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Los Angeles Harbor College company history timeline

1949

In early 1949, it was announced that the new school would offer seven major subject areas: Applied Technology, Business Education, Construction Technology, Humanities, Physical Education, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences.

Some of the first students on the campus back in 1949 were ( left to right ) Marian Marino, Joe Marino, Norma Marich, Bob Trujillo and Phyllis Trujillo. (Daily Breeze file photo by Robert Casillas)

1950

New courses in science and math were added for the second semester, as well as a special course in police science requested by the LAPD. The school graduated its first 18 students on June 15, 1950.

1969

Administrative changes came in 1969, when voters approved the formation of the Los Angeles Community College District.

1991

The number topped 10,000 students with the start of the 1991 school year.

1996

In fall 2005, there were 1,000 students enrolled in distance learning courses. It first offered distance learning courses in 1996.

1999

A yearlong celebration of the school’s 50th anniversary was held in 1999.

2004

The bulldozers went into action beginning in 2004 in a $200 million program that would last five years.

2006

The innovative plan was profiled by both Newsweek and the trade bible Oil and Gas Journal at the time. (The idea was revived in 2006 with the Energy Pathways Program, a special six-month course that trained low-income students in oil refinery operations and processes.)

2010

By the time school president Spink left her job in July 2010, the face-lift had grown to $500 million.

2012

In 2012, it began the YouthSource Center, aimed at getting high school dropouts back on track and into the educational system.

2015

LAHC officials posthumously awarded a degree to Godoy, who was killed in the San Bernardino terror attack in December 2015.

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