Orange Coast College

Motto	We'll help you get there.
Established	1948
Type	Public, Community College
President	Bob Dees
Students	21,867 (Fall 2006)
Location	Costa Mesa, CA,, USA
Address	2701 Fairview Rd., Costa Mesa, CA 92628
Telephone	(714) 432-0202
Colors	Blue and Orange
Nickname	Pirates
Affiliations	Coast Community College District
Website	www.orangecoastcollege.edu

OCC's lawn surrounding the Art Building

OCC's Art Building

OCC's Plant Nursery

Orange Coast College Sailing Base

OCC's Social Science Forum

OCC's Free Speech Zone

Orange Coast College (OCC), founded in 1948, is a community college providing two-year associate of arts degrees, and lower-division classes transferable to other colleges and universities. Image File history File links Orange_Coast_College_logo. ... A motto (from Italian) is a phrase or a short list of words meant formally to describe the general motivation or intention of an entity, social group, or organization. ... The date of establishment or date of founding of an institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... University President is the title of the highest ranking officer within a university, within university systems that prefer that appellation over other variations such as Chancellor or rector. ... Official website: http://ci. ... 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. ... School colors are the colors chosen by a school to represent it on uniforms and other items of identification. ... The athletic nickname, or equivalently athletic moniker, of a university or college within the United States of America is the name officially adopted by that institution for at least the members of its athletic teams. ... This page as shown in the AOL 9. ... Image File history File linksMetadata OrangeCoastCollege. ... Image File history File linksMetadata OrangeCoastCollege. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (820x615, 72 KB) I photographed this picture myself of the Arts Building at Orange Coast College on July 17 2006. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (820x615, 72 KB) I photographed this picture myself of the Arts Building at Orange Coast College on July 17 2006. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1024x768, 271 KB) I photographed this picture myself of the Plant Nursery at Orange Coast College on July 17 2006. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1024x768, 271 KB) I photographed this picture myself of the Plant Nursery at Orange Coast College on July 17 2006. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1378x990, 119 KB) Summary Orange Coast College Sailing Base in Newport Beach , CA. Licensing File links The following pages link to this file: Orange Coast College ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1378x990, 119 KB) Summary Orange Coast College Sailing Base in Newport Beach , CA. Licensing File links The following pages link to this file: Orange Coast College ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (820x615, 121 KB) I photographed this picture myself of the Social Science Forum at Orange Coast College on July 17 2006. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (820x615, 121 KB) I photographed this picture myself of the Social Science Forum at Orange Coast College on July 17 2006. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (820x615, 98 KB) I photographed this picture myself of the Free Speech Zone at Orange Coast College on July 17 2006. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (820x615, 98 KB) I photographed this picture myself of the Free Speech Zone at Orange Coast College on July 17 2006. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... 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 to people like laertes. ...

OCC is located in Costa Mesa, California, about 40 miles (63km) south of Los Angeles. It is 20 minutes from Disneyland, and from two hours to a half day from the mountains and ski regions of Southern California. Official website: http://ci. ... 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. ... Nickname: City of Angels Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates: State California County Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Area    - City 1,290. ... Disneyland (since 1998 officially Disneyland Park, to distinguish it from the Disneyland Resort complex of which it is a part), is a theme park in Anaheim, California, USA (28 miles from Downtown Los Angeles). ... Southern California Downtown Los Angeles Skyline Southern California, sometimes abbreviated SoCal or colloquially, the Southland, is an informal name for the megalopolis and nearby desert that occupies the southern-most quarter of the U.S. state of California. ...

The college is one of three of the Coast Community College District, a regional organization providing administrative services and funding for post-secondary education. The district is chartered by the state of California to provide community college services. 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. ...

The mission of OCC is to provide inexpensive education in the trades, licensed trades and skilled professions, as well as remedial and transferable lower-division courses for students who plan to transfer to either a California State university, or a campus of the University of California.

Orange Coast College is one of the top transfer institutions in the country. OCC is currently the top California Community College for California State University transfer and is the fifth in transfers to the University of California. The University of California (UC) is a public university system in the state of California. ...

OCC offers associate of arts (2 year) degrees in:

• Photography
• Business Data Processing (OCC maintains an IBM i-series mainframe)
• Accounting
• Business
• Construction (OCC Students actually construct structures)
• Agriculture (OCC has agricultural fields)
• Aircraft Maintenance Technology (FAA-certified programs for airframe/powerplant Licences and Avionics)
• Child Development (OCC has a child-center with an Intern program)
• Electronics
• Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning
• Machining
• Welding

OCC also has complete, transferable lower-division undergraduate programs in: Photography is the process of making pictures by means of the action of capturing light on a film. ... It has been suggested that Accounting scholarship be merged into this article or section. ...

