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Santa Rosa Junior College
TypePublic community college
Established1918
Parent institution
Sonoma County Junior College District
PresidentDr. Angelica Garcia
Students22,299[1]
Location
Santa Rosa
,
California
,
United States
CampusSuburban, 80 acres (0.32 km2) (main campus and Petaluma campus)
NewspaperThe Oak Leaf
NicknameBear Cubs
Sporting affiliations
CCCAA
MascotRosco the Bear Cub
Websitesantarosa.edu

Santa Rosa Junior College (SRJC) is a public community college in Santa Rosa, California with an additional campus in Petaluma and centers in surrounding Sonoma County. SRJC is governed by the Sonoma County Junior College District.

History

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Founded in 1918, Santa Rosa Junior College is the tenth oldest community college in the state. It was planned as a feeder school for the University of California system, a "junior" version of the nearby University of California, Berkeley, with its Bear Cub mascot modeled after UCB's Oski.[2]After just over a century, only six presidents have served SRJC: Floyd P. Bailey (1921-1957), Randolph Newman (1957-1970), Roy Mikalson (1971-1990), Robert F. Agrella (1990-2012), Frank Chong (2012–2023), and Maria Angélica Garcia (2023–present).[3]

President Newman established the Santa Rosa Junior College Foundation as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in 1969.[3] The foundation is responsible for the administration of scholarships and infrastructural development fundraising,[4] in large part through the Alumni & Friends Association.[5] SRJC was closed from May 7–11, 1970 after Governor Ronald Reagan ordered that all California colleges and universities shut down due to anti-war protests and rallies after the shootings of four students at Kent State University.[6]

In 2014, Sonoma County voters passed Measure H, a $410 million dollar bond to improve district facilities, the largest investment in the schools history.[7]

In 2023, Dr. Angélica Garcia, the then President of Berkeley City College, was selected as the next Superindentent/President of the Sonoma County Junior College District and Santa Rosa Junior College, becoming the first woman, first Hispanic, and first LGBTQ+ person to serve in that position.[8]

Campus

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Santa Rosa campus

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Sign in front of Santa Rosa Junior College
Santa Rosa Junior College Sign

SRJC's main campus is located in central Santa Rosa, 52 miles (84 km) north of San Francisco and has traditional-style ivy-covered brick buildings on 100 acres (0.40 km2). In addition to its administration buildings, classroom facilities, and laboratories, the campus houses a Planetarium, the Robert F. Agrella Art Gallery, the SRJC Theatre, and the Santa Rosa Junior College Multicultural Museum.[9]

Frank P. Doyle Library

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Frank P. Doyle Library

In August 2006, SRJC moved its Santa Rosa campus library to the new Frank P. Doyle Library building. Named after the college's most significant benefactor, the four-story building is the largest on campus at 145,000 square feet (13,500 m2). It houses the Library, Media Services, Distance Education, and Instructional Computing Departments, as well as the college art gallery, tutorial center and Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, a multimedia training and production facility for SRJC faculty. The building was constructed with green building features designed to make it energy efficient and environmentally friendly, including an array of 77 KW photovoltaic solar panels on the library roof.[10] Santa Rosa Junior College librarians were leaders in the early movement to promote information literacy in California's community colleges, and SRJC was among the first of the colleges to institute an information literacy requirement for graduation. The Library and Information Resources Department offers several full-credit courses to fill this requirement.

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The Santa Rosa Junior College Art Gallery was established in 1973, the first significant exhibition space in the region. The original gallery location was in Bussman Hall on the Santa Rosa Campus, where an old anthropology museum previously existed. In fall 2006, the Art Gallery transitioned to a new space in the Frank P. Doyle Library.[11] The gallery was later renamed in 2012 in honor of the recently retired president of 22 years, the Robert F. Agrella Art Gallery [1] offering exhibits and programs which support the art curriculum, focusing on art history, ceramics, computer graphics, drawing, graphic design, jewelry, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture. In addition to the Annual Student Show and the occasional Art Faculty exhibits, quality art from outside the area is shown throughout the year. Exhibits are open to the community.[12]

Santa Rosa Junior College Multicultural Museum

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The college's museum, originally called the Jesse Peter Museum, focuses on the Native American art of North America and ethnographic art of parts of Mesoamerica, Central America, South America, Africa, and Asia.[13] Permanent exhibits include Native American baskets, jewelry and pottery that come from the Elsie Allen Collection, acquired in the 1970s. The permanent and changing art exhibits focus on Native American art and anthropology of other cultures, and are used as a resource for multi-cultural studies by Santa Rosa Junior College students and area students.

Burdo Culinary Arts Center

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The B. Robert Burdo Center is the home of Santa Rosa Junior College's Culinary Arts Program. The two-story, 22,000 square foot building includes three classrooms, and four teaching kitchens, incorporating a public demonstration kitchen. The student-run Café and Bakery is featured on the first floor of the new building. It was completed in 2012 and put into service for the Spring 2012 semester.

