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Bakersfield College

{{Short description|Community college in Bakersfield, California}}

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| name = Bakersfield College

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| image = Bakersfield college seal.png

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| established = {{start date and age|1913}}

| type = Public community college

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| president = Jerry Fliger{{cite web|title=Bakersfield College's newest president selected after exhaustive national search|url=https://www.bakersfield.com/news/bakersfield-colleges-newest-president-selected-after-exhaustive-national-search/article_7ecb9c5e-a41c-11ee-a71a-dbcea9e0862a.html|date=Feb 2024}}

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| chancellor = Steven Bloomberg{{cite web|title=KCCD board taps educator with Kern ties to be next chancellor|url=https://www.bakersfield.com/news/kccd-board-taps-educator-with-kern-ties-to-be-next-chancellor/article_6480f61c-962c-11ee-9400-53204c0ce96a.html|date=Feb 2024}}

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| students = 27,800{{cite web|title=California Community College Chancellors Office|publisher=CA.gov|url=https://datamart.cccco.edu/Students/Student_Term_Annual_Count.aspx}}

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| city = Bakersfield

| state = California

| country = United States

| campus = Suburban, {{convert|153|acre|ha}}

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| colors = Red and white

| mascot = Knight

| athletics_affiliations = CCCAA – WSC,
SCFA (football),
SCWA (wrestling)

| sports_nickname = Renegades

| parent = Kern Community College District

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| website = {{url|https://www.bakersfieldcollege.edu/|bakersfieldcollege.edu}}

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Bakersfield College (BC) is a public community college in Bakersfield, California. BC serves about 27,800 students each semester or 31,000 annually, and offers associate degrees, certificate programs, and is one of fifteen California Community Colleges offering a baccalaureate degree. It is part of the Kern Community College District (KCCD), which is itself part of the California Community Colleges system.

History

Founded in 1913 as Bakersfield Junior College, the school was initially housed on the campus of Bakersfield High School (then Kern County Union High School). In 1947, the school dropped "Junior" from its name.{{citation |title=Acquisitions |date=Spring 2017 |work=The Bakersfield College Archives Newsletter |volume=16 |issue=1 |page=9 |url=http://www2.bc.cc.ca.us/bcarchive/content/03/V/04/a/(02)/N03-V-04-a-(02)--V16-1.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181122131848/http://www2.bc.cc.ca.us/bcarchive/content/03/V/04/a/(02)/N03-V-04-a-(02)--V16-1.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 22, 2018 |publisher=Bakersfield College}} In 1956, Bakersfield College moved to its current location "on the hill" in northeast Bakersfield on the "Panorama Bluffs" that overlook the prolific Kern River Oil Field.{{cite web|last=Hooper|first=Ken|url=https://www.bakersfield.com/bakersfield_life/history-growing-up-and-headed-for-college/article_85ee05f8-c53a-52e5-9374-79cb3158453b.html|title= History: Growing up and headed for college |work=The Bakersfield Californian|date=July 28, 2013|access-date=November 21, 2018}}{{cite web|url=https://www.bakersfield.com/bakersfield_life/bakersfield-college-centennial-years-of-higher-education/article_87b99d70-e468-519c-949e-019fa1329ad4.html|title= Bakersfield College Centennial: 100 years of higher education |last=Claffy|first=Emily|work=The Bakersfield Californian|date=July 26, 2013|access-date=November 21, 2018}}

Campus

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The main campus is located on a {{convert|153|acre|ha|adj=on}} plot in Northeast Bakersfield, and it also operates three satellite campuses: the Weill Institute in downtown Bakersfield, shared by the Kern Community College District, the SouthWest Campus also located in Bakersfield, and the Delano Campus in Delano, approximately {{convert|35|mi|km}} north of Bakersfield.

Organization and administration

BC is part of the Kern Community College District (KCCD).

