Educational System Change
Stockton
Junior College became Stockton College in 1948, with the total student body at
just under 2,000 and Dr. Leon Minear
as president. The physical change was even more evident, with classes being
moved to a 43-acre site just south of College of the Pacific.
The
educational pattern also changed, as the Stockton School System restructured
into six years of elementary instruction, four of junior high, and four
combining the junior and senior years of high school with the freshman and
sophomore years of college.
The
physical separation of Stockton College and College of the Pacific was followed
in 1951 by the resumption of lower division classes at Pacific.
In the
next decade, the educational needs of the area became greater than the
geographical focus of a Stockton College. Dr. Julio Bortolazzo
took charge of the campus in 1952, when the college took on a different approach.
It expanded its vocational programs and implemented the 6-4-4 plan.
Dr.
Burke Bradley Jr. followed him as president after which San Joaquin Delta
College became a successor to Stockton College. Legally separated from Stockton
Unified School District in 1963, the college encompassed virtually all of San
Joaquin County and portions of three other counties. Dr. Bradley remained as
president/superintendent.
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