Petaluma campus

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SRJC began offering evening classes in Petaluma, 35 miles (56 km) north of San Francisco, in 1964, and in the early 1970s held classes in leased spaces throughout the city. In 1985, the Board of Trustees purchased a 40-acre (160,000 m2) site in east Petaluma, and in 1995 the first phase of construction of a Petaluma Center was completed. The Petaluma Center officially became a campus in April 1999. The second phase of construction to expand the Petaluma Campus to a 12,000-student capacity was completed in 2008, and included: life science and physical science labs, an art studio, a new 35,000 square foot library, a physical fitness center, bookstore, student services areas, dining areas, additional classrooms and technology labs, faculty/administrative offices, a digital arts lab, a nearly 300-seat auditorium (Carole L. Ellis Auditorium), and expanded outdoor spaces. The contemporary adobe-style buildings with red tile roofs and clock tower with Westminster chimes reflect the Spanish history of the area.[14]

Herold Mahoney Library

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The Herold Mahoney Library at SRJC's Petaluma campus originally opened its doors in the Fall of 1995. Many of the programs in SRJC's Arts & Lectures Series take place in the Mahoney Library. With the expansion of the Petaluma campus, the Mahoney Library has expanded to five times its original size, 35,000 sq ft (3,300 m2). The new library building opened on June 16, 2008, the first day of summer session.[15]

Technology Academy

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There is a Technology Academy located on the Petaluma Campus. Opened in January 2009 in Telecom Valley, this educational program was established to meet the training needs of North Bay technology companies, offering classes and training programs to the general public and in-service training for the technology companies. Clientele includes incumbent workers, entry-level workers, and high school co-enrollment students.[16]

Shone Farm

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Established in 1972, the Robert Shone Farm currently operates as a self-sustaining 365-acre (1.48 km2) farm near the Russian River, in Forestville, generating income from the sale of grapes from the college's vineyard operation as well as oat hay, oat silage, and sheep and swine operations.[17] A new Agriculture Pavilion was completed in 2006.[citation needed] The farm offers diversified, hands-on educational opportunities in Viticulture, Wine Studies, Equine Studies, Animal Science, Sustainable Agriculture, and Environmental Conservation. Produce raised in farm gardens are used in SRJC's Culinary Training Program and in a community supported agriculture program operated by students from agribusiness and sustainable agriculture programs.[citation needed] The Shone Farm Winery was established in fall 2008.[18][19]

Public Safety Training Center

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The Public Safety Training Center was established in Windsor in 1961, and currently provides coursework and field training for police officers, corrections officers, police dispatchers, seasonal park rangers, emergency medical technicians, paramedics, and firefighters. In spring 2002 the modern facility was completed on a 20-acre (0.081 km2) site in Windsor to provide in-service training for people working in public safety. The center is the largest provider of in-service training for law enforcement personnel north of the Golden Gate Bridge[citation needed], offering traditional academic offerings, administration and classroom buildings, an emergency medical care laboratory facility, an indoor firing range, a large multipurpose building, a scenario training village, and a driving instruction area with skid pad.[citation needed]

Athletics

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Santa Rosa Junior College is home to the Bear Cubs. They are part of the Big 8 Athletic Conference and are well known for their football, baseball, soccer and wrestling programs. They have a long-time rivalry with the Sacramento City College Panthers.

Ice hockey, where the SRJC team are the Polar Bears, is a club sport, but the team was nationally ranked in 2009–10 and 2011–12.[citation needed] There are athletic organizations including judo, rugby, cheerleading, and beach volleyball.

Baseball

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The baseball team won the state championship in 2016, placing second to Grossmont College in a seven-game championship series in 2017.[20]

Speech and debate

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SRJC Forensics, the speech and debate team, earned the #1 national ranking among two-year colleges in 2016.[21] Led by Mark Nelson and Hal Sanford, for five years the team ranked for five years within the top six teams in the nation.[22]

Student newspaper

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The SRJC student newspaper, The Oak Leaf, has won awards for community college newspapers and been honored by the California Newspaper Publishers Association and the Society of Professional Journalists for its coverage of the many wildfires that have affected Santa Rosa and nearby settlements since the mid-2010s.[23]

