COLLEGE CHRONOLOGY
1970 - 1979

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• 1970
  
  • February 5: The college adds a Department of Special Programs, which aids educationally and socially disadvantaged students.
  • September: The addition to the Student Activities Building is completed, along with 11 new parking lots.

• 1971
  
  • April 26: Students begin a 3-week strike to protest the defeat of a resolution for student participation in the election of a student government candidate.
  • December 15: The Board of Trustees refuses the request of the Black Students Union that the birthdays of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X be considered for school holidays.

• 1972
  
  • January 14: The cafeteria, Recreation Room, student lounge and Student Association offices are closed in protest of the Board of Trustees's refusal to make Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday a school holiday.
  • March: Construction of the Health Sciences Building is approved.

• 1973
  
  • January 1: The Data Processing Department enters the mini-computer field with the installation of an IBM/System 3 computer.
  • September 14: The first campus police force is composed of 3 full-time security officers working with 9 criminal justice students.
  • November: Medical Sciences Building opens (now the Health Sciences Building)
  • December: Construction of the Physical Sciences Annex is approved.

• 1974
  
  • Harry Buttimer is named Chancellor of the Contra Costa Community College District.
  • The Health Sciences Building opens.
  • Lehman Brightman is hired as chairman of the new Native American Studies Department.
  • Construction begins on the planetarium, which is planned to open in September 1975.
  • Plans are underway for the Applied Arts Building.

• 1975
  September: The Physical Sciences Annex and Planetarium opens.

• 1976
  
  • February 6: $2.5 million is approved for construction of the Applied Arts Building.
  • November 19: College selects the area behind the baseball field on Castro St. as the site for the Performing Arts Center.

• 1977
  
  • February 9: Frustrated with his lack of support from the faculty, Robert L. Wynne asks to be relieved of his duties as president of the college and reassigned elsewhere in the district, effective July 1.
  • H. Rex Craig becomes the new college president.
  • After nearly three decades of being funded by the Associated Students Union, the student newspaper receives its own budget from the District.
  • A new course withdrawal system requires students to talk with the instructor before dropping a class.

• 1978
  
  • August: Construction of the Performing Arts Center is approved.
  • September 15: The passage of state Proposition 13 causes cutbacks in the college budget (15%) and classified staff.

• 1979
  
  • March: Construction of the Applied Arts and Administration Building is approved.
  • June: Gene Corr, CCC's athletic director and baseball coach, retires after 29 years.
  • October: Construction begins on the Applied Arts Building.

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