Directive No. 70-2 changing the name of the center to Community College of Micronesia (CCM), after which the college began offering a college curriculum in its own name. Beginning in 1971, the TTPI Department of Education began assuming more responsibility for the college; the university involvement was phased out in 1973. CCM remained essentially a teacher college until 1974 when the first non-education-related associate degree program was added to the curriculum.
According to Thomas R. Murray, the school as it is known today was formed by the 1976 merger of the Community College of Micronesia in Kolonia, Pohnpei; and the Micronesian Occupational College, which was built in Koror, Palau between the late 1960s and the middle of the 1970s. However, the school's official history says the change occurred in 1978 when an act of the Seventh Congress of Micronesia joined CCM with the then Micronesian Occupational Center in Palau and the College’s nursing school in Saipan to form the College of Micronesia (COM) as …
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