SHASTA COLLEGE

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History and Campus Facts In the Centennial year of California and Shasta County (1950), Shasta College opened its first campus. As part of the state’s Centennial celebration, President Harry S. Truman spoke at the college’s Thompson Field. There were 26 original faculty members.The campus is located on 337 acres, and is referred to as the Stillwater campus because it is bordered by Stillwater Creek on the East Side. The District also owns an additional 350 acres in Bella Vista. The District encompasses the counties of Shasta, Tehama, and Trinity, and small portions of Lassen, Modoc, and Humboldt counties as well. The District covers approximately 10,000 square miles, which is larger than the state of Massachusetts. The District operates extended education sites in Anderson, Burney, McArthur, Corning, Hayfork, Los Molinos, Red Bluff, the Redding Rancheria, and Weaverville.The college has a childcare center, residence halls, its own waste water treatment facility, a park, a horse arena, an Olympic-sized swimming pool, an Olympic-sized diving pool, and a fire station, which serves the surrounding area. The campus includes wooded groves –including a redwood memorial grove--ponds, nature trails, two streams, a Christmas Tree farm, and a 150-acre farm. There is also a man-made waterfall made of lava rock from Hat Creek, designed by The Shasta College Art Department. Shasta College was one of the first community colleges to possess a Carillon, which dates back to 1968. It plays on the hour from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. daily. The Department of Justice uses a small corner of the Shasta College campus for their State of California Crime Laboratory. Its principle task is the examination and interpretation of physical evidence from crime scenes.

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