About Spokane Falls Community College

Spokane Falls Community College (SFCC) is a public community school in Spokane, Washington. It was conventional in 1967 and is ration of the Community Colleges of Spokane.

SFCC has programs for students seeking an associate degree, with 66 percent of SFCC students preparing to transfer to four-year institutions. SFCC then has a career-technical degree and authorize programs, including orthotic/prosthetic technician, hearing instrument specialist, physical therapist assistant, and occupational therapy assistant. SFCC is considered[by whom?] a middle of visual and the theater arts, with programs in drama, music, fine art, photography, and graphic design. The campus has a near working association with the Mukogawa Fort Wright Institute branch of Mukogawa Women’s University, a far ahead education gift for students from Japan studying in the U.S., and has education centers at Fairchild Air Force Base, and in Pullman, Washington.

The moot publishes The Communicator, a bi-weekly student newspaper, as without difficulty as Communicator Online. The latter was a 2009 Associated Collegiate Press Online Pacemaker winner and has placed in the course of the summit ten two-year college newspapers in North America in the last four years.[citation needed]

Spokane (/ˌspoʊˈkæn/ (listen) spoh-KAN) is the largest city in Spokane County, Washington, United States. It is in eastern Washington along the Spokane River next to the Selkirk Mountains and west of the Rocky Mountain foothills, 92 miles (148 km) south of the Canada–U.S. border, 18 miles (30 km) west of the Washington–Idaho border, and 279 miles (449 km) east of Seattle along Interstate 90.

Spokane is the economic and cultural middle of the Spokane metropolitan area, the Spokane–Coeur d’Alene total statistical area, and the Inland Northwest. It is known as the birthplace of Father’s Day, and its official nickname is the “Lilac City”. A pink double flower cultivar of the common lilac, known as Syringa vulgaris ‘Spokane’, is named for the city. The city and the wider Inland Northwest Place are served by Spokane International Airport, 5 miles (8 km) west of downtown Spokane. According to the 2010 Census, Spokane had a population of 208,916, making it the second-largest city in Washington, and the 100th-largest city in the United States. In 2019, the United States Census Bureau estimated the city’s population at 222,081 and the population of the Spokane Metropolitan Area at 573,493.

The first people to sentient in the area, the Spokane tribe (their broadcast meaning “children of the sun” in Salishan), lived off profuse game. David Thompson explored the Place with the westward build up and initiation of the North West Company’s Spokane House in 1810. This trading read out was the first long-term European agreement in Washington. Completion of the Northern Pacific Railway in 1881 brought settlers to the Spokane area. The same year it was officially incorporated as a city below the proclaim of Spokane Falls (it was reincorporated under its current reveal ten years later). In the late 19th century, gold and silver were discovered in the Inland Northwest. The local economy depended on mining, timber, and agriculture until the 1980s. Spokane hosted the first environmentally themed World’s Fair at Expo ’74.

Many of the downtown area’s older Romanesque Revival-style buildings were meant by architect Kirtland Kelsey Cutter after the Great Fire of 1889. The city is also house to the Riverfront and Manito parks, the Smithsonian-affiliated Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, the Davenport Hotel, and the Fox and Bing Crosby theaters.

The Cathedral of Our Lady of Lourdes is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Spokane, and the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist serves as that of the Episcopal Diocese of Spokane. The Spokane Washington Temple in the east of the county serves The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Gonzaga University was customary in 1887 by the Jesuits, and the private Presbyterian Whitworth University was founded three years future and moved to north Spokane in 1914.

In sports, the region’s professional and semi-professional sports teams enhance the Spokane Indians in Minor League Baseball and Spokane Chiefs in junior ice hockey. The Gonzaga Bulldogs collegiate basketball team competes at the Division I level. As of 2010, Spokane’s major daily newspaper, The Spokesman-Review, had a daily circulation of beyond 76,000.