1960
5 December: The Northwest Association of Colleges and Universities gives CBC permanent accreditation status.
1961
CBC begins offering an accredited Registered Nurse Program.
1963
CBC's Football Team makes it to the Junior Rose Bowl.
1965
20 April: The library building, also referred to as an instructional resources center and which also included two large auditorium-size classrooms plus numerous smaller classrooms, was dedicated.
1966
Due to budgetary issues, the Symposium is cancelled. CBC's literary magazine, Gravel, publishes its first issue.
The Collegiate is named the fourth-best community college newspaper in Washington by a panel of judges at the University of Washington.
29 April: Fred S. Esvelt, former superintendent of Kennewick schools, is named President of CBC.
