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Pasadena City College (PCC) is a
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History

Pasadena City College was founded in 1924 as Pasadena Junior College. From 1928 to 1953, it operated as a four-year junior college, combining the last two years of high school with the first two years of college. In 1954, Pasadena Junior College merged with another junior college, John Muir College, to become Pasadena City College. In 1966, voters approved the creation of the Pasadena Area Junior College District. The name was subsequently changed to the Pasadena Area Community College District. Pasadena City College is accredited by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, an institutional accrediting body recognized by the Commission on Recognition of Postsecondary Accreditation and the U.S. Department of Education. The Shatford Library is a direct descendant of the original Pasadena High School library that originally occupied the campus. The $16.5-million Shatford Library opened September 7, 1993, and holds 133,024 volumes in the general book collection, over 300 periodical subscriptions (plus over 2,000 titles in electronic databases) 7,338 audio cassettes, 1,019 paperbacks, 661 CDs and software, 404 volumes in the Special Services collection, and 1,186 videocassettes. Walter T. Shatford II, is the attorney for whom the library was named in recognition of his four decades of service on the school's board and his donations. He was also active in the
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. In 2003, voters approved a bond measure for about $150 million that improved campus facilities. A significant portion of these funds were earmarked for the construction of a new building to house the college's art and music departments. The Alumni Commons, the Aquatic Center, the Boone Sculpture Garden, and the Galloway Plaza have all replaced what were once campus parking lots. A new fourth floor parking structure (Lot 5) and a new bus parking area were completed in 2005. In 2007, many services at the school had to relocate pending demolition of their previous facilities. These included the college bookstore, Student Affairs, Associated Students, the student business services, the campus police and the offices of the school newspaper ''The Courier''. A groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of the new Industrial and Technology building, Campus Center and Bookstore took place in October 2007. The Campus Center and Bookstore opened in August 2009. The school is one of the few community colleges with its own observatory, planetarium, and
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Administration and governance

The college is governed by a nine-member board of trustees. Seven members are elected (each of whom represents a geographical section of the Pasadena Area Community College District, which includes Pasadena, Altadena, La Caňada Flintridge, Sierra Madre, South Pasadena, San Marino, Arcadia, Temple City, the western portion of El Monte, the northern portion of Rosemead and the East Pasadena/East San Gabriel unincorporated area); one is a student trustee who is elected by the student body; and one is the sitting college president, who is also the district superintendent. Mark W. Rocha, former West Los Angeles College president, assumed the role of president/superintendent on July 1, 2010, when he was chosen to replace Lisa Sugimoto. His presidency was controversial with some constituents, including the faculty who twice voted "no confidence" in him, and he resigned in the summer of 2014. Previous presidents/superintendents include Jack Scott (1987–1995), who served as California State Assemblymember from 1996 to 2000 and California State Senator from 2000 to 2008. , Scott is Chancellor of the California Community College system; James Kossler, 1995–2007; Paulette Perfumo, who held the position from August 2007 until her abrupt resignation in 2009; and Lisa Sugimoto, who served as acting president through the end of the 2009–2010 academic year.


Demographics

The school attracts students from throughout Southern California, enrolling a large percentage of student from outside the bounds of the Pasadena Area Community College District, which was established in 1966. The district includes the cities of Pasadena, South Pasadena,
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,
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, Temple City,
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, Arcadia, Sierra Madre, and portions of
Rosemead Rosemead is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. As of the 2021 census, it had a population of 50,245, currently dropping. Rosemead is part of a cluster of cities, along with Alhambra, Arcadia, Temple City, Monterey Par ...
and El Monte. , there are approximately 27,324 students enrolled in the school. Full-time enrollment 10,422 and part-time 16,902 students. The student-faculty ratio is 26-to-1. The demographics of the students in 2012: 43.2 percent Hispanic, 26.8 percent Asian or Pacific Islander, 9 percent Caucasian, 3.9 percent African American, and 0.1 percent American Indian. 51.2 percent of the students are female, while 48.3 percent are male. The in-state tuition and fees for 2017-2018 were $1,348, and out-of-state tuition and fees were $7,004. There is no application fee. The staff members of the International Student Office assist international students in the application process and support their transition during their time at the school. Before registration, international students are required to pass the English as a Second Language (ESL) and Math placement examinations before being accepted into the school. They are also required to attend counseling to plan for classes. Assistance is available to become familiar with campus resources, i.e., Counseling Office, Library, Learning Assistance Center (LAC), the ESL Center, and Computing Services. It is recommended that all students meet with a counselor to develop a Student Educational Plan (SEP) (L104). In 2015, there were 425 full-time professors and 1,119 part-time professors. They are represented by the Academic Senate and the Faculty Association. There were 322 classified staff. There were a total of 77 administrators (managers, directors, supervisors, deans, vice-president and president), represented by the Management Association.


