Before serving as a counselor for Disability Services and Programs for Students (DSPS), Toni Newman worked for seven years as a special education teacher. For the last three years, Newman has served as...
Since the pandemic began, City College staffers at the Puente Project have been working to connect with Latinx students online to outfit them with school supplies, books and other necessities. Alejandra...
When City College shut down the campus in March, transitioning online due to COVID-19, Kevin Flash, dean of Learning Resources, realized that the 30 Chromebooks he had on hand to loan to students would...
When the word came from the Los Rios Community College District in March that all campuses would close due to the COVID-19 shutdown order, Ken Times knew that the ASHÉ Center had to adjust quickly.
Because...
What once was the bustling City College Child Development Center, filled with children’s laughter on the playground, is now an empty, fenced-in area with no specific date when the campus’s youngest...
Jordan McGowan, City College Panthers’ football wide receiver coach, grew up with a keen awareness of race. As the son of a father who was active in the Black Panther Party and a white mother who was...
In an email to staff and faculty, President Michael Gutierrez announced an initiative designed to nurture Black students with increased focus and to better ensure their success. Gutierrez stated that...
In the 35 years Karen Chewning has spent as operations technician for City College, she has seen the campus through more than most. Almost every relocation, renovation, addition or demolition the school...
Current chair of psychology department Professor Mark Dennis has been teaching at City College since fall 2014. A former marriage and family therapist, Dennis shares his insights on the psychological...
Kim Church is a professor of communication at City College, where she teaches her students about rhetorician Kenneth Burke’s view on humans as symbol-using and symbol-misusing beings. When she’s not...
This is the story of how Vickie Nevis came to be incarcerated and then turned her life around. Nevis had a rough start to life and she turned to drugs and crime. While incarcerated she decided to change her life–take college classes and get clean. After being released she took classes with Los Rios colleges and became a functioning member of society.