Entrance to Foothill College

Example of Foothill's unique campus architecture

Foothill College is a community college located in Los Altos Hills, California and is part of the Foothill-De Anza Community College District. It was founded on January 15, 1957 by Founding Superintendent and President Dr. Calvin C. Flint. In Canada and the United States, a community college, sometimes called a technical college, county college, junior college or a city college, is an educational institution providing higher education and lower-level tertiary education, granting certificates, diplomas, and Associates degrees. ... Los Altos Hills (IPA: ) is a town in Santa Clara County, California, United States. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... Flint Center, the main auditorium De Anza College is a 112 acre (453,000 m²) community college located in Cupertino, California. ... A website (alternatively, Web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on a Web server, usually accessible via the Internet or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML, that is almost always accessible via HTTP, a... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1000x583, 244 KB)Entrance to Foothill College, a community college in Los Altos Hills, California. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1000x583, 244 KB)Entrance to Foothill College, a community college in Los Altos Hills, California. ... Image File history File links Foothillcollegecampus. ... Image File history File links Foothillcollegecampus. ... In Canada and the United States, a community college, sometimes called a technical college, county college, junior college or a city college, is an educational institution providing higher education and lower-level tertiary education, granting certificates, diplomas, and Associates degrees. ... Los Altos Hills (IPA: ) is a town in Santa Clara County, California, United States. ... January 15 is the 15th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar). ...

History

In July 1956, Henry M. Gunn, superintendent of the Palo Alto School District, called a meeting of local school superintendents that led to the creation of Foothill College.^[1] Calvin Flint, then President of Monterey Peninsula College was hired as the first District Superintendent and President; he started work on March 1, 1958.^[2] is the 60th day of the year (61st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Candidates for the new college's name, besides Foothill, were Peninsula, Junipero Serra, Mid-Peninsula, Earl Warren, Herbert Hoover, North Santa Clara, Altos, Valley, Skyline, Highland, and Intercity.^[3] At first the name was Foothill Junior College, but because Flint insisted that his new college would be "not junior to anyone", the Board dropped the "Junior" in September 1958.^[4]

Old concrete owl mascot, located near Parking Lot 4.

Foothill held its first classes in the old Highway Grammar School campus on El Camino Real in Mountain View on September 15, 1958.^[5] It was accredited by March of the next year and was the first school in the state to ever reach full accreditation in less than six months.^[6] The owl mascot originated from a concrete owl that was a decoration on the Highway School's bell tower; it was later moved to the new campus.^[7] Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 400 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (667 × 1000 pixel, file size: 171 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Foothill College old concrete owl mascot. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 400 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (667 × 1000 pixel, file size: 171 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Foothill College old concrete owl mascot. ... An early map traces the mission trail in Baja California as it existed in 1769. ... September 15 is the 258th day of the year (259th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Today, Foothill College is regarded as one of the most beautiful and successful community colleges in the United States. Its unique neo-Japanese architecture is well-known among architects^[1]; the campus was designed by architect Ernest Kump and landscape architect Hideo Sasaki^[2]. Hideo Sasaki (1919 Reedley, CA - 2000) Influential Japanese American landscape architect // Biography Hideo Sasaki was born in Reedley, California on November 25th, 1919. ...

Traditionally, it serves the communities of Los Altos Hills, Los Altos, Mountain View, and Palo Alto; together these communities form the northwest corner of Silicon Valley. The college sits next to Interstate 280, at the interchange with El Monte Road. Los Altos Hills (IPA: ) is a town in Santa Clara County, California, United States. ... Los Altos (IPA: ) is a city at the southern end of the San Francisco Peninsula, in the San Francisco Bay Area. ... For the community near Martinez, California, see Mountain View, Contra Costa County, California. ... Location of Palo Alto within Santa Clara County, California. ... A view of downtown San Jose, the self-proclaimed Capital of Silicon Valley. ... A view of the scenic portion of Interstate 280 Interstate 280 (abbreviated I-280) is a 57-mile-long interstate highway in the San Francisco Bay Area metropolitan area of Northern California. ...

The college's student store, its cafeteria, Paint Room Graphics (Internal Design Center) and SmartShop (photocopy center) are the only commercial facilities in Los Altos Hills. The entire town has been zoned as residential. Los Altos Hills (IPA: ) is a town in Santa Clara County, California, United States. ...

In 2003, the college began the most dramatic construction project ever attempted since its founding, to accommodate the fact that a campus designed for 3,500 is now serving 19,000. It is renovating nearly all buildings, tearing up and rebuilding its potholed parking lots, demolishing several unsafe buildings (including the campus center), and constructing several replacement buildings. Two of the new buildings will feature sod roofs (part of the lower campus complex).

