Los Angeles City College

Los Angeles City College

Former name	Los Angeles Junior College (1929–1938)
Type	Community college
Established	1929
President	Ben Bates
Students	17,250 (Fall 2019)
Location	East Hollywood, Los Angeles , California , United States 34°05′13.29″N 118°17′34.44″W
Campus	Urban
Colors	Red and blue
Nickname	Cubs
Website	lacitycollege.edu

Los Angeles City College (LACC) is a public community college in East Hollywood, Los Angeles. A part of the Los Angeles Community College District, it is located on Vermont Avenue south of Santa Monica Boulevard on the former campus of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). From 1947 to 1955, the college shared its campus with California State University, Los Angeles (Cal State LA), then known as Los Angeles State College of Applied Arts and Sciences (LASCAAS), before the university moved to its present campus of 175 acres (71 ha) in the northeastern section of the City of Los Angeles, 5 miles (8 km) east of the Civic Center.

History

UCLA campus, c.1922

The LACC campus was originally a farm outside Los Angeles, owned by Dennis Sullivan. It is one of nine separate college campuses of the Los Angeles Community College District. 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 teachers' Normal School to the site. The Italian Romanesque campus became the original campus of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1919. In need of more space, UCLA moved to its present location in Westwood in 1929. On September 9, 1929, the campus opened its doors as Los Angeles Junior College with over 1,300 students and 54 teachers. The campus changed its name to Los Angeles City College in 1938.

The California State University, Los Angeles (Cal State LA) was founded on July 2, 1947 by an act of the California legislature and opened for classes as Los Angeles State College (LASC) on the campus of Los Angeles City College. As president of LACC, P. Victor Peterson became the acting president of the state college also.

In 1949, when Howard S. McDonald became president of both Los Angeles State College and Los Angeles City College, they were housed in borrowed spaces with part-time faculty. He hired administrators to help him formally organize the colleges. Then found a site within LA to house the new Cal State LA university. Then the Los Angeles Board of Education bought the LACC site for $700,000.

The in-state tuition and fees for 2017-2018 were $1,220, and out-of-state tuition and fees were $7,538. There is no application fee. The school utilizes a semester-based academic year. The student-faculty ratio is 23-to-1. Total enrollment of 13,827 full-time 3,999 and part-time 9,828 students.

Fall 2017 Demographics of student body

Hispanic and Latino American	56%
African American	7%
Asian American	11%
Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander	0%
White European Americans	15%
Multiracial Americans	2%
International students	4%
Unknown	6%
Female	56%
Male	44%

Presidents

• P. Victor Peterson
• Howard S. McDonald
• John Lombardi
• Mary Gallagher

Notable people

Main article: List of Los Angeles City College people

See also

• California Community Colleges System
• Community, an NBC comedy series which shot on the LACC campus

External links

• Official website