or operations room is a central space where a large physical facility or physically dispersed service can be monitored and controlled. It is often part of a larger command center . A control room's purpose is production control , and serves as

434-692: Is housed at the Orchard Ridge campus, with three restaurants open to the public on certain days. Orchard Ridge is also home to Oakland Early College , an early college high school operated by the West Bloomfield School District . A radio station, WORB , operated at Orchard Ridge until 1999. OCC's current Royal Oak campus opened in 1982, and consists of a single large building in downtown Royal Oak, bordered by Main Street, Washington Avenue, 7th Street, and Lincoln Avenue. It

465-460: Is located off M-59 in Auburn Hills , across the road from Chrysler Headquarters and near I-75. Built on a former Army Nike missile site in then- Pontiac Township , Auburn Hills was one of the two original OCC campuses (along with Highland Lakes), opening for classes in the fall of 1965. OCC originally coined the name "Auburn Hills," fourteen years before Pontiac Township incorporated as

496-663: Is served by two parking garages across the street. OCC's Southfield campus is located along the Lodge Freeway ( M-10 ) half a mile north of the Detroit/Wayne County border, near the former Northland Center. The Southfield campus opened in 1980, replacing a site in nearby Oak Park. It consists of one large building, doubled in size by a late-2000s expansion. OCC previously had operations at 17 S Saginaw Street in downtown Pontiac. The Pontiac Center closed in 2015. The OCC athletic teams were previously known as

527-399: Is useful to ensure the use of "T-rated" firestops that are massive and thick enough to resist heat transmission to the inside of the control room. It is also common to place control rooms under positive pressure ventilation to prevent smoke or toxic gases from entering. If used, gaseous fire suppressants must occupy the space that is to be protected for a minimum period of time to be sure

558-633: The City of Auburn Hills. The Auburn Hills campus is home to OCC's police academy, and the Combined Regional Emergency Services Training (CREST) center. In 2022, a new Science & Computer Science building was developed, housing modern facilities for both the CIS department and the science programs. CIS expanded in the first floor suite showcasing the technologies within adaptable labs. The science programs moved into

589-631: The Comptroller of the Currency , a bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department Office of Child Care , a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Oklahoma Corporation Commission , public utilities commission of Oklahoma Online Compliance Consortium , a regulatory compliance forum for top law firms Opportunity cost of capital in finance Optical Cable Corporation , a manufacturer of fiber optic and copper datacom cabling and connectivity products Options Clearing Corporation ,

620-724: The Oceania Football Confederation Oceania Cycling Confederation , Oceania's branch of the Union Cycliste Internationale Ohio Capital Conference Ohio Cardinal Conference Optimists Cricket Club of central Luxembourg Ottawa Curling Club of Canada Other uses [ edit ] Ocean Cruising Club , a UK-based organisation for long-distance yacht cruisers Officer Candidates Course ,

651-791: The Raiders, but starting February 2024 they became the Owls. They compete in the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) and the Michigan Community College Athletic Association (MCCAA). Men's varsity sports include basketball, cross-country, and golf; women's varsity sports include basketball, cross-country, and softball. OCC also has a competitive speech and performance team (the forensics team) that has had both State and National champions. OCC

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682-615: The campuses' locations spurred controversy: their placement in the outer suburbs to the north and west made them inaccessible to the more densely populated areas in the southeast of Oakland County. As early as 1966, plans were made to establish a fourth campus near Royal Oak. In 1980, a new campus opened in Southfield that replaced a temporary location in Oak Park . Later, the Southeast Campus System expanded through

713-419: The control equipment is intended to control other items in the surrounding facility, these often fire-resistance rated service rooms require many penetrations for cables. Due to routine equipment updates, these penetrations are subject to frequent changes, requiring maintenance programs to include vigilant firestop management for code compliance. Due to the sensitive equipment in control room cabinets, it

744-534: The fall of 2026, as well as the closure and sale of the Bee Administration Center, with administrative offices relocating to the campuses. It will also include the relocation of health sciences programs to Orchard Ridge (from Highland Lakes and Southfield), and culinary programs from Orchard Ridge to a new culinary studies institute at Royal Oak, plus the renovation of the CREST training center and

775-687: The newly established Board of Trustees acquired three campus sites, and hired John Tirrell, of the St. Louis Junior College District , as OCC's first president. The first site was a disused Nike missile base in Pontiac Township (now Auburn Hills ), purchased from the National Bank of Detroit for $ 247,000. Though the surroundings were sparsely populated, the site was chosen for its proximity to I-75 and M-59, as well as its existing barracks, which could easily be converted to house classrooms. With

806-618: The project is concluded. Control rooms are typically found in installations such as: Control rooms are usually equipped with elaborate fire suppression and security systems to safeguard their contents and occupants, and to ensure continued operation in emergencies. In hazardous environments, they may also be areas of refuge for personnel trapped on-site. They are typically crowded with equipment, mounted in multi-function rack mount cabinets to allow updating. The concentration of equipment often requires special electrical uninterruptible power supply (UPS) feeds and air conditioning . Since

837-519: The purchase and remodeling of buildings at a site in Royal Oak . The Royal Oak buildings were replaced by a new campus complex which opened in the fall of 1982. In November 2022, OCC, citing declining enrollment and a changing job market, announced a three-year plan to fundamentally restructure and consolidate operations. The plan will see the complete closure of the Highland Lakes campus in

868-421: The second floor of the wing. The Highland Lakes campus is located at Cooley Lake and Hospital Roads on the south edge of Waterford Township . It opened in the fall of 1965 in the former Oakland County Sanitarium, a tuberculosis hospital constructed in 1927. Additional buildings were added to the campus in the early 1980s, and two were expanded in the mid-2000s. The original building, then known as Highland Hall,

899-508: The space. Some control rooms are themselves under continuous video surveillance and recording, for security and personnel accountability purposes. Many control rooms are occupied on a " 24/7/365 " basis, and may have multiple people on duty at all times (such as implementation of a " two-man rule "), to ensure continuous vigilance. Other special-purpose control room spaces may be temporarily set up for special projects (such as an oceanographic exploration mission), and closed or dismantled once

930-436: The workers. Ergonomic considerations determine the placement of humans and equipment to ensure that operators can easily move into, out of, and around the control room, and can interact with each other without any hindrances during emergency situations; and to keep noise and other distractions to a minimum. Control room scenes dealing with crisis situations appear frequently in thriller novels and action films . In addition,

961-500: Was demolished in 2013. Highland Lakes is slated to close in the fall of 2025 as part of OCC's restructuring plan. The Orchard Ridge campus is located along I-696 between Orchard Lake and Farmington Roads in Farmington Hills . It opened in the fall of 1967. The Brutalist campus was designed by architect Philip Will Jr. , known for his partnership in the firm Perkins & Will . OCC's award-winning culinary program

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