History
The college officially began in 1949 and was then called East Contra Costa Junior College. The college moved to its permanent campus in 1952, and changed its name to Diablo Valley College in 1958.
Currently, DVC is upgrading some of its facilities. Recently-completed projects include a new bookstore, solar panels throughout the parking areas, stone signs and a new bus terminal. The quad area is currently in the process of being replaced by a new building.
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Famous quotes containing the word history:
“We may pretend that we’re basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.”
—Terry Hands (b. 1941)
“The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.”
—Tacitus (c. 55–c. 120)
“When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart, some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand—a center of gravity.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)