College of the Redwoods

The College of the Redwoods should not be confused with the similarly named College of the Sequoias in the San Joaquin Valley town of Visalia, California.

College of the Redwoods

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Type	Public
Established	1964
President	Casey Crabill
Academic staff	110 full-time; 375 part-time
Students	17,223 (Total Fall Semester 2007 enrollment)
Location	Eureka , California , USA
Campus	Rural; Three main educational sites, two off-campus sites which include 449,948 square feet of buildings sitting on 334 acres.
Website	http://www.redwoods.edu/

College of the Redwoods (CR) is a public two-year community college whose main campus, comprised of 270 acres, is located on the southernmost edge of Eureka in Humboldt County, California. Current enrollment in the Fall of 2007 is 17,223 students (at all sites in the extensive district), and the college offers a variety of transfer, vocational, and community-based classes, including its world-famous Fine Woodworking Program started by master woodworker James Krenov, a Police Academy, Nursing and Dental Programs, Truck Driving School, ever-evolving Computer Information Sciences, Computer-Aided Drafting, and Digital Media Departments, and the new, (added in 2006), Hospitality, Restaurant and Culinary Arts Program. The college is named after the Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) trees native to the region.

CR has two satellite 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 Arcata Instructional Site, the Eureka Downtown Instructional Site, the Bianchi Farm and the Klamath-Trinity Instructional Site on the Hoopa Valley Tribe reservation.

The original Redwoods Community College District was formed in 1964 by a vote of the people of Humboldt County. In 1975, residents of the coastal portion of Mendocino County voted to join the District, and in 1978 Del Norte County similarly joined. The college serves these areas, as well as a portion of Trinity County.

Beginning with the passage of Proposition 13 by California in 1978, College of the Redwoods and most public institutions in the state have suffered declining revenue, especially following the Dot-Com Bust, while simultaneously suffering increasing costs due to inflation, population growth, and increasingly unfunded state and federal mandates. The result has been a decreasing quality and safety of education received by students at most California institutions.

In 2006, Humboldt County voters passed Measure Q to supply $40,000,000 funding to upgrade and renovate neglected and substandard facilities at the main campus.

Points of interest

• Humboldt Botanical Garden

External links

• Official web site.
• CR's Academic Disciplines Listings.
• CR WebAdvisor.
• CR Blackboard.
• CR Main Campus on Wikimapia.
• CR's Fine Woodworking Program
• CR Student.Communications, Student.Community, and Student.Compass.