San Joaquin Delta College
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{{Short description|Public community college in Stockton, California}}
{{Infobox university
| name = San Joaquin Delta College
| former_names = Stockton Junior College
(1935–1948)
Stockton College
(1948–1963)
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| image = San_Joaquin_Delta_College_logo.jpg
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| established = {{start date and age|1935}}
| type = Public community college
| budget = $107.8 million {{small|(2020–21)}}{{Cite web|url=https://sanjoaquindeltacollege.app.box.com/s/6mgzeneqay45bzq89shpi6i7itrqg6zx/file/825839096051|title = Box}}
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| accreditation = ACCJC
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| faculty = 217 (full-time)
409 (part-time){{cite web |url=https://datamart.cccco.edu/Faculty-Staff/Staff_Demo.aspx |title=California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office - Data Mart |website=datamart.cccco.edu |access-date=October 7, 2021}}
| students = 18,536 {{small|(2020–21)}}{{cite web|url=https://datamart.cccco.edu/Students/Enrollment_Status.aspx|title=California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office - Data Mart|publisher=State of California|website=datamart.cccco.edu|access-date=October 7, 2021}}
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| city = Stockton, California
| country = U.S.
| coordinates = {{Coord|37.995|-121.317|region:US-CA_type:edu|display=title,inline}}
| campus = {{convert|175|acre|ha}}
| free_label = Newspaper
| colors = {{color box|F9C623}} {{color box|101010}} Black & gold
|athletics_affiliations = California Community College Athletic Association (CCCAA) – Big 8 Conference
|sports_nickname = Mustangs
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| website = {{url|www.deltacollege.edu}}
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San Joaquin Delta College (Delta College) is a public community college in Stockton, California. It was founded in 1935 as Stockton Junior College.{{cite web |url=https://www.deltacollege.edu/about/history-delta-college |title=The History of Delta College |date=15 April 2018 |publisher=San Joaquin Delta College |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200113051038/https://www.deltacollege.edu/about/history-delta-college |archive-date=2020-01-13}} The college serves a district area that includes all of San Joaquin County and parts of Alameda, Calaveras, Sacramento, and Solano counties.{{cite web|url=https://www.deltacollege.edu/sites/default/files/documents/imported/sjdccdfactsheet201415final.pdf|title=San Joaquin Delta College Fact Sheet|publisher=San Joaquin Delta College|website=deltacollege.edu/|access-date=October 7, 2021}}
History
Stockton Junior College began as a division of the College of the Pacific in 1935. It changed its name to Stockton College in 1948. In 1963, it became a separate community college district and changed its name to San Joaquin Delta College.{{cite book | last=Isetti | first=Ronald Eugene | title=Competing voices : a critical history of Stockton, California | publisher=Outskirts Press | publication-place=[Denver, Colorado] | date=2019 | isbn=978-1-9772-1483-6 | oclc=1119604979 | pages=451–452}}
Delta College moved to a new 165-acre campus in 1972, and its previous campus reverted to the University of the Pacific.{{r|isetti}}
Academics
The college provides Associate of Arts degree programs as well as certificates.{{cite web |url=https://deltacollege.edu/academics/courses-programs/certificate-programs |title=Certificate Programs |date=2017-08-03 |publisher=San Joaquin Delta College |access-date=2020-01-13}} While the college's main campus is in Stockton, the college typically serves about 24,000 students each year from a geographic area larger than the states of Rhode Island and Delaware.
