The City of Palm Springs has sent a proposal to the College of the Desert offering to buy the land originally planned to become the West Valley Campus, so long as the college completes the project in its new property. Listen to segment here
The search for a new College of the Desert trustee is down to its final four candidates. On Tuesday, school officials sent News Channel 3 the final list of candidates: The finalists have been invited to a special Board of Trustees meeting on Friday for in-person interviews. Full broadcast report here
The legal opinion presentation from COD’s attorney claiming Promises Made, Promises Broken broke transparency laws.
James G. Williamson Special to The Desert Sun Hope is vital. Education is the key to translating hope into opportunity. With the vote by the board of trustees of the College of the Desert at their February meeting to move forward with the West Valley campus, our students finally have hope. Hope that they will…
The vision of an independent four-year university in the Coachella Valley is decades old. It’s the reason Palm Desert gave 168 acres to Cal State San Bernardino in the late 1990s to develop a campus that would one day stand on its own. Traditionally, a college-bound teenager leaves home at 18. But 25 years after…
College of the Desert focused on sharing its future growth across its campuses in its annual State of the College address, “COD Rising,” Wednesday. Superintendent/President Martha Garcia, Ed.D., shared details about some of the College’s upcoming projects, including the Palm Springs Development Project, Roadrunner Motors in Cathedral City, and the Indio campus expansion.
Some of the biggest changes reflect concerns city residents had raised about traffic at the main entrance off Farrell Drive. A slightly revised final version of the schematic designs for the College of the Desert’s Palm Springs campus was presented to the project management team in Palm Desert Wednesday morning, helping push forward a project…
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