Two Great South Bay Academic Institutions
I am a full-time, tenured mathematics professor at Evergreen Valley College (EVC) in San Jose and a 2002 graduate of Monta Vista High School (MV) in
Cupertino. EVC and MV are located in the South Bay and are approximately
twenty-one
miles away from each other. Out of the over 1,000 public community colleges in the United States, EVC is the seventh closest to MV (after De Anza (~ 1 mi.),
West Valley (~ 6 mi.), Foothill (~ 7 mi.), San Jose City (~ 9 mi.), Mission (~ 12 mi.), and Cañada College (~17 mi.)).
EVC was established in 1975, nine years before I was born. Per the CCCCO Data Mart, there were 9,239 students who attended EVC for the Fall 2023 semester.
90.6% of those students were minority students and
2,131 students were full-time students.
MV was established in 1969. According to this profile from the school website, there are
1,628 students attending MV for the 2023-2024 academic school year and approximately 91.9% of them are minority students.
EVC and MV are the only two academic institutions in the South Bay (and maybe the entire country!) that (1) were established between 1969 and 1975,
(2) have between 1,620 and 2,150 full-time students, AND (3) have between 90.5% and 92% minority students.