Foothill College is a community college in Los Altos Hills, California. It is part of the college district of Foothill-De Anza Community. Founded on January 15, 1957 by Founding Superintendent and President Dr. Calvin C. Flint. The campus offers 79 Associate degree programs and 107 certificate programs.
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In July 1956, Palo Alto District Integrated School Head Henry M. Gunn held a meeting with the local school principal who led the establishment of Foothill College. Calvin Flint, President of Monterey Peninsula College, was employed as District Superintendent and first President; he began work on March 1, 1958.
Candidates for new college names, in addition to Foothill, are Peninsula, Junipero Serra, Mid-Peninsula, Earl Warren, Herbert Hoover, North Santa Clara, Altos, Valley, Skyline, Highland, and Intercity. Initially the name was Foothill Junior College, but because Flint insisted that his new college would be "no junior to anyone", the Council dropped "Junior" in September 1958.
Foothill held its first class on the old Highway School campus at El Camino Real in Mountain View on September 15, 1958. It was accredited by March of next year and is the first school in the state to ever achieve full accreditation in less than six years. month. The owl mascot comes from a concrete owl which is an ornament in the bell tower of Highway School; it was then transferred to a new campus.
The campus was designed by architect Ernest Kump and landscape architects Hideo Sasaki and Peter Walker, resembling a neo-Japanese park. The Foothill College is intended as a junior college for 3,500 full-time students, on the 122-acre campus, the first of many junior colleges built after World War II in California. Immediately upon completion, Foothill is widely recognized as a pioneer, setting a high standard for new campus designs.
Traditionally, Foothill serves the communities of Los Altos Hills, Los Altos, Mountain View, and Palo Alto; together these communities form the northwest corner of Silicon Valley. The college sits next to Interstate 280, at the intersection with El Monte Road.
In 2003, to accommodate nearly 14,000 students on campus designed for 3,500, colleges began to renovate almost all campuses, including dismantling and replacing unsafe buildings. Two new buildings in the lower campus complex have a green roof with grass on it.
In 2002, the second campus opened at the site of the former Cubberley High School in Palo Alto, in a leased facility from the Palo Alto School District. In September 2016, it was replaced by the Sunnyvale Center, built on the part of the now-closed Onizuka Air Force Station site, preserving the artifacts of the "Blue Cube" and pinned to pieces on the path. The new center will accommodate more than 1,600 students.
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Accreditation
Foothill College is accredited by the Accreditation Commission for Communities & amp; Junior College of Western Association of Schools and Colleges. The organization is recognized by the Board of Higher Education Accreditation and the US Department of Education. Foothill is also accredited by the American Veterinary Medical Association, the American Dental Association Commission on Dental Accreditation, the American Medical Association Council in Medical Education, and the Accreditation Commission of the Allied Health Education Program.
Organization
President
- Calvin C. Flint (1957-1973)
- Dr. Hubert H. Semans (1967-1973)
- Dr. James S. Fitzgerald (1973-1982)
- Dr. Thomas H. Clements (1982-1994)
- Dr. Bernadine Chuck Fong (1994-2006)
- Dr. Penny Patz (Interim President) (2006-2007)
- Dr. Judy Miner (2007-2015)
- Dr. Kimberlee Messina (Interim President) (2015-2016)
- Thuy Thi Nguyen, J.D. (2016-present)
Division
- Biological & amp; Health Sciences
- Business & amp; Social Sciences
- Counseling & amp; Student Services
- Art & amp; Communication
- Instructional & amp; Library
- Language Art
- Kinesiology & amp; Athletics
- Physics, Mathematics & amp; Technique
Administration
College district headquarters are located on one corner of the Foothill campus. The district also runs De Anza College in nearby Cupertino.
Athletics
Foothill is a member of the Coastal Communities Coastal Conference at the California College on Athletics and NorCal Football Conference. School mascot is an owl.
Intercollegiate Team
- Soccer
- Men & amp; Women's Basketball
- Men & amp; Women's Football
- Men & amp; Women's Swimming
- Men & amp; Tennis Woman
- Women's Softball
- Princess Volley
- Polo Air Princess
Student government
The Foothill student government is known as the Associated Students of Foothill College (ASFC). The student administration provides students with the opportunity to organize themselves and participate with faculty, staff and administration.
