{{Short description|Community college in Livermore, California, US}} {{Use American English|date=September 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2013}} {{Infobox university | motto = | name = Las Positas College | image_name = Las Positas College sign1.jpg | image_size = 200px | caption = | established =1964 | type = Public community college | interim chancellor= | city = Livermore | state = California | country = United States | campus = Urban | president = Dyrell Foster | mascot = Hawks | colors = Red and black {{colorsample|#9D2235}} {{colorsample|black}} | students = 11,293<ref name="scorecard.cccco.edu">{{cite web|url=http://scorecard.cccco.edu/scorecardrates.aspx?CollegeID=481|title=2017 STUDENT SUCCESS SCORECARD|website=Scorecard.cccco.edu|access-date=14 November 2017|archive-date=August 22, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140822132406/http://scorecard.cccco.edu/scorecardrates.aspx?CollegeID=481|url-status=live}}</ref> | website = {{URL|http://www.laspositascollege.edu/}} }}
'''Las Positas College''' ('''LPC''') is a public community college in Livermore, California.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://californiacommunitycolleges.cccco.edu/collegeDetails.aspx?collegeID=481&txt=Las%20Positas%20College&mjr=|title = Las Positas College|date = 2014-09-21|access-date = 2014-09-21|website = California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office|archive-date = March 3, 2016|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160303172644/http://californiacommunitycolleges.cccco.edu/collegeDetails.aspx?collegeID=481&txt=Las%20Positas%20College&mjr=|url-status = live}}</ref>
==History== Las Positas College began as an extension program of Chabot College in 1963,<ref name= "Noceda">{{Citation |author=Kristofer Noceda |publication-date=February 21, 2010 |title=East Bay Colleges Keep Accreditation |work=Contra Costa Times |page=27A |url=http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_14430990 |access-date=December 24, 2013 |archive-date=December 26, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131226172508/http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_14430990 |url-status=live }}</ref> offering 24 classes and enrolling 810 students at three sites, including Livermore High School. By 1965, the program had expanded to Granada High School in Livermore and subsequently offered classes at Amador and Dublin High Schools as well. The Chabot-Las Positas Community College District purchased the Livermore site that same year, intending to develop a comprehensive community college. However, in 1970 and again in 1972, bond issues to build the rural college failed despite Tri-Valley voters' overwhelming support, ostensibly because of opposition among the district's largest voting population, who lived outside the service area for the proposed college. Lacking funds to develop a second comprehensive community college, the board of trustees voted to develop a small education center at the Livermore site. On March 31, 1975, "Valley Campus" opened as the Livermore Education Center of Chabot College.<ref>{{cite web | title= About Las Positas College | url= http://www.laspositascollege.edu/about/index.php | website= Laspositascollege.edu | access-date= 2009-11-28 | archive-date= September 24, 2010 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100924133939/http://laspositascollege.edu/about/index.php | url-status= live }}</ref>
Las Positas College has since developed into a fully accredited comprehensive institution.<ref>{{Citation |publication-date=September 8, 2011 |title=Las Positas College Puts Student Safety First with Amcom Software's Enhanced 911 Solution |work=Bloomberg News |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=azpo_ZW_dGE8 |access-date=December 24, 2013 |archive-date=December 29, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131229183504/http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=azpo_ZW_dGE8 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1988, LPC was designated by the board of governors to be an independent college. It received full accreditation on January 7, 1991, from the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.<ref name= "Noceda"/> In December 2013, the Chabot-Las Positas Community College District trustees appointed Barry A. Russell as the sixth president of the college.<ref name= "Thomas">{{Citation |author=Jeremy Thomas |publication-date=December 6, 2013 |title=Board names Las Positas College president |work=Alameda Times-Star |url=http://www.contracostatimes.com/contracostatimes/ci_24664588/board-names-las-positas-college-president |access-date=December 24, 2013 |archive-date=December 26, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131226190325/http://www.contracostatimes.com/contracostatimes/ci_24664588/board-names-las-positas-college-president |url-status=live }}</ref> Russell worked in the office of the chancellor at California Community Colleges at the time of his appointment to president.<ref name= "Thomas"/> As of November 2023, the current president is Dr. Dyrell Foster.
==Academics== Las Positas College enrolls approximately 10,000-day and evening students. It offers a two-year curriculum for students seeking career preparation, transfer to a four-year college or university, or personal enrichment. LPC offers a guaranteed transfer agreement with all University of California schools except UC Berkeley and UCLA. Students who come to the LPC can choose any of 22 occupational associate degrees, 16 transfer associate degrees, and 42 certificate programs.<ref>{{cite web | title= Classes & Programs | url= http://www.laspositascollege.edu/programs/index.php | website= Laspositascollege.edu | access-date= 2009-11-28 | archive-date= September 24, 2010 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100924140648/http://laspositascollege.edu/programs/index.php | url-status= live }}</ref>
== Athletics == The school's Ultimate Frisbee team won the College D-III national championship in 2006.<ref>{{cite web | title= D-III championship 2006 | url= http://ultimate.scorereport.net/2006/tourn.cgi?div=18&id=2220 | website= Ultimate.scorereport.net | access-date= 2012-03-20 | archive-date= December 25, 2013 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131225133429/http://ultimate.scorereport.net/2006/tourn.cgi?div=18&id=2220 | url-status= live }}</ref>
In the 2015 Fall semester, LPC began its first season of intercollegiate Men's and Women's Water Polo.
==See also== * Rancho Las Positas, the namesake and 19th century rancho in Livermore Valley
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==External links== * {{Official website|http://www.laspositascollege.edu}}
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