Education

Amazon has donated $100,000 to five Inland Empire school districts, money that will be used to help family service programs. The donations were announced recently during a gathering at Amazon’s ONT2 facility in San Bernardino, according to a statement. The money will help students participate in extracurricular activities, get to and …

Campus law enforcement officers with the Chaffey Joint Union High School District are collecting toys and other gifts at the district’s 11 campuses to help needy families during the holiday season. The gift drive began after Thanksgiving and will last until December 18, at which point the items will be …

Cal State San Bernardino has received a grant of nearly $1 million from the National Science Foundation, money that it will use to help increase women and minority faculty in its science, technology, engineering and mathematics departments. The grant will be used “to facilitate a culture of equity and diversity …

Cal State San Bernardino will hold three graduation ceremonies Saturday. The first ceremony is scheduled to be held at 9 a.m. for the College of Arts & Letters, the Jack H. Brown College of Business & Public Administration and the College of Education, according to a statement released Monday. The …

Promise Scholars, a nonprofit agency that helps students in the Ontario-Montclair School District enter college in Riverside and San Bernardino counties, has received a $200,000 grant from Bank of America. Earlier this month, Promise Scholars was named the 2018 Bank of America Builders Award recipient for the Inland Empire, according …

Loma Linda University’s School of Nursing has reached its first transfer arrangement with a public college. The agreement, announced Tuesday, provides qualified students from Mt. San Jacinto College “seamless access” into the nursing school, where they can earn a bachelor of science degree in nursing, according to a statement. Mt. …