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Descriptive Background and Demographics

Background

The Chabot-Las Positas Community College District is in its 42nd year of providing educational opportunities to residents of the Bay Area. Voters approved the District, originally named the South County Community College District, on January 10, 1961. Chabot College opened for classes on September 11, 1961, on a seven and one-half acre temporary site in San Leandro with an enrollment of 1,132 students. The current 94-acre Chabot College site on Hesperian Boulevard in Hayward opened for its first day of classes on September 20, 1965. To serve residents of Eastern Alameda County, Chabot College opened its Valley Campus on March 31, 1975, on 147 acres in Livermore. The Valley Campus was designated a separate college, Las Positas College, in 1988. Chabot College primarily serves residents of Alameda County in the East Bay area, including Castro Valley, Hayward, San Leandro, San Lorenzo, and Union City. Las Positas College primarily serves residents of Alameda County and a portion of Contra Costa County in the Tri-Valley area, including the communities of Dublin, Livermore, Pleasanton, and Sunol. The District serves 18 public high schools and four parochial schools.

Facilities at the Chabot College Hayward campus originally included buildings for classrooms and laboratories, a cafeteria and student government offices, a bookstore, a Learning Resource Center, and offices for student services, administration, and faculty. A 1,432-seat Performing Arts Center was financed jointly with the Hayward Area Recreation and Park District and provides for a host of community and college events. Special campus facilities include a television studio equipped to cablecast programs over local cable television, a radio station, a planetarium, art gallery, gymnasium, Olympic-size pool, football stadium, baseball diamond, enclosed softball facilities, twelve tennis courts, indoor racquetball courts, weight training facilities, and a fitness center.

Since the original campus was constructed in 1965, the College has added a new bookstore, an Emergency Medical Services building, a Reprographics and Graphic Arts building, a Children’s Center, and a new Music wing. In 1999 a new Chemistry and Computer Science building was completed. To comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act, over $6 million has been spent on facilities across the campus. Many buildings have been renovated to accommodate changes in the curriculum and new services to students, including the Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum (WRAC) Center, the Tutorials Center, the Disabled Students’ Resource Center, the Dental Hygiene Clinic, the Technology Center, and the Technology/Engineering/Graphics Communications building. Additionally, 22 computer labs have been created at various sites on the campus. Major facility modifications since the 1996 accreditation report include the Library remodeling project, the creation of a Workforce Development Center, renovation and expansion of the pottery/ceramics studio, conversion of the old chemistry building into modern classrooms and the college Assessment Center, an expansion of the Children’s Center, remodeling of microbiology labs and science classrooms following a fire in Building 2100, resurfacing of the track, conversion of the men’s locker room into a modern weight training room, and expansion of the main student computer lab in the library.

Demographics

Introduction

This report briefly describes the area served by Chabot College, including an overview of both the economy and population demographics. Then Chabot students are described in some detail, with data on enrollments, enrollment status, demographics, part-time or full-time status, educational goals, and other areas. Finally, Chabot’s faculty, staff and administrators are described. Where available, trends and projections are provided. In many cases, more extensive reports exist on the topics highlighted here. For example, data in this summary are from the Student Characteristics Report: 2001-2002, which is in press. More details on the demographics of the local population can be found in the Student Characteristics Report: 2000-2001 [General Reference 13].

The Economy of the Service Area

This section of the report provides an economic profile of the primary cities served by Chabot College: Hayward, San Leandro, Union City, Castro Valley, and San Lorenzo. These cities cluster along a north-south corridor in the East Bay, just south of Oakland, California. The area is part of the larger San Francisco Bay Area. Where city-level data are not available, we report numbers for Alameda County, which includes all of the Chabot cities. Chabot cities make up one-quarter of the 1.4 million residents of the county.

Mean household income in Chabot cities is $67,583, somewhat lower than the county average of $72,525. The unemployment rate as of August 2002 was 5.8 percent in the service area, lower than the 6.6 percent county rate. The unemployment rate has been increasing recently across the Bay Area, in part because of the downturns in technology and tourism, from below 3 percent in early 2001 to their current levels. The overall poverty rate in 1998 in Alameda County was 11 percent, with 17 percent of all children living in poverty.

