City College students receive extra grant

Whitney Lawrence
December 11, 2007

City College students who qualified to receive Pell Grant awards this semester got more than they bargained for when an extra check was made out to them in addition to the two scheduled payouts during the semester, a direct effect of the passage of the College Cost Reduction Act. Since its passage in... Read more »

District has new boss for facilities

Nailah Edmondson
December 11, 2007

Experienced project manager David Umstot took over the facilities management vice chancellor position in the San Diego City College District this summer. As vice chancellor just a few of his duties are managing Propositions S and N management of maintenance, custodial and grounds keeping operations at... Read more »

San Diego mini-dorm law passes City Council

Kim Swain
December 11, 2007

SAN DIEGO (U-WIRE) – San Diego lawmakers added another law to a growing number of ordinances designed to combat the prevalence of mini-dorms, but put off another for further consideration in January. The San Diego City Council voted in a 6-1 decision last month to pass the Residential High Occupancy... Read more »

City Times receives numerous awards

December 11, 2007

City Times swept an entire category in the college journalism division of the San Diego Press Club’s annual awards in November. The accomplishment is part of several local and regional awards the student newspaper has won in the past six months. Seven current and former staff members won awards... Read more »

City Middle College graduates 25 students

Christopher Bloss
December 11, 2007

Twenty-five City Middle College (CMC) students received their College Certificate of Completion at noon Dec. 7 in a ceremony being held in the faculty/staff cafeteria. CMC was founded seven years ago, under City College Vice President of Instruction Ron Manzoni, with the hope of giving at-risk students... Read more »

Marathon man kicks the habit and runs

Nailah edmondson
December 11, 2007

“Lemons, make lemonade out of them because there is never ever going to be an adversity so huge that you can’t overcome, Bill Aaron said. The diagnoses of full blown AIDS was discovered November 5th 1996 when he was hospitalized for a thrush fungal infection which took a third of his body... Read more »

Student fees may go up at San Diego State

Alanna Berman
December 11, 2007

SAN DIEGO (U-WIRE) At $15 per semester, San Diego State University has one of the lowest Student Body Association Fees in the California State University system, and it is still far below the annual average of $129 per year. Currently, the combined revenue is about $1 million, funding programs such as... Read more »