Sacramento City College

Students

Clubs and Organizations

There are more than 50 student clubs and organizations on campus, ranging from the Animal Behaviour Conservation Alliance to the Chinese Culture Club to the Honors Club to the National Student Nurses Association (NSNA). The presiding body of the college is the Associated Student Government (ASG). This body is comprised of both elected and appointed student representatives. They have the power to contribute to policy decisions on campus and represent the voice of the students in administrative affairs. There are no residential halls, fraternities, or sororities at SCC.

Career Center Services

The career center offers a wide range of services, including career assessment for students already in the workforce, assistance with choosing a course of study, career counselling, locating mentors, practice interviews, salary guides, and links to job networks. The Assessment Center at SCC administers College Level Examination Program (CLEP) tests, which allow qualified students to receive college credit for information already learned. They also offer proctored exams for apprenticeships and other off-campus opportunities for BC students.

Programs for Students with Challenges

There are a number of programs at SCC to reach out to students who may have difficult acclimating to college academics. The Office of Disabled Student Programs and Services strive to make college education at Bakersfield available to anyone who wants it. To this end, they provide counselling, registration assistance, learning disabilities assessment, assistive computer technology, materials in large print, materials in Braille, alternate testing arrangements, and more.

The Extended Opportunity Programs and Services (EOP&S) program is a state-funded initiative to help orient, recruit, and retain college students from California who are economically, socially, and/or educationally disadvantaged. EOP&S offers financial assistance and academic support to qualified students. EOP&S services are geared towards full-time students with risk factors for failure, including being at least one of the following: a first-generation college student, a re-entry student, a student with a disability, a student whose first language is something other than English, an ethnic minority, or a student with a poor educational record.

As part of their mission to offer higher education to everyone in their community who desires it, SCC also offers Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement (MESA). This program provides tutoring, mentorships, workshops and various other forms of assistance to educationally disadvantaged students.

International Students

In part because of the robust immigrant populations that already exist in the Sacramento area, SCC attracts nearly 200 international students from dozens of different countries in any given year. There are particularly large student populations from South Korea, China, Vietnam, and Taiwan. Because SCC has a relatively high number of international students for a junior college, they provide extended services for these students, including assistance with obtaining visas, employment assistance for international students, transcript evaluation and interpreting services, travel tips, and procedural information for traveling to Canada or Mexico and then re-entering the United States.

Child Care

The Sacramento City College Child Development Center offers services to students at SCC and the wider community. Preferential admittance is given to full-time students and families with low incomes. The center is open Mondays to Fridays from 7:15 AM to 5:30 PM. The center both provides service for students with families and serves as a learning laboratory for SCC students studying Child Development and Early Childhood Education. The facility accepts children between the ages of 2 and 5.

Haircut Program

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