Valeria Jaramillo: I'm a geology major. I used to be a business major, but after taking one geology class it just changed my mind and i knew that's what I wanted to do. Connie Bordman (Dean of SEM and Project Director of HSI): I'd like to introduce Dr. Fierro, the president of Cerritos Community College and welcome you to our...

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Student retention and bringing in new full-time students is imperative for Cerritos College's future. That was the overlying message at the 2016-17 Budget Forum where President Jose Fierro presented the budget for this school year to different constituent groups on campus."We increased the number of faculty (23 new teachers and nine new counselors). We increased the salaries of all the...

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You’ve heard baby-boomers say things like “Blah, blah, blah. Millennials are stupid. Fire burns. Technology is bad. Thomas Edison was a witch.” Being on one’s phone more than grandma is not in and of itself a habit deserving of condemnation. One is, however, wasting the blessing of nearly boundless information at the tips of one’s fingers by spending hours upon...

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"The concert was amazing. It was fun, serious at the same time, [while] being exposed to contemporary music, I learned to appreciate it," music major Oscar Franco said about the concert hosted by the Dr. Christine Lopez and the music department. The concert was held on Friday, Sept. 23 at the Burnight Center."We know [Dr. Christine Lopez] from the piano...

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Biology major Daisy Allere was asked by a friend in her history class to go to the Compassion in Action Club meeting. She said, "The holistic purpose of this club is to try to help students, like myself, who do not qualify for certain programs because of their household income, when they actually do need help but are not being...

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"If you don’t do something about it, you’re going to have taco trucks on every corner," spokesman for Latinos for Trump and Star Trek enthusiast, Marco Guiterrez said on MSNBC’s All In With Chris Hayes. When estimates of 2.3 to 3.5 million people experiencing homelessness are made by the National Coalition for the Homeless; when 15.3 million children live in...

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Cerritos College Faculty Librarian Paula Pereira and Professor of creative writing at UCR Sara Borjas were invited to speak at Hear My Story, Know My World literature celebration. The event took place on Friday, September 9 at the Student Center."I decided to talk about my book and encourage [students] to talk about their life stories as well hear my own....

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Author Reyna Grande was invited into the Cerritos College Student Center to speak about her experiences as a community college student. The event took place on Friday, Sept. 9. Grande said, "My message for the students was to continue to persevere[...] to have goals for the future, and to not let any obstacles inhibit them from becoming the people that...

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Books are exorbitant, usually costing upwards of $300 for full-time students; many times the textbooks are not used. Often instructors merely use the book to give busy work or as an educational crutch so that they don’t have to teach. These professors should be replaced with ones who respect the students’ intellect and time. Usually a school uses one publisher...

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