Community Colleges Preserve G.I. Bill’s 70-Year Promise
It is a promise that never will be broken. Seventy years ago on June 22, 1944, our nation made a commitment to the 16 million veterans returning from World War II by enacting the Servicemen’s...
View Article46 New Faculty Hired as Community College Classes Start
Fall semester classes start Monday at City, Mesa and Miramar colleges, and San Diego Community College District has 46 new full-time faculty to help handle the load. The additions mark the second time...
View ArticleBrown Urged to Sign Off on 4-year Community College Degrees
San Diego civic leaders gathered outside a factory making underwater robots to urge Gov. Jerry Brown’s signature on a bill that would let community colleges offer four-year degrees in technical...
View ArticleA 1st for Mesa College: $2.6 Million Grant to Benefit Latinos
Mesa College has been awarded a $2.62 million Title V federal grant to serve Latino, first generation and low-income students, two years after becoming eligible for the funding. Mesa was among nearly...
View ArticleMiraCosta OK’d for Biomanufacturing Baccalaureate Degree
MiraCosta College learned Tuesday that it will be one of 15 community colleges in California tapped to host a pilot baccalaureate program. “This is an historic moment not just for California’s...
View ArticleMiraCosta Opens Technology Training Center in Carlsbad
MiraCosta College has opened a new Technology Career Institute in Carlsbad offering cutting-edge training in machining, robotics, biotech manufacturing and other high-demand skills. The facility allows...
View ArticleMarty Block Quits Race vs. Toni Atkins, Mulls State Chancellor Job
State Sen. Marty Block says he’s “very at peace” with his decision to quit his race for re-election against Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins. What shaped up to be a brutal campaign among Democrats for the...
View ArticleCommunity Colleges Preserve G.I. Bill’s 70-Year Promise
It is a promise that never will be broken. Seventy years ago on June 22, 1944, our nation made a commitment to the 16 million veterans returning from World War II by enacting the Servicemen’s...
View Article46 New Faculty Hired as Community College Classes Start
Fall semester classes start Monday at City, Mesa and Miramar colleges, and San Diego Community College District has 46 new full-time faculty to help handle the load. The additions mark the second time...
View ArticleBrown Urged to Sign Off on 4-year Community College Degrees
San Diego civic leaders gathered outside a factory making underwater robots to urge Gov. Jerry Brown’s signature on a bill that would let community colleges offer four-year degrees in technical...
View ArticleA 1st for Mesa College: $2.6 Million Grant to Benefit Latinos
Mesa College has been awarded a $2.62 million Title V federal grant to serve Latino, first generation and low-income students, two years after becoming eligible for the funding. Mesa was among nearly...
View ArticleMiraCosta OK’d for Biomanufacturing Baccalaureate Degree
MiraCosta College learned Tuesday that it will be one of 15 community colleges in California tapped to host a pilot baccalaureate program. “This is an historic moment not just for California’s...
View ArticleMiraCosta Opens Technology Training Center in Carlsbad
MiraCosta College has opened a new Technology Career Institute in Carlsbad offering cutting-edge training in machining, robotics, biotech manufacturing and other high-demand skills. The facility allows...
View ArticleMarty Block Quits Race vs. Toni Atkins, Mulls State Chancellor Job
State Sen. Marty Block says he’s “very at peace” with his decision to quit his race for re-election against Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins. What shaped up to be a brutal campaign among Democrats for the...
View ArticleTransfers to San Diego State, CSU San Marcos to Get Basic Skills Help
Help is on the way for community college students in San Diego County who want to transfer to one of the local Cal State University campuses. A $2 million grant will support a program giving area...
View ArticleWhat an ‘Official State Dinosaur’ Says about Education in California
How apt that the California State Assembly recently voted to make the duck-billed Augustynolophus morrissi the official state dinosaur. It existed 66 million years ago, lived by the beach and was a...
View ArticleWhat an ‘Official State Dinosaur’ Says about Education in California
How apt that the California State Assembly recently voted to make the duck-billed Augustynolophus morrissi the official state dinosaur. It existed 66 million years ago, lived by the beach and was a...
View ArticleGov. Brown’s Plan for Online Community College Training Faces Skepticism
Laticia Middleton perches in front of a computer at the Greater Sacramento Urban League’s job center, scanning employment ads. At 30, with two children, a high school diploma and a job at a call...
View ArticleOpinion: It’s Time to Reconsider The Role And Future of Community Colleges
At our local community colleges we call spring our “Smile Season.” In April and May, you begin to see a huge increase in the number of smiles at San Diego’s community colleges and in our continuing...
View ArticleSurvey Finds Many Community College Students Face Food, Housing Insecurity
A statewide survey released Thursday by researchers at Temple University found that roughly a fifth of community college students in San Diego faced housing instability last year and between one-third...
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