=Mountain House satellite campus=
In August 2009, Delta College opened a satellite campus 30 miles away in Mountain House. Known more commonly as the South Campus, it consists of 24 portable buildings, most of which serve as classrooms, as well as an administrative building and a student lounge. Mountain House also houses the Cisco Networking Academy.{{cite web|url=https://deltacollege.edu/academics/online-regional-education/south-campus-mountain-house|title=South Campus at Mountain House|publisher=San Joaquin Delta College|website=deltacollege.edu/|date=18 September 2017 |access-date=March 17, 2022}}
Administration
Lisa Aguilera Lawrenson is Delta's 12th and current president/superintendent, chosen by the board of trustees in May 2022.{{Cite web |url=https://www.lodinews.com/news/article_ce7c9946-d192-11ec-a399-df2034c97ac5.html |title=Delta College stays in house, selects Lawrenson to be next superintendent |date=May 12, 2022 |publisher=Lodi News |access-date=2022-08-17}} She served as the college's acting superintendent/president for seven months following Omid Pourzanjani's abrupt resignation in September 2021{{Cite web |url=https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/stockton/san-joaquin-delta-college-superintendent/103-cc13c5a5-947d-4817-9f75-fc0314cc7547 |title=San Joaquin Delta College superintendent resigns |date=September 28, 2021 |publisher=ABC 10 News |access-date=2021-10-07}} and is the first Latina and woman of color to serve in this role.{{Cite web |url=https://www.deltacollege.edu/article/dr-lisa-aguilera-lawrenson-chosen-delta-college%E2%80%99s-12th-superintendent-president |title=Dr. Lisa Aguilera Lawrenson chosen as Delta College's 12th superintendent/ president |date=May 10, 2022 |publisher=Delta College |access-date=2022-08-17}}
=Past presidents=
Omid Pourzanjani served for two years as president from August 2019 to September 2021.{{cite news |last=Filipas |first=Nicholas |date=September 25, 2019 |title=Kathy Hart leaves pioneering legacy after quarter-century of service at Delta College |url=https://www.recordnet.com/news/20190925/kathy-hart-leaves-pioneering-legacy-after-quarter-century-of-service-at-delta-college |work=The Record |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201025032839/https://www.recordnet.com/news/20190925/kathy-hart-leaves-pioneering-legacy-after-quarter-century-of-service-at-delta-college |archive-date=2020-10-25}} On September 28, 2021, tensions between Pourzanjani and the board of trustees led to his abrupt resignation.{{Cite web |url=https://www.recordnet.com/story/news/local/2021/10/02/tension-between-pourzanjani-delta-college-board-contribued-departure/5935586001/ |title=Tension with San Joaquin Delta College board contributed to Pourzanjani's resignation |date=October 2, 2021 |publisher=The Record |access-date=2021-10-07}}
Kathleen Hart served as president from 2012 until her retirement in 2019. She led the college to successful reaccreditation in 2014.{{Cite web |url=https://deltacollege.edu/article/delta-college-president-kathy-hart-retire-september |title=Delta College President Kathy Hart to retire in September |date=January 8, 2019 |publisher=San Joaquin Delta College |access-date=2020-01-13}}
Jeffrey Marsee was the president at College of the Redwoods in Eureka, California for three years before coming to Delta. By January 2012, the faculty had conducted a vote of "no confidence" against Marsee.{{cite news |last=Breitler |first=Alex |date=January 31, 2012 |url=https://www.recordnet.com/article/20120131/A_NEWS/201310319 |title=Delta College president gets 'no confidence' staff vote |work=The Record |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224114606/https://www.recordnet.com/article/20120131/A_NEWS/201310319 |archive-date=2021-02-24}} Eventually, Marsee was placed on leave in February, officially tendered his resignation, and college trustees voted to release him from his contract on March 2, 2012.