Take a look inside the ‘project of love’ – Fresno Bee

Fresno City College’s new west campus sets open houses Aug. 4 and 5

Fresno City College’s West Fresno Center will open its doors to students for the start of classes Aug. 7 with staff moving into the facility beginning July 31 and two open houses planned for Aug. 4 and 5.

The Friday open house is 4 – 6 p.m. and on Saturday from 9 a.m. – noon at 600 E. Church Avenue in West Fresno.

The new 40-acre campus, an $86.5 million project funded mainly through bond measures and a Transformative Climate Communities grant from the state, was deliberately planned for Fresno’s westside, Fresno Bee reporter Julianna Morano wrote in a recent Bee Education Lab feature.

“A lack of educational investments and high poverty rates plaguing the area have stymied graduation rates and pathways to college for southwest Fresno students,” she wrote.

The state-of-the-art academic and career technical satellite campus located at Church and Walnut avenues will provide the West Fresno community with a complete college center offering diverse educational opportunities, from career technology courses to transferable college credits.

The West Fresno Campus will include facilities for:

Associate Degrees for Transfer in Social Justice and Public Health
General education classes including pre-requisites for nursing and allied health programs including Medical Assisting
Advanced Transportation
- Automotive Technology
- Automotive Collision

Warehouse Distribution
Student Services, Library and Tutoring

The project is funded by $70 million coming from facilities bonds and $16.5 million from the Transformative Climate Community (TCC) program.

The City of Fresno received a total of $66.5 million in TCC funding to provide disadvantaged communities with neighborhood projects that provide local economic, environmental and health benefits while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

In addition, the City of Fresno is providing $11 million in off-site improvements, $4.5 million toward the construction of a new neighborhood park, improved public transportation services to the new campus with its all electric transit buses.

FCC press release

FCC media contacts:

]Kathy Bonilla, Public Information Officer – (559) 753-3293

Cris Monahan Bremer, director of Marketing and Communications – (559) 307-5019

See: Bee story