历史

PCC was founded in 1924 with a student enrollment of 267. 的响应而创建 community’s need for higher education facilities, Pasadena Junior College was first established on the Pasadena High School campus. 这是最早的一个小男孩 美国西南部的大学. 它的教师、毕业生和以前的学生， now numbering in the hundreds of thousands, have contributed greatly to business, education, industry, the professions, and most other aspects of American society. 


主要里程碑

1911

The original campus was eighteen acres and acquired for the construction of a new 帕萨迪纳高中的校园. The property is bounded on the north by Colorado Boulevard, the east by Sierra Bonita Avenue, the south by Blanche Street (later Del 三月)和西边的希尔大道. The new educational facility begins to take shape in 1912.

1913

校园建设已完成. Costing $632,000 to build, Pasadena High School is opened in 1913 with an enrollment of 1,700 students.

1924

In response to 社区’s need for higher education facilities, Pasadena Junior College is established on the Pasadena High School campus. 这是最早的一个 junior 美国西南部的大学. 威廉·尤因被任命为首任总统 (校长).

1927

John Harbeson becomes the second president of PCC.  他担任总统直到1950年， becoming the school’s longest serving principal (president).

1928

The Pasadena’s Board of Education adopted the 6-­4-­4 system. 这个计划重组了 the city’s school system and established a four-­year plan at the Colorado campus, 11至14年级. Under the new restructuring, the facility changes its name from Pasadena High School to Pasadena Junior College and the old Pirate mascot 成为斗牛犬.

1931

The band begins to lead the Rose Parade as well as play during the Rose Bowl football 游戏. By 1939, it officially becomes known as the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Band.

1931 

Albert Einstein is enthusiastically welcomed by some 8,000 people, including students from the city schools and the Junior College, when he visits to dedicate the astronomy 1931年2月天文台.

1934

The three main Pasadena Junior College 建筑, originally named for Horace Mann, Jane Addams, and Louis Agassiz, were demolished to create safer, earthquake-resistant 建筑. Fifty steam­ heated tents were erected to house the classes formerly held 在霍勒斯·曼大厦. 他们被称为“帐篷城”.“我们开设了课程。 in Tent City for three long, long years, during which time both students and teachers 经历了许多磨难. The new structures are renamed the C, D, and E 建筑, 分别.

1936 

From 1936 to19­38, the Robinson brothers came and conquered the Bulldog sports world with incredible feats and nationally recognized performances.

 1938

John Muir had been operating primarily as a vocational four-year high school. 由于 to their lack of enrollment and PJC’s all-time high in enrollment, the schools are combined to form one institution located on two campuses.

 1947

The new radio studio affords students greater opportunities for creative expression and provides an additional means for advertising the school and its activities to 社区.

1950

William Langsdorf becomes the first PCC alumnus to serve as college principal. 他的 任期将持续9年.

1953

The program is one of only five pilot programs in the nation to address the need for 合格的护士.

1954

Pasadena High School continues to share the PCC campus until their new high school 东帕萨迪纳校区于1960年完工.

1957

在 football season, a new mascot, the Lancer, is presented. 帕萨迪纳高中 就像斗牛犬一样.

1959 

Catherine Robbins, a PCC faculty member since 1923, becomes one of a handful of female community college presidents in the nation at that time. 罗宾斯是学院的 1965年卸任的第四任总统.

1965 

Armen Sarafian serves as PCC's 5th president until 1976.

1966

Approved by voters on April 26, 1966, the newly formed district encompasses the school districts of Pasadena, Arcadia, La Cañada, San Marino,Temple City and South Pasadena. With this comes the first board of seven trustees and the college president is changed 致校长.

1973 

Sierra Bonita Avenue is closed south of 科罗拉多大街.邦妮大道拓宽 开设新的停车场.

1976

E. 霍华德•弗洛伊德 began at PCC in 1930 as a faculty member in the math department since 1930. He served as the college vice-president for a number of years prior to taking over as the 6th Superintendent-President of the college.

1978

Richard Meyers, the schools 7th president, serves as superintendent-president until 1983. 他的 tenure included 5 of the school’s most difficult years due to major cuts to state funding (a result of the passing of the state property tax relief measure, 第13号提案). In order to balance the college budget, instructional programs had to be cut, and many faculty and staff positions were eliminated.