Academic programs


Graphic Communications Technology

Originally the printing program, this program has provided training in commercial printing, including lithography and screen printing, since the 1940s.


Mathematics

The math department has won the AMATYC community college mathematics competition numerous times. PCC is also one of the only colleges which is invited to participate in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition.


Ethnic studies

Pasadena City College has a long history of teaching Ethnic studies at the community college level. These include courses in Asian American studies,
Chicano studies Chicana/o studies, also known as Chican@ studies, originates from the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, and is the study of the Chicana/o and Latina/o experience. Chican@ studies draws upon a variety of fields, including history, socio ...
, African American studies, and American Indian studies.


Languages

Pasadena City College offers courses in the following languages: American Sign Language (ASL), Arabic (Standard), Armenian (Western), Chinese (Mandarin), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Spanish and English as a Second Language (ESL).


Music

The music department provides the Pasadena City College Herald Trumpets and the honor band for the Rose Parade. It is also the host of the annual Bandfest, held annually at year's end by the Pasadena Tournament of Roses in the Robinson Stadium. At one time, its applied music staff included
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of the L.A. Guitar Quartet.


Health care

Pasadena City College offers a course for anesthetic technicians. In partnership with
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, the school's anesthesia technician program is recognized by the American Society of Anesthesia Technologists and Technicians. Pasadena City College was the first community college in Southern California to offer an approved program for speech-language pathology assistants.


Product Design

The Product Design Department emphasizes on function, environmental and social concerns, and the art form. Students learn about digital product design with programs such as AutoCAD and
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. The department has a fabrication laboratory, called the FabLab, which students can use to 3D print and laser cut projects, free of charge.


Visual Arts

The Visual Arts Division has a celebrated annual artist-in-residence program, a sculpture garden, an active gallery program featuring professional artists, and a high transfer rate to specialized art and design schools, including the nearby Art Center College of Design.


Television and Radio

The Television and Radio Department offers courses in television and radio. There are certificate programs in TV production, TV operations, TV post-production, radio production, broadcast journalism and others. PCC graduates often transfer to four-year schools such as USC, UCLA and CSUN, while others have gone on to obtain employment at NBC, Fox, Paramount, TVG and KPCC. Students may participate in the student-run radio station "Lancer Radio". PCC owns and leases the FCC license to broadcast on station KPCC 89.3 FM. KPCC is a member station of
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, managed and operated by Southern California Public Radio from their facility on Raymond Avenue in Pasadena. Although the station was started in the mid-1950s with equipment from the former KWKW-FM radio station for the purpose of training students in radio broadcasting, the college currently has no other direct connection to the management or operation of KPCC. Student involvement is limited to a contractual agreement to accept 12 student interns per year.


Publishing

''The Courier'' is the official student award-winning newspaper of Pasadena City College. It has been honored with a General Excellence Award by the Journalism Association of Community Colleges. The students were also honored for their work on the campus newspaper.


Athletics

Athletic programs available at Pasadena City College include basketball, cross country, swimming, tennis, track and field, volleyball, baseball, softball, football, and soccer. The sports teams are known as the Lancers, and the school colors are cardinal red and gold. The school's baseball team uses the Jackie Robinson Field, located near the Rose Bowl, for practices and home games. Robinson Stadium is named for Jackie and Mack Robinson, both of whom were PCC alumni. The stadium was completed in 1999, after a renovation to move the stadium from a North-West position to an East-West direction. The stadium's surface is SprinTurf, while the track has been converted to an all-weather surface. In addition to the school students, the stadium is used by local students from
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, Pasadena High School, and
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for some high school home football games due to lack of resources on the respective campus fields. It has been the home of the annual two-day "Bandfest" for the Pasadena Tournament of Roses for many years. The Pasadena City College women's badminton team won
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national intercollegiate
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in 1972 and 1973, topping fields that included previous champions Long Beach State and Arizona State.


Satellite campuses

Pasadena City College has four satellite campuses, the Child Development Center, the Foothill campus, the Rosemead campus, and the Northwest campus at John Muir High School. The Child Development Center, located one block west of the PCC campus, is a childcare center for children of the school's students. The Foothill campus (formally known as the Community Education Center), located two miles east of the main campus, is an offsite facility where vocational training, some ESL courses, American Citizenship courses, and the college's high school diploma program take place. The Rosemead campus was established in the Fall of 2013 in efforts to provide more offerings to students throughout the district. The Northwest campus at
John Muir High School John Muir High School is a four-year comprehensive secondary school in Pasadena, California, United States and is a part of the Pasadena Unified School District. The school is named after preservationist John Muir. History In 1926 the Pasadena ...
was established in the Spring of 2016 which offers career training programs and offering high school students opportunity in applying for college courses. Shuttles connect the main (Colorado) campus with the Foothill and Rosemead campuses (see
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section below).


