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Pierce College in Woodland Hills is celebrating 60 years, the college evolved from the Valley's need for agricultural workers. Getting to the classes in the college was an adventure. At that time in 1948 roads were running north  to the Woodland Hills campus stopped at Ventura Blvd. and students had to make the rest of  the way to the eyou a sense of how much students who aspired to be farmers loved the place and referred to it as heaven-sent. and continued to say the place was enchanting.
The year was 1948, when the West Valley, was still made up of little more than farms, dairies and a few movie ranches, and Pierce College was established to celebrate the area's agricultural community.

In the past six decades many things changed. The area farms have been replaced with homes, condos and high-rises. And many majors at the College - like swine husbandry and crop science - have been replaced by fields such as graphic design and computer science.

Today the future of Pierce College reallies on  its ability to integrate its past with the future. The farm is sacred to this community, and the collage is bringing modern agricultural  and animal science to the campus. Pierce College's agricultural focus has been at the hart of its existence since it was founded by Dr. Clarance Pierce., on 427 acres nestled in Woodland Hills. It was designed to help train military personal that came home from World Wat II and gone to collage on the GI bill of rights. The college was going to train them and they could find work on the farms across the Valley. Pierce Collage was an all male collage till 1950s, and started to admit women then. 
By the 1960s,  Pierce started with majors in the aerospace, auto mechanics and mechanical engineering. The collage endured some hard times in the 1970s, and the limited funds available forced the collage to forgo repairs and outreach efforts. The lake of funds also force the collage to drop courses and programs, many of them in agricultural fields including a popular spring time rodeo that was frequented by celebrities like former President Ronald Reagan.

The college has several construction projects under way, including a 100,000 squer foot science building that will house life, animal and earth science programs as well as chemistry courses.

Steve McHargue is a professor of history and political science at the collage, he followed in his dad's foot steps, when he took the job at the collage. McHargue treasures the fact that he is been  able to  watch the campus evolve.

There is one program  steeped in a century old crop, for which McHargue is delaying his retirement. The collage has planted grape vines on campus and he said he wont leave until he gets his first sip of Pierce Collage wine.

A community Collage develops with the community its serves, at the beginig the community was prod eminently agricultural, then industrial and now its technology driven, and Pierce College is here to serve the community for all its needs.
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