Month: April 2010

With the U.S. deficit growing each day and jobs becoming harder to obtain, PCC students are left with thinking of ways to maintain the social life they once took for granted.

The screening committee has chosen six applicants from an original field of 45 for the Board of Trustees to interview in its search for a new PCC president/superintendent.

College classrooms, especially here at PCC, are experimenting with alternative ways of offering courses outside the boundaries of traditional learning and teaching.

At PCC, there are a variety of significantly complicated systems that cool each building. The buildings themselves have been constructed to conserve energy and economy.

PCC’s Speech and Debate program finished its competition season off strong at the Phi Rho Pi National Championship on April 4-11 in New Orleans.

Though the Degree and Transfer Center sees an influx of student inquiry from the months of March to May, when applicants typically receive admissions decisions from universities, year-round support and guidance is always offered.

The Academic Senate is developing a new policy on academic honesty to be ratified by the Board of Trustees to formalize the process of reporting cheating and plagiarism.

The PCC wireless network provides students with access to the web nearly everywhere on campus. This doesn’t mean that their Internet habits have become any more productive.

Representatives from several of Pasadena’s martial arts studios gathered in the Quad on Tuesday to participate in Self-Defense Awareness Day, an event dedicated to the memory PCC professor Mark Epstein, a self-defense instructor who died in March.

Journalism students won a dozen prizes, including the Magazine General Excellence award, at the annual Journalism Association of Community College State Convention held at the Wilshire Grand Hotel in downtown Los Angeles from April 8-10.