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Howard Community College (HCC) is a community college in Columbia, Howard County, Maryland. It offers classes for credit in more than 100 programs, and non-credit classes through its Division of Continuing Education and Workforce DevelopmentHCC is located at 10901 Little Patuxent Parkway in Columbia, MD. There are also has satellite campuses in Mt. Airy, Laurel, and East Columbia (Columbia Gateway Business Center).

In 1966, Howard Community College was founded by the Board of Education in Howard County and formally authorized by the Howard County Commissioners Charles E. Miller, J. Hubert Black, and David W. Force. The board recommended that the College would operate under a separate budget than the school system.That same year, HCC was approved as the State of Maryland's 14th community college. Alfred Bassler sold his share of his father's 400 acre Cedar Lane farm to Community Research and Development to be the site of the project.