On Friday, 4/21, during the next COD Board of Trustees meeting they will decide on how to fill the Fred Jandt’s Trustee Area 3 position by either appointment or election. Trustee Area 3 includes parts of Cathedral City and Palm Springs where the college’s $300 million-plus expansion campus is scheduled to be built. Uken Reports here
College of the Desert President Dr. Martha Garcia has been selected as the new president of Mt. San Antonio College. The college in a news release announced the selection on Friday afternoon. Garcia will be the first President of color for the college as well as the first female president in 50 years. Read full article…
PALM DESERT – Community members and students are encouraged to add their signatures to one of the beams which will be displayed on the Indio Campus in the new expansion as part of College of the Desert’s Indio campus. A unique and personal touch commemorating the project and ways for the community to leave a…
The Desert Sun announced an attorney for College of the Desert accused a local activist group of violating California’s Political Reform Act by sending out flyers and promoting social media ads critical of board trustees and raising questions about how the college is spending bond money, without disclosing who is funding the mailers and ads. Read more
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 Springs residents launch media campaign amid frustration with College of the Desert
PALM DESERT — The ultimate 3-2 approval of the College of the Desert Palm Springs schematic design dated March 23, 2021, paled in comparison to the series of bombshells newly elected Area 4 Trustee Joel Kinnamon lobbed with a sense of calm, self-confidence and lack of theatrics. Kinnamon; Trustee Area 3 and Vice Chair Fred…
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