Classes at high schools

Pasadena City College offers courses that can be taken at nearby high schools. Courses are also offered at the
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in downtown Pasadena. * Arroyo High School in El Monte *
John Muir High School John Muir High School is a four-year comprehensive secondary school in Pasadena, California, United States and is a part of the Pasadena Unified School District. The school is named after preservationist John Muir. History In 1926 the Pasadena ...
in Pasadena * Pasadena High School *
Marshall Fundamental Secondary School Marshall Fundamental Secondary School is a secondary school located in Pasadena, California, United States, at 990 North Allen Avenue, and is part of the Pasadena Unified School District. History Named after United States Supreme Court Justice Jo ...
in Pasadena *
Blair International Baccalaureate School Blair High School is a public high school in Pasadena, California, a part of the Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD). Blair is an International Baccalaureate World School serving grades 6–12. Blair offers the International Baccalaureate (IB) ...
in Pasadena * South Pasadena High School * La Cañada High School in La Cañada Flintridge * Arcadia High School *
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* San Marino High School


Transportation

The campuses of Pasadena City College are directly served by several bus routes, and indirectly served by Metro L Line light rail trains at
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, alternatively called Allen/College station, in reference to PCC. The main (Colorado) campus is served by
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routes , and , Foothill Transit route and Pasadena Transit routes 10 and 60. The Foothill campus is served by Los Angeles Metro Bus route Express , Foothill Transit route 187, and Pasadena Transit routes 31 and 60. The Rosemead campus is served by Los Angeles Metro Bus routes , and Express . Pasadena City College operates two free shuttle routes for students and staff. The shuttle between the main (Colorado) campus, Allen station and the Foothill campus operates every 15 to 30 minutes on weekdays. The shuttle between the main (Colorado) campus and the Rosemead campus operates hourly on weekdays. Shuttles do not operate on weekends, holidays, or when school is not in session.


Student and faculty activism

While at John Muir, Fred Phelps was profiled in ''
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'' magazine for preaching against "sins committed on campus by students and teachers ... promiscuous petting ... evil language ... profanity ... cheating ... teachers' filthy jokes in classrooms ... ndpandering to the lusts of the flesh". Phelps later became leader of the Westboro Baptist Church. On March 20, 2003, on the day the United States launched
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, many students led by the Students for Social Justice, protested on campus against the war. Protesters went through the administration building requesting students to join their cause. Three students were arrested by campus police. On March 7, 2007, demonstrators from Philadelphia-based Repent America demonstrated on campus, leading to tensions between demonstrators and some students. PCC students, some who were journalism students and staff members of the campus newspaper, ''PCC Courier'', were involved in the May Day melee at MacArthur Park. Students and faculty held a rally in support of the Jena Six on September 20, 2007. Some students were beaten and arrested at the MacArthur Park immigrant rights demonstration on May 1, 2007. During 2012 and 2013, the school became embroiled in conflict between students and faculty and the campus administration. On August 29, 2012, the PCC Board unilaterally cancelled the subsequent six-week winter session. One student was arrested at this board meeting. Organized by a newly formed group calle
Coalition of Students and Faculty for Student Achievement
a rally during the first week back of the illegitimate new Spring semester kicked off a steady wave of student and faculty activism. Eventually, course sections were cut, student transfers to four-year institutions were delayed, overall full-time student enrollments were reduced, and Proposition 30 monies allotted to the school were jeopardized. According to the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office, 2012–2013 had the lowest full-time enrollments in 17 years at 20,219; Spring 2013 had the lowest full-time enrollments in 10 years at 9838 students. The Faculty Association filed an unfair labor practice on the District for canceling winter abruptly and won in November 2013. The district filed an appeal to the ruling, thus prolonging the orders to rescind the trimester calendar and return to the status quo while ratcheting up annual 7% compensation to affected employees. In Spring 2013, in an unprecedented move, the Associated Students unanimously censured the administration and passed a vote of no confidence in the school's president, Mark W. Rocha, and collectively called for his immediate ouster. Separately, a vote among full-time faculty members expressed no confidence in Rocha by a margin of 92 percent to 8 percent. The Academic Faculty Senate also voted, 24–0, no confidence in the president. The board of trustees remained firm in their support of Rocha, extending his contract another year and giving Rocha a raise. In 2014, however, the faculty maintained its disapproval of the college president's performance as revealed i
the faculty-wide evaluation
of the PCC President. The negative campus climate has also been a concern with the staff and faculty, which prompted a campus-wide town hall sponsored by the faculty senate. Rocha was named one of ''Pasadena Weekly''s less-than-stellar local "turkey" leaders of 2013. After a failed attempt to find work elsewhere, Rocha announced his retirement on August 7, 2014, but later became the Chancellor of San Francisco City College, where after less than three years he was placed on leave in March 2020
according to the San Francisco Examiner
In 2014, the Oscar-winning screenplay writer Dustin Lance Black was invited to speak at commencement, but in a controversial move he was subsequently uninvited by PCC Board of Trustees Anthony Fellow, who said, "We just don't want to give PCC a bad name." According to the ''Los Angeles Times'', "School officials pretended that Black was never approved as commencement speaker, when in fact they approved him. They said that his brush with a sex scandal has 'no place in public discussion,' when in fact they discussed it with reporters, students and each other." The college issued an apology, and later re-extended the invitation.


