Woodland Community College is a

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Woodland, California Woodland is a city in and the county seat of Yolo County, California, located approximately northwest of Sacramento, California, Sacramento, and is a part of the Sacramento metropolitan area. The population was 61,032 at the 2020 United States ...

. It is a part of the

Yuba Community College District Yuba Community College District is a community college district with a flagship campus, Yuba College, in Marysville, California, United States. It now has a second college, Woodland Community College in the county seat of Yolo County, Californi ...

and is accredited by the

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History

In the fall of 1975, Woodland offered courses in an outreach program. In 1981 the

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labeled Woodland as an official education center. In 1990, Woodland Center (now Woodland Community College) relocated to its current parcel of land. In 1999,

notified its intent for Woodland Center to become a self-sufficient community college, the same year that a Child Development center was opened on campus. The next year the district received the approval from the State Chancellor's office to begin Woodland Center's process of being a comprehensive college. In 2006, Woodland Community College began the accreditation process through the

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, completing the process in June 2008 with the notification of initial accreditation.

References

External links

Official website
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