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El Camino College

Community college in Alondra Park, California, US

Field	Value
name	El Camino College
image	Elco seal.png
image_size	100px
established
type	Public community college
president	Brenda Thames
students	22,654
city	Alondra Park and Torrance
country	U.S.
campus	Urban, 26 acre
free_label	Student newspaper
free	The Union
colors	Blue & gray
sports_nickname	Warriors
website
coor
logo	Elco logo.png
logo_size	100px

El Camino College (Elco or ECC) is a public community college in Los Angeles County, California. Most of it is in Alondra Park, while a section is in the city limits of Torrance. It consists of 37 buildings spanning an area of roughly 26 acre. It is one of two community colleges serving Southern California's South Bay area.

The El Camino Community College District was officially established on July 1, 1947. , the college served approximately 23,000 students within the El Camino Community College District, including the communities of Alondra Park, Carson, Del Aire, El Segundo, Gardena, Hawthorne, Hermosa Beach, Inglewood, Ladera Heights, Lawndale, Lennox, Lomita, Manhattan Beach, Redondo Beach, Torrance, View Park–Windsor Hills. El Camino College offers 2,500 classes in 85 programs, including vocational, undergraduate, and honors courses, many available in online and televised formats for distance education.

Student demographics

Ethnic Breakdown		2018
53%	53%
13%	14%
13%	15%
13%	13%
5%	4%
2%	Nil
Nil	1%
Female	51%	52%
Male	49%	48%

Total Students: 24,349

Age	Total	Percentage
17 or younger	1,289	5%
18 to 19	6,293	27%
20 to 24	9,452	40%
25 to 29	3,193	13%
30 to 39	2,131	8%
40 to 49	850	3%
50 or older	840	4%

Enrollment Level	Total	Percentage
Full-Time	7,632	31%
Part-Time	16,715	69%

Campus media

KECC radio station

The college hosts one radio station, KECC. The first time KECC was actually on the air experimentally was Career Day, April 27, 1994. The operation lasted only four hours, from 9 am to 1 pm. On November 11, 1994, KECC signed on the air for the first time as a regularly scheduled carrier current broadcast station. At that time, the frequency used was 1620 kHz. In the fall of 2000 KECC changed frequency from 1200 kHz to 1500 kHz.

Athletics

Built in 1958, Murdock Stadium hosts some of the schools athletic programs.

Water polo	Water polo

In media

The college campus has been used as a filming location since at least the 1970s. Visitors to the IBM pavilion at the 1964-65 World's Fair in New York City saw an Eames film that featured El Camino coach Kenneth Swearingen and the school football team. Among other films shot in part at the college are:

All American
Cheaper by the Dozen (2003 remake)
Crime After Crime
The Circle
The Dark Knight Rises
The Longest Yard (2005 remake)
Visiting... with Huell Howser Episode 513

Performing arts

El Camino College has a 2,000-seat auditorium, a 350-seat campus theatre, and the 190-seat Robert Hagg Recital Hall. The Marsee Auditorium is the venue for the South Bay Ballet's annual production of The Nutcracker, and is known for showcasing dance and opera companies, traveling artists, and other Broadway, film and television veterans, such as Shirley Jones and Gregory Hines. The Marsee Auditorium as well as the other on-campus venues also host El Camino College resident performers.

Schauerman Library

The Schauerman Library serves as the research center of the college. The library houses the El Camino College archives.

Notable alumni

Some of the college's notable alumni include Alan Jardine and Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys, Suge Suge Knight who is the CEO and founder of Death Row Records,

Notable faculty

John DeMita, theater professor
Fitzhugh Dodson, psychology professor from 1959
George Gerbner, communications professor from 1952 to 1956
Kim Krizan, English professor
Julius Sumner Miller, physics professor from 1953 to 1970
Al Muratsuchi, political science professor
April Ross, beach volleyball coach
Ambrose Schindler, American football coach

References

"El Camino Community College District Board of Trustees Names Dr. Brenda Thames Superintendent/President of el Camino College".
"California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office - Data Mart". Datamart.cccco.edu.
link. (2011-06-06 ." [[U.S. Census Bureau]]. Retrieved May 5, 2010.)
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"Adopted Council Election Districts". City of Torrance.
"El Camino Community College District".
"2018 USNEWS: El Camino Community College Overview".
"Facts and Figures of ECC".
"ECC Facts and Figures".
Kresal, Steve. (November 22, 1994). "Swearingen's Retirement From Saddleback Is Straight, Simple". Los Angeles Times.
(November 8, 2017). "El Camino College – Visiting (513) – Huell Howser Archives at Chapman University".
"Center for the Arts".
"Main Stage Performances 2014-2015 Season". Elcamino.edu.
"Main Stage Performances, 2004–2005 Season".
"Special Concerts Fall 2002 Season".
Roy Moore. (April 26, 2012). "The Beach Boys- After two decades the band reunites for their global 'Celebration' tour". The Union: El Camino College.
(March 7, 2012). "Where are they now?". The Union: El Camino College.
Elliott Bullock II. (September 30, 2024). "California State Representative Al Muratsuchi hired to teach political science at El Camino College". The Union.
Greg Fontanilla. (September 26, 2024). "Three-time Olympic medalist April Ross named coach of El Camino beach volleyball program". The Union.

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