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The Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development has provided $17 million in grants to nearly 70 recipients of the California Small Business Technical Assistance Expansion Program. The GO-Biz money will allow technical assistance centers to expand their business consulting and training services to businesses and communities that have traditionally …
Read More »RCC culinary program gets training grant
Riverside City College’s Culinary Arts program has received a $100,000 grant from the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Division of Workforce and Economic Development. That money will be used to develop a two-year apprentice program in which employers sponsor apprentices, curriculum development, equipment purchases and apprentice recruitment, according to a statement …
Read More »MSJC students receive scholarships
More than 100 Mt. San Jacinto College students nave received an estimated $115,000 in scholarship funds. One hundred and twenty three scholarships were presented to 111 students at the Mt. San Jacinto College Foundation’s Fall Scholarship Foundation Reception, which was held Oct. 24 on campus, according to a statement. Among …
Read More »UC Riverside to train agricultural scientists
UC Riverside has started a program that will train students to deal with farming problems caused by global warming Plants-3D “will train students to discover, design, and deploy biology and engineering solutions to the projected problem of massive-scale food insecurity due to climate change,” according to a statement on the …
Read More »SB County students show academic improvement
San Bernardino County students have again shown year-over-year improvement in English language arts and math testing. Students in seven grades – three through eight and 11 – improved by one percentage point in those categories during the 2018-19 academic year, according to the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress. …
Read More »New housing for UC Riverside
UC Riverside has broken ground on the first phase of a 6,000-bed housing development for students. The university is developing the project with American Campus Communities in Austin, Texas, a developer, manager and owner of high-end student housing communities, according to a statement. The project will be the second American …
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