Source Document:
San Francisco Public Schools, Report of the Superintendent, (San Francisco: June, 1936), 4.

Text:

The San Francisco Junior College
The establishment of the San Francisco Junior Collage marked the culmination of a long period of activity on the part of many civic groups who had urged for years the necessity and desirability of meeting this educational need. That the action was overdue has been evident from the opening days of the junior collage. A surprisingly low rate of student mortality has kept the enrollment almost intact from the day of registration, a phenomenon explained in part by the excellent faculty and splendid curriculum offered the students. The end of the first year of the junior college finds the institution well-knit in every way despite conditions of housing not conducive to such a result; with action taken at this writing which establishes permanency on the Balboa Park site, a potential campus which is not surpassed by any junior college in the state for suitability to purpose; and certainty of a future growth in size and usefulness which guarantees that the San Francisco Junior College will become not alone significant in the educational program of the city in which it is located but also in the junior college movement all over the West. The superintendent suggest) that the Board in thinking of the long-time future of the junior college give serious consideration to the desirability of making an annex of the structure now being built at Bush and Stockton Streets as an administration building for the Fair authorities. Such an annex could be used for a down-town extension of the college devoted primarily to the housing of those classes the purpose of which is to prepare for entrance into the business and commercial occupations of the city. The building is admirably located for such a program and as planned would need but little alteration to fit it to the type of work which would be carried on. The Board should early consider also the feasibility and desirability of establishing a junior college district, separate and distinct from the high school district.