The College of the Desert Board of Trustees voted to move forward with amended plans for the Palm Springs campus.
The catch: the plans approved don’t entirely exist.
Approved plans will ultimately be a blend of incomplete designs drawn prior to 2021 with new additions that need to be made.
Plans from 2021 are about 60% done, consultants said. Read full article here (subscribers only).
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
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…
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…
College of the Desert will move forward with a modified version of its proposed “Citizens Advisory Group” to inform design elements of its planned Palm Springs campus. The school’s Board of Trustees voted unanimously in favor of a motion to create the advisory group Friday, with changes to its composition and stated purpose. Read full…
Less than two years after Martha Garcia was hired to lead College of the Desert, she is one of five finalists to become the next president of the state’s largest single campus community college district in Walnut, Mt. San Antonio. According to a news release from the college, the candidates, in alphabetical order, are: The final…
PALM DESERT — The question for some College of the Desert leaders isn’t so much what did they know and when did they know it, but better, what did some know and why did they not disclose it? In less than two months, questions have shaken the offices of President Martha Garcia, Trustee Rubén AríAztlán Pérez,…
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