Foothill College
Outside classroom 8401 at Foothill College
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| Motto | Upgrade. Advance. |
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| Type | Community college |
| Established | January 15, 1957 |
| President | Thuy Thi Nguyen, J.D. |
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Academic staff
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347 |
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Administrative staff
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547 |
| Students | 13,630 |
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Los Altos Hills, California, United States 37°21′41″N 122°07′44″W / 37.3613°N 122.1289°WCoordinates: 37°21′41″N 122°07′44″W / 37.3613°N 122.1289°W |
| Campus | Suburban, 122 acres (0.49 km2) |
| Colors | Scarlet, black & white |
| Nickname | Owls |
| Mascot | Footsie the Owl |
| Affiliations | De Anza College |
| Website | www.foothill.edu |
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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. In 2015 it was named one of California's "best community colleges".
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. Calvin Flint, then President of Monterey Peninsula College, was hired as the first District Superintendent and President; he started work on March 1, 1958.
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. 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.
The campus was designed by architect Ernest Kump and landscape architects Hideo Sasaki and Peter Walker, to resemble a neo-Japanese garden. The Foothill College was intended as a junior college for 3,500 full-time students, within 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.
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