About an hour after a handful of teachers from Wawona Middle School had described, emotionally and in great detail, the disturbing and dangerous situations they say are constantly occurring at their school, the Fresno Unified School Board considered whether to sign a contract with the Fresno County Sheriff's Office for...
Vehicle Crash Cancels Classes at Madera Community College
Madera Community College canceled day and night classes Tuesday after a vehicle hit a power pole, knocking out power to the Avenue 12 campus. College spokesman George Villagrana said officials hope classes will be able to resume Wednesday. Pacific Gas & Electric was working to restore power, which was...
Madera College Video Nabs $1 Million Marketing Prize
Madera Community College will have $1 million to spend on marketing and branding efforts after winning the top prize in a national competition. The Lumina Foundation, an Indianapolis nonprofit that focuses on expanding learning opportunities beyond high school, sponsored the "Million Dollar Community College Challenge." Lumina announced Madera's big...
Madera College Video Nabs $1 Million Marketing Prize
Madera Community College will have $1 million to spend on marketing and branding efforts after winning the top prize in a national competition. The Lumina Foundation, an Indianapolis nonprofit that focuses on expanding learning opportunities beyond high school, sponsored the "Million Dollar Community College Challenge." Lumina announced Madera's big...
Unfair Advantage for School Board Candidate? Or Potential Land Mine?
At last week's Fresno Unified School Board meeting, trustees nominated five citizens to a committee that will recommend how the board should go about renaming schools. The committee's creation comes in the wake of controversy over the naming and renaming of district schools. Several were fairly well known: former City...
Community Leader Doug Davidian Honored with Memorial Scholarship at Fresno Pacific
Doug Davidian's seemingly boundless energy led him to own and operate several businesses in Fresno while serving for decades in leadership roles in area business and education organizations. Mr. Davidian, a graduate of Fresno High and Fresno State, died April 11 of complications from COVID-19. He was 68. He is...
Chancellor: State Center Classes Will Be Online for Spring Semester
Most classes for students in the State Center Community College District will continue to be online for the spring 2021 semester, chancellor Paul Parnell announced in an email. The district's top priority is the safety of students, faculty, and staff, and so officials have remained in closed contact with local...
Madera is Now Officially a ‘College’ Town. What’s the School’s New Mascot?
It's not often when an entire college campus has a graduation, but it happened on Monday when the California Community Colleges Board of Governors voted unanimously to recognize Madera Community College as the state's 116th community college. The vote comes only weeks after Madera College learned that it had been...
Winemaking and Tourism Come into Focus as Madera College Plans Future
Madera Community College's blueprint for the next five years contains some proposed degree programs that would prepare students for jobs at neighboring wineries and vintners and at one of the world's most popular tourist destinations that's on its doorstep. The master plan, which was being presented at Tuesday's State Center...