• Mathemetics
• Economics
• History
• Physics
• Biology
• Chemistry
• Philosophy
• English (an emphasis on literature and critical theory is available)
• French
• German
• Latin and Classics
• Music (Opera training is available- Several OCC students have become stars!)
• Painting
• Sculpting
• Acting
• Dance
• Physical Education, including athletic teams
• Sailing (OCC maintains a sail base in Newport Beach, and teaches a wide range of classes for all levels of sailing, including weather and navigation)

OCC has active clubs, but some people find the campus community disappointing because it is primarily a commuter college serving local people. Mathematics is commonly defined as the study of patterns of structure, change, and space; more informally, one might say it is the study of figures and numbers. Mathematical knowledge is constantly growing, through research and application, but mathematics itself is not usually considered a natural science. ... Face-to-face trading interactions among on the New York Stock Exchange trading floor Economics or oeconomics is the study of human choice behaviour. ... HIStory: Past, Present and Future – Book I is a two-disc album by Michael Jackson released in 1995 by the Epic Records division of Sony BMG. The first disc (HIStory Begins) is a fifteen-track greatest hits (later released as Greatest Hits - HIStory Volume I), while the second disc (HIStory... The first few hydrogen atom electron orbitals shown as cross-sections with color-coded probability density. ... Biology (from Greek βίος λόγος, see below) is the study of life. ... Chemistry (from Greek χημεία khemeia[1] meaning alchemy) is the science of matter at the atomic to molecular scale, dealing primarily with collections of atoms, such as molecules, crystals, and metals. ... Socrates (central bare-chested figure) about to drink hemlock as mandated by the court. ... Look up English, english in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in Latium, the region immediately surrounding Rome. ... Music is a form of art that involves organized and audible sounds and silence. ... The Mona Lisa is one of the most recognizable artistic paintings in the Western world. ... Sculptor redirects here. ... Acting is the work of an actor or actress, a person in theatre, film, or any other storytelling medium who tells the story by portraying a character and, usually, speaking or singing the written text or play. ... Dance (from Old French dancier, perhaps from Frankish) generally refers to human movement either used as a form of expression or presented in a social, spiritual or performance setting. ... Physical instruction at the U.S. Naval Training Station, Newport, RI, 1917 In most educational systems, physical education (PE), also called physical training (PT) or gym in less progressive settings, is a course in the curriculum which utilizes learning in the cognitive, affective and psycho motor domains in a play... Sailing at sunset Wooden sailing boat Sailing is the skillful art of controlling the motion of a sailing ship or sailboat, across a body of water. ... City Incorporation September 1, 1906 City Tree Coral Tree City flower Bougainvillea Mayor Steven Bromberg County Orange County Area   - Total   - Land   - Water 50. ...

On-campus housing is not available, and local housing is expensive, approximately $950 per month for a small single-bedroom apartment. Local rooms in houses rent for about $650 per month. The minimum wage of $6.75 is about half of the income required to live in Costa Mesa.

History

Orange Coast College was formed in 1948 when Francis Albers, a local Costa Mesa resident, purchased a portion of the recently decommissioned Santa Ana Army Air Base, and using a crew of volunteers, turned the old military buildings into the college's first classrooms. The first campus building phase occurred in the late 1950s, when renowned architect Richard Neutra was brought in to re-design the campus. Leaving many of the original buildings intact, Neutra added several modernist structures including the strikingly minimalist Campus Theater and two large lecture halls. The second and largest building phase occurred in the 1970s, when local architect William Blurock was hired to replace many of the original Army buildings with structures more suitable for educational purposes. Santa Ana Army Air Base (SAAAB) was an air base built during World War II that was decommissioned in 1946. ... The 1950s was the decade spanning from the 1st of January, 1950 to the 31st December, 1959. ... Kaufman House, Palm Springs, California. ... This article focuses on the cultural movement labeled modernism or the modern movement. See also: Modernism (Roman Catholicism) or Modernist Christianity; Modernismo for specific art movement(s) in Spain and Catalonia. ...

A plan is currently in effect to remove the remaining military buildings in the center of the campus, which have long since become dilapidated, and open up a large central park around which both the outlying 1970s buildings and several newer buildings will be clustered.

Controversy

In mid-November 2006, Orange Coast College Student Board of Trustees began excluding the Pledge of Allegiance at their meetings, saying they see no reason to publicly swear loyalty to God and the U.S. government. This angered many members of the OCC student body. Causing a nation-wide uproar, many people contacted the campus from all over the United States. The trustees later voted to reinstate the pledge of allegiance on their agenda shortly following the controversy.

Costs and admission

For California residents, costs are about $20 (recently reduced from $26, mandated by the state) per unit. For non-residents, costs are about $150 per unit. A typical two-year program has 60 units. All students who are over 18 years of age and can benefit from the services at OCC, qualify for admission.

Students who are under 18 years of age must show any one of the following,

• A High-School Diploma
• The California High-School Certificate of Proficiency or equivalent
• Completion of the 10th grade and the Early Start Petition form.

Notable alumni and former students

• Tom Dumont - member of the band No Doubt
• Paul Frank - founder and creative director of Paul Frank Industries
• Steve Franks - screenwriter
• Diane Keaton - actress
• Dustin Nguyen - Vietnamese-American actor and model
• Robert B. Weide - writer, director, producer

To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... No Doubt is an American third wave ska band formed in 1986. ... Paul Frank (born Paul Frank Sunich) is a well-known accessories designer. ... Steve Franks is an American screenwriter. ... Diane Keaton (born January 5, 1946) is an American film actress, director, and producer. ... Dustin Nguyen Dustin Nguyen (born Nguyen Xuan Tri on September 17, 1962, in Saigon, South Vietnam) is a Vietnamese-American actor. ... Robert B. Weide (born June 20, 1959) is a U.S. writer, producer, and director, perhaps best known for his documentaries and his work on Curb Your Enthusiasm. ...

External links

• Orange Coast College
• Coast Community College District
• Coast Report student newspaper