Website: www.glendale.edu
Apply for admission: www.glendale.edu/apply
Find parking and campus maps at www.glendale.edu/parking
Glendale Community College serves a diverse population of students by providing the opportunities and support to achieve their educational and career goals. We are committed to student learning and success through transfer preparation, certificates, associate degrees, career development, technical training, continuing education, and basic skills instruction. The college is dedicated to the importance of higher education in the evolving urban environment of Glendale and the Greater Los Angeles area. Faculty and staff engage students in rigorous and innovative learning experiences that enhance and sustain the cultural, intellectual, and economic vitality of the community.
As part of its mission, Glendale Community College is committed to student success by promoting:
communication, critical thinking, information competency, quantitative reasoning, global awareness, and personal responsibility;
collaboration among disciplines and openness to the diversity of the human experience;
student services, learning support, and state of the art technology, including distance education modalities, that enable students to reach their educational goals in an efficient and timely manner.
GCC is one of the 112 colleges in the California Community College system.
MISSION STATEMENT
Glendale Community College welcomes students of all diverse backgrounds, goals, ages, abilities, and learning styles. As an institution of higher education, we are committed to student learning and success. Using personal interaction, dynamic and rigorous instruction, and innovative technologies, we foster the development of critical thinking and lifelong learning. We provide students with the opportunity and support to gain the knowledge and skills necessary to meet their educational, career, and personal goals. Our commitment is to prepare students for their many evolving roles in and responsibilities to our community, our state, and our society.
As part of this mission, Glendale Community College is committed to:
providing a rich and rigorous curriculum that helps students understand and appreciate the artistic and cultural heritage of this society, the history and development of civilization, the scientific environment in which they live, and the challenges of their personal lives;
emphasizing the coherence among disciplines and promotion of openness to the diversity of the human experience;
helping students to develop important skills that are critical for success in the modern workplace, such as verbal and written communication, mathematics, the effective use of technology for work and research, and the ability to work with others and conduct their lives with responsibility;
providing an extensive array of student services and learning tools, including state of the art technology, to assist students in all aspects of their college experience;
creating a supportive, non-discriminatory environment which enables students to reach their educational goals in an efficient and timely manner.
