Evergreen Valley College
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Evergreen Valley College is a community college
located on 175 acres (70.8 ha) in the southeastern foothills of San José
, Santa Clara County
, California
. As of Fall 2008, more than 8,000 students from more than 70 countries were enrolled.
Evergreen Valley College graduated its first class in 1975. Plans for a new college officially started nine years earlier in 1964, with the creation of the San José/Evergreen Community College District to govern the existing San José City College and what would become Evergreen Valley College. The site was purchased in 1967, the college named Evergreen Valley College in 1970, and the first two buildings completed in 1975.
In recent years, bond measures allowed Evergreen Valley College to build new classrooms and labs for biological sciences and nursing education programs, a new library, a center to accommodate student life, the Montgomery Hill Observatory, and a new Visual and Performing Arts Center.
The college was rocked by scandal in 2010. While the college was dealing with severe budget shortfalls, Bayinaah Jones, while on paid sick leave as Vice President for Institutional Effectiveness was found to be teaching at, and paid by another college.
Community college
A community college is a type of educational institution. The term can have different meanings in different countries.-Australia:Community colleges carry on the tradition of adult education, which was established in Australia around mid 19th century when evening classes were held to help adults...
located on 175 acres (70.8 ha) in the southeastern foothills of San José
San Jose, California
San Jose is the third-largest city in California, the tenth-largest in the U.S., and the county seat of Santa Clara County which is located at the southern end of San Francisco Bay...
, Santa Clara County
Santa Clara County, California
Santa Clara County is a county located at the southern end of the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S. state of California. As of 2010 it had a population of 1,781,642. The county seat is San Jose. The highly urbanized Santa Clara Valley within Santa Clara County is also known as Silicon Valley...
, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
. As of Fall 2008, more than 8,000 students from more than 70 countries were enrolled.
Evergreen Valley College graduated its first class in 1975. Plans for a new college officially started nine years earlier in 1964, with the creation of the San José/Evergreen Community College District to govern the existing San José City College and what would become Evergreen Valley College. The site was purchased in 1967, the college named Evergreen Valley College in 1970, and the first two buildings completed in 1975.
In recent years, bond measures allowed Evergreen Valley College to build new classrooms and labs for biological sciences and nursing education programs, a new library, a center to accommodate student life, the Montgomery Hill Observatory, and a new Visual and Performing Arts Center.
The college was rocked by scandal in 2010. While the college was dealing with severe budget shortfalls, Bayinaah Jones, while on paid sick leave as Vice President for Institutional Effectiveness was found to be teaching at, and paid by another college.