Share: Pasadena City College’s enrollment services has recently been awarded a $50,000 grant to streamline its current enrollment process and remove some of the barriers that many students face while trying to enroll at PCC. The current enrollment process requires students to keep track of many different dates and deadlines that are easy to miss with the current system. “The current process is convoluted, we ask our students to do a lot of tasks on their way to starting studies and also continuing their studies …
Board President accused of attempting to terminate Superintendent-President
Share: Former PCC Trustees and the Management Association voiced concerns about Board President Sandra Chen Lau’s alleged attempts to overreach and terminate the current contract of Superintendent-President Dr. Erika Endrijonas at the joint Board of Trustees (BOT) meeting with Associated Students on April 19. Following the election of new trustees Steve Gibson, Kristine Kwong, and Alton Wang and the promotion of Chen Lau to Board President in June 2022, the Board did not formally extend Endrijonas’ contract another year, former PCC President Jack Scott said …
Board of Trustees end Covid state of emergency
Share: The Pasadena City College Board of Trustees passed a resolution to end the Covid state of emergency for the Pasadena Area Community College District in a meeting on April 19. The passing of this resolution will end the vaccine requirement and measures like masking, social distancing, and other Covid modifications for the PCC community by Oct. 31. This decision comes following the Pasadena City Council’s vote to end the local state of emergency on March 6, L.A. County’s declaration to end the state of …
PCCs Anti-War Club sets up info booth in counterprotest to Marines
Share: The Courier reported on PCC’s Anti-War Club’s recent booth protesting the presence of the Marines at PCC. Follow:
Academic Senate passes antiracism policy, pushes board to do the same
Share: In response to concerns about rampant racial injustices during recent years, the Academic Senate’s Social Justice Committee is working with on-campus groups to implement the policies of the antiracism document published at the April 10 Academic Senate meeting. The document, which was drafted after the Students’ Call to Action plan was presented during PCC’s Our Black Lives Matter Listening Forum in 2020, directly acknowledges the growing trend in hate crimes and a plan of action for PCC to follow in the coming years. “Institutional …
Peacocks run afoul of the law in South Pas
Share: Local cities in Southern California, especially the city of South Pasadena, have dealt with growing complaints of peafowl in their cities and have now decided to take action and create ordinances and laws to ban the birds from their city. In October 2022, South Pasadena City Council agreed to a peafowl management plan to trap and remove the peacocks from the city and send them to other locations, a majority of which would be transported to undisclosed locations. “Once peafowl are trapped by the …
BLOTTER: Domestic violence and people sleeping in their cars
Share: Monday April 03, 2023: 12:41 a.m. Patrol officers found someone asleep in their car in front of the CEC on the west side and were told to leave and they did. 12:06 p.m.: Staff reported they were a victim of a hate crime that occurred off campus. A courtesy report was taken and forwarded to the police agency with jurisdiction. 10:51 p.m.: A boyfriend reported that his girlfriend had not come home and her car was found in lot 5 where she explained she …
PCC Library closes briefly due to police investigation
Share: Early Monday morning, PCC released an email to the campus community stating there was police activity at the library concerning a threat. “The PCC library on the Colorado Campus is closed this morning due to police activity,” the email read. In a statement from PCC, spokesperson Alex Boekelheide said that there had been an anonymous threat received against the library, with PCC police and the LA County Sheriff’s investigating the threat this morning. “The Sheriffs and PCC PD investigated the library today and determined …
PCC athletics dean on leave during ongoing investigation
Share: PCC Kinesiology, Health, and Athletics (KHA) Dean Dyan Miller was placed on administrative leave in January after a leaked email allegedly exposed a violation of the school’s hiring policies. On Dec. 14, 2022 eight KHA faculty members presented a vote of no confidence for Miller in a public comment delivered during the Board of Trustees (BOT) meeting by KHA professor and coach William Moore. “Dean Miller facilitates divisiveness and disunity in the division where good, productive and close relations used to exist,” Moore said …