Jamba Juice or Starbucks? Carl’s Jr. or Panda Express? Why not all of them? The Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) has recently put out a Request for Proposals (RFP) for anyone interested in embarking on a new construction project that will feature a food court as well as a commissary for one of its bigger campuses-Pierce College.
Despite a very tight schedule of only three weeks and various behind the scenes administrative issues, during the winter intercession, 30 classrooms around the Pierce College botanical garden received a face-lift. These classrooms are located in the Math, English, Social Science and Behavioral Science buildings.
With four of seven seats on the L.A. Community College District (LACCD) board of trustees on the ballot this Tuesday, the battle for control in the country’s largest community college district is heating up. The Alliance for Education, a reform group headed by former trustee Pat Owens, is running a slate of four candidates against the four incumbents, and two independent candidates have joined the race for seat five on the board.
At the Jan. 24 Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees meeting, Associated Students Organization President Abraham White disclosed a program that would involve the renting of expensive textbooks. The program will provide the opportunity for students to rent the most expensive books by paying a small amount to use them for the entire semester.
Amidst a flurry of lumber litter and wet paint, the “Future Village” sits at the center of the largest-scale and most complex plan in recent Pierce College history. Estimated to span the course of five years and cost in the hundreds of millions of dollars, the Village project is at the very least an impressive undertaking.
A suspicious package became the focus of a bomb squad investigation Feb. 20 after an anonymous caller reported the object, located atop a parking permit meter, to campus sheriffs. Shortly before 7 p.m. deputies began to restrict access to the area of parking lot seven directly in front of the Child Development Center, which was closed at the time.
In today’s fast-paced world it is difficult to find things that require us to observe thoroughly and apply conceptual thinking, but the artwork from five different artists featured in two concurrent exhibits at the Pierce College Art Gallery through March 8 accomplish that goal easily.
The information technology department is embarking on the first stage of developing a strategic plan to address the issues that have long plagued the campus. Up to now, “things have been done in an ad hoc fashion,” said Mark Henderson, manager, college information systems.
You always hear about how important it is to vote. It’s your right, nay, it’s your obligation as a citizen of this great country to participate in democracy. But voting is such a hassle. First, you have to register. Then, you have to buy a bigger mailbox to hold all the “information” you will be receiving from candidates, political action committees and other interested parties.
Somebody call the Geek Squad. Pierce College is far from the forefront of technology. It’s like the little red schoolhouse that tried but just couldn’t. There are countless problems when it comes to using any high technology on this campus. In the past two months, several dramatic and important technological changes have occurred on campus and the Information Technology (IT) department has failed to meet the needs of these changes, causing big problems.
