page_title: Los Angeles Trade–Technical College
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Los Angeles Trade–Technical College / History
caption_attribution_description: Original building of Frank Wiggins Trade School, Los Angeles, ca 1920. Relocated to old St. Vincent’s College campus, ca 1957, as Los Angeles Trade Technical College.
context_page_description: Los Angeles Trade–Technical College is a public community college in Los Angeles, California. It offers academic courses towards 4-year colleges and vocational training programs. It is part of the Los Angeles Community College District and is accredited by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges, Western Association of Schools and Colleges, The American Culinary Federation, and the National League of Nursing among others.
  The 25-acre campus is located just south of the Historic Core of Los Angeles. The campus is served by the Metro Busway J Line, Grand/LATTC Station of the Metro Rail A Line and the LATTC/Ortho Institute of the E Line and is approximately one mile north of the University of Southern California.
context_section_description: Founded as the Frank Wiggins Trade School in 1925, the college is the oldest of the nine campuses of the Los Angeles Community College District. After World War II, the school moved to the former campus of Metropolitan Polytechnical High School, which had relocated to Sun Valley. It then expanded the campus and became known as Metropolitan College.
  In 1954, the school was renamed Trade–Technical Junior College. In 1969, the college became a part of the Los Angeles Community College District.
  L.A. Trade Tech's fashion design program is the oldest in Los Angeles, having started in 1925.
  The college drew some national attention in 2017 when an internal investigation found that some students were awarded fraudulent grades for algebra courses.  The following year, another internal investigation alleged that two of the school's administrators improperly claimed more than $157,000 from a federal training grant; one left the college and the other has been placed on leave pending a federal criminal investigation. In 2019, 127 of the college's faculty members voted "no confidence" in the college president alleging that he failed to adequately address these scandals.
caption: The original Frank Wiggins Trade School in LA’s Historic Core, ca 1925.
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