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The San Diego and Imperial Counties Community College Association raised enough money in its annual Pack the Pantry food drive to provide more than 90,000 meals for local students facing food insecurity, it was announced Monday.

More than 1,300 San Diego Community College District students excluded from collecting coronavirus relief funds will receive $200 emergency grants from the United Way of San Diego County to help deal with financial hardships brought on by the pandemic, the district announced Wednesday. The United Way allocated $267,000 to the community college district to provide some financial assistance for students…

On Friday the NCAA announced it was working on a plan to give student-athletes from spring sports who had their seasons canceled by the coronavirus pandemic another year of eligibility. Details are still being worked out and should be revealed next week. But there’s another group of student-athletes who are still in limbo wondering how and when they can...

As an older generation of engineers plans its retirement, Northrop Grumman Corp. is developing a new source of talent in San Diego: community colleges. The defense contractor is offering part-time work to students taking classes in the STEM disciplines — that is, science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The $30 billion corporation already has programs to attract students in college, high…

Dr. Brandon Nicholson’s organization teaches young black men technology, entrepreneurship and leadership.

The LA County Probation Department recorded 747 uses of pepper spray in 2017 at juvenile halls and camps, a jump of 154 percent over 2015 when the department used pepper spray 294 times, according to an analysis of department data. It appears that trend is likely to continue, as between January and July of this year the department reported 404...

California lawmakers announced a proposal on Tuesday to make community colleges completely free.

A student aid program is now offering two free years of tuition to all first-time community college students in San Diego.

San Diego Promise announced an updated program to cover two years of tuition for first-time students. NBC 7’s Audra Stafford is outside one of the participating colleges with more.

Certificates have become a hot commodity in higher education in recent years, promoted by colleges and by Washington as an important new pathway to a career for people who don’t fit into a four-year degree program. They are the fastest-growing kind of post-high-school credential, with nearly a million a year now being conferred.