1979

The PCC 基金会 is founded non-profit, charitable, public-benefit corporation. It's goal is to raise private funds to make possible those projects for which public 资金有限或不可用. Today, the 基金会 continues to raise money for t major capital projects, equipment to ensure technological excellence, student programs, faculty grants, and student scholarships.

1983 

John Casey serves as the school's 8th president from 1983 to 1987.

1985

A result of the 社区 College Reform Act of 1985, PCC’s College Coordinating Council is created to provide a forum to which any individual or group from the college community could bring a college­ related issue for official consideration and resolution.

1987

Jack Scott serves as the 9th PCC Superintendent-President from 1987 thru 1995. 在 his tenure he initiates a building master plan designed to refurbish the campus over 十年的时间. After his presidency, Scott went on to become a California Senator.

1987

The administration, faculty, staff and community contractors formulate a master rebuilding plan that anticipates college facilities requirements well into the 21st century. The cost of these improvements ultimately exceeded $100 million.

1993

T沃尔特·T. Shatford II 图书馆, a three-story building that allocated 50,000 square feet to library functions, becomes the first new major building completed on campus 20年后. The old library building is turned into the 学生服务 Center.

1995 

James Kossler started at PCC in 1988 as the school’s Vice-President. 他是 the school's 10th president for 12 years before announcing his retirement in 2007.

1996

First established in 1979 as a community skills center, the 社区 Education Center is renamed and given a permanent location on Foothill Blvd. 在帕萨迪纳东部. 它的 大门在1996年8月开启.

1997

After consultation with faculty, students, staff, and managers, the 校董会 approved a Shared Governance policy in an on-going effort to encourage consultation, collegiality, and transparency amongst the college.

1999

The old gymnasium, which was used for nearly 70 years, is replaced by the two-story, 65000平方英尺的huto - patterson体育馆. 设施包括体育设施 Hall of Fame, honoring outstanding athletes and coaches of PHS, PJC and PCC.

2007

Paulette 防止其转投对手怀抱, PCC's 11th President, serves as president from 2007 to 2009. 除了 school leadership, 防止其转投对手怀抱 is as an advocate for PCC and all California community colleges with both the California Legislature and Congress.

2009

Lisa Sugimoto started at PCC in 1976 as a part-time staff member and became a counselor in 1977. She served as interim President of the school until 2010.

2010 

Mark Rocha, PCC’s 13th Superintendent-President, leads the school for 4 years before 2014年退休.

2013 

PCC at Rosemead, a full service educational center, is opened to give greater access of higher education to diverse communities within the district. 它提供了 education credit courses leading to 度 or 转移, noncredit courses

2014 

Funded by the Measure P Bond, the Center for the Arts is 87,000 square feet with 14 classrooms and 3 performance spaces: the Westerbeck Recital Hall, the Boone Family Art Gallery, and the Center for the Arts Theatre.

2014 

后博士. Rocha's retirement, Senior Vice-President/Assistant Superintendent, Robert Miller, is appointed as the 14th president of the school.

2014

From 2012 to 2014, the college developed a new Educational Master 计划 that includes race-conscious language, and equity is positioned as a first priority of the college

2015 

Dr. Rajen Vurdien, started at PCC in July 2015, becoming the school's 15th president. 

2017

太阳城集团官方网址导航 was recognized On March 14, 2017 in Washington, D.C.作为一个整体 十名决赛选手中 2017 Aspen Prize for 社区 College 卓越, the nation’s pre-eminent recognition of high achievement and performance in America’s 社区学院. PCC was selected from 1,000 public 社区学院 nationwide.

2018

For the second time in a row, 太阳城集团官方网址导航 is selected as one of 10 finalists for the Aspen Prize for 社区 College 卓越. 此后每两年颁发一次 2011, the Prize recognizes institutions that achieve high and improving student outcomes, selected from over 1,000 社区学院 nationwide. 

2019

后博士. 乌尔丁的退休，博士. 艾丽卡·恩德里乔纳斯开始 at PCC in January 2019, becoming the school's 16th president. 

2023

Dr. 何塞一个. Gómez was confirmed as interim superintendent/president of Pasadena City 2023年7月19日


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