Where to order East Los Angeles College diploma, buy a East Los Angeles College certificate, buy a college diploma. East Los Angeles College (ELAC) is a public community college in Monterey Park, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. It is part of the California Community Colleges System and the Los Angeles Community College District. With fourteen communities comprising its primary service area and an enrollment of 35,403 students, ELAC had the largest student body campus by enrollment in the state of California as of 2018. It was located in northeastern East Los Angeles before that part of unincorporated East Los Angeles was annexed by Monterey Park in the early 1970s. ELAC offers associate degrees and certificates.
At the end of World War II Los Angeles needed another city college to accommodate the vast numbers of servicemen returning from deployment. Los Angeles City College (LACC) was the first city college to service Los Angeles and by the end of World War II was still the only city college in the area. Transportation was limited and costly, lowering the number of students able to attend LACC while at the same time the Eastside was rapidly developing into the city’s industrial center.
Arthur Baum, editor of the East Los Angeles Tribune, headed a citizen’s committee—-a group of presidents of all clubs and organizations in the community—-including Principal D. Raymond Brothers of Garfield High School, County Supervisor Smith, Superintendent Kersey and various industrial leaders. The group presented the proposition of a Junior College to the Los Angeles City Board of Education in a special meeting on March 1, 1945. The Los Angeles Board of Education voted to establish a Junior College on the Garfield High School campus. The Los Angeles City Board of Education established East Los Angeles College in June 1945, making it just the second city college (or junior college) serving the Los Angeles area. The college opened for classes on September 4, 1945 on the campus of Garfield High School with an enrollment of 373 students and 19 faculty, although the school board authorized a faculty of 25, selected from the faculty of LACC. 107 students attended college classes at Garfield, while 266 attended at L.A. County Hospital in health careers, primarily nursing. The junior college was part of the Los Angeles City Public Schools system (L.A. Unified School District today).