Community Colleges of Spokane history

Outlined footprints for four more buildings were included in the 1965 drawings, and seven extant buildings from the old Fort Wright campus remained on the plans, including what would later become the Photography Building.

When a Spokesman-Review reporter visited the construction site in August 1966, they observed: "At present the 118-acre former Army fort seems little more than a construction engineer's battlefield.

The doors to Spokane Falls Community College opened in 1967.

Max Snyder was the first president of the newly independent SFCC. Much of the campus was already in place by the time it became a separate college in 1970.

The college opened with one building (now called the Main Building), and in 1971, construction began on a student center, science building and a physical education complex.

In 1973, SCC added an optometric technician program, the first of its kind in the Pacific Northwest.

By 1977, the campus had grown to house buildings for health care, greenhouse, automotive and trade/heavy equipment programs and had a library and administration buildings.

In 1978, SCC and SFCC sports programs were consolidated, and students voted to select the Sasquatch as their new joint mascot.

However, in 1984 the campuses were united under one mascot, Sasquatch.

In 1985, SFCC opened a $1.5 million, 18,746-square-foot addition to the Student Union Building, including a complete student services center and an addition to the bookstore.

The business technology addition to the east of the Main Building was completed in summer 1992, adding 41,517 square feet of new office and classroom space.

In 2011, a 70,000-square-foot science building was completed and cost about $30 million.

SCC added its first bachelor of applied science (BAS) degree in 2017, growing the respiratory care program to a four-year degree.