Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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Santa Monica College (SMC) has been named one of MovieMaker's 40 Best Film Schools in the U.S. and Canada of 2022, and one of the top 12 in the U.S. West and Northwest alongside Stanford University, UCLA, USC, ArtCenter College of Design, and California Institute of the Arts, among others. The annual list recognizes schools that prepare students for every aspect of moviemaking-spanning world-renowned universities as well as rising, surprisingly affordable institutions. SMC was recognized for...
The nonprofit Station1-founded by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2016-has selected two Santa Monica College (SMC) students and one SMC alum for its Station1 Frontiers Fellowship (SFF), a fully-funded ten-week education, research, and internship experience focused on socially-directed science and technology. Selected after a competitive application/interview process and out of hundreds of applicants, environmental engineering major Grace Jimenez will intern...
SANTA MONICA, CA-Santa Monica College (SMC) will offer a flexible array of course offerings for the Fall 2021 semester, which begins Aug. 30. While most of the 2,900-plus classes will be online, a significant number of in-person offerings will also be made available. This coincides with Los Angeles County moving into the red tier today-the loosening of restrictions for various sectors includes allowing institutes of higher education like SMC to provide lecture classes at a reduced room...
SANTA MONICA, CA-The Santa Monica College (SMC) Board of Trustees unanimously passed a resolution at their meeting on Tuesday night, Oct. 6 that urges Congress to approve HR 763: Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act. This legislation, if passed, would impose a fee on carbon emissions at their source, with costs passed on to the consumer and fees collected distributed to American households in the form of a dividend. HR 763 is projected to reduce the nation's carbon emissions by at least 40...
The Corsair, Santa Monica College's student-run news outlet, has won an award for "online general excellence" from the Journalism Association of Community Colleges (JACC) and four student photojournalists won individual awards. These wins for the statewide competition were announced Friday, April 17. In addition, two student photojournalists have also won awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association's California Journalism Awards, announced March 31. "Corsair student journalists a...
Editor's Note: What follows is a press release from Santa Monica College. It has not been edited or check for facts. SMC, East Los Angeles College (ELAC), and Orange Coast College were among 23 California Community Colleges across the state to donate ventilators, respirators, and personal protective equipment (PPE) to hospitals fighting COVID-19, the 2019 novel coronavirus. The California Governor's Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) picked up 19 ventilators, six respirators, and several...
Santa Monica College and New Roads School students were presented the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Westside Coalition 2020 Education Awards at a ceremony held January 20 at SGI-USA World Peace Ikeda Auditorium in Santa Monica to commemorate Dr. King's birthday. This year's awards recipients are: • Santa Monica College student Lavay Cole received a 2020 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr Award for a song that Dr. King's principles of nonviolence inspired him to write. Mr. Cole wants to change h...
The Santa Monica College Theatre Arts Department presents "Shakespeare in Love" March 29 - April 7 in the Theatre Arts Main Stage on the main SMC campus, 1900 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica. In the popular rom-com, young playwright Will Shakespeare works on his latest comedy, Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter, and star-crossed lovers bite the forbidden fruit of Elizabethan theatre as a cast of historical players frolic in backstage antics. Based on the screenplay by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard a...
Santa Monica College (SMC) held a "SMC Interaction Design Grad Show," a celebration of the college's first 18 students to earn a Bachelor of Science degree in Interaction Design (IXD). The event - both a showcase of students' portfolios and an industry mixer - was held on Thursday, June 7 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the SMC Center for Media and Design at 1660 Stewart St. in Santa Monica. John Modestine, creative director of Ring-the global home security company owned by Amazon-addressed the student...
Santa Monica College (SMC) is pleased to announce that the SMC Speech and Debate Team won several awards at the Pacific Southwest Collegiate Forensics Association (PSCFA) "Warm Up" Tournament held at El Camino College September 30-October 1. Seven of the 14 SMC students who competed won high-level awards in International Public Debate Association (IPDA) debate, in which each competitor engages in four rounds of one-on-one debate, with only 30 minutes to prepare before each round. SMC students...
The Santa Monica College Pete & Susan Barrett Art Gallery is pleased to present "line-of-site," an exhibition of art by Joseph Dumbacher and John Dumbacher. The exhibition features collaborative creations that transcend the typical categories of sculpture, painting, photography, and drawing. Recent works by the Southern California artists explore the intersection of light and dark to define a space less considered. The exhibition will be open to the public from Tuesday, September 5, to...
"SHOWSEARCH 2017" was hosted by the Santa Monica College (SMC) Theatre Arts Department in collaboration with the Foundation for New American Musicals (FNAM). The competition to find new short musicals created by students in high schools and colleges throughout Southern California was held Sunday, June 11, at the Theatre Arts Main Stage on the SMC main campus. The musicals were judged by a panel that included Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Executive Director of Arts Education R...
