Ohlone College

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For the American Indian tribe of the same name, see Ohlone.

Ohlone College is a community college located in Fremont, California. It was established in 1965. It is the main campus of the Ohlone Community College District; there are two satellite locations in Newark, California.

The Ohlone College Newark Center for Health Sciences and Technology is scheduled to open on an 80 plus acre site in 2008. Voters approved a $150 million bond measure for this project in March 2002.^[1]

1 History of Ohlone College
2 Environmental factors
3 Notes
4 External links

[edit] History of Ohlone College

"Officially named Ohlone College on June 18, 1967, the institution honors the early Ohlone Indians of the Costanoan tribe, who inhabited the Fremont and Newark area. Long before the local Indians were named Costanoans by the Spanish priests, they were known by a neighboring Miwuk tribe as the Ohlones or “people of the West.” Distinguished by peaceful pursuits, especially in agriculture, they held profound reverence for the earth, believing it was theirs for living and not for the taking. They aided the Franciscan Fathers in building Mission San José in the late 18th century and prospered until 1806-33 when a series of epidemics virtually destroyed the tribe."^[2]

The Fremont-Newark Junior College District was formed in 1965 following voter approval. Ohlone College opened at Serra Center in 1967, with construction of the Fremont campus following in 1972.^[3] The district was first renamed Fremont-Newark Community College District, then Ohlone Community College District.^[4]

Many Fremont students have dubbed Ohlone College as, "Harvard on the hill", "All Lost Hope", "UC Ohlone", "OU (Ohlone University)", “FIT (Fremont Institute of Technology)", or "UC Fremont", as many Ohlone students continue on to schools in the University of California system as junior transfers.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Environmental factors

The gymnasium was analyzed in 1989 and found to contain asbestos fibers; in addition acoustical reverberation analysis was conducted at that time.^[5] These analyses led to the replacement of the gymnasium ceiling with asbestos free material that offered higher acoustical absorption to mitigate the previous reverberation issue.