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Board votes to extend chancellor’s term

Board votes to extend chancellor’s term

By Abraham Davis abrahamdfrankfurter@gmail.com The City College board of trustees voted unanimously at their closed session on June 28 to extend Chancellor Mark Rocha’s contract until June 30, 2022. Rocha was originally hired by City College under a three-year contract that ran from 2017 to 2020. “Thanks

Student’s college family lays him to rest

Student’s college family lays him to rest

By David Mamaril Horowitz dhorowitz@theguardsman.com Daine Faolan Grey, a transgender City College student, found his family at the college Queer Resource Center. And his family laid him to rest after he took his own life on July 2. For two weeks, Grey’s estranged family did not claim

Fall 2019 Classes

Fall 2019 Classes

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College joins Online Education Initiative

By Laurie Maemura maemuralaurie@gmail.com Education Technology department chair Carol H. Reitan announced in an email that City College was chosen in California Community Colleges’ Online Education Initiative on May 2, 2018. “The Academic Senate voted to approve a resolution for our participation,” Reitan wrote in the email. City

New shower access policy a change only on paper

New shower access policy a change only on paper

By Victor Tence victortence@gmail.com Approximately 30 people have registered for a new program which officially grants access to the shower facilities at Ocean Campus to students experiencing homelessness. Acting on an assembly bill passed in 2016, the City College board of trustees approved the shower access policy at

New law means new hope for students in remedial classes

New law means new hope for students in remedial classes

By Lisa Martin lisamartin.562@gmail.com The days when City College students slowly worked their way through remedial math and English classes will soon be ending with California Assembly Bill 705, which requires all California community colleges to maximize the number of students entering and completing college-level, transferable math

Public records show systemic problems at Multi-Use Building

Public records show systemic problems at Multi-Use Building

By Sarah Lapidus Special to The Guardsman More than 700 facilities work orders have been issued over the last four years against Ocean Campus’ $40 million Multi-Use Building (MUB), with more than 200 of them still open, according to public records obtained by The Guardsman. This dramatically dwarfs the number