Solano Community College history

In the fall of 1957, the Governing Board of the Vallejo Unified School District voted to separate the junior college completely from the high school by moving it to a site on Mini Drive.

These sources are firsthand accounts or evidence from a particular moment in time. (Example: A letter written by Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. on August 28, 1963, to his wife.)

Vallejo Junior College began offering summer classes in 1964, and enrollment increased to 1000 students that year.

By 1965, it was apparent that there were more advantages to a county-wide community college district, so the voters of Solano County voted overwhelmingly to establish such a district upon recommendation of the Solano County Committee on School Reorganization.

Finally in mid-1967, the board approved plans for a 12.6 million dollar bond issue to be placed before the electorate of the county on October 17, 1967.

Construction began immediately and the campus was occupied on February 8, 1971, at the current location on Suisun Valley Road in Fairfield.

By 1992, the student population had grown to over 12,000.

In 1996, the District leased space on North Village Parkway in Vacaville (eight classrooms).

The Measure G Bond was passed by voters in November 2002 for 125 million dollars and included renovation of the Fairfield campus.