Achievements
Five Foothill professors have won the Hayward Award from the Academic Senate from the California Community College, awarded annually to a faculty member who has "track record of excellence in teaching and professional activities". Foothill winners include Jay Manley, Mike McHargue, Elizabeth Barkley, Andrew Fraknoi, and Scott Lankford. In addition, Frank Cascarano is a Member of the Association of American Physics Teachers.
The Foothill College's Physics Show, started in 2007 by physics professors Frank Cascarano and David Marasco on The Wonders of Physics model at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is one of the greatest popular physics presentations in the US. , with an annual audience of over 20,000, with a total attendance of over 100,000. The results of The Physics Show are used for bus students from the local Title 1 schools to Foothill for special performances from the show.
Controversy
The campus serves an enormous number of international students seeking to earn a bachelor's degree as a basis for moving to prestigious American universities; according to the Community College Week survey in 2001, Foothill has the 12th highest international student population of all colleges in the United States. The school was strongly criticized in 2002 by The Wall Street Journal for the aggressive recruitment of these students, as they were a lucrative source of income that paid higher tuition.
On December 10, 2001, Foothill College unexpectedly canceled the men's basketball season after completing just six matches. Questions arise about how housing and tuition for six foreign players are paid by Tariq Abdul-Wahad, then with the NBA Denver Nuggets and alumni of San Jose State University.
Foothills Electronics Museum
Between 1973 and 1991, an electronic museum stood on the campus of Foothill College. The museum was founded with the help of the Douglas Perham Electronic Foundation, which wants a permanent home for its vast electronic collection, including the paper of the inventor of a vacuum tube amplifier, Lee de Forest. The foundation raised money to build a museum building on the Foothill campus and donated its collection to campus. The museum opened in 1973, and was initially operated by Foothill College employees for six years until 1979, right after the passage of Proposition 13 re-rolled property taxes and reduced funds to run the campus. In response to the lack of funds, the volunteers began to commission the museum.
However, in 1988, the college board decided to close the museum, sell or donate the assets, and use the space for the classroom. A newly appointed board member, Bart Lee, took the case and sued Foothill, claiming that the college broke the deal with the Perham Foundation. The foundation eventually earned $ 775,000, which they used to document, pack, and place collections in storage before the 1991 deadline. The collection was kept in storage for twelve years, before it was acquired in 2003 by the History of San JosÃÆ'Â © and exhibited as The Perham Collection of Early Electronics.
Famous Alumni
- Adrienne Barbeau, actress in the TV series Maude , and former wife of film director John Carpenter
- Rudy Arroyo, Major League Baseball player
- Rick Bladt, the Premier League baseball player
- Gene Block, chancellor of University of California, Los Angeles
- Paul Bravo, the Santa Clara Broncos soccer national championship. San Jose Clash, Colorado Rapids major football league, UCLA asst. soccer coach man, Los Angeles Galaxy asst. coach, soccer director of the Colorado Rapids MLS
- Chrisann Brennan, American artist and author of The Bite at Apple
- Mike Brewer, Major League Baseball player
- Tony Brewer, Major League Baseball player
- And Duran, Major League Baseball player
- Debbi Field, founder of Ny. Fields
- Brad Gilbert, All American players in Foothill, former pro player ranked 4th, and coach to Andre Agassi
- Kevin Gutierrez Double Atlet (Football and Football), Football Ambassadors.
- Jon Nakamatsu, Japanese-American pianist
- Juice Newton, musician
- Stu Pederson, Major League Baseball player
- Chris Robinson, director of hip-hop/pop music videos
- Steve Sampson, All American footballer at Foothill, member of the 1976 California state championship team from Foothill, coach of Santa Clara men's soccer team (NCAA co-champions 1989), coach of United States men's national football team at the 1998 Cup FIFA World, coach of the Major League Soccer league team 1995 Los Angeles Galaxy
- Wayne Wang, Hong Kong-born American film director.
See also
- California Community College System
- CaÃÆ' Â ± There is a College, community college located in Redwood City
- College of San Mateo, a community college located in San Mateo
- Evergreen Valley College, a community college located in San Jose
- San Jose City College (SJCC), a college located in San Jose
- Skyline College, a community college located in San Bruno
References
External links
- Official website
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