{{cite press release |date=March 2, 2012 |title=Delta College Releases Dr. Jeff Marsee |url=https://archive.deltacollege.edu/dept/publicinfo/prel/2012/DeltaReleasesJeffMarsee.html |type=Press release |publisher=San Joaquin Delta College |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120528164057/http://www.deltacollege.edu/dept/publicinfo/prel/2012/DeltaReleasesJeffMarsee.html |archive-date=2012-05-28}}{{cite news |last=Luery |first=Mike |date=March 6, 2012 |title=On The Money: College President Paid To Stay Away From Campus |url=https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2012/03/06/on-the-money-college-president-paid-to-stay-away-from-campus/ |work=CBS Sacramento |publisher=KOVR |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151218111842/https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2012/03/06/on-the-money-college-president-paid-to-stay-away-from-campus/ |archive-date=2015-12-18}} Marsee had been a very controversial figure at Redwoods as well, and was noted as having a history of causing campus turmoil.{{cite news |last=Breitler |first=Alex |date=February 19, 2012 |url=https://www.recordnet.com/article/20120219/A_NEWS/202190324 |title=Delta ignored warning signs |work=The Record |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200103111732/https://www.recordnet.com/article/20120219/A_NEWS/202190324 |archive-date=2020-01-03}}
Susan Cota, the former chancellor of the Chabot–Las Positas Community College District, served as Interim President from August 2010 to May 2011.{{Cite web |url=https://www.lodinews.com/news/article_0d2ed380-8810-5080-8483-d163324d4645.html |title=Susan Cota dives in during first two days as Delta College's interim president}}
Raul Rodriguez served as president from July 2002 to August 2010. He left to become the chancellor of the Rancho Santiago Community College District in Santa Ana.{{Cite web |url=https://archive.deltacollege.edu/dept/publicinfo/prel/2010/DrSusanCota_interim.html |title=San Joaquin Delta College hires Dr. Susan Cota as Interim Superintendent/President}}
Ed Gould served as president from February 2000 to December 2001.{{Cite web |url=https://www.recordnet.com/story/news/1999/12/16/ready-for-delta-college/50804586007/ |title=Ready for Delta College}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.lodinews.com/article_b1cdead4-541c-5a86-9b85-a3ba29d90d81.html |title=Delta College selects new president}}
Arts
The Stockton Campus is home to two performance venues, the 393-seat Tillie Lewis Theater and the larger 1,428-seat Warren Atherton Auditorium where concerts are hosted.{{Cite web|url=https://deltacollege.edu/student-life/delta-center-arts/rental-information/|title = Delta Center for the Arts| date=11 December 2017 }} Notable musical events held in the Atherton include the Delta Jazz Festival and the Choral Festival, both held annually since 1998 and 2011, respectively.{{Cite web|url=https://archive.deltacollege.edu/dept/publicinfo/prel/2006/prereljazzfestival.html/|title = Delta College to Present Ninth Annual Invitational Jazz Festival}}{{cite web|url=http://deltacollegian.net/2011/02/24/delta-hosts-inaugural-choral-festival/|title=Delta hosts inaugural choral festival|publisher=Delta Collegian|website=deltacollegian.net/|date=24 February 2011 |access-date=March 18, 2022}} The Stockton Symphony also houses all of its performances at the Atherton Auditorium.{{Cite web|url=https://stocktonsymphony.org//|title = Stockton Symphony}}
The Visual Arts Department displays exhibits in the LH Horton Jr Gallery on campus. Six exhibitions are presented annually: three juried exhibitions (ceramics, painting & sculpture, and photography), biennial faculty and alumni shows, a thematic small group show, and an annual student art show.{{Cite web|url=https://www.deltacollege.edu/department/horton-art-gallery/|title = LH Horton Jr Art Gallery| date=20 February 2018 }} Gallery admission is free and open to the public.
Athletics
San Joaquin Delta fields 13 sports across ten men's and ten women's teams,{{Cite web|url=https://www.deltacollegeathletics.com/landing/index|title = Delta College Mustangs Athletics}} competing in the CCCAA as members of the Big 8 Conference. Baseball is their most successful sport to date, with three State Championship titles in 1959, 2011, and 2018.{{Cite web|url=https://www.deltacollegeathletics.com/sports/bsb/DELTA_COLLEGE_BASEBALL_Tradition_of_Excellence.pdf|title = Delta College Baseball History}}
=Baseball=
