Spokane Falls Community College
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Spokane Falls Community College (SFCC) is part of the Community Colleges of Spokane
Community Colleges of Spokane
Community Colleges of Spokane is a community college district based in Spokane, Washington, USA. Founded in 1963, CCS serves some 38,600 students a year, spread across a service district in Eastern Washington. It comprises Spokane Community College, Spokane Falls Community College and the...

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The college, also known as The Falls, opened in 1967 in west Spokane, south of Riverside State Park
Riverside State Park
Riverside State Park is a park northwest of Spokane in Nine Mile Falls, Washington. At over , it is the second-largest state park in Washington. The park includes two campgrounds; one at the Bowl & Pitcher and the other at the Nine Mile Recreation area...

, on a 113 acre (0.45729518 km²) campus.

SFCC offers programs for students seeking an Associate of Arts or Associate of Science degree, with some 60 percent of SFCC students transferring to four-year institutions. SFCC also offers many one-of-a-kind career-technical degree and certificate programs, including orthotic/prosthetic technician, hearing instrument specialist, physical therapist assistant and, starting fall quarter 2011, occupational therapy assistant. SFCC also is considered a center of visual and performing arts, with highly regarded programs in drama, music, fine art, photography and graphic design.

The campus has a close working relationship with the Mukogawa Fort Wright Institute, a higher education facility for students from Japan studying in the U.S.

The college publishes The Communicator, a bi-weekly student newspaper, as well as Communicator Online. The latter was a 2009 Associated Collegiate Press Online Pacemaker winner and has placed among the top ten two-year college newspapers in North America in the last four years.

Interim president: Pam Praeger

Headcount (fall 2009): 5,954

Athletics

SFCC partners with Spokane Community College
Spokane Community College
Established in 1963, Spokane Community College is part of Community Colleges of Spokane.It is a comprehensive educational institution, offering liberal arts-transfer degrees and a wide array of career-technical degree and certificate options in the fields of manufacturing, transportation,...

 as the Community Colleges of Spokane
Community Colleges of Spokane
Community Colleges of Spokane is a community college district based in Spokane, Washington, USA. Founded in 1963, CCS serves some 38,600 students a year, spread across a service district in Eastern Washington. It comprises Spokane Community College, Spokane Falls Community College and the...

, using the team name the Sasquatch. They compete in the Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges
Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges
The Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges, commonly called the NWAACC , is a sports association for community colleges in the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington, and the Canadian province of British Columbia....

. The official colors are blue and gold.

Sports offered:
  • Men's: basketball, baseball, soccer.
  • Women's: volleyball, basketball, soccer, softball.
  • Both: golf, track and field athletics (indoor and outdoor), cross country, tennis

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