The new Campus Center is expected to open for students' use for Fall Quarter 2007. The lower campus complex is expected to be ready for Winter Quarter 2008.

Culture

Foothill College has a very tolerant culture. The large number of international students on campus has brought an incredible influx of diversity. Annual activities like the International Night (where students perform traditional ceremonies and wear traditional clothes from their home countries) are common place.

Heritage Months series

Foothill, following the example of the national Black History Month, has combined a series of Months Starting every year in January organized completely by students and funded by the student government (ASFC). These months are filled with cultural activities, speakers and art exhibits tied with the culture of each month respectively.

• January is Jewish Heritage Month
• February is Black History Month
• March is Women's History Month
• April is Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month
• May is Latino Heritage Month
• June is Gay/Lesbian Heritage Month

More details available on: http://www.foothill.edu/news/releases/heritage.html

Student Government

Students' involvement

Foothill's student government, officially "ASFC" (Associated Students at Foothill College) is recognized as one of the student governments that are the most influential, active and envolved in decision making process out of all community colleges throughout the United States. Most former student leaders have transferred to UC-Berkeley, UCLA, Cornell or Stanford.

Unlike other community colleges, Foothill students serve in almost all the committees.

• Round Table
• Curriculum
• Board of Trustees
• Academic Senate
• President's Cabinet

Presidential Search

During Winter Quarter 2007, two students (Amir Mesguich and Annika Dodds) served as voting members of the Presidential Search Committee, conducting interviews for the future president of Foothill College. The two students were appointed in "Campus Council" (open student forum). Memorably, Foothill students would have helped to choose the president of their college, by being a 20% of the members of the committee.

ASFC Presidents

• Rodolfo Vazquez de Mendoza (2003-2004)
• Kee Hoon Chung (2004-2005)
• Adrian Diaz (2005-2006)
• Hanna (Abbey) Brown (2006-Present)
• Anthony Gooran (Starting Summer Quarter 2007)

ASFC Vice-Presidents

Activities

• Asya Sorokurs (2006-2007)

Finance

• Andrew Horng (2006- Mid-2007)

Administration

• Confiance Dukunde (Appointed) (2006-2007)

Senate

• Gianni Rosas-Maxemin (2006-2007)

OBD (Organizative Board of Directors)

• Andi Bae (Appointed) (2007)

Intramural

• Kahn Nguyen (Appointed) (2007)

Organization

Presidents

• Dr. Calvin C. Flint (1957-1973)^[3]
• Dr. Hubert H. Semans (1967-1973)
• Dr. James S. Fitzgerald (1973-1982)
• Dr. Thomas H. Clements (1982-1994)
• Dr. Bernadine Chuck Fong (1994-2006)
• Penny Patz (interim President)(2006-2007)
• Dr. Judy Miner (Starting Summer 2007)

Divisions

• Adaptive Learning
• Biological & Health Sciences
• Business & Social Sciences (BSS)
• Computers, Technology & Information Systems (CTIS)
• Fine Arts & Communication
• Language Arts
• Physical Education & Human Performance
• Physical Sciences, Mathematics & Engineering (PSME)

Administration

The community college district's headquarters are located in one corner of the Foothill campus. The district also administers De Anza College in nearby Cupertino. Flint Center, the main auditorium De Anza College is a 112 acre (453,000 m²) community college located in Cupertino, California. ... Location of Cupertino within Santa Clara County, California. ...

Controversy

The campus serves a large number of international students who are attempting to earn associate's degrees as the basis for transferring into prestigious American universities; according to a Community College Week survey in 2001, Foothill had the 12th highest population of international students out of all community colleges in the United States^[4].

The school was harshly criticized in 2002 by the Wall Street Journal for its aggressive recruitment of such students (who are a lucrative revenue source because they must pay the higher tuition required of all out-of-state students)^[5]. The Wall Street Journal is an influential international daily newspaper published in New York City, New York with an average daily circulation of 1,800,607 (2002). ...

Miscellaneous information

Facts

• Founding Date: January 15, 1957.
• First Classes Offered: September 15, 1958.
• Foothill College Opening: September 5, 1961.
• Campus area: 122 acres (494,000 m²).
• Enrollment (Fall 2003): 17,493.
  • Full Time Students: 4,572 (26%).
  • Part Time/non-credit: 12,920 (74%).
• Full Time Employees: 378.
• Enrollment (Fall 2006): 18,342.
  • Full Time Students: 3,730 (20.3%)
  • Part Time/non-credit: 14,612 (79.7)
• Associate Degree Programs: 70.
• Certificate Programs: 39.
• On-site Foothill Observatory.

