Northwest Campus

In collaboration with Pasadena City College (PCC), students engage in a rigorous, four-year program, earning up to two years of transferable college credit while in high school.

Pasadena City College has a Northwest campus located at John Muir High School. Early College courses are offered through PCC on John Muir’s campus. Students can earn up to two years of college credits that meet Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum (IGETC) while earning a high school diploma.

All course fees and materials are FREE for high school students who are California residents.

Early College students are enrolled in one of three career-focused academies.  Academies are aligned with students interests and career goals and are supported by leading industry partners who provide career-related experiential learning including field trips, job shadows, internships, and guest speakers.  

A letter from the California Community Colleges Chancellor, Sonya Christian 

In July 2023, we presented to the Board of Governors (BOG) Vision 2030: A Roadmap for California Community Colleges. It was a call to action for our 116 colleges to lead with equity and excellence, act with urgency, and serve as a force for economic mobility, environmental stewardship, and community resilience.

Two years later we are presenting Vision 2030 - The July 2025 Edition. We are not changing directions. We are recommitting to our shared three goals–Equity in Access, Equity in Success, and Equity in Support, while incorporating what we have learned over the past 18 months, clarifying our approach to innovation and sustainability, defining the infrastructure development and policy framework necessary to advance the ambitious goals, and expanding our plan to incorporate the challenges and opportunities emerging across our system, our state, our nation, and the world.

We have already begun to see the results of Vision 2030, with significant enrollment increases across the system, particularly in communities that have been historically excluded or underserved by higher education. These early outcomes affirm that our work is having a positive impact, yet we know our work is far from being done. Vision 2030 demands that no student feels disaffected, alienated, or left behind. At the heart of Vision 2030 is a reimagining of access—one that no longer waits for students to come to us. This refresh reaffirms our responsibility to meet learners where they are— through partnerships with community-based organizations, labor, and industry. Our colleges are embedded in communities, honoring learning wherever it occurs: Online, in classrooms, or on the job. The growing infrastructure for Credit for Prior Learning (CPL)—supporting veterans, apprentices, and workers with industry credentials—is vital to unlocking opportunity and advancing economic mobility for California’s working learners. 

We are refreshing Vision 2030 in a time of rapid transformation. Generative AI is changing how students learn, how faculty teach, and how colleges operate. This refresh calls on our colleges to fully engage with both the opportunities and risks of AI, and to create structures that help students, faculty, staff, and administrators thrive in a tech-enhanced world. Our HUMANS-centered principles—adopted by the Board of Governors—prioritize data privacy, human oversight, partnerships that actively guard against algorithmic bias, and notification to users when they are engaging with an AI tool.

We are deepening our leadership in climate action by building pathways to the green economy and embedding sustainability into workforce development, campus operations, and infrastructure. From remote regions to urban centers, our colleges are well-positioned to drive local solutions, like the creation of microgrids for energy resilience. Our curriculum across disciplines must also reflect this moment: our students must graduate, prepared to care for the planet and the communities they serve.

Vision 2030 - The July 2025 Edition invites all of us—students, faculty, staff, administrators, trustees, partners, and lawmakers –to reengage with the work of building the most inclusive, future-focused, student-centered, and worker-centered system of higher education in the nation.

Our greatest challenges enable us to do our greatest work. As we look to the future, we do so with urgency, creativity, and determination. California is a global leader in innovation, and so are our community colleges. The world is watching what we do next. As California goes, so goes the nation.

Thank you for all you do, and for your continued commitment to our students, our colleges, our communities, our planet, and the future of California.

Mission Statement 

Since 1924, Pasadena City College (www.pasadena.edu) has provided the San Gabriel Valley with a high quality, innovative learning environment that inspires student success.  Our academic programs encompass a variety of degrees, transfer programs, certificate of achievement, and occupational skills certificates that challenge students and support progress toward their goals.  Widely recognized as a transfer leader, PCC is one of the California’s top schools for transfers to local universities including the CSU and UC system, USC, Art Center College of Design, Caltech, and more.  

California Community College Vision 2030 recognizes the vital role community colleges play in shaping resilient communities, expanding access, success, and support, and preparing learners to lead in a changing world; while continuing to study and implement strategies that illuminate disparities and ensures that no student – or group of students – feels disaffected or alienated and gets left behind.

People at PCC-Northwest

Administrative

Dr. Oronne Nwaneri
Assistant Dean
onwaneri@pasadena.edu

Staff