Share: For passersby office CA-102 in the Visual Arts and Media Studies Department (VAMS), it looks like a regular workspace. But for everyone on campus who knew longtime PCC administrative assistant Cheryl Cornelious-Ayala, it will always be a special place because of her kindness, generosity, and warmth. Follow:
PCC Survival Guide: How to navigate the new semester
Share: Several clubs and organizations opened for business by positioning tents throughout the quad on Aug. 26 for Welcome Week, an event that helps students easily transition into the new school year. Participants included the Office of Student Life (OSL), Cross Cultural Center (CCC), Associated Students of PCC (ASPCC), Extended Opportunity Programs and Services (EOP&S), Student Health Services, and the Formerly Incarcerated Radical Scholars Team (FIRST). Campus Organizations The OSL aims to help support students, spread cultural awareness, and provide leadership opportunities. Its services offer …
Blotter: Audition reel scream cues action from PCCPD
Share: Monday, Aug. 19 A male subject called from a callbox to report that his head was bleeding after he hit it on a doorway in the W building. The subject was treated by the Pasadena Fire Department and released. The subject is a known transient with a prior head injury. Staff reported a female yelling “help me” and banging on a door adjacent to C229. She self identified as a former student, performing for an audition reel. The subject was escorted from the premises …
Police Blotter: Unknown suspect attempted to take a picture of a student using the restroom
Share: Monday, April 22, 2019 A student and a staff member engaged in a verbal altercation at the Community Education Center. Officer made contact and advised the student to leave. Staff reported students trespassing on the track. Officer escorted them off campus. Officers made contact with student regarding their behavior. Suspicious individual was reported attempting to steal a bicycle. When confronted by officers, individual said the bicycle was theirs. A disruptive student refused to leave a classroom. Officers made contact before student left. Report was …
Police blotter: Person found sleeping inside school elevator
Share: Monday, March 18 A person reported a student being harassed inside C building. Offices arrived to the area and made contact with the parties; subjects were then counseled and escorted off campus. A cadet reported there were two male subjects involved in a physical altercation south of D building. Officer contacted both males and they advised they were not fighting. A staff member reported a female yelling at an employee inside of C-235. Officer made contact with the female and escorted her off campus. …
Academic Senate sets a reminder for new PCC calendar
Share: The Academic Senate’s (AS) spring session ended while discussing a plan currently underway to study changes to the school calendar, for Winter 2021, leaving senators to ponder the possibilities after their final meeting on June 3. Follow:
Historic voter turnout leads to decertified election results, election redo
Share: The Associated Students (AS) elections held two weeks ago that had been certified have been decertified due to fraudulent voting behavior uncovered by the campus IT department and the Institutional Planning and Research Office (IPRO), which is in charge of conducting the elections. Candidates were to re-campaign this week in preparation for the reopening of the polls from Thursday June 6 at 12:01 a.m. to Friday June 7 11:59 p.m. Follow:
Sorry, not sorry: Administration apology to Senate is buried by justification
Share: Stephanie Fleming, Dean of Instructional Services, appeared Monday on behalf of Terry Giugni, Assistant Superintendent / Vice President of Instruction, with a partial apology for the exclusion of the Academic Senate (AS) from discussions to extend the pass/no pass (P/NP) grading option to June 28, after final letter grades are posted in specific English and math classes. Fleming, while serving as dean, also teaches online classes in speech communication. She was formerly on the AS executive committee. Upon quietly entering the Circadian during the …
English faculty held back because of administration’s lack of communication
Share: With the implementation of AB 705 underway across California community colleges, the English division on campus is scrambling to find an appropriate model that will cater to the law as well as student success. Follow:
$300,000 donation reinvents PCC career center
Share: Following its well-coordinated fundraising pitch and low-key two month gestation, the Robert G. Freeman Center for Career and Completion, a newly remodeled and renamed space in the existing IT building near Hill Avenue, opened May 16 as a hub to cultivate students’ academic progress and career growth. The Freeman Center (FC), its informal name, features a large, bright open space with several glass walls. There are small private offices with windows and doors, semi-private seating, rolling whiteboards, and a retractable screen for presentations. The …