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Foothill College is a community college located in Los Altos Hills, California and is part of the Foothill–De Anza Community College District. It was founded on January 15, 1957 by Founding Superintendent and President Dr. Calvin C. Flint. The college offers 79 Associate degree programs and 107 certificate programs. It is named one of California's "best community colleges."〔(Top 15 Community Colleges in Caifornia ). EDsmart.org (April 22, 2015). Retrieved on April 30, 2015.〕 ==History== In July 1956, Palo Alto Unified School District Superintendent Henry M. Gunn called a meeting of local school superintendents that led to the creation of Foothill College.〔Roberta Couch, Tom Jamison, Doug Stine, Susan Johnston, Rene Lynch, and Judy Sisk, ''Foothill College: 25 Years'' (Los Altos Hills: Foothill College, 1981), 10.〕 Calvin Flint, then President of Monterey Peninsula College was hired as the first District Superintendent and President; he started work on March 1, 1958.〔Couch, 10.〕 Candidates for the new college's name, besides Foothill, were Peninsula, Junipero Serra, Mid-Peninsula, Earl Warren, Herbert Hoover, North Santa Clara, Altos, Valley, Skyline, Highland, and Intercity.〔Couch, 11.〕 At first the name was Foothill Junior College, but because Flint insisted that his new college would be "not junior to anyone", the Board dropped the "Junior" in September 1958.〔 Foothill held its first classes in the old Highway School campus on El Camino Real in Mountain View on September 15, 1958.〔 It was accredited by March of the next year and was the first school in the state to ever reach full accreditation in less than six months.〔 The owl mascot originated from a concrete owl that was a decoration on the Highway School's bell tower; it was later moved to the new campus.〔Couch, 130.〕 Foothill's unique neo-Japanese architecture is well-known among architects;〔Downey, Kirstin. "A Discerning Look At The Valley: Architects Assess Our Area's Aesthetics." ''San Jose Mercury News'', May 29, 1986, sec. E, p. 1.〕 the campus was designed by architect Ernest Kump and landscape architect Hideo Sasaki and Peter Walker.〔Raver, Anne. "Hideo Sasaki, 80, Influential Landscape Architect, Dies." ''New York Times'', September 25, 2000, sec. Arts, p. 9.〕 The Foothill College was conceived as a junior college for 3500 full-time students, the 122-acre campus, the first of many junior colleges built after World Wall II in California. Soon after its completion, Foothill was widely recognized as a pioneer, setting high standards for new campus design.〔Peter Walker: landscape as art. No. 85. Process Architecture, 1989.〕 Traditionally, Foothill serves the communities of Los Altos Hills, Los Altos, Mountain View and Palo Alto; together these communities form the northwest corner of Silicon Valley. The college sits next to Interstate 280, at the interchange with El Monte Road. In 2002, a second campus was opened on the site of the former Cubberley High School at 4000 Middlefield Road in Palo Alto. The Middlefield Campus is leased from the Palo Alto School District, and currently serves approximately 1,000 students. In 2003, the college began the most dramatic construction project since its founding, to accommodate the fact that a campus designed for 3,500 is now serving nearly 14,000. It is renovating nearly all buildings, tearing up and rebuilding its potholed parking lots, demolishing several unsafe buildings, including the campus center, and constructing several replacement buildings. Two of the new buildings in the lower campus complex feature sod roofs. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Foothill College」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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