Chabot College is a community college located in Hayward, California, United States.
History
Chabot College was the first college opened by the Chabot-Las Positas Community College District. The formation of a “junior college district†was approved by the voters on January 10, 1961, and the first board of trustees elected on April 18, 1961. Chabot College opened for classes on September 11, 1961, on a 7.5-acre (30,000 m2) temporary site in San Leandro with an enrollment of 1,163 students. The 94-acre (380,000 m2) Chabot College site on Hesperian Boulevard in Hayward opened for its first day of classes on September 20, 1965.
The college primarily serves residents of Alameda County in the East Bay area, including the district communities of Hayward, Castro Valley, San Leandro, San Lorenzo and Union City.
The school is named for noted Bay Area entrepreneur Anthony Chabot.
Organization and administration
The president is Dr. Susan Sperling.
Academic profile
Chabot offers a curriculum of over 175 majors of study, awarding more than 100 associate degrees and certificates. Chabot is on a semester system.
The college features six academic divisions: Applied Technology and Business, Language Arts, Math and Sciences, Physical Education and Health, the College of the Arts, and Social Sciences. The Business program offers degrees in Business, Accounting, Retail Management, Business Management, Marketing and certificates in various areas, including Accounting, Health Care Management, Human Resources Assistant, Entrepreneurship, Real Estate, Marketing, Retailing, Management, etc.
Campus Enrollment
Chabot has an enrollment of over 14,848 students. The following are preliminary statistics from the Spring 2011 enrollment:
- Total Students: 14,848
- Women: 54%
- Men: 44%
- Not stated: 2%
- Race-Ethnicity:
- Black: 29%
- Asian American: 17%
- Filipino: 9%
- Latino: 29%
- Native American: 1%
- Pacific Islander: 3%
- White: 5%
- Other: 1%
- Not stated: 6%
- Number of Units:
- Full-time (12+ units): 31%
- Part-time (6 to 11.5 units): 35%
- Part-time (0.5 to 5.5 units): 34%
- Educational Goal:
- Transfer (with/without degree): 50%
- AA/AS degree: 11%
- Occupational certificate or job training: 13%
- Personal development: 6%
- Other or undecided: 20%
Accreditation
Chabot College is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. Chabot College is also accredited by the Council on Dental Education, American Dental Association, the Committee on Allied Health Education and Accreditation in collaboration with the American Hospital Health Information, Management Association and the America Medical Assisting Association. The program in nursing is accredited by the California Board of Registered Nursing. The college is approved by the California State Department of Education and is a member of the American Association of Community and Junior Colleges and the Community College League of California.
Educational paths
Chabot provides the following academic pathways:
- Technical and career-vocational education programs
- Transfer education programs to four-year universities
- General education
- Basic skills instruction
- English as a second language programs
- Community and continuing Education programs
- Radio & Television Broadcasting
Student life
Radio station KCRH
KCRH is an 18 watt radio station operated by the mass communications class at Chabot.
Television station KCTH 27
Chabot College's Television Studio was established when the College first opened in 1964. It was the first West Coast College Television Station with 5 On Campus Channels that allowed instructors to receive 5 independent cable TV feeds of programming from the studio. Lately, it became the Community Media Center for the East bay by taking over Public-access television channels from Comcast due to the DIVCA (Digital Infrastructure Video Communications Act). Which makes the Studio available to the communities as well as for Educational-access television use. Local business and Individuals can now use the Leased access High Definition Studios, with access to over 100,000 viewers and on line streaming as well as AT&T-U-viewers. Currently the Station runs KCTH 27 the Educational-access television channel, KCMC 28 and 29, also Channel 99 under Hayward on AT&T U-verse. It is growing in programming and equipment.
Sport
In 1987 the Chabot College ultimate disc team won the intercollegiate national championship.
The Bay Area Ambassadors soccer team has played at the Gladiator Stadium from 2009-2012.
Noted people
Notable alumni
- Jeff Barnes, former NFL player
- Cliff Burton, bassist for the heavy metal band Metallica
- Lester Conner, basketball coach
- Stephanie Chandler, entrepreneur and author
- Mark Davis, Major League Baseball pitcher
- Tim Davis, football player
- Ed Galigher, defensive lineman for the NFL's San Francisco 49ers and New York Jets
- Chris Geile, offensive lineman for the NFL's Detroit Lions
- Tom Hanks, Academy Award-winning actor
- Bruce Henderson, author
- Robert Jenkins, former NFL player
- Steve Johnson, wide receiver for the NFL's San Francisco 49ers
- Von Joshua, Major League Baseball outfielder
- Eric Lane, former NFL player
- Darren Lewis, Major League Baseball outfielder
- Lorenzo Lynch, former NFL player
- Bip Roberts, All-Star Major League Baseball second baseman
- Brandon Kolb, Major League Baseball pitcher
- Aaron Ledesma, Major League Baseball infielder
- Mike McRae, Olympic long jumper
- Carl Potts, comic book artist
- Rick Rodriguez, Major League Baseball pitcher
- Nate Schierholtz, outfielder with the Chicago Cubs major league baseball team
- Junior Tautalatasi, former NFL player
- Adrian Ward, former NFL player
- Ned Yost, former Milwaukee Brewers and current Kansas City Royals manager
- Mike Young, Major League Baseball outfielder
- Doug Padilla, USA Olympic distance runner
- Tamara De Treaux, actress who played E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
- Omar Smith, professional snowboarder
- Neil Medeiros, International commercial/advertising photographer
- Lyle West, former NFL football player with NY Giants, played in Super Bowl XXXV
- Will Adams, Emmy award winning TV Newscast Director
Faculty
- Marshall Drummond, business professor
References
External links
- Official website