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Rutherford B. Hayes creates the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community upon which Scottsdale Community College will later be founded.
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Arizona becomes the 48th state. Wen statehood was conferred the three universities under the Arizona Board of Regents had already been in existence for more than 25 years.
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Only eight years after achieving statehood, Phoenix Union Hight School District establishes Phoenix Junior College. This was the first community college in Arizona and later became Phoenix College.
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Via county election, the MJCD is formed.
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After opening in the fall of 1969, SCC moves to its permannet location on the Slat River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community.
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In the early 1970s, to protest a focus on sports over academics the college chooses an artichoke as a mascot and pink and white as official colors.
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The first SCC Student Film Festival. The festival which is limited to student made productions now takes place at Harkins Cinema and regularly sells out.
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Penelope Price teaches first film production class at SCC. The Film School @ SCC begins with 8 students, four Super 8 cameras, and one 16mm camera.
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The Planetarium at SCC, the first in the district, open for classroom instruction. This has nothing to do with the Film School other than SCC film students dig the planetarium.
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In July of 2008, Dr. Gehler becomes only the second president in SCC history. She helps build the partnership between the Film School and the administration that continues today.
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"According to Film School Exposed, the Film School at SCC is currently ranked seventh best school in not just the United States but across the globe, sandwiched between Emerson College and University of California, and at only a fraction of the cost." From 2010 SCC Chronicle Article:
http://www.scottsdalechronicle.org/film-school-produces-25-years-of-excellence-1.1217905#.USFTb6WbBho -
SCC dedicates a new building to house the Film School's post production labs, collaboration rooms, new classroom space and equipment cage. From the five consumer cameras they started with in 1985, the Film School now houses more than 2 million dollars worth of equipment including top of the line dSLR and Red Cine cameras. All of this equipment is solely for student use.
