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Desert Sun 7/21 – COD Palm Springs and Roadrunner Motors campuses years away from opening
The Desert Sun announced both the College of the Desert Palm Springs campus and the Roadrunner Motors automotive education facility in Cathedral City are years away from opening, according to a five-year capital outlay plan delivered at Thursday’s Board of Trustees meeting. Read more
Desert Sun 9/6 – Report calls for larger COD Palm Springs hospitality program but no learning hotel
A report released today commissioned by the Visit Greater Palm Springs and completed by consulting firm Conventions, Sports & Leisure International recommends a compromise between College of the Desert’s recently downsized plans for a Palm Springs hospitality and culinary campus and what the previous COD administration was planning to build before the pandemic. Source: The…
Desert Sun 12/15 – Article
Palm Springs residents launch media campaign amid frustration with College of the Desert
COD TRUSTEE KINNAMON ALLEGES POTENTIAL ‘ILLEGAL’ ACTIVITY USED AGAINST HIM IN CAMPAIGN, SEEKS EXTERNAL FORENSIC AUDIT TO REVIEW EMAILS – UKEN Report
PALM DESERT — Much of Joel Kinnamon’s campaign was built on the platform of “Getting COD Back on Track” by expressing his commitment to the public of providing accountability, transparency and fiscal responsibility. He’s wasting no time in making good on that commitment. He boldly called for a forensic audit in January at his first meeting…
Desert Sun 2/22 – Palm Springs attorney: College of the Desert is violating California transparency law
The City of Palm Springs has formally expressed its concern to the College of the Desert that the college is violating a California law by discussing land use matters and campus facilities issues behind closed doors at board meetings without soliciting proper public input. An attorney representing Palm Springs on Tuesday emailed a memorandum to a…
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…