10 Facts About Foothill College

Foothill College is a public community college in Los Altos Hills, California.

Calvin Flint, then President of Monterey Peninsula Foothill College, was hired as the first District Superintendent and President; he started work on March 1, 1958.

Foothill College held its first classes in the old Highway School campus on El Camino Real in Mountain View on September 15, 1958.

The Foothill College was intended as a junior college for 3, 500 full-time students, within the 122-acre campus, the first of many junior colleges built after World War II in California.

Traditionally, Foothill College serves the communities of Los Altos Hills, Los Altos, Mountain View, and Palo Alto; together these communities form the northwest corner of Silicon Valley.

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On December 10, 2001, Foothill College abruptly canceled its men's basketball season after completing just six games.

Foothill College is accredited by the American Veterinary Medical Association, American Dental Association Commission on Dental Accreditation, American Medical Association Council on Medical Education, and Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs.

Five Foothill professors have won the Hayward Award of the Academic Senate of the California Community Colleges, given each year to a faculty member who has a "track record of excellence in both teaching and professional activities".

Foothill College's winners include Jay Manley, Mike McHargue, Elizabeth Barkley, Andrew Fraknoi, and Scott Lankford.

Foothill College's Physics Show, started in 2007 by physics professors Frank Cascarano and David Marasco on the model of The Wonders of Physics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is one of the largest popular physics presentations in the US, with an annual audience of more than 25, 000, with a total attendance of over 150, 000.