MC offers 1,500 classes a semester in 70 disciplines, including lower division preparation in a wide variety of transfer majors for the Baccalaureate degree and programs which lead to Associate degrees and Certificates of Achievement in Career Technical Education.

Institutional Strengths and Opportunities

MC is a leader in undergraduate education—a source of inspiration and guidance—for our students and community. We strive to create a campus environment that fosters collaboration, communication, and mutual respect. The next MC President can expect to be welcomed into a college that enjoys a number of strengths.  Several are listed below:

Strengths:

• MC is an established institution of higher education, enriched through the quality of its staff, faculty, and leadership team.
• MC is proud to be a Hispanic Serving Institution and celebrates its diversity.
• Graduation rates, along with associate degree and certificate completions, are among the very highest in California due to student engagement and involvement of committed faculty, staff, and leadership.
• MC offers a community-focused Promise program paving the way for students to have their first year of college paid for. Students at MC continue to benefit from this program yearly.
• Through faculty leadership, the College has cultivated successful student support programs that compel students to enroll at MC.
• The Agriculture and Water Science programs develop employees to meet the demands of industry sectors in Ventura County.
• MC enjoys positive and productive relationships with local and regional pre-K through 12 school districts and continues to sign dual enrollment agreements with several high schools in the service area.
• MC shares a strong partnership with regional higher education institutions and local county and municipal agencies.

The new president will be introduced to many opportunities for improvement that, collectively with faculty, staff, and other leadership
team members, can make MC an even greater institution.  See a list of several possibilities below:

Opportunities:

• MC believes in placing students at the center of their learning experience. MC serves a highly diverse student body by providing innovative instruction and student support, focusing on associate degree and certificate completion, transfer, workforce preparation, and basic skills. MC is committed to the sustainable continuous improvement of its college and its services.
• As MC continues to be a destination college for local residents, there is an opportunity for the College to increase the number and percentage of students transferring to the University of California and the California State University Systems.

Selected Program Highlights

• America’s Teaching Zoo Moorpark College hosts the only exotic animal training program in the United States. The zoo is open on weekends from 11 am-5 pm.
• Associated Students Every student at Moorpark College is a member of the Associated Students. An elected 10-member board represents students on campus and at state and federal levels of government.
• Athletics The Raiders compete in the Western States Conference and have won 127 WSC Championships, 9 Supremacy Awards, and 12 California State Championships. Career Transfer Center The CTC helps students find a major, career, transfer school, or life plan. Moorpark College ranks in the top ten for transfers to UC and CSU schools.
• Charles Temple Observatory The Observatory at Moorpark College is used for distinctive astronomy lab classes and lectures, as well as for community and special events.
• Child Development Center The CDC provides preschool for student, staff, and community families and serves as a practicum and observation site for the Child Development Program.
• Forensics/Speech and Debate Moorpark College is home to one of the country’s most successful community college speech teams.
• Honors Program Motivated students have challenging class options that prepare them for transfer to prestigious four-year institutions.
• MC Foundation The Moorpark College Foundation is a 501(c)(3) corporation dedicated to student scholarships.
• Scholarship Office With the support of the Foundation and our community donors, hundreds of students are provided financial assistance to realize their academic goals.
• Performance Arts Center The PAC is a state-of-the-art theatre complex where students present band, choral, dance, opera, orchestra, improv comedy, speech, and theatrical productions.
• The High School at Moorpark College High school juniors and seniors take a combination of high school and college courses in a small career/learning community.
• Veterans and Foster Youth Resource Center The college recently opened a new Veterans’ Resource Center and a Foster Youth Resource Center on its campus.

Accreditation

The Colleges Accreditation was reaffirmed by the Wester Association of Schools and Colleges in Spring 2017. Moorpark College is proud of the Moorpark College Promise, a grant that pays for the first year at Moorpark College for newly graduated Ventura County high school seniors or GED recipients, regardless of family income or grade point average. It is a unique and outstanding way to support student access.