School of the Desert

School of the Desert 



School of the Desert (COD) is an open two-year junior college situated in Palm Desert in the Coachella Valley of Riverside County, California. The present COD enlistment is around 10,200 understudies, of which around 33% go to school full-time.

COD is recognized as the home of the Energy Technology Training Center, a broadly perceived pioneer in option fuel preparing, and a model for nine other junior college option fuel preparing projects all through California. The school was additionally perceived as a Hispanic-serving organization (HSI) in 2000, for which it got a $1.8 million government stipend to empower it to keep serving the Coachella Valley's 51% Hispanic populace.

Courses at the school address a nearby requirement for representatives in the cordiality, restorative and farming commercial enterprises, and COD offers A.A. degrees and testament programs in culinary administration, nursing, turf administration, open wellbeing and horticulture and in addition in novel employments, for example, transportation innovation and advanced outline. Understudies wanting to finish a college degree are additionally arranged at COD for exchange to different organizations, and admission to the branch grounds of the University of California Riverside in Indian Wells and Cal State San Bernardino in Palm Desert is encouraged for COD understudies.

School of the Desert was set up in 1958 following 10 years of getting ready for a lesser school locale in the Coachella Valley. Voters endorsed the arrangement of the region and subsidized the building of the COD grounds with a bond issue. In 1962 the new school opened on its 160-section of land (65 ha) site in Palm Desert, and in 1966 it picked up accreditation.

From that point forward, liberal neighborhood sponsors have empowered the development of the grounds, with the Jeane and Justin Hilb understudy focus and the Carol L. Meier Lecture Hall opening in 1998, and Bob and his wife "Mike" Pollock subsidizing the production of the COD grounds' Theater One in 1999. The Marks Center for the Arts was assembled from the liberality of Don and Peggy Cravens, Bob and Barbara Leberman, and the COD Alumni Association in 2003. Their generous backing has allowed COD to further redesign and grow its crafts offices into 2006 and past. School of the Desert's library building, opened in 1996, is interesting in California as the stand out that is imparted by a school to both a city (Palm Desert) and an area (Riverside) library.

From 1966 to 1999, inhabitants in the high betray toward the north of the Coachella Valley were likewise a portion of the junior college locale. Their associated Copper Mountain Campus in Twentynine Palms was opened in 1984 and stayed with the area until 1999, when it was renamed Copper Mountain College and turned into a free region.

In 2001 the Eastern Valley Center opened to address a requirement for more English and ethnic studies classes, for example, Mexican American Culture and Intro to African American Literature, and additionally for a grounds situated in the eastern Coachella Valley's horticultural and gambling club gaming hall. More than 1,400 understudies are selected in the Eastern Valley Center situated in Indio.