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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.
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
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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Map
Please visit our page that has a collection of all our maps of LMC as well as directions and transportation information.
College Job Openings
LMC staff and faculty positions are listed on the district Web site
at www.4cd.edu/human_resources/job.asp See minimum qualifications below.
Other
Colleges of Contra Costa positions are listed through the District
Web Site at www.4cd.edu/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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