Essex County College

Newark, NJ. New Jersey's first county-based community college, approved by the Essex County Board of Freeholders in August 1966 and opened to students in September 1968. Moved to its current University Heights campus (the A. Zachary Yamba Building) in 1976, becoming the fifth institution in the University Heights higher-education cluster alongside Rutgers University-Newark, NJIT, New Jersey Medical School, and Rutgers Law School.