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Desert Sun Editorial 1/29 – COD leaders’ secrecy and stumbles continue. The public needs to speak up.
Garcia and trustees don’t seem to be listening — or perhaps they’re simply incapable of fixing some of these problems. The terms of two of the board’s five members, Chair Rubén AríAztlán Pérez and Aurora Wilson, are up this year. Voters need to think seriously about whether they deserve to continue.
Palm Springs Post 9/16 – Leading off: Marathon meeting more informative than combative
The news: Roughly 30 taxpayers, civic leaders, and representatives of the tourism and hospitality industries spoke in person or via Zoom during a regular meeting of the COD Board of Trustees, sticking tight to recent demands that college officials approve building a version of the college that was touted as far back as 2004. Read full…
Desert Sun 3/15 – Indio campus groundbreaking
City of Indio and College of the Desert officials gathered Monday morning to break ground on the community college’s Indio campus expansion, a 67,000-square-foot building with classrooms, a café, offices, science labs and a student services center. The long-planned campus expansion on Oasis Street downtown will double the size of the Indio campus built in 2014. Flyers distributed at the event said…
KESQ 12/23 – Jeff Stahl’s Dr. Garcia 20-minute Unedited Interview
Dr. Garcia expresses good intentions, but little to no data or facts to back her decisions
DESERT SUN 3/1 – COD’s Martha Garcia named finalist for superintendent role at Mt. San Antonio College
The community college is located in the City of Walnut, east of Los Angeles, and has a larger enrollment than COD College of the Desert Superintendent/President Martha Garcia has been named one of five finalists for the top job at Mt. San Antonio College. The community college, which is located in the City of Walnut about…
UKEN REPORT 4/21 – RON ODEN SEEKS COD TRUSTEE AREA 3 VACANCYUKEN REPORT
Within minutes of the College of the Desert Board of Trustees voting unanimously to start the process to fill a vacancy on the board by provisional appointment, former Palm Springs Mayor Ron Oden announced that he will seek the appointment. Oden is seeking to fill the seat Fred E. Jandt left vacant when, due to…