Contra Costa College
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Contra Costa College, in San Pablo, California, is the west campus of the Contra Costa Community College District. It is part of the California community colleges system, one of the three college systems in California.
[edit] History
The college was founded in 1950 on a temporary location housed at the shuttered Kaiser Shipyards in Richmond, California. In 1957, a permanent campus was opened on Mission Bell Drive in downtown San Pablo.
Several notable programs call the college home, including:
- The Center for Science Excellence, which works to increase minority participation in the sciences
- High-Performance Computing Center, a pioneering program which teaches the emerging science of computer clustering
- The Advocate, the college's nationally-honored weekly newspaper, which has won eleven National Newspaper Pacemaker Awards since 1990.
- The Contra Costa College Speech and Debate Team, which is one of the top community college teams in the nation.
The college campus is also home to Middle College High School, whose students take college classes in addition to regular high school courses.
[edit] Trivia
- Philadelphia Phillies player, Chris Roberson, is a graduate of the school as is NFL tight end Courtney Anderson.