Share: OLIVE YOUNG, South Korea’s biggest health and beauty retailer, opened its first U.S. store in Pasadena on Friday, May 29, 2026. “Pasadena is proud to welcome OLIVE YOUNG to our city as part of our continued efforts to foster a vibrant, diverse, and globally connected local economy,” said Pasadena Mayor Victor Gordo, at the store’s opening ceremony. OLIVE YOUNG’s Global Communications Lead Rena Kim shared that the company decided to open a physical store in the U.S. since it represents the world’s largest beauty …
Students continue to stay longer at junior college, but for varying reasons
Share: As college admissions roll in, some second year Pasadena City College (PCC) students will transfer to 4 year universities while others are staying longer than planned. Regardless of growing stigmas, many students have taken pride in their decision to spend more time in junior college, as they say it offers them time to figure out their educational aspirations. “When I was a student at PCC, I started in [the] Fall semester of 2019…I finally left PCC in June of 2025,” said Alyssa Velasquez, a …
Internship program for students cancelled this year due to funding constraints
Share: With no warning or official announcement about its cancellation, Pasadena City College (PCC)’s annual internship program Intern Pasadena will not continue for the 2026 summer cycle due to limited grants. Intern Pasadena was first launched by PCC’s Freeman Career Center in the summer of 2024. The program gained its funding from the PCC Foundation through a grant called the Community Excellence Grant, designed to fund innovative projects of faculty and staff. This grant comes from the $30 million Mackenzie Scott grant the college received …
BLOTTER: Homeless person urinated near the L Building, exposing himself to staff
Share: Monday, May 25, 2026 No activities were reported on this day. Tuesday, May 26, 2026 12:27 a.m. – An officer contacted two people after hours near the Campus Center and they were escorted off campus. 12:37 a.m. – An officer encountered an individual with a dog in Parking Lot 4 and 10:56 a.m. – Complaints were made about an individual causing a disturbance at the CEC Campus and complied after being advised to stop being disruptive. 4:14 p.m. – A person was transported to …
PCC students and staff adjust to common course numbering rollout
Share: Pasadena City College students and staff have been adjusting to new course numbers after the college began implementing California’s Common Course Numbering System in Fall of 2025 to make transfer credits easier to understand across community colleges. The Common Course Numbering system, or CCN, is a statewide effort to give comparable courses the same course number across all California community colleges. The goal is to make it easier for students to understand which classes count the same at different colleges and reduce the chances …
PCC’s use of AI posters rubs students the wrong way
Share: This semester, generative Artificial Intelligence has been spotted on posters around Pasadena City College (PCC)’s campus for resources such as the Music Department, Musical Theatre Workshop, Blackacedamia, and the Black Success Center. Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) has been a rising trend since 2020, as companies compete today for further advancements of generative AI, the public gains further access to AI tools. Online, AI has been used to produce video content, generate marketing materials, formulate websites, and infiltrate the visual arts community to cut …
Former women’s basketball coach named a Hall of Famer regardless of allegations
Share: Last May, Pasadena City College women’s basketball coach Joe Peron was inducted into the Athletic Hall of Fame, despite Peron being put on administrative leave at the start of the 2025-2026 season due to an ongoing investigation into his behavior with the team. Two players, who want to remain anonymous, reported being verbally harassed, having their money stolen, and even being hit by Coach Peron. It’s commonly known that coaching at the collegiate level often comes with a hard and pushy attitude, with coaches …
‘A part of ethnic studies is community building’: PCC faculty strive for new department
Share: For the past few years, Pasadena City College (PCC) faculty have strived to establish an ethnic studies department on campus and their efforts have come to fruition as on Monday, June 1, 2026, the department’s pioneers hosted an ethnic studies mixer to promote the approved department. The mixer was held in order to educate PCC students on the benefits of instituting a new ethnic studies department, while also opening social sciences professors’ ears to feedback. The struggle to establish a concrete ethnic studies department …
PCC secures funding for wellness vending machine
Share: A wellness vending machine, which would carry products such as condoms, Narcan, tampons and Plan B, is in the works to arrive on Pasadena City College’s (PCC) campus after securing grant funding. The American College Health Foundation and the American Society for Emergency Contraception grants were awarded to PCC through Student Health Services, paving the way for the machine to get up and running. The plan for the vending machine is still in progress, but a predevelopment student survey conducted by Student Health Services …
Are PCC students voting for California governor?
Share: California’s Primary Election, which will help decide the state’s new governor after incumbent Gavin Newsom’s term has ended, takes place on Tuesday June 2, 2026. The Courier spoke to PCC students who are eligible to vote to see how they felt about the election, as well as issues they care most about. “I’m going to be honest. None of the candidates seem very appealing,” Business major Kimberley Chen said of the governor’s race. She hadn’t voted as of Monday afternoon, but plans to side …