January 15 is the 15th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar). ... September 15 is the 258th day of the year (259th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... September 5 is the 248th day of the year (249th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1961 calendar). ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... Foothill Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Peninsula Astronomical Society and Foothill College. ...

Athletics

Foothill is a member of the Coast Conference of the California Community College Commission on Athletics and NorCal Football Conference. School mascot is an owl.

Famous alumni

Chris Robinson, hip-hop/pop music video director.
Randall Stone, Member of the United States Triathlon Team USA.
Steve Sampson, All American soccer player at Foothill, member of 1976 California state championship team from Foothill, coach of Santa Clara men's soccer team (1989 NCAA co-champions), coach of the United States men's national soccer team at the 1998 FIFA World Cup, coach of 1995 Major League Soccer championship team Los Angeles Galaxy
Brad Gilbert, All American tennis player at Foothill, former pro player ranked as high as #4, and coach to Andre Agassi
Debbi Fields, founder of Mrs. Fields Cookies
Adrienne Barbeau, actress in 'Maude (TV series)', and former wife of the film director John Carpenter Chris Robinson is an African-American music video director, primarily directing videos for hip hop and R&B singles. ... Randall Stone was born in 1973 in Sunnyvale, California to Larry and Carmen Stone. ... The three events of the triathlon (from left to right): Swimming, cycling, running Triathlon is an athletic event consisting of swimming, cycling and running over various distances. ... Steve Sampson (born January 19, 1957 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is a soccer coach, the current head coach of the Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer. ... First international Unofficial: USA 0 - 1 Canada (Newark, NJ, USA; November 28, 1885) Official: Sweden 2 - 3 USA (Stockholm, Sweden; August 20, 1916) Biggest win USA 8 - 1 Cayman Islands (Mission Viejo, CA, USA; November 14, 1993) USA 7 - 0 El Salvador (Los Angeles, CA, USA; December 5, 1993) USA... Qualifying countries The 1998 FIFA World Cup, the 16th staging of the World Cup, was held in France from June 10 to July 12 after 60 years to celebrate the third edition scheduled in 1938. ... Major League Soccer (MLS) is a professional soccer league with teams in the United States and Canada. ... Year founded 1995 League Major League Soccer Nickname Galaxy, The Gs, The Green and Gold, Goatbusters, Los Galacticos de Los Angeles Stadium The Home Depot Center Carson, CA Coach Frank Yallop, 2006— Owner Anschutz Entertainment Group First Game Los Angeles Galaxy 2–1 MetroStars (Rose Bowl; April 13, 1996... Brad Gilbert (born August 9, 1961 in Oakland, California) is an American tennis coach, a television tennis commentator, and former professional tennis player. ... Andre Kirk Agassi (born April 29, 1970, in Las Vegas, Nevada) is a former World No. ... Recent photograph of Debbi Fields, founder of Mrs. ... Adrienne Jo Barbeau (born June 11, 1945) is an American television, film, and musical theater actress. ... Maude is a half-hour American television sitcom that was originally broadcast on the CBS network from September 12, 1972 until April 29, 1978. ... John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, film score composer and occasional actor. ...

References

1. ^ Roberta Couch, Tom Jamison, Doug Stine, Susan Johnston, Rene Lynch, and Judy Sisk, Foothill College: 25 Years (Los Altos Hills: Foothill College, 1981), 10.
2. ^ Couch, 10.
3. ^ Couch, 11.
4. ^ Couch, 10.
5. ^ Couch, 11.
6. ^ Couch, 11.
7. ^ Couch, 130.

^ Bartindale, Becky. "Foothill Denies Report Of Inaccuracy: College Accused Of Exaggerating Transfer Stats." San Jose Mercury News, 3 April 2002, sec. B, p. 6. The Mercs sections vary by day of the week, but Business, Sports, and The Valley are standard daily fare. ... is the 93rd day of the year (94th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ...

^ Downey, Kirstin. "A Discerning Look At The Valley: Architects Assess Our Area's Aesthetics." San Jose Mercury News, 29 May 1986, sec. E, p. 1. May 29 is the 149th day of the year (150th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar). ...

^ Lane, Kristin. "World-Class Export." Community College Week, 20 August 2001, 6. is the 232nd day of the year (233rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

^ Raver, Anne. "Hideo Sasaki, 80, Influential Landscape Architect, Dies." New York Times, 25 September 2000, sec. Arts, p. 9. The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... September 25 is the 268th day of the year (269th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

• Foothill College official website
• Foothill-De Anza Community College District