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 City College of San Francisco (CCSF) is among the oldest and
largest community colleges in the U.S., enrolling roughly
100,000 students each year. CCSF delivers about 5,000 courses
per semester at 10 campuses and nearly 200 other instructional
sites citywide. The College's programmatic breadth and
variety, combined with its prominence in city ethnic
neighborhoods, result one of the highest market penetrations
of community colleges in the country.
 CCSF’s Computer Networking and Information Technology (CNIT)
Department provides instruction in rapidly advancing
networking and information technologies. It is a
Cisco
Regional Networking Academy, a
Microsoft IT Academy, a
Pearson VUE Authorized Center for Testing and the first
Juniper
Networks Academic Alliance member in North America. CNIT
serves some 2,500 students annually with 64 sections (18
online) of 34 different
courses, leading to 19
certificates,
an A.S. Degree and transfer opportunities.
 The Institute for Convergence of Optical and
Network Systems (ICONS) in CCSF’s CNIT
Department was funded by a $750,000, 3-year
grant from the National Science Foundation
to educate technicians in converged network
technologies at the leading edge of
communications technology trends. ICONS
utilized state-of-the-art converged optical
voice, video and data network facilities at
City College as a teaching environment
through September 2008.
 The Mid-Pacific Information and
Communications Technology (MPICT) Center
builds on ICONS’ successes, creating a
Regional Center to coordinate, improve and
promote ICT education and ICT workforce
development in northern California, southern
Oregon, northern Nevada, Hawaii and the
Pacific Territories. MPICT endeavors to do
for information and communications
technologies the kinds of things done for
biotechnology industries by Biolink, also
hosted by CCSF. CCSF is currently the only
community college in the U.S. to host two
NSF ATE Centers.
CCSF’s MPICT team.
 CCSF’s Computer Science Department offers
some 60 courses, 7 certificates and two AS
degrees in traditional computer science
programming technologies.
 Biolink is an NSF-funded Advanced
Technological Education (ATE) National
Center for Biotechnology. It has been
improving and expanding educational programs
that prepare skilled technicians in
biotechnology fields since 1998.
The Mid-Pacific ICT Center is partially supported with a
variety of contributions by City College of San Francisco,
including office space, utilities, very high performance
network connectivity, computing services, utilities,
administrative support services, and other specialized student
and institutional support services. Thank you CCSF!
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