Glendale Community College (California)
community college in Glendale, California, United States
Glendale Community College (GCC) is a public community college in Glendale, California.
History
The college was founded as Glendale Junior College in 1927, to serve the Glendale Union High School District which at the time included La Crescenta, Glendale, and Tujunga. From 1927 to 1929 classes were held in the buildings of Glendale Union High School at Broadway and Verdugo in the city of Glendale. In 1929 the junior college moved to the Harvard School plant of the Glendale Union High School District where it remained until 1937. In this year a new plant, part of the present one, was completed and occupied. The year before, in 1936, the Glendale Junior College District was dissolved as such and became a part of the new Glendale Unified School District. The name of the school was changed to Glendale College in 1944. On July 1, 1970, Glendale College became a part of the Glendale Junior College District. On April 20, 1971, the board of education adopted a resolution changing the district name to Glendale Community College District.
On November 4, 1980, Glendale voters approved a measure to establish separate boards, with the new board taking office in April 1981.
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