Ellwood P. Cubberley High School (1956–1979), known locally as " Cubberley ", was one of three public high schools in Palo Alto, California . The site of the closed school is now named Cubberley Community Center and used for many diverse activities.
22-566: The Foothill–De Anza Community College District is a community college district headquartered on the grounds of Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, California , United States. The district operates Foothill College and De Anza College in Cupertino . This article on a California institution of higher education is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Santa Clara County, California building and structure-related article
44-805: A 1991 deadline. The collection stayed in storage for twelve years, before being acquired in 2003 by History San José and put on display as The Perham Collection of Early Electronics. Foothill College is accredited by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges . Specific programs at the college are also accredited by the American Veterinary Medical Association, American Dental Association Commission on Dental Accreditation, American Medical Association Council on Medical Education, and Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs. The community college district's headquarters are located in one corner of
66-593: A concrete owl that was a decoration on the Highway School's bell tower; it was later moved to the new campus. The campus was designed by architect Ernest Kump and landscape architects Hideo Sasaki and Peter Walker , to resemble a neo-Japanese garden. The Foothill College was intended as a junior college for 3,500 full-time students, within the 122-acre campus, the first of many junior colleges built after World War II in California. Soon after its completion, Foothill
88-510: A meeting of local school superintendents that led to the creation of Foothill College. Calvin Flint, then President of Monterey Peninsula College , was hired as the first District Superintendent and President; he started work on March 1, 1958. Candidates for the new college's name, besides Foothill, were Peninsula, Junipero Serra, Mid-Peninsula, Earl Warren, Herbert Hoover, North Santa Clara, Altos, Valley, Skyline, Highland, and Intercity. At first
110-451: A museum building on the Foothill campus and donated its collection to the college. The museum opened in 1973, and was initially operated by employees of Foothill College for six years until 1979, just after the passage of Proposition 13 rolled back property taxes and reduced funds to run the college. In response to the funding shortage, volunteers began staffing the museum. However, in 1988,
132-549: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Foothill College Foothill College is a public community college in Los Altos Hills, California . It is part of the Foothill–De Anza Community College District . It was founded on January 15, 1957, and offers 84 Associate degree programs, 2 Bachelor's degree programs, and 124 certificate programs. In July 1956, Palo Alto Unified School District Superintendent Henry M. Gunn called
154-846: Is the Associated Students of Foothill College (ASFC). Student government provides its student body the opportunity to self-govern and participate with faculty, staff, and administration. Five Foothill professors have won the Hayward Award of the Academic Senate of the California Community Colleges, given each year to a faculty member who has a "track record of excellence in both teaching and professional activities". Foothill's winners include Jay Manley, Mike McHargue, Elizabeth Barkley, Andrew Fraknoi , and Scott Lankford. In addition, Frank Cascarano and David Marasco are Fellows of
176-581: The school district to the City of Palo Alto. The Cubberley Cougars competed in the SPAL of the CIF Central Coast Section . The school won its only CCS Championship in track and field in 1979, just days before it would close forever. Cubberley was the scene of The Third Wave experiment by teacher Ron Jones in 1967, which was an elaborate social experiment to better understand fascism . The experiment
198-465: The "Blue Cube" and embedding shards of its skin in walkways. The new center can accommodate more than 1,600 students. The campus serves a very large number of international students who are attempting to acquire associate degrees as the basis for transferring into prestigious American universities; according to a Community College Week survey in 2001, Foothill had the 12th highest population of international students out of all community colleges in
220-669: The American Association of Physics Teachers. Foothill College's Physics Show, started in 2007 by physics professors Frank Cascarano and David Marasco on the model of The Wonders of Physics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison , is one of the largest popular physics presentations in the US, with an annual audience of more than 25,000, with a total attendance of over 200,000. Proceeds from The Physics Show are used to bus students from local Title 1 schools to Foothill for special performances of
242-549: The Foothill campus. The district also administers De Anza College in nearby Cupertino . The college has several divisions: Foothill is a member of the Coast Conference of the California Community College Commission on Athletics and NorCal Football Conference. The school mascot is an owl. The Los Altos Hills campus has a track and field that is open to the public. Foothill's student government
