College of the Redwoods

College of the Redwoods

College of the Redwoods North Entry
Type	Public
Established	1964
President	Keith Snow-Flamer
Academic staff	87 full-time; 218 part-time (Fall 2011)
Administrative staff	235 (Fall 2011)
Students	5,784
Location	Eureka, California, United States
Campus	Rural; Three main educational sites, six off-campus sites which include 449,948 square feet (41,802 m2) of buildings sitting on 334 acres (1.4 km2) (2011).
Website	http://www.redwoods.edu/

College of the Redwoods (CR) is a public two-year community college with its main campus of approximately 270 acres (1.1 km²) located on the southernmost edge of Eureka in Humboldt County, California. The campus resides in close proximity to the Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge, Table Bluff, the southern portion of Humboldt Bay, as well as national forest. The campus's architecture utilizes American Craftsman styling, and has wooden support beams in each structure. Redwoods Community College District serves four counties and has two branch campuses, as well as three additional sites. On-campus housing is available at the main campus.

College of the Redwoods is one of 112 colleges in the California Community College system. The college offers a variety of transfer, vocational, and community-based classes, including its Fine Woodworking Program started by master woodworker James Krenov, a Police Academy, Nursing and Dental Programs, Truck Driving School, Computer Information Sciences, Computer-Aided Drafting, and Digital Media Departments, Yurok language and the new Hospitality, Restaurant and Culinary Arts Program (added in 2006). The college is named after the Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) trees native to the region.

CR has two satellite branch campuses: CR Del Norte in Crescent City, Del Norte County; and CR Mendocino Coast in Fort Bragg, Mendocino County. CR also has other off-campus sites, including the Bianchi Farm in Shively, the Klamath-Trinity Instructional Site on the Hoopa Valley Tribe reservation, and the Southern Humboldt Instructional Site in Garberville in Southern Humboldt County which is currently being renovated. The Arcata Instructional Site, the McKinleyville Instructional Site, and the Eureka Downtown Instructional Site were closed in the summer or 2012, though Community Education re-located to a new Eureka Downtown Site.