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Ohlone College

School Overview:

School Notes:

• The College is one of 110 community colleges in the State of California, which offer the associate degree or the first two years of study toward a bachelor's degree. Many students then transfer to complete their four-year degree at an institution in the California State University or University of California systems or at other public or private universities.
• Located above the northern reaches of Silicon Valley and the southern border of San Francisco Bay, Ohlone's Fremont campus has 300 acres reserved for open space. The campus offers a peaceful and aesthetically pleasing learning environment. At the center is the nine-building Academic Village, composed of classroom buildings dedicated to music, chemistry, computer studies, physics, art, business administration, allied health, and biology; two fully equipped lecture halls; the Hochler Student Center; Epler Gymnasium; and an Olympic size swimming pool.
• Ward Blanchard Center, at the core of the Academic Village, houses the Learning Resources Center, which include the Library. Here also are Admissions and Records, Counseling, Student Services, Business Services, Human Resources, the Transfer Center, and the Tutorial Center. Surrounding this center cluster are other College facilities, including the Gary Soren Smith Center for Fine and Performing Arts, the Morris and Alvirda Hyman Center for Business and Technology, the Early Childhood Studies Lab, Gallaudet University Regional Center, the Student Health Center, other faculty and business offices, and the Athletics fields and facilities.
• Ohlone College is an accredited college, accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. Ohlone College is also authorized by the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services to enroll non-immigrant students.
• Profile last updated: 08/22/2008.

In the News:

• Layoffs possible at Ohlone College (Oakland Tribune)
  posted on November 18, 2009 at 03:00:04 pm
  Given the choice between furloughs and layoffs, most unions choose to give up pay and keep jobs. But one union at Ohlone College has taken the opposite tact.
• NUMMI auto factory closing: End of the line (Berkeley Voice - Albany Journal)
  posted on November 16, 2009 at 06:40:55 pm
  FREMONT — Ron Lopez will believe the NUMMI auto factory is closing only when the last Toyota rolls off the assembly line March 31, in what looms as a bitter spring for 4,700 workers at the plant.
• NUMMI auto factory closing: End of the line (The Fremont Argus)
  posted on November 16, 2009 at 03:34:01 pm
  4,700 workers are facing major life changes when Fremont factory closes its doors.    Overview: The end of NUMMI
• NUMMI auto factory closing: End of the line (Walnut Creek Journal)
  posted on November 15, 2009 at 05:58:47 pm
  FREMONT — This has been a year of blows to the thousands of workers at the giant NUMMI auto factory — and there's more to come. Compounding the news earlier this year that the plant will close in March, the unionized work force confronts an additional bit of cruel fortune.
• Feds come offering help for NUMMI workers, communities (Berkeley Voice - Albany Journal)
  posted on November 14, 2009 at 03:11:05 pm
  NEWARK — Officials representing nearly a dozen federal agencies descended on the East Bay on Friday, promising to help autoworkers and communities affected by the impending NUMMI closure.

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