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#1733084750973264-633: The NBA's Denver Nuggets and alumnus of San Jose State University . In 2002, a second campus was opened on the site of the former Cubberley High School in Palo Alto, in facilities leased from the Palo Alto School District. In September 2016, this was replaced by the Sunnyvale Center, which the college built on part of the site of the now closed Onizuka Air Force Station , preserving artefacts from
286-473: The United States. The school was harshly criticized in 2002 by The Wall Street Journal for its aggressive recruitment of such students, since they are a lucrative revenue source who pay a much higher tuition. In 2003, to accommodate nearly 14,000 students on a campus designed for 3,500, the college began renovating almost the entire campus, including demolition and replacement of unsafe buildings. Two of
308-465: The college board of trustees decided to close the museum, sell or donate the assets, and use the space for classrooms. A newly appointed Perham board member, Bart Lee, took on the case and sued Foothill, claiming the college violated an agreement with the Perham Foundation. The foundation was eventually awarded $ 775,000, which they used to document, pack up, and place the collection in storage before
330-574: The first California Community Colleges to offer Domestic Partner benefits. The colleges were among a very small number of institutions of higher education to do so, with Pitzer College and the University of Iowa in 1991 and Stanford and the University of Chicago in 1992. On December 10, 2001, Foothill College abruptly canceled its men's basketball season after completing just six games. Questions arose over how housing and tuition for six international players were being paid by Tariq Abdul-Wahad , then with
352-628: The name was Foothill Junior College, but because Flint insisted that his new college would be "not junior to anyone", the Board dropped the "Junior" in September 1958. Foothill held its first classes in the old Highway School campus on El Camino Real in Mountain View on September 15, 1958. It was accredited by March of the next year and was the first school in the state to ever reach full accreditation in less than six months. The owl mascot originated from
374-591: The new buildings in the lower campus complex have green roofs topped with grass. Between 1973 and 1991, an electronics museum stood on the Foothill College campus. The museum was established with the help of the Douglas Perham Electronic Foundation, which wanted a permanent home for its extensive electronics collection, including papers of the inventor of the vacuum tube amplifier, Lee de Forest . The foundation raised money to construct
396-698: The show. Ellwood P. Cubberley High School Opened in 1956, Cubberley High was located at 4000 Middlefield Road. The high school was named after Ellwood Patterson Cubberley , the Dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Education and pioneer of educational administration. The school was finally closed in 1979 as a reaction to declining enrollment and decreased revenues following Proposition 13 . The other local high schools Gunn High School and Palo Alto High School had been created on friendly land transfers from Stanford University and if educational use
418-485: The use of the Cubberley location has been subject to local community debate. According to local news in 2011, enrollment projections done by Palo Alto Unified School District suggested Cubberley may need to be reopened as a fourth middle school by 2015 and ultimately be reopened as a third high school by 2021. However these plans were delayed by the city, and the city and the school district have been in discussions. This
440-400: Was later portrayed in a film and television. A KQED special program from 1970 features a three-day teaching conference at Cubberley High School that focused on ecology and population issues. Numerous societal tensions played out at Cubberley from 1967 to 1969 that were the subject of Sylvia Berry Williams' 1970 book Hassling, which gave the school national attention. For many years
462-514: Was to be terminated, the land would revert to the university for the value at the time of transfer. The Palo Alto Unified School District board, requiring an infusion of cash , determined Cubberley could be sold at more contemporary rates. Later it was discovered that it could only be sold to a non-profit organization . That has resulted in part of the campus being converted into the Cubberley Community Center , on an annual lease from
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#1733084750973484-472: Was widely recognized as a pioneer, setting high standards for new campus design. Traditionally, Foothill serves the communities of Los Altos Hills , Los Altos , Mountain View, and Palo Alto ; together these communities form the northwest corner of Silicon Valley . The college sits next to Interstate 280 , at the interchange with El Monte Road. In 1993, Foothill and its sister school De Anza College became
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