Santa Monica College

Santa Monica College
Established 1929
Type Public Junior College
President Chui Tsang
Students 30,000
Location Santa Monica, CA, USA
Campus Urban, 38 acres (15 ha)
Sports 7 men's teams, 9 women's teams
Colors Blue and white
Nickname Corsairs
Mascot Pico the Corsair
Website www.smc.edu

Santa Monica College is a two-year, public, junior college located in Santa Monica, California.

Santa Monica College was first opened in 1929 as Santa Monica Junior College. Current enrollment is over 30,000 students in more than 90 fields of study. The college also has the largest international student population of any junior college in the US, with approximately 3,000 students from more than 100 countries, Japan and Sweden contributing heavily.

Santa Monica College is ranked number one among California's junior colleges in transfers to the University of California,[1][2] University of Southern California, and Loyola Marymount University. Transfer courses are offered in such fields as business administration, journalism, fine arts, health sciences, computer science, engineering, and the liberal arts.

The Santa Monica College Arts Mentor Program provides certain students in the fine and applied arts with graduate-level training by professionals in their specialized fields. The program was designed for select individuals whose talents exceed the scope of the traditional curriculum at the College.

Santa Monica College offers a variety of occupational certificate programs, including accounting, fashion design, office information systems, and the Academy of Entertainment Technology (which offers certificates in interactive media and animation).

Santa Monica College is also the home of KCRW (89.9 FM), a leading public radio station, broadcasting throughout the Los Angeles and Orange County area with an estimated 450,000 listeners. The station is the broadcast home of Morning Becomes Eclectic and Harry Shearer's Le Show. As part of its hands-on media curriculum, the college also produces its own weekly, student-run newspaper (both in print, and online) called The Corsair which took home 14 awards at its most recent State Competition,[3] including the Award for General Excellence.

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Athletics

Santa Monica College fields 16 sports which compete in the Western State Conference. The mascot for SMC is Pico the Corsair.[4]

SMC fields both men's and women's teams in basketball, cross country, swimming, track and field, volleyball, and water polo. SMC fields men's teams in American football team, and women's softball, soccer, and tennis teams.

Santa Monica College Football played undefeated seasons in 1958, 1966 and 1980.

Santa Monica College Won the Junior Rose Bowl, the unofficial National Championship in 1958 against Northeastern Oklahoma A&M on Dec. 13, 1958.[5][6]

Corsair Field (4,850) built in 1948, is home to football and track and field. The field was the starting point for both the men's and women's marathon events for the 1984 Summer Olympics held in neighboring Los Angeles.[7]

Corsair Pavilion (1,600) is home to men's and women's basketball and volleyball teams, as well as the Hollywood Fame of the American Basketball Association

The Santa Monica College men's volleyball team won the national intercollegiate volleyball championship each year from 1961–66, except for 1965, when it lost the title to UCLA.[8]

Also, the Santa Monica College's track is featured on the album cover "Running with Scissors" by Weird Al Yankovic.

Pico the Corsair

Pico the Corsair derives his name from Pico Boulevard, one of the four main streets that the campus is located between. He sails on the ship the Lady Sixteen with his pet Pearl the Parrot while carrying his Sword of Silberkraus. [4][9] The Lady Sixteen and Pearl are named after 16th street and Pearl Street respectively.

Demographics

Ethnic Demographics[10]
Black 11%
Asian 19%
Hispanic 25%
White 32%
Other 8%

SMC Students:

There are approximately 29,960 students enrolled at SMC. Of these students:

Age Composition The average age is 25 years.

Notable alumni

Main article: List of Santa Monica College people

References

  1. ^ Jenn Garbee; Nancy Gottesman, Stephanie M. Helper, Colleen Dunn Bates, Margery L. Schwartz (2007). Hometown Santa Monica: The Bay Cities Book. pp. 80. ISBN 978-0975393925. 
  2. ^ "CCCD: D-Mail". Cccd.edu. http://www.cccd.edu/d-mail/d-mail1103.htm. Retrieved 2011-06-18. 
  3. ^ "Contests/Awards - JACC - Journalism Association of Community Colleges". Jacconline.org. http://www.jacconline.org/contests-awards. Retrieved 2011-06-18. 
  4. ^ a b "Pico op Myspace". Myspace.com. http://www.myspace.com/picothepirate. Retrieved 2011-06-18. 
  5. ^ "Pasadena Bowl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia". En.wikipedia.org. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junior_Rose_Bowl. Retrieved 2011-06-18. 
  6. ^ "1958 JUNIOR ROSE BOWL CHAMPS TO BE INDUCTED INTO SMC SPORTS HALL OF FAME". Smc.edu. 1958-12-13. http://www.smc.edu/forms/news.asp?Q=44. Retrieved 2011-06-18. 
  7. ^ 1984 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 1. Part 1. pp. 97-8.
  8. ^ "The History of Intercollegiate Volleyball in the United States from 1895 to the Present Day, Ph.D. Dissertation by Arambawattage Rodrigo, The Ohio State University, 1981, p. 51-74". http://etd.ohiolink.edu/send-pdf.cgi/Rodrigo%20Arambawattage%20D.pdf?osu1263043440. Retrieved 2010-04-30. 
  9. ^ "File:Santa Monica College Masscot Pico the Pirate and his Sword Silberkraus.jpg - Wikimedia Commons". Commons.wikimedia.org. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Santa_Monica_College_Masscot_Pico_the_Pirate_and_his_Sword_Silberkraus.jpg. Retrieved 2011-06-18. 
  10. ^ "Enrollment Summary, Fall 2007" (PDF). UCLA Office of Analysis and Information Management. http://www.aim.ucla.edu/Statistics/enrollment/SummaryFall2007.pdf. Retrieved 2008-04-01. 

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1896: Marathon (city), Panathinaiko Stadium • 1900: Croix-Catelan Stadium • 1904: Francis Field • 1908: White City Stadium • 1912: Stockholm Olympic Stadium • 1920: Olympisch Stadion • 1924: Stade de Colombes • 1928: Olympic Stadium • 1932: Olympic Stadium, Riverside Drive at Griffith Park • 1936: Avus Motor Road, Olympic Stadium • 1948: Empire Stadium • 1952: Olympic Stadium • 1956: Melbourne Cricket Ground • 1960: Arch of Constantine, Raccordo Anulare, Stadio Olimpico, Via Appia Antica, Via Cristoforo Colombo • 1964: Fuchu City, Karasuyama-machi, National Stadium, Sasazuka-machi, Shinjuku • 1968: Estadio Olímpico Universitario, Zócalo • 1972: Olympiastadion • 1976: Montreal Botanical Garden, Olympic Stadium, Streets of Montreal • 1980: Grand Arena, Streets of Moscow  • 1984: Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Santa Monica College, Streets of Los Angeles, Streets of Santa Monica • 1988: Olympic Stadium, Streets of Seoul • 1992: Estadi Olímpic de Monjuïc, Marathon course, Mataró, Walking course • 1996: Marathon course, Olympic Stadium, Walking course • 2000: Marathon course, North Sydney, Olympic Stadium  • 2004: Marathon (city), Olympic Stadium, Panathinaiko Stadium, Stadium at Olympia • 2008: Beijing National Stadium • 2012: Marathon Course, Olympic Stadium • 2016: Flamengo Park, João Havelange Stadium, Sambódromo