Academics

BC serves about 25,000 students each semester.{{Cite web |title=California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office - Data Mart |url=https://datamart.cccco.edu/Students/Student_Term_Annual_Count.aspx |access-date=2023-02-17 |website=datamart.cccco.edu}}

Student life

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|+ Fall Demographics of student body

! Ethnic Breakdown

2022
Hispanic and Latino American

| 72%

African American

| 5%

Asian American

| 5%

American Indian

| 0%

White

| 15%

Multiethnic Americans

| 3%

International students

| 0%

Unknown

| 0%

Female

| 56%

Male

| 42%

Unknown

|2%

= Newspaper =

The Renegade Rip is the student newspaper of Bakersfield College. In publication since 1929,{{cite news |last1=Garcia |first1=Olivia |date=March 2, 2014 |title=BC student newspaper to hold reunion May 10 |url=http://www.bakersfieldcalifornian.com/columnists/olivia-garcia/x1910328136/OLIVIA-GARCIA-BC-student-newspaper-to-hold-reunion-May-10 |accessdate=September 20, 2014 |publisher=Bakersfield Californian}} The Rip covers campus news as well as major events off campus. The Renegade Rip won Associated Collegiate Press National Pacesetter Awards in 2003 and 2008.{{cite news |date=April 25, 2003 |title='Gade Newsline |url=http://www.therip.com/campus/2003/04/25/gade-newsline-7/ |accessdate=September 20, 2014 |work=The Renegade Rip |publisher=Bakersfield College}}{{cite news |date=April 9, 2008 |title=Rip staff earns Pacesetter Award |url=http://www.therip.com/campus/2008/04/09/rip-staff-earns-pacesetter-award/ |accessdate=September 20, 2014 |publisher=Bakersfield College}}

=Performing arts=

The Renegade Pep Band supports the college's athletic teams.

Golden Empire Performing Arts is a non-profit 501(c)(3) account of the Bakersfield College Foundation that supports the Bakersfield College Drumline and the Golden Empire Drum and Bugle Corps.{{Cite web|url=http://www.geperformingarts.org/|title=Golden Empire Performing Arts|website=Golden Empire Performing Arts|access-date=2017-09-28}}

Athletics

{{main|Bakersfield Renegades}}

The college's athletic teams are known as the Renegades ('Gades). The team competes as a member of the California Community College Athletic Association (CCCAA) in the Western State Conference (WSC) for all sports except football and wrestling, which compete in Southern California Football Association (SCFA) and Southern California Wrestling Association (SCWA).{{cite web |title=2019-20 CCCAA Directory |url=https://cccaa.prestosports.com/about/directory/2019-20/Directory040620.pdf |publisher=California Community College Athletic Association |access-date=15 April 2020}} The college has an extensive athletics program with 20 varsity teams, including men's and women's basketball, men's and women's cross country, men's and women's golf, football, soccer, volleyball, wrestling, baseball, softball, men's and women's tennis, men's and women's track and field, and men's and women's swimming.

Renegades football has a long tradition of success in Junior College-level competition, and plays out of the 20,000-seat, on-campus Memorial Stadium.[http://www.bakersfieldmagazine.net/arts/bakersfields-sound/350-bakersfield-memorial-stadium- Bakersfield Memorial Stadium] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120424150830/http://www.bakersfieldmagazine.net/arts/bakersfields-sound/350-bakersfield-memorial-stadium- |date=2012-04-24 }}. Bakersfield Magazine. October 2010. Accessed: 11-01-2011.

Notable people

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{{main list|:Category:Bakersfield College alumni}}

References

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  • {{Cite web |last=Goodwin |first=Greg |date=May 2007 |year=2007 |title=Archives Acquires Bill Thomas Papers: The William M. Thomas Special Collection |url=https://files.bakersfieldcollege.edu/archives/newsletters/2007-may-v6-i1.pdf }}

==External links==

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  • {{official website}}
  • [http://gogades.com/landing/index Athletics website]

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Category:1913 establishments in California

Category:California Community Colleges

Category:Education in Bakersfield, California

Category:Universities and colleges established in 1913

Category:Schools accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges

Category:Universities and colleges in Kern County, California

Category:Two-year colleges in the United States