Share: In hopes of instilling a better educational experience for Black students at Pasadena City College (PCC), PCC’s English Department is creating a Black English cohort set to begin next Fall. The cohort is a workshop series for English faculty called Pro-Black Mindsets and Classrooms, a collaboration between the English Department and the Office of Institutional Equity, Diversity, and Justice (IEDJ). It hopes to address equity and retention gaps as well as to develop faculty’s pedagogical and curricular objectives to address conscious and unconscious biases. …
Meet your new elected Associated Students Board
Share: THE VOTES ARE IN. From Wednesday, May 13, to Thursday, May 14, Pasadena City College’s (PCC) students voted in the spring general election for the new Associated Students Executive Board (ASPCC) 2026-2027 cycle. According to LancerLife/ASPCC, this year’s election was one where students participated the most, with over 1,000 voting ballots received. It’s time to get to know this year’s PCC student government representatives’ plans and goals. Jesus Cuevas Sanchez (he/him) | President Current President of the CORE Radical Scholars Club and upcoming ASPCC …
Google’s competitors on the rise after AI-reliance backfires
Share: Google and its AI overviews have recently been at the center of discourse after Google “accidentally” teased AI Mode becoming the default search in the future for Chrome, sparking rising popularity in opposing search engines. Backlash intensified towards Google after reports surfaced that Google was testing versions of Chrome that routed searches directly into AI Mode. Google officially clarified that the changes were just experimental in Chrome Canary and Rajan Patel, VP of Engineering for Search at Google, then claimed that the change was …
OLIVE YOUNG opens first U.S. store in Pasadena
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. Pasadena power forward Kimberly Dominguez and point guard Monica Menzies 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 …