Famous Chef At Westmont on Thursday


Westmont students serve communities for Spring Break About 340 Westmont students will spend spring break, March 15-19, volunteering for various service projects in Mississippi and Alabama, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Santa Barbara and Ensenada, Mexico. Photos courtesy Scott Craig, Westmont


Wesmont PolySci Prof Wins Fulbright award The U.S. Department of State has awarded Susan Penksa, Westmont professor of political science, a follow-on Fulbright grant, allowing her to return to Bosnia and Herzegovina to build on the work of her 2007 fellowship and further the Fulbright mission of worldwide mutual understanding. Photo: Westmont/Susan Penska


Reed Sheard - Westmont's new CIO Reed Sheard has become vice president of college advancement and chief information officer at Westmont, assuming the management of the college’s fundraising, communication and external relations programs in addition to overseeing Information Technology. Reed Sheard - new BP of College Advancement


Students honor Martin Luther King Westmont Intercultural Programs and Religious Studies Department are sponsoring a free celebration of King’s life Wednesday, Jan. 20, at 7 p.m. in Hieronymus Lounge inside Kerrwood Hall.


8 SBCC Student Awarded $1000 Scholarships Eight Santa Barbara City College students recently were named recipients of the Sara Evelyn Smith Scholarships in Theatre Arts and the Phyllis Mailes Memorial Scholarship for Actors. The $1,000 scholarships are awarded annually to SBCC theatre arts students who attended local high schools, maintain high academic achievement, and demonstrate performance talent and experience.


SBCC Elects New 2010 Officers Dr. Joe W. Dobbs and Mrs. Sally Green have been appointed to one-year terms as president and vice president, respectively, of the Santa Barbara Community College District Board of Trustees.


SBCC Wins $7K in Elevator Grant Santa Barbara City College has received a $7,500 grant to support South Coast Bizconnect, an online business accelerator developed and operated by SBCC’s Scheinfeld Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.


UCSB Students Stage Hunger Strike UCSB students, faculty and staff will go on a one-day hunger strike to raise campus awareness and voice opposition to UC budget cuts; fee increases; job layoffs; furloughs; curtailments; program cut-backs and planned elimination of Exercise and Sports Studies; closure of UCSB Ventura Center; overcrowded classes; general decline of UC system


Westmont Faculty Panel Probes Human Trafficking Three Westmont faculty members, Alister Chapman, Edd Noell and Helen Rhee, discuss human trafficking in a free event, “Modern Slavery Through Faculty Eyes,” Tuesday, Dec. 1, from 6:30-8 p.m. in Page Multipurpose Room. The talk will be moderated by Scott McClelland, director of Westmont's San Francisco Urban program, which is sponsoring the discussion.


Famous Chef At Westmont on Thursday Mai Pham, world-renown Thai and Vietnamese chef and restaurateur, will sign cookbooks, offer special tastings and hold cooking demonstrations Thursday, (10/29/09), from 11:15 a.m.-1 p.m.in Westmont’s Dining Commons.