San Bernardino Valley College Explained

San Bernardino Valley College
Motto:'Your future starts here.'
Established:1926
Type:Community College
Administrative Staff:459
Faculty:577
(148 Full-time &
429 Part-time)
President:Dr. Scott W. Thayer (interim)
Chancellor:Diana Z. Rodriguez
Students:17,044[1]
City:San Bernardino
State:California
Country:United States
Campus:Urban, 82acres
Colors:Blue and Gray
Mascot:Wolverines (2001–present), Indians (1926–2000)
Affiliations:San Bernardino Community College District
Coor:34.0872°N -117.3106°W

San Bernardino Valley College is a public community college in San Bernardino, California. It is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. The college has an enrollment of 17,044[1] students and covers 82acres. Valley College is also a part of the San Bernardino Community College District which includes Crafton Hills College located in nearby Yucaipa and the Professional Development Center in San Bernardino.

History

San Bernardino Junior College was established in 1926. Its campus was split between San Bernardino High School and Colton High School and consisted of 140 students and one administrator, George H. Jantzen, who was dean of the college. Today, San Bernardino Valley College offers classes to 25,000 students and runs on an annual budget of $59 million. The college district, which includes two campuses, has 148 full-time faculty, 429 part-time faculty and staff of 459. It serves multiple high school districts, and the district encompasses nearly 500sqmi.

Academics

The college offers courses that correspond to the lower division requirements of the University of California and the California State University system so qualified students can transfer to four-year institutions with junior standing. The college also provides specialized programs that lead directly to employment or to improving the skill and knowledge of those already employees in the work force. These include Associate of Arts degree programs, Associate of Science degree programs, and certificates.

Student life

San Bernardino Valley College also offers its students a diverse selection of clubs. At San Bernardino Valley College there are more than 30 clubs and organizations representing a variety of academic and career pursuits. There are also a number of special interest groups.

Middle College High School at SBVC

Middle College High School (MCHS) is one of nine high schools in the San Bernardino City Unified School District (SBCUSD). There are six comprehensive high schools and three additional alternative/continuation high schools. MCHS is identified as a specialized alternative high school focused on dual enrollment for underserved, underprepared and traditionally underrepresented populations.

MCHS was designed in 2001 as an alternative high school for high potential but underperforming students as a joint project of the SBCUSD and San Bernardino Valley College (SBVC). MCHS is located directly north of the SBVC campus and draws its students from the entire attendance area of SBCUSD.

Students who attend MCHS are concurrently enrolled at MCHS and SBVC, where students are able to earn a significant number of college units while completing their high school diploma. Each year, a number of MCHS graduating seniors do earn the Associates of Arts Degree from SBVC. The vision of MCHS is that every MCHS scholar will graduate from a four-year college with preparation for career, leadership, and personal success.

Athletics

San Bernardino Valley College is a member of the Inland Empire Athletic Conference (IEAC) for nine of its twelve sports. Men's and women's track and field are not sponsored by the IEAC. SBVC football is a member of the American Division-Mountain Conference in the Southern California Football Association (SCFA). Each sport has a different competitive alignment within the conference.

From 1926 to 2000 SBVC's fight name was the Indians. In January 2001, it was changed to the Wolverines.[2] [3]

The men's and women's basketball teams played their home games in the Joseph W. Snyder Gymnasium from 1975 to 2016.

Seismic reconstruction

The college's original builders were unaware of local fault hazards, and constructed the campus upon an elevated pressure ridge (the Bunker Hill Dike) along the San Jacinto Fault Zone, which bisects the campus and ran under the foundations of some buildings. Between 2001 and 2010, several of the campus' major buildings have been demolished and new ones built nearby.

Original survey

In 1935, with the damage from the 1933 Long Beach earthquake still a recent memory, SBVC hired John Buwalda of the Caltech Seismological Laboratory to assess seismic hazards. Buwalda discovered and reported the presence of the fault, specifically recommending "a thousand-foot-wide zone of no building, which basically took in almost the entire campus. They [SBVC] ignored his advice, even though they paid for his report."[4]

1990s

The trustees of SBVC hired Professor Kerry Sieh, also of Caltech, to perform a seismic hazard study in 1995–96. This confirmed the danger of the fault to the campus. Excavated trenches revealed that the surface trace of the fault passed through four of the school's buildings. Eight other buildings were determined to be at risk due to secondary ground fracturing or their location across an active surface fold caused by shallow blind thrust faulting. The buildings, most over 50 years old, were not built to modern seismic standards and it was decided that creating new buildings away from, and parallel to, the fault would be more sensible than retrofitting the aging ones.

2000–2010

Buildings replaced included the Administration Building, the Library, the Student Center/Cafeteria Building, the Art Building, the Physical Sciences Buildings, the Life Science Building, and North Hall.[5] Prominently preserved is the Auditorium. Built in 1938 by the Works Progress Administration, the ornate building contains the clock tower that is featured on many of the college's publications.

Notable alumni

In popular culture

Notes and References

  1. Web site: California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office - Data Mart. State of. California. datamart.cccco.edu. 19 April 2018.
  2. News: Hobson . Shawn . Hobson's Choice; BCC women striving for six in a row . . . January 30, 2001 . B1 . June 17, 2024 . .
  3. Web site: . A Championship Pedigree . San Bernardino Valley College Athletics . June 17, 2024 .
  4. Sieh, Kerry (2000). "Acts of God, Acts of Man: How Humans Turn Natural Hazards into Natural Disasters." Engineering and Science, 63 (4), 8-17
  5. Web site: San Bernardino Valley College opens four new buildings. 20 August 2010. pe.com. 19 April 2018.
  6. Web site: oops . Staterbros.com . 2019-07-19.
  7. Web site: A career in mining chemicals : oral history transcript / 2003. Guy H. ive. Harris. Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office. Fred. Quivik. 19 April 2018. Internet Archive.
  8. Web site: Robert D Pryor – Legion of Valor. legionofvalor.org. 19 April 2018.
  9. Web site: Robert Pryor - Recipient - Military Times Hall Of Valor. valor.militarytimes.com. 19 April 2018.
  10. Web site: Service cross . valor.defense.gov . 2019-07-19.
  11. Web site: Election results . 1985 . www.snoco.org . 2019-07-19.
  12. Book: Kelley, Jim. Tales from the Teamhouse: True Special Forces Stories. 19 April 2018. Morris Publishing. 9780974970004. 19 April 2018. Google Books.
  13. Web site: Journal of Special operations medicine . 2001 . www.jsomonline.org . 2019-07-19.
  14. Web site: Archived copy . www.faceblind.org . 17 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130124073440/http://www.faceblind.org/links/Face%20to%20Face%20Newsletter%20-%20Winter%202013.pdf . 24 January 2013 . dead.

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