The industrial mix of the area is diverse. Measured by civilian employment, the largest share (16 percent) of those employed in Chabot cities work in manufacturing. Another 16 percent work in educational, health, and social services. Twelve percent work in retail trade and 11 percent in professional, scientific, and other services. Other large industries represented are transportation and finance, insurance, and real estate. With respect to occupations, nearly one-third of workers are employed in managerial or professional occupations. Almost as many work in sales and office jobs. Sixteen percent work in production, transportation or material moving occupations and 12 percent are employed in service jobs. Further details for Chabot cities and the county are available in Tables 1A and 1B.

Table 1A

|Employed Civilian Population 16 Years and Over by Industry |

|and by College Cities and Alameda County: 2000 |

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| | |Chabot Cities |Las Positas Cities |Alameda County |

|Industry | |Number | Percent |Number |Percent |Number |Percent |

|Agriculture, forestry, fishing and | | | | | | |

| hunting, and mining |492 |0.3% |300 |0.3% |1,741 |0.3% |

|Construction | |11,064 |6.5% |5,516 |6.4% |38,919 |5.6% |

|Manufacturing | |27,673 |16.1% |12,253 |14.1% |98,523 |14.2% |

|Wholesale trade | |9,466 |5.5% |4,098 |4.7% |28,368 |4.1% |

|Retail trade | |20,820 |12.2% |10,863 |12.5% |74,749 |10.8% |

|Transportation | | | | | | | |

| & Warehousing and utilities |13,641 |8.0% |3,447 |4.0% |40,129 |5.8% |

|Information | |6,679 |3.9% |5,190 |6.0% |33,258 |4.8% |

|Finance, insurance, real estate, | | | | | | |

| and rental & leasing |11,925 |7.0% |6,468 |7.5% |46,876 |6.8% |

|Professional, scientific, administrative, | | | | | | |

| and waste management services |19,007 |11.1% |15,495 |17.9% |102,423 |14.8% |

|Educational, health and social services |26,957 |15.7% |12,121 |14.0% |126,941 |18.3% |

|Arts, entertainment, recreation, | | | | | | |

| accommodation and food services |9,652 |5.6% |5,080 |5.9% |44,084 |6.4% |

|Other services (except public admin) |7,825 |4.6% |3,040 |3.5% |31,219 |4.5% |

|Public | |6,156 |3.6% |2,738 |3.2% |25,603 |3.7% |

|administration | | | | | | | |

|TOTAL JOBS | |171,357 |100.0% |86,609 |100.0% |692,833 |100.0% |

|Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000. | | | | | |

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|Table 1B |

|Employed Civilian Population 16 Years and Over by Occupation |

|and by College Cities and Alameda County: 2000 |

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| | |Chabot Cities |Las Positas Cities |Alameda County |

|Occupation | |Number |Percent |Number | Percent |Number | Percent |

|Management, professional, & related |55,032 |32.1% |40,396 |46.6% |293,312 |42.3% |

|Service occupation | |21,075 |12.3% |9,225 |10.7% |82,773 |11.9% |

|Sales and office occupation |50,918 |29.7% |23,774 |27.4% |182,205 |26.3% |

|Farming, fishing, and forestry |341 |0.2% |68 |0.1% |1,065 |0.2% |

|Construction, extraction, | | | | | | |

| and maintenance | |16,110 |9.4% |6,610 |7.6% |51,816 |7.5% |

|Production, transportation, | | | | | | |

| and material moving occupations |27,881 |16.3% |6,536 |7.5% |81,662 |11.8% |

|TOTAL JOBS | |171,357 |100.0% |86,609 |100.0% |692,833 |100.0% |

|Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000. | | | | | |

Demography of Chabot College’s Service Area

The total population in the Chabot College service area was 365,541 people and the number for Los Positas was 166,972, as reported in the 2000 U.S. Census. The race-ethnicity details for both areas are given in Table 2.

Table 2

Population by Race-Ethnicity by College Cities, Alameda County, and California: 2000

| |Chabot | | Las Positas | |Alameda | |State of |

|Race-ethnicity |Cities |Percent |Cities |Percent |County |Percent |California |

|American Indian/Alaska Native |1,369 | ................
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