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Campus Map
This will help you find your way around our 120-acre campus.

News and Events
Find out what's happening on campus.

Office of Institutional Research
Provide you with information about the Contra Costa County population, LMC students, and reports about LMC’s accountability and assessment efforts

Frequently Needed Phone Numbers

Need to contact the Bookstore, Library, Admissions and Records Office or an academic division? Here's a useful reference.

Community Facilities

Bookstore
The Bookstore sells course books, school and office supplies, reference books, computer hardware, software and supplies, imprinted sportswear, greeting cards and snacks.

LMC's Nature center


Planetarium Shows
Take a trip to the stars. Check our campus calendar for upcoming shows

Employment Opportunities

Los Medanos Employment Center
Check our online database for jobs for LMC students in the surrounding areas.


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History

Contra Costa Community College District
The Contra Costa Community College District was established by a vote of the people on December 14, 1948. With boundaries roughly those of Contra Costa County, the district covers 686 square miles, making it one of the largest college districts in California. It serves and is supported by approximately 775,480 residents of Contra Costa County.

The enrollment at Contra Costa College in San Pablo and at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, which in the opening years of 1949 and 1950 numbered in the hundreds, grew in the mid 1980s to 30,000. This growth in number of students—and in facilities to house them—was most spectacular during the nine-year administration of Superintendent Karl O. Drexel. It was also Dr. Drexel who worked with the Governing Board in the creation of the third college in this district, Los Medanos College. Upon Dr. Drexel’s retirement in 1973, Dr. Harry Buttimer was selected as District Chancellor. Dr. Buttimer exerted strong and positive leadership in the continuing development of both the campus and district. John Carhart, first President of Los Medanos College, was appointed District Chancellor in 1984. Like his predecessor, he was committed to the continued and orderly growth of Los Medanos College and the District.

LMC
Reaching back 132 years into the Mexican heritage of Contra Costa County and to the heyday of its vast rancheros, the members of the Governing Board decided to name the district’s third campus Los Medanos College. The name is derived from that of the Rancho Los Medanos, among the last of the huge land grants made by the Mexican Government during its sovereignty over California from 1821 to 1846; Los Medanos, loosely translated from Spanish, means “The Sand Dunes.” In the spring semester of 1974, Los Medanos College opened its doors to the 1974 graduating classes of Liberty Union High, Antioch High, Pittsburg High, Pacifica High, Clayton Valley High, and Concord High School. Of equal importance, and perhaps in greater numbers, it attracted adults of all ages from a section of central and the entire eastern portion of Contra Costa County.

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Los Medanos College Foundation
The Los Medanos College Foundation is a nonprofit, 501(c ) 3 charitable organization which is governed by a volunteer board whose main role is to assist in raising money for the college to meet the educational needs of East County. The Foundation operates exclusively for charitable and educational purpose.

To find out more about the LMC college foundation
you may call 925-439-2181 extention 3213

Or vist their page on this website

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Location
Los Medanos College is located at 2700 E. Leland Rd, Pittsburg CA, 94565, USA, on a 120-acre site near the boundary separating Pittsburg from Antioch. The campus is most accessible from State Highway 4; take the Loveridge Road exit and turn right onto Loveridge. Turn left onto Leland Road. Exit and turn right at entrance into college and park at parking lot A or take Los Medanos Drive to parking lots B and C, shipping and receiving.

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LMC's college complex is four stories high; level one is the lower level. Most classes are scheduled in the complex (CC), math (MA) or science (SC) buildings. Please consult the map to get an idea of where your classrooms are or visit one of the information centers, which are located at the entrance to the library (L) on the north side of the campus or adjacent to the Admissions Office (A).

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College Job Openings
LMC staff and faculty positions are listed on the district Web site at www.4cd.net/human_resources/job.asp See minimum qualifications below.

Other Colleges of Contra Costa positions are listed through the District Web Site at www.4cd.net/human_resources/job.asp

The minimum qualifications for teaching and/or administrative positions in California Community Colleges are generally:

  • A Master's Degree in the subject or equivalent (academic disciplines), or
  • An Associate Degree with six years of related occupational experience (academic disciplines), or
  • A Bachelor's Degree and two years of related occupational experience (vocational disciplines), or
  • Possession of a valid California Community College credential (please note that issuance of CCC credentials was discontinued in July of 1990.)

Other locally established qualifications may also apply. To determine exact qualifications for any specific position, check with the CC District advertising the position opening.

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Accreditation
Los Medanos College is accredited by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, 10 Commercial Blvd. Suite 204 Novato, Ca 94949, (415) 506-0234,
an institutional accrediting body recognized by the Commission on Recognition of Postsecondary Accreditation and the U.S. Department of Education

Approved by
California State Board of Community Colleges
California Department of Education, Bureau of School Approvals
for the enrollment of veterans and eligible persons under Title 38 of the U.S. Code.
State Board of Registered Nursing
State Board of Vocational Nursing
University of California
California State Colleges and Universities
Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training
Small Business Administration
Contra Costa County Emergency Medical Services Office

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