08-29-2012, 03:22 AM
An outstanding California community college is Santa Rose junior College. For years it was a feeder school to UC Berkeley, and continues to have a great academic reputation. I personally always felt that the Cal State System should have continued to call it "schools" state colleges, e.g. San Jose State College became San Jose State University, has a quaint, nicely historical ring to it. The public "state" universities were the domain of the UC system because of the comprehensive nature of the curriculum, and the research that was being done their. I wish the board of trustees would adopt that "title" again...maybe they would take it under advisement from a taxpayer.