February 27, 2019
Kern Community College District (KCCD) Trustee Nan Gomez-Heitzeberg spoke in the Levan Center at Bakersfield College and answered questions from students...
Cassidy Eisen, Reporter
November 9, 2018
Filed under Campus, Features
Criminal Justice Professor Harlan Hunter’s students worked to collect data and evidence in the staged crime lab located in the basement of the Language Arts Building during CSI (Crime Scene Investigation) Week which started Nov. 5.
In the crime lab, a dummy was staged covered in blood, positioned next to a gun. Proxy money, drugs, and alcohol were also spread out ac...
Saad Kazi, Reporter
October 26, 2018
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In the Oct. 24 Renegade Roundtable “Does Society Send Too Many People to College? “ each of four Bakersfield College professors agreed on one answer: no.
Erin Miller, Steven Holmes, Michael Harvath, and Neal Stanifer brought up data and examples to support their points in the Levan Center discussion regarding whether the problem of rising college costs is due to the...
Saad Kazi, Reporter
October 15, 2018
Filed under Campus, News, Top Stories
Providing half a billion dollars for Bakersfield College to improve its campus, Measure J became the focal point of BCSGA’s Oct. 8 Community Public Forum for the Area 1 candidates for the KCCD Board of Trustees.
“When you have all this Measure J money up here, I’m the only one that would be able to understand the bargain you’re going to see on the job,” said cand...
Rosa Salazar, Reporter
September 28, 2018
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The campaign kickoff and reception for Nan Gomez-Heitzeberg, candidate for Kern Community College District trustee, was held on Sept. 19.
The election for KCCD trustee is Nov. 6 and registered voters have two votes in Area 1, the district Heitzeberg is running in, each for a different trustee.
According to Heitzeberg the reception was for the public to get to know her...
Katalina Quintanilla, Reporter
September 28, 2018
Filed under Campus, Features
Reggie Williams, director of the Levan Center, developed the idea of the Renegade Roundtable to create a conversation in today’s political, social, and economic issues. The first roundtable was held on Sept. 26.
Michael Harvath, Steven Holmes, Erin Miller, and Neal Stanifer were four BC professors that participated in the roundtable. The topic they chose for this series...
Laura Lanfray, Reporter
September 28, 2018
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Longtime Bakersfield College coach, Lorenzo Alvarez, is running for Area 2 Kern Community College District Board of Trustee's member this coming November election.
Coach Alvarez held a Fundraiser at Luigi's Warehouse in East Bakersfield on September 18. The crowd of supporters and visitors mingled and ate as they waited for Alvarez to give his speech.
Dr. Bill Baker, the former football team doctor at BC, attended the dinner t...
Morgan Park, Editor-in-Chief
March 30, 2017
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The Kern Community College District and Kern County Superintendent of Schools have issued a joint letter in response to the disappearance of a combined $19 million from both institutions’ Wells Fargo accounts.
The theft, which, according to Kern County Treasurer-Tax Collector Jordan Kaufman in a report by the Bakersfield Californian, occurred over two or three years, primarily...
Morgan Park, Editor-in-Chief
March 1, 2017
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Over the winter break, the Kern Community College District appointed a new district chancellor in Tom Burke, who previously served as chief financial officer for the district since 2001.
Burke officially began his new role on Jan. 17, the first day of the Spring 2017 semester.
“I really didn’t think about [the chancellor position] until Sandra [Serrano] started getting...
September 7, 2016
Serrano said that she announced her retirement early to give the district time to find a viable candidate.
She said that there are 38 out of 72 CEO...
J. R. Hensley, Reporter
September 7, 2016
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Abe Ali, vice chancellor of human resources for the Kern Community College District, will be leaving after eight years of employment, during which he also...
Javier Valdes, Copy Editor
November 18, 2015
Filed under Campus, News
Bakersfield College faculty members believe that they have become a target for the Kern Community College District. On Oct. 1, a BC faculty member filed a formal complaint against BC English professor Kate Pluta, BC women’s basketball coach Paula Dahl, and a BC administrator, all which are now under investigation by the KCCD.
Interim dean of student success Janet...