Santa Monica College (SMC) is pleased to announce that the SMC Early Childhood/Education (ECE) Department has been approved to offer specialized teacher-preparation courses that address the specific developmental needs of children in Transitional Kindergarten (TK). SMC is the first community college in California to offer a Certificate of Achievement in Transitional Kindergarten. The 24-unit certificate program consists of courses that are 'aligned' with building an educator's knowledge and...
Results of the SMC Corsairs Men's Track and Field Team as well as the Women's Track and Field Team in the Western State Conference Championships held this weekend at Moorpark College. The Santa Monica College Corsairs Men's Track and Field Team took third place. The 4x100 Meter Relay kicked off the track meet with a spectacular victory, posting the second fastest time in the state with a 40.83. The team was led by Devyn Deckard, who handed off to Sharieff Reed, then James Rincon, and finally to...
Santa Monica College (SMC) says that "Spaghetti Romance"-a short film written and directed by SMC student Carrie Finklea-has been accepted into The 20th American Pavilion Emerging Filmmaker Showcase during the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. SMC is the only U.S. community college represented in the showcase; other student filmmakers featured hail from School of Visual Arts, UCLA, USC, and the American Film Institute, among others. The third SMC student film to screen at The American Pavilion,...
Santa Monica College (SMC) has been selected to participate in a four-year Integrated Teacher Preparation Program in partnership with the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). A grant from the Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC) will make it possible for the UCLA Teacher Education Program to partner with SMC in developing a pathway for SMC students to earn a bachelor's degree from UCLA and a preliminary teaching credential in four years, followed by a bilingual authorization...
The Santa Monica College Pete & Susan Barrett Art Gallery is pleased to present "An Invitation to Rome." The exhibition will be open to the public from Tuesday, January 10, to Saturday, January 28, with a gallery reception on Saturday, January 14, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. "An Invitation to Rome" is an exciting exhibition of art created by a selection of Rome Art Workshops participants. The eye-catching show features works by sculptor Brian Booth Craig, figurative painter Sean Cheetham, painter...
Raising money to support cancer research, collecting clothing and toiletries for foster children, and collaborating on a new play may not be the first things that come to mind when you think about law enforcement, but they are all part of how the Santa Monica College Police Department (SMCPD) serves the college and its community. SMCPD officers have a long history of community involvement, for both personal and professional reasons. "If we're doing something to make our community a better one,...
Editors note: This is an official SMC press release. SMC has a controversial $345 million bond measure on the Nov. 8th ballot, and has recently admitted only 4% of its 33,000 students, are Santa Monica High School Graduates. So it is looking for reasons for people to vote for the bond measure. SMC was awarded the grant as a partner – with the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District (SMMUSD) – in the Santa Monica Regional Consortium for Adult Education. The consortium was established in 2014...
Imagine skipping a year of pre-college English, because you made it through a two-week boot camp called "English Academy." It sounds too good to be true, except that 213 Santa Monica College (SMC) students-a whopping 92 percent of the participants-did just that. This August marked the second time the Academy was held. Of the 164 students in the inaugural English Academy held last year, 150-or 91 percent-passed directly into English 1. "Not only do they get to skip a year's worth of English, but...
Santa Monica College (SMC) announced that SMC grad and Santa Monica native Jonathan Eady has been awarded a Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship for Service by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). The scholarship supports students who are pursuing a degree in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) fields. Upon graduation, all SMART scholars are placed in civilian jobs in a DoD lab or facility. The DoD developed its SMART program to increase the...
Viral Videos, Barbershop Books, Film Screenings, & More! SMC presents a Communication & Media Series featuring a line-up of industry professionals who will talk about their work, share their viewpoints, and screen a selection of films and videos. The series starts on October 4. All events in the series are free and are held on the main SMC campus, 1900 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica. Unless otherwise noted, the series is sponsored by the SMC Associates (www.smc.edu/associates) – a private o...
The governing boards of the Santa Monica Community College District (SMCCD) and the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District (SMMUSD) will hold a second annual special joint meeting at 6:00pm on Tuesday, Sept. 20. The meeting will take place at the SMC Bundy Campus (Room 121), 3171 S. Bundy Drive, Los Angeles, CA, 90066. This meeting is open to the public. "We are so pleased to continue and strengthen our work with SMMUSD to ensure our local students are successful in college and career," sai...
Santa Monica College (SMC) graduate Daniel Zarate has been awarded a $10,000 Bridging Scholarship for Study Abroad in Japan by the American Association of Teachers of Japanese (AATJ). Zarate, who earned his Associate degree in Business Administration at SMC, was one of only 79 undergraduate students from colleges and universities across the United States to receive the AATJ scholarship, which is sponsored by the US-Japan Bridging Foundation. Zarate is now a student in Tokyo at Temple...
The Santa Monica College Foundation says it has awarded a total of over $170,000 for a "President's Circle Award for Innovation and Progress", four "Chair of Excellence" grants, and 22 "Margin of Excellence" mini-grants to Santa Monica College (SMC) professors. "These awards represent the truly distinctive and innovative learning experience that Santa Monica College professors provide to our diverse student body," said Lizzy Moore, SMC Interim Dean of Institutional Advancement. "We are extreme...