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Pat Doyle was head baseball coach from 1976 to 2006 after a short career as a minor leaguer in the Boston Red Sox organization in 1966–67.{{cite web |url=https://www.mister-baseball.com/meet-speakers-dbvisg-convention-2014-pat-doyle-usa/ |title=Meet the Speakers of the DBV/ISG Convention 2014: Pat Doyle (USA) |author= |date=November 26, 2013 |website=Mister Baseball |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200103110536/https://www.mister-baseball.com/meet-speakers-dbvisg-convention-2014-pat-doyle-usa/ |archive-date=2020-01-03}} He later was global coordinator for Major League Baseball's envoy program, coached the Anchorage Glacier Pilots in 1990 and 1991, coached Team USA in the 1994 Baseball World Cup, managed the British national team in the 2010 European Championship, and guided Team Israel in the 2011 European Championship Qualifiers. He is a member of the Stockton Athletic Hall of Fame, the Lodi Athletic Hall of Fame, and the California Community College Baseball Coaches Association (CCCBCA) Hall of Fame.{{cite press release |date=February 3, 2017 |title=Delta College Foundation adds three new members for 2017 |url=https://archive.deltacollege.edu/dept/publicinfo/prel/2017/NewFoundationMembers.html |type=Press release |publisher=San Joaquin Delta College |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170308135340/https://www.deltacollege.edu/dept/publicinfo/prel/2017/NewFoundationMembers.html |archive-date=2017-03-08}} He is a former president of the CCCBCA, which established the Doyle Scholarship in his honor.{{cite web |url=https://www.cccbca.com/information/2013_Pat_Doyle_Sholarship |title=2013 Pat Doyle {{sic|Sholar|ship|hide=y}} |year=2013 |website= |series= |publisher=California Community College Baseball Coaches Association |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200103105902/https://www.cccbca.com/information/2013_Pat_Doyle_Sholarship |archive-date=2020-01-03}}
Reed Peters took over as head baseball coach in 2008 and has established the Mustangs as one of the top-performing baseball programs in the state.{{cite web|url=https://www.deltacollegeathletics.com/sports/bsb/coaches/peters_reed?view=bio|title=Reed Peters, Delta College Athletics|publisher=San Joaquin Delta College|website=deltacollegeathletics.com/|access-date=March 17, 2022}} In his fourteen seasons as head coach, the Mustangs have reached the CCCAA Elite Eight nine times and the Final Four seven times, with two State Championship wins in 2011 and 2018.{{cite web|url=https://www.deltacollege.edu/article/it-wasnt-easy-mustangs-bring-home-championship|title=It wasn't easy, but Mustangs bring home championship|publisher=San Joaquin Delta College|website=deltacollege.edu/|date=30 May 2018 |access-date=March 17, 2022}} They were also State Runner-up in 2009, 2014, and 2015.{{cite web|url=https://www.deltacollegeathletics.com/sports/bsb/DELTA_COLLEGE_BASEBALL_Tradition_of_Excellence.pdf|title=Delta Baseball, program history|publisher=San Joaquin Delta College|website=deltacollegeathletics.com/|access-date=March 17, 2022}} Since 2008, 27 Delta baseball alumni have gone on to play professionally in Major League Baseball.{{cite web|url=https://www.deltacollegeathletics.com/sports/bsb/Professional_Players_since_2008.pdf|title=Delta Professional Players since 2008|publisher=San Joaquin Delta College|website=deltacollegeathletics.com/|access-date=March 17, 2022}} Reed Peters has been named Northern California Coach of the year twice and the ABCA National Coach of the Year in 2018.{{cite web|url=https://www.abca.org/ABCA/Awards/Coaches_of_the_Year/2018.aspx|title=2018 ABCA/Diamond Regional & National Coaches of the Year announced|publisher=American Baseball Coaches Association|website=abca.org/|access-date=March 17, 2022}}
=Women's basketball=
San Joaquin Delta's women's basketball has also seen consistent success at the state level. Under head coach Gina Johnson, the Lady Mustangs have reached the CCCAA Elite Eight 14 times, the Final Four eight times, and the Championship game three times.{{cite web|url=https://www.deltacollegeathletics.com/sports/wbkb/coaches/johnson_gina?view=bio|title=Gina Johnson, Delta Women's Basketball|publisher=San Joaquin Delta College|website=deltacollegeathletics.com/|access-date=March 17, 2022}} On March 13, 2022, the Mustangs reached the CCCAA State Championship game for the third time after overcoming a 17-point deficit with less than seven minutes remaining in the semi-final match against Irvine Valley College.{{cite journal|url=https://www.cccaasports.org/sports/wbkb/2021-22/Releases/20220312nvw59f|title=Fourth-quarter comeback sends Delta to CCCAA State Women's Basketball Final|publisher=California Community College Athletic Association|website=cccaasports.org/|date=12 March 2022 |access-date=March 17, 2022}} They eventually lost the championship title game, 76–71, to neighboring Big 8 rival Sierra College.{{cite web|url=https://www.recordnet.com/story/sports/2022/03/14/delta-college-mustangs-lose-cccaa-title-bid-to-sierra-college-wolverines-womens-basketball/7041501001/|title=Delta College women's basketball team loses title bid to Sierra College Wolverines|publisher=Stockton Record|website=recordnet.com/|access-date=March 17, 2022}}
