Education

The Inland Empire Economic Partnership has awarded $23,000 in scholarship money to 23 Inland Empire high school students, all of whom are headed for college. Each student received $1,000. The funding was provided by several local corporations and company foundations, as part of the economic partnership’s Cash for College Program, …

Sandra Vasquez has been named assistant vice president of student affairs at Pitzer College in Claremont. Vasquez, who is currently associate dean of students and director of judicial affairs at UC Santa Barbara, will begin her new job July 17, according to a statement. “Dr. Vasquez made a strong impression …

Susan Wessler, a distinguished professor of genetics at UC Riverside, has been named a foreign member of the Royal Society, the top science academy in the United Kingdom. Wessler is believed to be the first UC Riverside faculty member named to the Royal Society, whose past members include Isaac Newton, …

Montclair Place, formerly known as Montclair Plaza, is venturing into the art world. This week, Chaffey College art students began painting an outside mural that depicts the San Gabriel Mountains north of the mall, according to a statement. That project, which will be overseen by Claremont artist Chris Trueman, is …

InTech Center, which opened one year ago, has already placed some people in local jobs. Its next task is to become better known. One year after it opened, the InTech Center in Fontana appears to be off to a good start. The learning center, located on the campus of California …

The San Bernardino Community College District, which owns and operates KVCR-TV, expects to receive more than $157 million from the Federal Communications Commission by the end of this year. The district, which includes San Bernardino Valley and Crafton Hills colleges, will receive the money in exchange for vacating its bandwidth, …