Chaffey College is a public community college in the San Bernardino County city of Rancho Cucamonga, California, United States, in the northern part of the community of Alta Loma. Chaffey provides students with different classes and programs, including business, science, the arts, history, philosophy, psychology, and RN and LVN nursing programs. Chaffey College is the oldest community college in California. The school was established in Ontario in 1883, when city founders and brothers George and William Chaffey donated land and established an endowment for a private college. The private... school was founded as the Chaffey College of Agriculture of the University of Southern California; USC, also a private university, had been founded three years earlier in nearby Los Angeles. The cornerstone of the new school was laid on March 17, 1883 at Fourth and Euclid in Ontario; it opened on October 15, 1885. The original institution included a secondary school and was run by USC until 1901. During this period, Chaffey's football team had a 1-1 series with the young USC football team, winning 32-6 in 1893 and losing 38-0 in 1897.
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