Dear Student:
Crafton Hills College is embarking on a journey
to the frontier of the new millennium. And as it does, it brings with
it the experience of over a quarter century of growth, progress, service,
and quality education.
The frontier of the new millennium is replete with opportunities and
options, and CHC is ready to prepare you to take advantage of them.
As you explore, you will discover that 38 majors and 14 occupational
certification plans are available. And these programs are supported
by an excellent faculty. In addition, services to students are provided
within the areas of Admissions and Records, Career Center, Counseling,
Disabled Student Program and Services (DSPS), Extended Opportunity Program
and Services (EOPS), Financial Aid, Health Services, Transfer Center
and Workforce Readiness Training. Opportunities for co-curricular activities
will be available through student government, campus clubs, and organizations.
Over the last two and a half decades, the transfer program has prepared
students well for the four-year colleges and universities. The number
of graduates receiving two-year Associate in Arts or Associate in Science
Degrees has increased by more than 1,000 percent since 1972. Our occupational
education programs, such as Radiologic Technology, Respiratory Therapy,
Emergency Medical Services, and Computer Information Systems, have become
cutting edge programs in high technology and are preparing students
for the challenges of the new century. Our Fire Technology and Paramedic
programs have earned regional training center status and are heavily
subscribed. Cultural enrichment programs such as the Summer Redlands
Theatre Festival and the annual CHC Baroque Festival have become mainstays
of the College.
The last few years have been particularly exciting, gratifying, and
successful in our quest to fulfill the college mission, but the next
10 are filled with resounding promise. Technology 2000, the college's
high technology plan, has been implemented so that the College will
be at the cutting edge of the computer age as it enters the new century.
The Child Development Center has expanded its operations in partnership
with ChildCare America, a private firm, in order to increase its services
to children. A new Student Senate office was constructed and furnished
to accommodate our emerging leaders in student government: And the installation
of the CHC Carillon Bells is bringing back tradition and great joy to
the campus. In the next several months a new Student Services Annex
will be completed. In the next three years, CHC will take the lead in
the construction and operation of a San Bernardino Regional Emergency
Training Center at the former Norton Air Force Base providing aircraft
rescue and firefighting training for the western states.
CHC acknowledges the commitment, dedication and hard work of the faculty,
staff, and administrators who have contributed so much to CHC’s
Mission and praises the more than 75,000 students in the past and 5,500
students currently who have chosen the College as the place to pursue
their dreams.
We look forward with anticipation to the twenty-first century and the
new millennium, continuing a tradition of growth, progress, service,
and quality education within that vibrant, dynamic institution we know
as Crafton Hills College.
Sincerely,
Gloria Macías Harrison
President
