About Shasta College
History and
Campus Facts
In the
Centennial year of California and Shasta County (1950), Shasta College
opened its first campus. As
part of the state’s Centennial celebration, President Harry S. Truman
spoke at the college’s Thompson Field.
There were 26 original faculty members.
The campus
is located on 337 acres, and is referred to as the Stillwater campus
because it is bordered by Stillwater Creek on the East Side.
The District also owns an additional 350 acres in Bella Vista.
The District encompasses the counties of Shasta, Tehama, and Trinity,
and small portions of Lassen, Modoc, and Humboldt counties as well.
The District covers approximately 10,000 square miles, which
is larger than the state of Massachusetts.
The District operates extended education sites in Anderson, Burney,
McArthur, Corning, Hayfork, Los Molinos, Red Bluff, the Redding Rancheria,
and Weaverville.
The college
has a childcare center, residence halls, its own waste water treatment
facility, a park, a horse arena, an Olympic-sized swimming pool, an
Olympic-sized diving pool, and a fire station, which serves the
surrounding area. The campus
includes wooded groves –including a redwood memorial grove--ponds,
nature trails, two streams, a Christmas Tree farm, and a 150-acre farm.
There is also a man-made waterfall made of lava rock from Hat
Creek, designed by The Shasta College Art Department.
Shasta College was one of the first community colleges to possess a
Carillon, which dates back to 1968. It
plays on the hour from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. daily.
The Department of Justice uses a small corner of the Shasta College
campus for their State of California Crime Laboratory.
Its principle task is the examination and interpretation of
physical evidence from crime scenes.
The campus
also has a museum that is a replica of Major Reading’s adobe home--the
first white settler in Shasta County.
Most of the museum’s artifacts were donated or obtained by local
people. The Shasta College campus was originally a fur and trading
center of the Wintu Indians, later owned by a soldier and his family after
the Mexican-American War. Archaeology
students have found numerous artifacts on campus including a 150-year-old
Indian village, a 2000-year-old arrowhead, and even the lower jaw of a
Pliomastodon (ancient relative to the elephant).
Shasta
College is part of the California Community College system, which is the
largest system of higher education in the world, with 107 colleges
organized into 72 districts, serving nearly 1.4 million students.
Students who receive an associate degree earn 66% higher wages
after three years on the job. The college has articulation agreements to facilitate transfer to
the University of California and California State University systems, and
many private college campuses.
The Shasta
College mascot is the Knight. In
1955, the Shasta College club, the Motor Knights, built the suit of armor
and lance. His name is
“Oakey Doaks” (named for a cartoon character of the time) and he has a
very colorful history of being stolen and physically altered in many
ways. Read more colorful history about this brave knight. "Oakey
Doaks"
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