Aims Community College is a two-year college serving northern Colorado with three campuses in Greeley, Fort Lupton and Loveland. Aims offers more than 160 degree and certificate programs and provides many diverse programs as both day and night classes. Aims was founded in 1967 and the first class graduated in 1969. Aims started with one campus in Greeley and later expanded in 1984 to have another campus in Fort Lupton, and in 1987 the Aims Loveland campus was established. In 1965 Kirby Hart of Greeley suggested that a two-year college should be considered for northern Colorado. January 24, 1967: The voters in 11 of Weld County’s 12 public school districts approved creation of the Community College District and on September 27 the first day of classes began there were 949 students enrolled. In May 1968 the First class graduated and three students received degrees. In 1969 A permanent 175-acre (0.71 km) site for the college was purchased on the western edge of Greeley. In 1975 Dr. Ed Beaty died, he was the first president of Aims. In 1984 The South Campus opened west of Fort Lupton. In 1987 Aims opened a campus in downtown Loveland. On April 1992 Aims celebrated its 25th anniversary.