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Palo Verde College

School Overview:

School Notes:

• Palo Verde College is one of California's smaller community colleges. Students at Palo Verde College have all the advantages of a comprehensive community college and of a small college that is able to provide its students with personalized services.
• Palo Verde College is located along the Colorado River in the fertile Palo Verde Valley, 165 miles west ofPhoenix, 110 miles east of Palm Springs, and 100 miles north of Yuma. Its service area includes approximately 20,556 people, 12,456 of whom reside in Blythe.The charm of Southern California agricultural life permeates the valley. Tourism is a major industry,boosted by temperate winters and summers built around river water sports. Palo Verde College is dedicated to learning, to reflection, to personal growth. People of all ages and backgrounds attend from early morning to late evening and weekends to take advantage of a wide varietyof course offerings. The College has a reputation for quality and a readiness to respond quickly and appropriately to all community educational needs.
• The college was founded on September 15, 1947, six miles northwest of Blythe on the site of the former Morton Air Academy. Palo Verde College opened its doors as a junior college within the Palo Verde Unified School District. Seventeen students enrolled. By 1950, enrollment had reached 250. In September 1958, the College moved into a beautiful Spanish styled building on East Hobsonway. Athletics came into prominence. The Pirates won three conference championships in football and three in baseball. By 1966, the student body numbered 472. Palo Verde College moved to the Chanslorway campus in September, 1967. On July 1, 1973, the College separated from the Unified School District. The instructional program expanded to include vocational/technical, developmental, and continuing education courses. In August, 2001 the college began classes on its new, 200-acre campus. By Spring 2003, more than 2,000 students were enrolled in classes.
• Students attend Palo Verde College in preparation for transfer to a four-year institution, to acquire entry level job skills, or to increase their vocational competency for personal enrichment. Palo Verde College is pleased with the prestige its faculty and graduates have received. The continued success of the College depends upon superior teaching, and faculty members are selected with this in mind.
• Palo Verde College is a Public Community College Accredited by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges, The Western Association of Schools and Colleges.

In the News:

• Educational Technologist comes to Palo Verde College (Needles Desert Star)
  posted on November 4, 2009 at 08:30:51 am
  NEEDLES - Cristen Mann is the newest staff member at the Needles Center of Palo Verde College. Her limited-term position as educational technologist was created to allow Needles students to keep up in the race along the information technology highway.
• Needles in brief - a collection of area events. (Needles Desert Star)
  posted on October 1, 2009 at 11:00:35 pm
  NEEDLES - St. Ann's Catholic Church, 218 D St., will hold a rummage sale open to the public Thursday-Saturday, Oct. 1-3, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Food and goodies also will be served.
• Educational Institute Expanding In Rural Communities (KERO 23 Bakersfield)
  posted on July 18, 2009 at 01:08:12 am
  Farmworker Institute for Education and Leadership Development, or FIELD, increasing its educational offerings.
• Cramming for ex-cons (The Monterey County Herald)
  posted on March 23, 2009 at 09:02:40 am
  OAKLAND — Laney College student Leonard Hutton seems to have his life together: dean's list, a goal to transfer to UC-Berkeley, a love of computers.
• Colleges ill-prepared for influx of parolees (San Mateo County Times)
  posted on March 16, 2009 at 01:50:39 pm
  To relieve overcrowded prisons, the state could have to release 57,000 people who would need to learn job skills.

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