in 1970, the college separated from the san francisco unified school district. the college continued to hold noncredit education programs throughout san francisco's neighborhoods. however, as a result of ccsf's rapid growth, the san francisco community college district divided the programs between a division for credit courses at the ocean campus and one other division for noncredit courses throughout locations in san francisco. the two educational divisions merged as a single division in 1990 with program locations held at campuses of city college of san francisco.