Notable people

Below is a list of Pasadena City College faculty and alumni.


Faculty

*
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, professor of philosophy. * Nicholas Martin, Associate Professor of the French department, is a two-time Olympic gold medalist with the 1952 and
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Hungarian water polo teams * Ben Sakoguchi, artist and art educator


Alumni

* Michael Anthony, former bassist and a founding member of
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* Stan Atkinson, television news reporter and anchor *
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, guitarist, known for solo work and touring with
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and
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* Dustin Lance Black, Oscar-award winning screenwriter, actor and LGBT activist, known for his work in the film ''
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'' and the TV series '' Big Love''. * Nicholas Brendon, actor (Xander on '' Buffy the Vampire Slayer'') * Tim Brewster, former
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,
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* Jamal Brooks, former NFL linebacker *
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, former NFL player *
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, science fiction writer * Kim Carnes, singer, known for her 1981 hit song "
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" *
Vic Carroll Victor Eugene Carroll (November 19, 1912 – July 6, 1986) was an American football offensive lineman in the National Football League (NFL) for the Boston/Washington Redskins and the New York Giants. He played college football at the Univers ...
, former NFL player * Tommy Cole, award-winning American make-up artist, Mouseketeer, and former actor and singer *
Mike Connelly Michael James Connelly (October 16, 1935 – October 4, 2021) was an American professional football player who was an offensive lineman in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys and Pittsburgh Steelers. He played college foo ...
, former NFL player * Dennis Cooper, poet and novelist * Michael Cooper, former Los Angeles Lakers basketball player, Coach of LA Sparks of the WNBA *John Culver, Queen of the Rose Parade *
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, novelist * James Deen, pornographic actor * Michael Dorn, actor, best known as
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on ''Star Trek'' (PCC connection referenced on '' South Park'' episode " Fun With Veal") *
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, tap dancer (attended) *
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, former Garfield High School (Los Angeles) teacher, work dramatized in
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*
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, major league baseball player * Judi Evans, actor *
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, literary scholar and social critic,
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winner * Michelle Hamilton,
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playmate * Armie Hammer, actor from '' The Social Network'' * Jerome Harrison, former NFL running back * Ed Hervey,
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general manager and former CFL All-Star. * William Holden, Academy Award–winning actor *
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, former college basketball player * William Hung, American Singer,
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Participant *
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, Architect of the Case Study Home No.22 in the Hollywood Hills * Joyce Kennard, California Supreme Court * Quinton Knight,
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player * Mike Lansford, former NFL player *
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, Playwright and actor ('Jimmy Olsen' on '' The Adventures of Superman'') * Kenny Loggins, singer and songwriter * Danella Lucioni, fashion and runway model and actress *
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, fashion designer * Charles Manson, songwriter, philosopher, and convicted serial killer * Saladin McCullough, American football player * Elizabeth McGrath, artist *
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, Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, 1984 * Anthony Miller, former NFL wide receiver * Charles Mincy, former NFL player * Carol Merrill,
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model *
Nate Montana Nathaniel Joseph Montana (born October 3, 1989) is a former American football quarterback. After walking-on at Notre Dame as a freshman in 2008, he transferred to Pasadena City College in 2009, went back to Notre Dame in 2010, transferred to ...
, son of Joe Montana * Yura Movsisyan, Spartak Moscow player * James Mtume, Grammy-award winning songwriter, producer, singer and activist * Dennis Muren, film special effects artist *
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, rocket scientist, JPL co-founder, and occultist * Fred Phelps, the pastor and leader of the Westboro Baptist Church * George Reeves, who portrayed
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in the 1950s TV series '' The Adventures of Superman'' * William Reynolds, actor * Stan Ridgway, singer, songwriter, composer *
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* Betye Saar, artist * Mike Saxon, former NFL player * Herman Alfred Schmid,
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* Sirhan Sirhan, Robert F. Kennedy's assassin * Madylin Sweeten, actress * Esther Takei Nishio, WWII internee * Jerry Tarkanian, famed former college basketball coach * Charles Tuaau, NFL nose tackle * Alex Van Halen, drummer of Van Halen * Eddie Van Halen, lead guitar of Van Halen *
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