Showing posts with label Long Beach City College. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Long Beach City College. Show all posts
Thursday, May 19, 2022

California 'Under Rising Pressure' From New Coronavirus Surge

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According to this mornings WSJ newsletter, "The latest Covid surge expands beyond the Northeast": Places from the Midwest to Flor...
Tuesday, September 14, 2021

Biden Campaigns for Newsom at Long Beach City College (VIDEO)

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My school. The security was intense . At LAT , " In final campaign push with Newsom, Biden says ‘eyes of the nation’ are on California ...
Wednesday, September 1, 2021

Massive Financial Aid Scam Hits California Community Colleges

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This is nasty scam. My division dean mentioned it last week and she sent out a long email notice to all department faculty members today. Na...
Thursday, April 23, 2020

LBCC Loses Nearly $2 Million Amid Coronavirus

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Yeah, but my college is expected to get $14 million from the Care package passed by Congress. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ At the Long Beach Press-Telegram: ...
Monday, May 27, 2019

University Libraries Are Seeing Precipitous Declines in the Use of the Books on Their Shelves

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Well, few students read, at least on my campus. It's very hard to get them to complete their assignments, especially in the introductory...
Friday, May 3, 2019

Long Beach City College Gun Scare Lockdown (VIDEO)

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My college's Pacific Coast Campus was on lockdown yesterday, although it turned out the weapon was a fake gun, I guess to be used in som...
Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Rep. Linda Sánchez Takes the Heat

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I use Rep. Rep. Linda Sánchez as an example of newer-style Members of Congress and congressional careers. She represents the 38th district, ...
Wednesday, November 22, 2017

The Soft Bigotry of School Discipline Reform

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This is an amazing piece, at the Fordham Institute : Simon Whitehead, a former teacher, gives his take on why not all forms of #school #di...
Monday, July 31, 2017

Jackie Johnson's Increasing Humidity Forecast

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I started updating my fall syllabi at the office today, and got further along on my American government classes than I expected. I'm mak...
Friday, November 11, 2016

Long Beach City College Announces Post-Election Student Support and Resources

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I haven't heard about any hateful incidents, but my college is joining other institutions around the country in creating "safe spac...
Monday, July 18, 2016

LBCC's Eloy Ortiz Oakley Selected as California Community Colleges Chancellor

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He's the president of my college, moving on to greener, more powerful pastures. At the Long Beach Press-Telegram, " BREAKING: Lon...
Monday, June 20, 2016

Free Speech Farce: How One College Lets Students Censor Debate

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From Jillian Kay Melchior, at Heat Street, " Muzzled Professors: An Inside Look at How One College Lets Students Censor Classroom Debat...
Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Quoted in LBCC's Viking Newspaper

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Following-up from last night, " Hillary Clinton Rallies Supporters at Long Beach City College (VIDEO) ." The college newspaper c...
Monday, June 6, 2016

Hillary Clinton Rallies Supporters at Long Beach City College (VIDEO)

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The college just announced the Clinton visit on Friday, which was relatively short notice. I wasn't all that thrilled about it, especi...
Thursday, June 2, 2016

Didn't Feel Well Yesterday

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I had a wonderful long Memorial Day weekend, but yesterday was a strange day at work. Mostly, I was upset at the news of the UCLA shooting...
Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Vivian Malauulu Beats Incumbent Irma Archuleta in Race for LBCC District Board Election

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This is good news for my faculty union, which has been campaigning hard to elect a pro-faculty majority to the college's elected board o...
Friday, April 8, 2016

Cal State Faculty Agree to Tentative Contract

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Perhaps the threat of the strike brought about some concessions from the CSU negotiators. I hope so, because my union's in contract ne...
Saturday, March 12, 2016

Back from Pearson Revel Community Forum at the Laguna Cliffs Marriott Hotel, Dana Point

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I attended a teaching conference this weekend in Dana Point. I tweeted: At a teaching conference today, in Dana Point. Taking a break fr...
Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Moving the Goalposts: What Feminist 'Rape Culture' Discourse Is About

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An epic post, from Robert Stacy McCain, at the Other McCain . Cited there is Susan Shaw and Janet Lee, eds., Women's Voices, Feminist ...
Friday, August 21, 2015

End of Summer Savings

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Actually, it's not the end of summer so much as it's the end of my summer, heh. The semester starts back up on Monday and today I...