Education

Cal State University’s Palm Desert campus will award 421 bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate degrees this spring, the most ever handed out in the campus’s 34-year history. Because if the COVID-19 pandemic, a commencement ceremony will be delayed until such a gathering can be held safely, according to a statement on …

Cal State San Bernardino is offering extra financial aid to encourage students to enroll in its 2020 summer session. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic that forced the campus to shut down, all summer courses will be conducted online and in a single six-week session, according to a statement on the …

Mt. San Jacinto College is making face shields for local hospitals. The shields, which are being donated to medical facilities that have requested them, will give medical workers an extra layer of protection in their battle against COVID-19, according to a statement.  Those hospitals include Hemet Global and Menifee Global …

Rep. Norma Torres, D- Ontario, has announced that more than $184.5 million from the U.S. Department of Education will benefit residents of her district as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act.  The grant includes more than $43.5 million for institutions of higher learning, and more than …

In another response to the COVID-19 outbreak, Cal State San Bernardino’s John M. Pfau Library is expanding its online services as the campus shifts to virtual instruction and other remote learning. “We want to assure the campus community that library services are, and will remain, available,” said Cesar Caballero, the …

Cal State San Bernardino’s online criminal justice master’s program has been ranked among the top programs of its kind by a college research and planning guide. The ranking, based on an assessment of 156 accredited colleges and universities in the nation, placed Cal State San Bernardino 18th, according to a …