Long Beach City College

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Long Beach City College
Established 1927
Type Public
Faculty 995
Staff 535
Undergraduates 26,399
Location Long Beach, California, USA
Campus Urban
Colors Black, red and white
Mascot Viking
Affiliations California Community Colleges system
Website http://www.lbcc.edu/

Long Beach City College, established in 1927, is a community college located in Long Beach, California. It is divided into two campuses. The Liberal Arts Campus, known as LAC, is located in the residential community of the Lakewood Village section of Long Beach, on Carson Street west of Clark Avenue. The Pacific Coast Campus, known as PCC, is located in central Long Beach, near the city of Signal Hill, on Pacific Coast Highway east of Orange Avenue. It is the only college in the Long Beach Community College District.

The college as a whole is known as LBCC, as well as “City.” Occasionally, the college is also known as “Beach,” although this is commonly used as the nickname for California State University, Long Beach. LBCC serves the cities of Long Beach, Lakewood, Signal Hill, and Santa Catalina Island. As of September 2005, the college has an enrollment of 28,069.

The current Superintendent-President of the College is Dr. E. Jan Kehoe, whose term will expire by January 1, 2007. A search for a successor is currently underway.

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[edit] History

Founded in 1927, Long Beach City College was initially housed at Wilson Classical High School in southeast Long Beach. An earthquake in 1933 resulted in classes being held at Recreation Park until 1935, when the college moved into its Liberal Arts Campus at Carson Street and Clark Avenue.

During and after World War II, the college increased so rapidly that a new campus had to be established. This was realized in 1949 with the establishment of the Pacific Coast Campus, occupied on the former site of Hamilton Junior High School. As Long Beach City College grew in the 1970s, state law separated the college from the Long Beach Unified School District. In that decade and the 1980s, Proposition 13 signaled retrenchment for the college, with many popular classes and services folding.

Also during the 1980s, the arrival of refugees from Southeast Asia resulted in the need for extensive courses in the ESL program. This program became the largest at the college due to a later wave of amnesty applicants.

1987 saw the college acquire neighboring Veterans Memorial Stadium from the City of Long Beach. In recent years, the college has upgraded the stadium playing surface, its swimming pool facility, as well as established wireless internet and e-mail services in 2005.

Bond Measure E has seen the construction of a Child Development Center at the PCC, and construction for new buildings on both campuses are underway, including a new South Quad Complex Building on the former LAC golf mall, a new Industrial Technology Building at the PCC [1], and a new East Campus for the Culinary Arts Program [2].

[edit] Academics

Long Beach City College offers a wide range of programs, including business, health, trade and industry, communications, and liberal arts, as well as a wide variety vocational programs spanning various occupational trades. The college is recognized nationally for its nursing program, and has an honors program for its high-achieving students. The English as a Second Language (ESL) program is one of the largest on campus.

The college is divided into six schools.

[edit] School of Business and Social Science

The School of Business and Social Science provides academic and vocational programs in the fields of Business Administration, Computer and Business Information Systems, Computer Applications and Office Technologies, Distributive Education, which includes Culinary Arts, Restaurant and Catering Management, Hospitality and Tourism, History and Political Science, Public Services, and Social Sciences.

[edit] School of Creative Arts and Applied Sciences

The School of Creative Arts and Applied Sciences provides academic and vocational programs in the fields of Art and Photography, Child Development, Family and Consumer Studies, which include Fashion, Food and Nutrition, and Interior Design, Music, Radio and Television, Speech Communication, Theatre, Dance and Film.

[edit] School of Health and Science

The School of Health and Science is home to the nursing program, making the school the largest at the college. In addition to programs in Registered and Vocational Nursing, the school provides academic and vocation programs in Health Technologies, Life Sciences such as Anatomy, Biology, Health Education, and Physiology, Mathematics, Engineering, and Physical Science.

[edit] School of Language Arts

The School of Language Arts provides academic and vocational programs in the fields of English, English as a Second Language, and Foreign Languages.

[edit] School of Physical Education and Athletics

The School of Physical Education and Athletics offers classes to assist in health and well-being, and hosts intercollegiate athletic events.

[edit] School of Trade and Industrial Technologies

The School of Trade and Industrial Technologies provides academic and vocational programs in the fields of Air Conditioning and Refrigeration, Auto/Diesel Mechanics, Aviator Maintenance and Pilot Training, Construction, Horticulture, Drafting, Electronics and Electricity, Machine Tool, Sheet Metal, and Welding. Most of the school's programs are located at the Pacific Coast Campus, though the Aviation programs are located at the Liberal Arts Campus due to its proximity to the Long Beach Airport.

[edit] Campus and surroundings

The campuses are located in Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California. The Liberal Arts Campus is situated north of Interstate 405 and south of State Highway 91, along the major roads of Carson Street, which divides the campus in two portions, Lakewood Boulevard, which borders the campus to the west, and Clark Avenue, which borders the campus to the east.

The Pacific Coast Campus is situated north of the Pacific Coast Highway, bordered by Orange Avenue to the west, Walnut Avenue to the east, and Mary Butler School to the north. Year round, there is a mild climate moderated by ocean breezes from the Pacific.

[edit] Transportation

Most students, faculty and staff commute to campus. Long Beach Transit serves both campuses, with routes 101, 103, 111 and 112 serving LAC, and routes 7, 171, 172, 173, and 174 serving PCC. Due to the increasing student enrollment, there have been issues regarding parking, and as a consequence, those with parking permits usually arrive early during the first few weeks of each semester to avoid traffic. Recent construction projects from Bond Measure E have aggravated the parking situation, but this will be temporary upon completion.

[edit] Student life

Long Beach City College is populated with many student-run clubs and organizations. The Associated Student Body, or ASB, Cabinet is the largest group on campus, and is the organization that funds most of the events geared toward students at the college. The ASB Student Senate overlooks the independent clubs as well as the men’s and women’s social service clubs that used to be under the now-defunct Associated Men’s Students (AMS) and Associated Women’s Students (AWS). LBCC is also known for having a nationally-renowned volunteer service program, as well as the first intramural athletics program in the nation [3].

There are campus-run radio and television stations, as well as a campus-run newspaper, named the Viking.

Traditional events include Homecoming Week, the Spring Sing variety show, and Mini Grand Prix, a three-man push-cart race tournament.

Each of the campuses has its own Alpha Gamma Sigma chapter.

[edit] Athletics

Long Beach City College has 21 athletic programs for men and women. The teams are known as the Vikings, and they have won 16 national and 84 state championships as of Spring 2006. The mascot is a viking named Ole. The Vikings are recognized as a powerhouse in some of the most competitive community college conferences in California, as well as the nation.

The 2005-06 season saw Long Beach City College win for the first-ever time the Pepsi/NATYCAA Cup, State Associations Division, from the National Association of Two-Year College Athletic Administrators (NATYCAA). This award represents the best junior college athletics program in the state of California. LBCC won the award by 20.5 points over second-place Mount San Antonio College, buoyed by state titles in men's water polo, women's soccer, baseball, and men's volleyball, for a total of 174.5 points. [4]

[edit] Men’s intercollegiate teams

[edit] Women’s intercollegiate teams

[edit] Famous alumnni

[edit] External links

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