Kerry Mehle has been named the Ventura County Community Colleges District Classified Employee of the Year, making this the second year in a row a Moorpark College employee has won after Vance Manakas, the current athletic director, won last year. Mehle was selected out of four nominees at the VCCCD Board of Trustees meeting on Feb. 16. One nominee was...

James Schaap was playing a video game at home when he got a text message from his former colleague at the Student Voice. Schaap's colleague told him that he won first place at a journalism convention for one of the photo illustrations he produced last semester when he was a photo editor. “I'm so honored and I wish I could've...

The “1,000 Scholars” mini-scholarship campaign has been extended to the summer semester for qualifying students. Current students with a good academic standing who meet the criteria, will be able to take one extra class during the summer semester with tuition fees waived, according to the Ventura County Community College District’s press release on March 21. “We are glad to be...

The America's Teaching Zoo held the first day of the annual Spring Spectacular event on Saturday, March 19. The event kicked off with a wildlife theater show called Zoolympics, which is a scripted show based on the upcoming 2016 Olympics. The show had trainers and animals working together performing tricks and participating in different Zoolympics events, such as a scarlet...

Moorpark College will implement two new nursing courses designed for intermediate and advanced nursing students. The Nursing Science Clinical Review - NS MO5L and the Nursing Skills Summer Lab - NS M18 are the new courses. NS MO5L is going to be offered in the fall and spring and NS M18 will only be offered in summer. “The reason why...

Spring has sprung once more and so has the annual Spring Spectacular at the America’s Teaching Zoo. The event begins on March 19 and continues for the next three weekends until April 3.“It’s been a community and zoo tradition,” Mara Rodriguez, zoo operations staff and instructional lab technician said. “It is our longest running event here at the zoo and...

Moorpark College's game design department will welcome Marientina Gotsis to speak about how video games and personal wellness intersect in today's culture and in the future. Marientina Gotsis, research assistant professor of interactive media and games and director of the USC Creative Media & Behavioral Health Center, will speak regarding "Living, Loving, Dying in Games & Virtual Reality" on Thursday,...

Associated Students approved a series of resolutions to push for the use of Open Educational Resources on March 8, which will ease the costs of textbooks for students but still awaits approval from college administration. Encouraging faculty to accelerate the adoption of OER to reduce high textbook costs is part of the AB 798 College Textbook Affordability Act of 2015,...

Associated Students is having their annual election to determine who will fill their positions of student government for the academic year of 2016-17. The application process will be open until April 11 at noon. After that candidates can start campaigning until the voting is held on April 19 and 20. Julie Gonzalez, A. S. president, said being a part of...

Eight thousand visitors came to Nancy Reagan's public memorial to pay their respects on Thursday, March 10, according to Simi Valley Police Department Cmdr. Robert Arabian. Many people from the area and out of the county traveled to Simi Valley to attend the memorial service. Among the many that traveled miles to attend the service was Greg Lowther, a commercial...