Deloitte’s Diversity Push Focuses on SMC & Other Community Colleges
It’s unusual for Big 4 accounting firms to look to community colleges to recruit employees, but that’s exactly what Deloitte is doing. And it has targeted SMC and five other community colleges nationwide because of their diversity and strong business programs. At left, accounting professor Greg Brookins talks with students Anthony Dacosta and Denise Gomez. Full story >>
Event Calendar
Don’t miss the Philip Hyde Retrospective Exhibition at the SMC Photo Gallery, opening Nov. 7. See all the exciting events in November>>
SMC Receives Federal Grant for International Education Bolstering its ambitious global citizenship efforts, SMC has received a two-year federal grant totaling nearly $180,000 that will be used to develop a comprehensive international studies program, including establishment of a Study Abroad program in Turkey. At left, a group of SMC employees stayed with Turkish families during a summer trip to that country as part of the college’s global citizenship initiative. More>> Photos by Zeny Baduel and Bill Selby
Dawson Making Documentary About ’69 Pivotal Black Student Protest – Which He Was Involved In In April 1969, Frank Dawson was a freshman at Cornell University who got swept up in a pivotal protest that would captivate the nation and bring major changes to the Ivy League school. Forty years later, Dawson is looking back at that historic event and is making a documentary film about it. Full story >>
SMC on YouTube: Student Nature Writing at the Beach Philosophy professor Amber Katherine, who has been a campus leader on issues of global sustainability and, more recently, on the specific issue of water, helped head up a student video project funded by a Metropolitan Water District grant. One of those videos captures the writings and musings of SMC students at the Pico storm drain on Santa Monica beach. Check it out!
Quad, Performing Arts Center Win State Awards SMC facilities continue to rack up design awards – the latest are statewide honors for the Quad and the Performing Arts Center, both of which opened a year ago. At left is the Quad. More >>
SMC Newsmakers This art professor has an exhibit of her paintings at a prestigious art gallery in Santa Monica. Other newsmakers are Elham Gheytanchi, Jim Harding, Janie Jones, Charlotte Holtzermann, Louise Jaffe, Jo Kidd and Kayli Weatherford. Read about all of them >>
