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The PCC transfer rate jumped almost 25 percent last year, officials reported.

    California community colleges will face dire consequences if  the governor’s tax initiative is rejected by voters in November, Community College Chancellor Jack Scott said Tuesday.

24 hour tutoring is being implemented via website through a company called Smart Thinking, beginning in June, officials say.

Voting in the Associated Students 2012-2013 Executive Board general elections is under way, with results expected on Friday.

After working at the Shatford Library for 32 years, Mary Ann Laun has decided to retire and pursue other goals. “I would like for people to remember me as a passionate person and always saying yes to students,” said recently.

The number of class sections being offered this fall has been cut by almost 8 percent from the previous year. The number of sections will drop from 2,361 last year, to 2,180, officials said this week.

            Almost everyone has seen one: the little square images that look like digitized ink blots appearing on ads outside store windows and in newspapers. They’re called “Quick Response” codes, QR for short, and they allow access to information in the physical world as if from a link on the internet, by pressing a button.

The Shatford Library is shifting its current database to a new catalog database, according to library Dean Mary Ann Laun.

The Associated Students’ Sustainability Committee will sponsor it’s third annual Sustainable Living Week starting Tuesday, with a series of sustainability documentary screenings and workshops run by local organizers with environmental groups like Transition Nela, Can Coffee, and Arroyo Seco Foundation.

A strong advocate and supporter of undocumented youth and the Dream Act, Evelyn Cortez-Davis, author of “December Sky: Beyond My Undocumented Life” has many roles.