Notable alumni

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Notable faculty

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References

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  2. ^ "Santa Rosa Junior College is turning 100, here's how it all began". September 29, 2016.
  3. ^ a b "SRJC History | Marketing & Communications". Retrieved August 9, 2023.
  4. ^ "Home". Santa Rosa Junior College Foundation.
  5. ^ "Alumni & Friends Association". Santa Rosa Junior College Foundation.
  6. ^ "What life was like in Sonoma County 50 years ago". Sonoma Index Tribune. March 5, 2020. Retrieved March 6, 2020.
  7. ^ "SRJC picks planners for $410M upgrades". April 5, 2016.
  8. ^ Morales, Peter; Fructuoso, Bryan (November 16, 2023). "A new era: the investiture of Dr. Angélica Garcia". The Oak Leaf. Retrieved February 8, 2024.
  9. ^ Santa Rosa Junior College. Santarosa.edu (2008-07-30). Retrieved on 2013-07-21.
  10. ^ "Santa Rosa Junior College Library - Doyle Library - Santa Rosa Campus". www.santarosa.edu. Archived from the original on November 20, 2008.
  11. ^ Santa Rosa Junior College Archived 2009-12-16 at the Wayback Machine. Santarosa.edu (2011-11-17). Retrieved on 2013-07-21.
  12. ^ "Robert F. Agrella Art Gallery: Visitor Information".
  13. ^ "Museum History | Santa Rosa Junior College Multicultural Museum". museum.santarosa.edu. Retrieved February 8, 2024.
  14. ^ "Petaluma Campus". Santa Rosa Junior College. February 27, 2013. Retrieved July 21, 2013.
  15. ^ "This page has moved!". www.santarosa.edu. Archived from the original on July 20, 2011.
  16. ^ "Santa Rosa Junior College". www.santarosa.edu. Archived from the original on December 2, 2008.
  17. ^ "Facility Manager Recognition Awards 2013: Leonard Diggs, Shone Farm | The North Bay Business Journal". www.northbaybusinessjournal.com. Archived from the original on August 24, 2017.
  18. ^ Shone Farm Story. Shonefarm.com. Retrieved on 2013-07-21.
  19. ^ Shone Farm Winery Home. Shonefarm.com. Retrieved on 2013-07-21.
  20. ^ "SRJC baseball team falls short of repeat state title". The Press Democrat. May 31, 2017.
  21. ^ "Speech and Debate Team". Communication Studies. Santa Rosa Junior College. Archived from the original on August 24, 2017. Retrieved January 16, 2025.
  22. ^ "On the offensive: SRJC debate team refutes the competition en route to nationals". The Oak Leaf. April 11, 2017.
  23. ^ Hartlaub, Peter (October 3, 2020). "'Fire college': As devastation revisits Santa Rosa, student journalists find purpose". San Francisco Chronicle.
  24. ^ Loll, Anna Catherin (October 11, 2016). "Power, secrecy and cypherpunks: how Jacob Appelbaum ripped Tor apart". The Guardian.
  25. ^ "202 J.C. Candidates for Degrees Saturday". The Press Democrat. June 11, 1953. p. 16. Retrieved April 19, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  26. ^ Stierch, Sarah (March 24, 2016). "Sonoma Chef Getting Back to Cheese". Sonoma Magazine. Retrieved October 4, 2016.
  27. ^ Guthrie, Julian (October 27, 2013). "Gary Friedman: Restoration Hardware's savior has bigger plans". Sfgate.
  28. ^ "Adam Froman - Football Recruiting - Player Profiles - ESPN". ESPN.com.
  29. ^ "Jonny Gomes Stats". Baseball-Reference.com.
  30. ^ "Tyson Griffin UFC Bio". Retrieved January 1, 2014.
  31. ^ "Stanford University Faculty Senate Records: Memorial Resolution: Hultgren, Herbert, 1917–1997 (Medicine)". exhibits.stanford.edu. Retrieved March 2, 2023.
  32. ^ Kahlenberg, Richard (January 15, 1995). "The Smart Money Is on This Young Genius: Michael Kearney, 10, is the world's youngest college graduate and a cultural hero in Japan but finds a less enthusiastic response in the U.S." Los Angeles Times.
  33. ^ Tesconi, Tim (March 18, 2001). "Voice of the Community". The Press Democrat. Archived from the original on November 25, 2016. Retrieved November 24, 2016.
  34. ^ "Mike McGuire". www.ssualumni.org. Retrieved November 5, 2023.
  35. ^ Imagine Dragons' bassist from Forestville to BottleRock, Press Democrat
  36. ^ "Padecky: Healdsburg semi-pro pitcher wows MLB team scouts". July 30, 2014.
  37. ^ "Brande Roderick". TVGuide.com.
  38. ^ Morris, Gus (July 8, 2023). "Maria Carrillo, SRJC grad Jake Scheiner tearing up Triple-A, waiting on MLB call-up". The Press Democrat.
  39. ^ "WWE former superstar Tyler Reks comes out as trans woman Gabbi Tuft: 'I love myself for who I am'". meaww.com. February 5, 2021.
  40. ^ "Verrett Scores A First: Ex-SRJC Player, Taken No. 25 By Chargers, Only First-Round Pick In School History". The Press Democrat. May 11, 2014.
  41. ^ Kovner, Guy (April 10, 2018). "Ed Von der Porten, Santa Rosa teacher and maritime historian, dies at 84". The Press Democrat.
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