Red Rocks Community College

Red Rocks Community College is a community college located in Lakewood, Colorado and Arvada, Colorado. The college was established in 1999 as a campus of the Community College of Denver and opened at a temporary site until the Colorado legislature appropriated funds for construction of a permanent campus at the school's present Lakewood campus. Construction began in 1971 and the first phase of construction was completed in 1973, with a link between the east and west wings of the current building completed in fall 1975. On July 1, 1983 the Red Rocks campus officially became Red Rocks Community College and it opened its second campus in Arvada in 1990. Red Rocks offers more than 650 courses in 150 subject areas. It awards four associate...