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About Ohlone College and the Bay Area - Ohlone Renegades Men's Basketball
The Ohlone College Campus
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 The Ohlone Campus is located in the Mission Hills of Fremont, California on a 534-acre hillside site, complete with spectacular views of the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Located in the southeastern part of the Bay Area, in the heart of the Silicon Valley, Ohlone is 13 miles from San Jose, 25 miles from Oakland and 35 miles from San Francisco. (Fremont Campus Map and Directions.)
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The $10 million Hyman Center for Business and Technology houses over 300 computers complete with programming, multimedia, graphics, Microsoft Office and internet access for the campus community.
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The Smith Center for the Fine and Performing Arts has a 405-seat theatre, a 200-seat theatre, two television broadcast studios, a radio station, a 600-seat outdoor amphitheater, a dance studio and an art gallery.
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Ohlone is home to the Gallaudet University Regional Center and has the largest deaf student population in the West.
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The Ohlone College faculty consists of 134 full-time faculty and approximately 450 adjunct faculty. Full-time faculty are required to have a Master's degree in their field and 18 faculty currently hold Doctorate degrees.
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 The Learning Resource Center/Library holds 61,000 book volumes, 200 periodicals in print format, and web-based access through four databases to 1,710 journals and newspapers. The collection also includes 8,000 audiotapes; 2,500 videotapes and 45,000 microforms.
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The student population is roughly 11,000 students. Approximately 3,400 are full-time.
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The name "Ohlone" honors the early Ohlone people of the Costanoan tribe who inhabited the Fremont area. Distinguished by peaceful pursuits, they held profound reverence for the earth, believing it was theirs for living and not taking. About Ohlone.
The City of Fremont
“High tech area with small-town charm"
- Fremont, CA is a city that has achieved nationwide recognition for a quality of life that business, industry and families all seek.
- Fremont is the fourth largest city in the San Francisco Bay Area in population (210,000) and with an area of 93 square miles, it is the second largest in size.
- Known as "The Most Kid Friendly City in the Bay Area."
- National Civic League named the City of Fremont as one of the year's top ten "All American Cities."
- Fremont has an ethnically diverse population, thereby providing excellent opportunities to utilize cultural differences as learning experiences within the community.
- 35-minute drive to San Francisco.
The San Francisco Bay Area
- San Francisco offers many recreational and sightseeing opportunities, including:
- The Bay Area is one of the premier places to watch sporting events, hosting teams such as:
- San Francisco is host to many festivals, concerts, museums, and it’s numerous other activities make it the World's Most Visited City according to the readers of Condé Nast Traveler magazine.
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