Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC) is a large community college in Charlotte, North Carolina. The school was founded in 1963; it is the result of a merger between Mecklenburg College and the Central Industrial Education Center. Now the College consists of six satellite campuses and an extensive "Virtual Campus", all in the Charlotte metropolitan area. In 2012, US President Barack Obama invoked CPCC in his State of the Union Address. CPCC has been a part of the Charlotte landscape for over 50 years. It has more than six campuses located throughout Mecklenburg County.
