Education

Cal State San Bernardino will host its eighth-annual Giving Tuesday Dec. 3 The nationwide event, held on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, raises money for student programs and scholarships, according to a statement on the university’s website. Last year, more than 500 donors from 25 states raised more than $110,000, a …

A new public school has opened in The Preserve at Chino, a 38-acre master-planned community. Legacy Academy K-8 School will serve more than 1,250 students in the Chino Valley Unified School District, according to C.W. Driver, the Pasadena-construction firm that built the school. Work on the $51 million campus began …

Palm Springs and the Desert Community College District have reached an agreement that will bring a college campus to the city. Announced last month, the agreement reaffirms the district’s commitment to develop the West Valley Campus, formally known as the Palm Springs Development Project, according to a district statement. The district …

Cal State San Bernardino will host this year’s Southern California Conference for Undergraduate Research. The gathering, scheduled to be held Nov. 23, displays noteworthy research and scholarship done by undergraduates at Southern California universities, according to a statement on the university’s website. The conference typically attracts 700 to 900 participants. …

An estimated 12,000 students at public high schools in Riverside County will be offered direct admission to some Cal State University schools next fall without having to submit an application. The Riverside County Office of Education and CSU are offering the first pilot-admission program to 10 CSU campuses, including Cal …

Cal State San Bernardino has received a $3.3 million federal grant that it will use to increase teacher diversity in the Inland Empire. The five-year grant from the Department of Education will pay for ExMILE – Excellence as Multilingual Innovators and Leaders in Education – a program meant to increase …