Cypress College
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Cypress College is a community college located in Cypress, California. Opened in 1967 , the southern Californian college offers a variety of general education, transfer courses, and vocational programs leading to Associate's degrees and certificates.
Cypress College operates with a decentralized approach of separate academic "divisions," allowing the benefits of both a small and large college campus.
The campus, covering an area of 440,000 square meters, was designed by architect Frank Lawyer of the Austin, Texas-based firm Caudill Rowlett Scott. It features several futuristic looking buildings set around a central lake. The college is noteworthy in that it has never completely abandoned the style of buildings it was initially created with. The school's new library, completed in 2005, still bears heavy resemblance to the school's original buildings.
[edit] Trivia
- Cypress College Registered Nursing program graduates scored a 97.26% pass-rate in the 2004/2005 test years, and a 95.38% pass-rate for 2005/2006 test years on the State of California Board of Registered Nursing NCLEX state licensure examination. [1]
- In recent years, Cypress College has hosted high school boy's volleyball championship games.
- Cypress College is home to the only Mortuary Science program in the greater Orange County and Greater Los Angeles areas.
- Notable alumni include pornographic actress Taylor Rain and Texas Rangers catcher Gerald Laird.
- The Six Feet Under character Federico Diaz is portrayed as a Cypress graduate.
- San Diego Padres pitcher Trevor Hoffman attended Cypress College, where he played baseball before his big-league days.
- Cypress College Registered Nursing Department director Darlene Fishman is the mother of Michael Fishman, who played "DJ" on the hit TV show "Rosanne".
