Metropolitan Community College (Missouri)

It is not affiliated with Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, Nebraska.

As a junior college, it was one of the first institutions in the country to issue two-year associate degrees, and it was the third school in the country to be accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, in 1918.

A Board of Trustees was publicly elected to take over fiduciary responsibility for the college from the Kansas City School District.

Some Maple Woods classes, for instance, met in a church that first year.

[3] The Business & Technology campus closed at the end of 2021, with its skilled trades programs relocating to three new facilities: the Engineering Technology building and Advanced Technical Skills Institute, both part of MCC-Penn Valley, and the Blue River East building east of the main MCC-Blue River campus in Independence.