- The College of the Sequoias should not be confused with the similiarly named College of the Redwoods in the northern California town of Eureka.
College of the Sequoias (COS) is a public two-year
community college located in
Visalia in
Tulare County, in
California's
San Joaquin Valley. The current enrollment of COS is 10,200 students, and the college offers a variety of transfer, vocational, and community-based classes, including the fire/police academies for Tulare and
Kings counties. The college is named for the
Giant Sequoia trees native to the nearby
Sierra Nevada mountain range.
The college officially began in 1926, established by the Visalia Unified School District under the name Visalia Junior College. The college moved to a permanent campus in 1939, and in 1949 changed its name as part of the formation of an independent College of the Sequoias Community College District.
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