Media
- 93.5 FM, KWDC, Delta College Radio (24/7 student and faculty programming){{Cite web|url=https://www.kwdc.fm/|title = KWDC FM}}
- The Collegian, Delta College Newspaper{{Cite web|url=http://deltacollegian.net/|title = The Collegian}}
- DCTV on Demand, Digital Media Library{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/user/DCTVonDemand/videos/|title = San Joaquin Delta College Digital Media| website=YouTube }}
Notable alumni
- Scott Brooks (born 1965) – professional basketball coach, currently head coach of the Washington Wizards, and former professional basketball player
- Phil Coke (born 1982) — MLB pitcher for the Detroit Tigers{{cite web |url=https://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=cokeph01 |title= Phil Coke Stats |publisher=Baseball Almanac |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200103110410/https://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=cokeph01 |archive-date=2020-01-03}}
- Viola Frey (1933–2004) — artist{{cite web |url=https://www.violafrey.org/chronology.html |title=Chronology |website=Viola Frey |publisher=Artists' Legacy Foundation |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201024204324/https://www.violafrey.org/chronology.html |archive-date=2020-10-24}}
- Robert Gaughran (born 1935) – member of the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame{{cite web |url=https://usawaterpolo.org/hof.aspx?hof=121 |title=Robert Gaughran (1992) |website=Hall of Fame Inductees |publisher=USA Water Polo |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224120243/https://usawaterpolo.org/hof.aspx?hof=121 |archive-date=2021-02-24}}
- Bob Heinz (born 1947) — former NFL football player for the Miami Dolphins and Washington Redskins{{cite news |last=Highfill |first=Bob |date=January 30, 2016 |title=Area ties that bind: SJ's Super Bowl legacy |url=https://www.recordnet.com/article/20160130/NEWS/160139973 |work=The Record |at=Long list of local ties |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224142342/https://www.recordnet.com/article/20160130/NEWS/160139973 |archive-date=2021-02-24 |quote=Bob Heinz, who went to Lincoln High and San Joaquin Delta College before he went to Pacific and became a member of the Miami Dolphins’ back-to-back Super Bowl title teams in 1972 and 1973.}}
- Dolores Huerta (born 1930) — labor leader and civil rights activist{{cite web |url=https://www.cccco.edu/About-Us/Notable-Alumni/Dolores-Huerta |title=Dolores Huerta |website=Notable Alumni |publisher=California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200930100805/https://www.cccco.edu/About-Us/Notable-Alumni/Dolores-Huerta |archive-date=2020-09-30}}
- Chris Isaak (born 1956) — rock musician and occasional actor
- Dean Kremer (born 1996) – Israeli-American baseball starting pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles
- John Nisby (1936–2011) — former NFL guard with Pittsburgh Steelers and Washington Redskins{{cite web |url=https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/stockton-ca/john-nisby-4548414 |title=John E. Nisby, September 9, 1936 – February 6, 2011 |year=2011 |publisher=Dignity Memorial |type=Obituary }}
- Patrick Edward Purdy (1964 – 1989) — shooter at the 1989 Cleveland Elementary School shooting (Stockton)
- Bill Sandeman (born 1942) — former NFL football player for the Atlanta Falcons{{cite news |last=Timms |first=Leslie |date=July 22, 1972 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1876&dat=19720722&id=aHEsAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1MsEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5520,3737029 |title=From Swimmer To Footballer |work=Spartanburg Herald-Journal |access-date=24 February 2021 |via=Google News Archive}}
- Norman D. Shumway (1934-2022) — former U.S. Representative from California{{CongBio|id=S000393|name=Norman David Shumway|date=2021-02-24|inline=YES}}
- Joel Stallworth (born 1983) — American sprinter, 2008 World Indoor track and field champion
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.deltacollege.edu/}}
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