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UCI Transfer Students Honor Two LBCC Faculty

Two Long Beach City College faculty members have been selected by the University of California, Irvine (UCI) to be recognized at its annual Educator Recognition event in May. LBCC Counselor Sara Blasetti and English Professor Margaret Shannon were nominated this year by transfer students Stacy Castro and Megan Sabatino.

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The OER Mini-Conference.

LBCC Hosts first OER Mini Conference
The Future is Free

Long Beach City College hosted its first OER Mini-Conference on April 26.

The mini-conference featured four sessions that addressed how faculty could meet the needs of students while still maintaining a high academic standard of textbooks and ancillary materials. 

More than 70 faculty registered for the conference. Participants were inspired and motivated by the presentations, which resulted in a steep increase in OER adoptions in the weeks following the mini-conference.

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Nuts and bolts stuck to a magnet.

High School Students Can Join the Fun at the Nuts , Bolts & Thingamajigs Summer Camp

Long Beach City College has announced an opportunity for 20 high school students to participate in a free Summer Manufacturing Camp from July 15 – 19 at LBCC’s Pacific Coast Campus.

Nuts, Bolts & Thingamajigs (NBT) is a non-profit foundation that offers scholarships for manufacturing students and grants for STEM educators. This year, NBT awarded a grant to LBCC to provide a summer manufacturing camp experience that will introduce young people to careers in manufacturing and engineering.

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return of the Trades Celebrated at LBCC Inaugural Career technical Education Night

The community is invited to celebrate and learn about the Career Technical Education (CTE) programs offered at the Long Beach Community College District on Fri., May 17 from 4 – 8 p.m., at the Pacific Coast Campus. The inaugural CTE Night is a free, family-friendly event that will include games, activities and demonstrations featuring various LBCCD CTE programs.

Highlights from CTE Night include:

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A picture of Gene Durand.

VP of Human Resources selected for LBCC District

The Long Beach Community College District Board of Trustees recently appointed Gene Durand as the new Vice President of Human Resources.

Durand, who previously held the post of Associate Vice President of Human Resources and served as the Interim Vice President since June of 2018, joined the College in 2016.