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San Jose City College

School Overview:

School Notes:

• From its modest beginnings in 1921, San José City College has delivered its educational mission with integrity and vitality. For many years, San José City College operated in downtown San Jose. San Jose Unified School District took over the College's operation in 1953, moving it to its present Moorpark Avenue location. A decade later, an independent San Jose Junior College District was created. In 1958, the name was changed to San José City College.
• Today, the San Jose/Evergreen Community College District (formed in 1963) serves more than seven hundred thousand residents within its 303 square mile boundaries, including the San Jose and Milpitas Unified School Districts and East Side Union High School District.
• You can earn an AA degree, take courses to transfer to a university, upgrade your technical skills, learn English, improve your ability to communicate, tone your body, and much more. Our counselors will help you select the programs that best meet your needs.
• San José City College still remains one of Silicon Valley's best and most affordable educational resources. As a college with great diversity, we bring a global, cosmopolitan worldview to our students. We are exposed to and cherish different languages and different cultures, and that exposure helps our students succeed when they enter Silicon Valley's multi-cultural workplaces. We have connections to high tech companies, universities, and science related organizations such as NASA and Lawrence Livermore Lab. These connections help keep us up to date and provide great opportunities for advancement for our students.
• City College continues its dynamic transformation with our new Cesar E. Chavez Library/Learning Resource Center where students study in the comfort of quiet niches, take advantage of computer learning assistance and tutoring, and experience easy access to the Internet. Our new Technology Center provides a great setting for learning about computers and other current technologies. And our new Student Center makes it even easier than ever to take care of all of your business from admissions to financial aid, from counseling to enrollment — all under one roof. By Fall of '06, we will have completed the construction of our new Science Center.
• Profile last updated: 08/22/2008.

In the News:

• Second Harvest distributes food to some 200,000 people monthly (Los Gatos Weekly-Times)
  posted on November 18, 2009 at 09:12:03 pm
  Driving north on Almaden Expressway to Curtner Avenue, the visitor sees a sprawling warehouse ahead that looks like any other wholesale distribution site.
• BCC Presidential Candidate #2 (News Channel 34 Binghamton)
  posted on November 17, 2009 at 03:37:35 am
  Another potential Broome Community College president was on campus today.
• Second B.C.C. Presidential Candidate On Campus (FOX 40 Binghamton)
  posted on November 16, 2009 at 10:28:02 pm
  Broome Community College got a visit from its second presidential candidate in two weeks. Doctor Michael Burke spent Monday getting to know B.C.C and its campus. Burke says the school he's currently president of, San Jose City College in Texas, has a student body about twice the size of B.C.C. He says he sees the college branching out into the community in the near future. "It's clear to me the ...
• Families dispute crash that left one driver comatose (The Gilroy Dispatch)
  posted on November 16, 2009 at 06:24:01 pm
  Misty Auwbrey, 26 Photo by: Special to The Dispatch A San Jose woman is "fighting for her life" after a car crash in San Martin left her comatose and on life support. Misty Auwbrey, 26, had driven her friend's brother to visit a loved one's grave in Gilroy on Wednesday, said her aunt, Melodee Rohlff. The pair had just grabbed a bite to eat and were supposed to be on their way to Rohlff's house ...
• Six in 10 California community college students give up transfer plans, never making it to universities (San Jose Mercury News)
  posted on November 15, 2009 at 08:14:17 am
  California's overcrowded universities are reducing enrollments, raising fees and steering more high schoolers to the state's 110 community colleges for their first two years of education. But an alarming number of these students will never move on, waylaid by financial, personal and procedural potholes along the route to a bachelor's degree.

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