Santa Barbara City College

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Santa Barbara City College
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Type Public community college
Established 1911
Endowment $28.1 million[1]
President Lori Gaskin
Students 18,848[2]
Address
721 Cliff Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93109-2394
,
Santa Barbara
,
CA
,
USA
Campus Urban/Suburban—74 acres (30 ha)
Colors Red and White
Affiliations Santa Barbara Community College District; Western State Conference
Mascot Vaqueros
Website www.sbcc.edu

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Santa Barbara City College (SBCC) is a two-year community college that opened in 1911 and is located on a 74-acre (30 ha) campus in the city of Santa Barbara, California, USA. SBCC was named co-winner of the 2013 Aspen (Institute) Prize for Community College Excellence,[3] earning it a #1 national ranking. The college was recognized for its quality and focus in four areas: facilitating underrepresented and minority student success, student learning outcomes, degree completion and transfer rates, and labor market success in securing good jobs after college.

Lori Gaskin was appointed school President in spring 2012. SBCC is one of the 113 community colleges in the state of California.

In Popular Culture

It was rumored that two students in the 1960's went blind from staring at the sun while under the influence of LSD. [4] Santa Barbara High School Chemistry teacher Ted Pachen even perpetrated the myth to his class at least as late as the early 1980's.

Athletics

A member of the Western State Conference, City College offers intercollegiate athletic competition for men in baseball, cross country and football; for women in softball; and for men and women in basketball, volleyball, track and field, golf, tennis, and soccer. The men and women's soccer teams were both WSC Champions in 2011, the first time this had been achieved by one college in the WSC in the same year. The SBCC Vaqueros soccer and football teams play at the 10,000-capacity La Playa Stadium in Santa Barbara.

New developments and programs

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The campus at Santa Barbara City College
The buffet line at the cafeteria

The Earth & Biological Sciences Building was completely rebuilt between 2000 and 2002 and is now one of the most technologically advanced science buildings in the state.

The School of Media Arts (SOMA) was established in 2001 to focus on applied communication, visual literacy and digital media. The school covers many areas of interest, including film studies, film production, photography, and computer and multimedia arts.

The music department at features several performance groups, including three jazz ensembles, large and small vocal ensembles, a concert band, and a full symphony orchestra.

The automotive program has been certified by the National Institute for Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) as a master training institution, having met industry standards in all eight of the automotive specialty areas: engine repair, engine performance, heating and air conditioning, electrical systems, automatic transmissions, manual transmission and axle, and brakes and front end.

Santa Barbara City College’s Marine Diving Technologies Program is a recognized program in its field. It is the only community college degree program in the nation which is accredited by the Association of Commercial Diving Educators (ACDE), the International Diving Schools Association (IDSA) and the National Association of Underwater Instructors (NAUI). The program trains and certifies for all levels of SCUBA diving.

The Cancer Information Management Program at Santa Barbara City College offers two types of degrees: An Associate in Science in Cancer Information Management and the Certificate of Completion in Cancer Information Management. It is one of the few Cancer Information Management programs in the nation to currently offer an Associate degree which is required to sit for the National Exam to become a Certified Tumor Registrar with the National Cancer Registrars Association starting in 2009.

The student newspaper is named The Channels.[5]

The Mobile Media Institute (MMI) was founded at Santa Barbara City College in 2006 to provide training and services for the teaching of the development and production of mobile media. Instruction is given face to face, online and using wireless handheld devices, targeting mobile phones, PDAs, iPods, MP3 players and other similar devices. Funding for two years has been provided by the California Community College Office of Economic and Workforce Development and a preliminary application for additional support has been approved by the National Science Foundation.


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Santa Barbara west campus

Notable alumni

Notable faculty

References

Notes

  1. ↑ As of February 4, 2013. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ http://datamart.cccco.edu/Students/Enrollment_Status.aspx
  3. ↑ The Aspen Institute. The 2013 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence, 2013. http://www.aspeninstitute.org/sites/default/files/content/upload/AspenPrize_2013FINAL.pdf Retrieved 02-06-2014.
  4. ↑ David Mikkelson, LSD Users stare at Sun.
  5. ↑ The Channels
  6. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

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