Los Angeles Southwest College

Los Angeles Southwest College (LASC) is a public community college in the unincorporated area of West Athens, California in Los Angeles County, California.

[2] It is part of the Los Angeles Community College District and its service area includes Inglewood, Hawthorne, Gardena, Unincorporated Westmont, and West Athens.

Los Angeles Southwest College was established in 1967,[1] two years after the Watts riots, in response to complaints of both officials and citizens that not enough was being done to educate the area's mostly African American population.

As a "green campus", LASC has a college-wide recycling program and will have the majority of its building meeting some level of LEED standard.

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Aerial view of LA Southwest College from the south, with the I-105 freeway in foreground and practice baseball fields .