Education

The Mt. San Jacinto Community College District has bought two office buildings in Temecula that it will use for expansion. Both structures at 41888 Motorcar Parkway, cover 350,000 square feet, the size of all the buildings at Mt. San Jacinto’s Menifee Valley campus, according to a statement on the school’s …

The University of Redlands ranks fourth among small schools on the Peace Corps’ 2018 Top Volunteer-Producing Colleges and Universities list. Fourteen Redlands’ alumni are serving with the Peace Corps around the world, one volunteer below St. Lawrence University in New York and tied with five other small colleges and universities, …

UC Riverside is scheduled to hold its fourth annual solar conference Thursday. The one-day event – Past, Present and its Future in Inland Southern California – will be held from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Bourns Technology Center, 1200 Columbia Ave., according to a statement. Karen Douglas, head …

Claremont McKenna College will host “Inland Empire Vision:Trends and Challenges,” a one-day presentation of economic forecasts and policy analysis for local businessmen and policy makers scheduled to be held next month. Professor Manfred Keil will present an economic forecast for Riverside and San Bernardino counties, followed by the introduction of …

Two local agencies have secured $1.1 million in grants that will be used to increase the number of bachelor’s degree recipients among groups that historically have been underserved in higher education. The grants, which will be spread over two years, were obtained by the Cal State San Bernardino Philanthropic Foundation …

San Bernardino County and the San Bernardino Unified School District will partner to help at risk and low-income students develop job skills. During the next three years, the county will provide the school district with a coordinator from its Workforce Development Board who will arrange “work-based learning opportunities” for those …