| Santa Rosa Junior College | |
|---|---|
| Established | 1918 |
| Type | Public |
| President | Robert F. Agrella |
| Students | 40,000 per semester |
| Location | Santa Rosa, California, USA |
| Campus | Suburban, 80 acres (0.32 km2) (main campus and Petaluma campus) |
| Website | http://www.santarosa.edu/ |
Santa Rosa Junior College ("SRJC") is a community college located in the city of Santa Rosa in Sonoma County, California. Founded in 1918, it is the tenth oldest community college in the state. Santa Rosa Junior College was modeled as a "junior" version of nearby University of California at Berkeley. It was intended to be a feeder school for the U.C. system, and still is to this day[update], with a special program designed for the direct transfer of students to various campuses in the U.C. system upon the completion of certain prerequisites.
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Campuses
SRJC has a beautiful and traditional-style 100-acre (0.40 km2) campus with ivy-covered brick buildings on a backdrop of rolling green lawns, dotted with ancient oak trees and redwoods in Santa Rosa, California, and a 40-acre (160,000 m2) campus in Petaluma. It also has a Public Safety Training Center in Windsor, and a 365-acre (1.48 km2) self-supporting farm near Forestville, a Culinary Arts Center in downtown Santa Rosa, and a Technology Academy on the Petaluma Campus. It has a remarkable number of accomplished professors for a community college, and is consistently ranked as one of the top community colleges in the nation. The school also has an unusually large grant and scholarship system that is the legacy of the Doyle family, resulting in one of the largest trusts for any community college in the nation.
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, and Academic Computing Departments, as well as the College art gallery, tutorial center and Center for New Media, a multimedia production facility for SRJC faculty.
The library is a technologically advanced structure that incorporates numerous green building features designed to make it energy efficient and environmentally friendly. Wireless Internet access is available throughout the building. Approximately 4,000 users per day enter the Frank P. Doyle Library.
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 which fill this requirement.
Herold Mahoney Library
The Herold Mahoney Library on SRJC's Petaluma campus opened in Fall 1995. In addition to providing reference and instructional services, it hosts many of the programs in SRJC's Arts & Lectures series. With the rapid growth of the Petaluma campus, the Library quickly outgrew its space. In Summer 2008, a new 35,000 sq. ft. library building opened, quadrupling the capacity of the original library and providing greatly increased access to information technologies and media services.
Santa Rosa Junior College Art Gallery
The Santa Rosa Junior College Art Gallery offers 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. [1]
The gallery is located on the first floor of the Doyle Library building on the Santa Rosa campus.
Santa Rosa Junior College Museum
The Santa Rosa Junior College Museum, also known as the Jesse Peter Museum, focuses on the ethnographic art of the Americas and parts of Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. Permanent exhibits include Native American baskets, jewelry and pottery. 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. [2]
The museum is located at Bussman Hall, 1501 Mendocino Avenue, Santa Rosa, California.
Alumni
| Brande Roderick | is an American model and actress. She is perhaps best known for her appearances in Baywatch and Playboy. |
References
- ^ http://www.santarosa.edu/art-gallery/visitor-information/ Santa Rosa Junior College Art Gallery: Visitor Information
- ^ http://www.santarosa.edu/museum/geninfo.htm Santa Rosa Junior College Museum: General Info
External links
- Santa Rosa Junior College website
- Santa Rosa Junior College Library
- Santa Rosa Junior College Art Gallery
- Santa Rosa Junior College Museum
- The Remarkable Legacy of Banker Frank P. Doyle
- "SRJC Library, Model of Tech, Ecology." North Bay Business Journal. February 27, 2006.
- Santa Rosa Junior College Facebook
Coordinates: 38°27′19.08″N 122°43′11.14″W / 38.4553°N 122.7197611°W
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