as Special Trustee to help the Compton Community College District achieve fiscal stability and integrity. In May 2004, the state installed Arthur Tyler Jr. In 2004 the college began experiencing significant turmoil caused by a "corrupt board and financial insolvency". Loss of accreditation Fall Demographics of student body Ethnic Breakdown Williams as Interim President/Superintendent and in January 1997 made this appointment permanent. The second major demographic shift occurred in the 1990s, making the campus population 46% African-American and 46% Hispanic (3% White, Non-Hispanic 3% APISA 2% other). The 1980s was a period of reduced funding and partial retrenchment for the institution, but by the early 1990s the college had once again stabilized. Child Development Center (named after him in 1995). Highlights of his 14-year administration included the construction of the first two new campus buildings since 1952: the Jane Astredo Allied Health Building and the Abel B. In 1970, the Board of Trustees appointed the institution's first African-American President/Superintendent, Abel B. As a result, it has sometimes been called "California’s historically black college." In the 1960s, the composition of the student body changed dramatically from predominantly Caucasian to overwhelmingly African-American. Classes began on the new campus in the fall of 1953. The new college campus was then constructed at the college's present site, 1111 East Artesia Boulevard. In 1950, voters approved a bond issue separating the college from the high school district. In the 1940s, several thousand Compton College students entered the armed forces, and during World War II the campus housed a military unit and a defense plant. The campus was devastated by the 1933 Long Beach earthquake, leaving two buildings standing. From 1932 to 1949, it operated as a four-year junior college, incorporating the last two years of high school as well as the first two years of college. Statue of Apollo The Archer on the Compton College campus.Ĭompton Community College was established in 1927 as a component of the Compton Union High School District.
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