As the semester comes to an end, hundreds of students were recognized and awarded for their Associated Student Body and Student Senate involvement, volunteer work and leadership skills at ceremonies and receptions.
The PCC awards reception started the awards season by including five Crystal Awards and 27 honors certificates to leadership groups.
Author Marisa Silver visited the LAC on Tuesday, May 6 in the English Lounge to read an excerpt from her novel "The God Of War" just released April 29 by Simon and Schuster. The event was sponsored by the LBCC Foundation.
English teacher Christina Guillen introduced Silver and wanted to bring the author to campus after becoming a fan of her first book and went to one of her signings.
Former LBCC employee Shallan Tunupopo plead guilty to three years of probation at her preliminary hearing Monday, May 5 for felony charges, a Long Beach court official said Monday, May 12.
Tunupopo was arrested April 17 for conspiring with Long Beach resident Maria A.
LBCC teachers received a 5.8 percent salary increase in a 141-124 vote ending Friday, April 25. The voting marked the conclusion of an 18-month negotiation between the full-time teachers union and the LBCC District.
Chief negotiator for the teacher's union Adrian Novotny said, "Teachers will receive a 5.
A vote to increase child-care fees was approved by the Board of Trustees in a meeting Tuesday, April 22 at the LAC.
The increase, which would start this Fall and covers fees through 2011, would cut the budget deficit to $63,000, down from the $675,000 loss the program now faces.
The LAC Reading and Writing center conducted a workshop on "The Skeletons in Your Sentences" in D102 on Tuesday, April 15.
The workshop helped students to understand basic sentence structure. Professor Julie Adele led the workshop. The center workshops are free and require no registration and any LBCC student may attend.
Hoping to attract women to jobs that pay $35 an hous, LBCC presented the Women in the Trade job fair Wednesday, April 16.
Employers are offering apprenticeship programs so students can earn money as they learn.
The programs in PCC's Student Center encourage women to look to non-traditional jobs as a career choice.
May 31 will mark a temporary end of the federal work study program that will resume in the Fall.
The program won't be available to students for the Summer semester because funds won't be available. . To protect funds for the 2008-09 year, the suspension is being implemented.
May 31 will mark a temporary end of the federal work study program that will resume in the Fall.
The program won't be available to students for the Summer semester because funds won't be available. . To protect funds for the 2008-09 year, the suspension is being implemented.
For the first time in its 18-year history as a club, the Sigma Pi chapter of the American Criminal Justice Association took home the top honor of Spirit Award at the 71st national conference.
"We were elated and overjoyed that we had won the top honor for LBCC," Sigma Pi Chapter adviser and teacher Gregory Slaughter said.
