Los Angeles City College

Los Angeles City College, known as LACC, is a public community college in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, California. A part of the Los Angeles Community College District, it is located on Vermont Avenue south of Santa Monica Boulevard. At $20/unit (California residents), the college offers university transferable courses and career training in technology, health care, the arts and entertainment, child development, nutrition services, administration of justice and more.

The campus is one of the most diverse in the nation, with significant representation from students of all ethnic backgrounds ranging in age from under 16 to over 60.

History

The Los Angeles City College (LACC) is the flagship of the Los Angeles Community College District, which comprises nine separate college campuses. The LACC campus was originally a farm outside of Los Angeles, owned by Dennis Sullivan. When the Pacific Electric Interurban Railroad connected downtown Los Angeles and Hollywood in 1909, the area began to develop rapidly. In 1914, the LA Board of Education, moved the teacher's Normal School to the site. The Italian Romanesque campus became what is now the University of California, Los Angeles in 1919. In need of more space, UCLA moved to its present location in 1929 and the LA Board of Education bought the site for $700,000. On September 4, 1929, Los Angeles Junior College opened its doors for the first time with over 1,300 students and 54 teachers. It later changed its name to The Los Angeles City College...

After World War II, LACC faced a deluge of students under the G.I. Bill. To try and address the influx, a second, four-year institution was formed on the same campus in 1947, the Los Angeles State College of Applied Arts and Sciences. The attempt proved unwieldy and, in 1955, the four-year school moved east to become California State University at Los Angeles. In 1954, the school began an eight-year construction program that replaced its original, unenforced masonry structures with the current buildings.

Some of the notable programs at the college are the Department of Social Sciences which include a number of Professors that are teaching new and innovative approaches to studying and understanding the community. Urban critic and historian, Dr. Wendel Eckford, Professor of African American & U.S. History has been studying the cultural geography of urban communities as a means to illustrate that ways in which social, cultural and political capital are developed. In addition, Dr. Carlos R. Guerrero, Professor of Chicano Studies, has been collecting oral histories of returning/non-traditional students as part of understanding the cultural dynamics of students as they balance education, work, and home responsibilities.

Notable alumni

alphabetical order:
*Bob Arbogast, radio personality and voice actor
*Billy Barty, actor, founder Little People of America
*Charles Bukowski, poet and author
*James Coburn, actor
*Pamela Courson, Jim Morrison's girlfriend
*Eric Dolphy, jazz musician
*Dianne Reeves, jazz musician
*Angela Dorian, actress and model
*Clint Eastwood, actor, producer and director
*Mike Evans, actor
*Morgan Freeman, actor
*Don Friedman, jazz pianist
*Frank Gehry, architect
*Deidre Hall, actress
*Mark Hamill, actor
*Michael S. Harper, poet
*Albert Hughes of the Hughes Brothers, director
*Jackie Joseph, actress
*Ron Karenga, founder of Kwanzaa
*Margaret Kerry, actress
*Lawrence Klein, nobel prize winning economist
*Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, hall of fame music producers
*Whitman Mayo, actor
*James Mitchell, actor-dancer
*Karen Moncrieff, director
*Shelley Morrison, actress
*Hugh O'Brian actor
*Odetta, folk singer
*Bernard C. Parks, former Los Angeles police chief and current politician
*Gene Roddenberry, creator of "Star Trek"
*Leonard Slatkin, conductor
*Dickie Moore, child actor
*Tommy "Butch" Bond, child actor
*Bob Florence, composer, band leader, educator
*Esther Williams, actress, swim star
*Donna Reed, Oscar-winning actress
*Murray Fromson, CBS/PBS newsman
*Allen "Farina" Hoskins, "Our Gang" actor
*Wayne Morris, actor, WWII ace
*Alexis Smith, actress
*Robert Vaughn, actor
*Diane E. Watson, member of Congress
*Cindy Williams, actress and producer
*Stuart Whitman, actor
*Jo Anne Worley, actress
*La Monte Young, composer
*John Williams, composer

See also

*California Community Colleges System

External links

* [http://www.lacitycollege.edu/ Los Angeles City College official website]
* [http://samahangpilipino.com/ LACC Filipino Club (Samahang Pilipino)]