New Fresno Unified school building won t be named after Roger Tatarian after backlash
Fresno Bee 1 hr ago Monica Velez, The Fresno Bee
Jun. 3 A building on the newest Fresno Unified School District campus will not be named after H. Roger Tatarian, at the request of his family, who said the icon of Fresno s Armenia community should have his name on a school and not a mere building.
Board members voted 6-1 at Wednesday night s regular meeting to remove the Armenian author, journalist, and Fresno State professor s name from the student services and programs building. Trustee Terry Slatic cast the no vote.
Fresno-area community colleges get new interim chancellor. Here s what we know
Fresno Bee 3/3/2021 Ashleigh Panoo, The Fresno Bee
Mar. 2 Doug Houston, current chancellor of Yuba Community College District, will be the new interim chancellor for the State Center Community College District, the SCCCD board announced Tuesday evening.
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Current SCCCD Chancellor Paul Parnell will retire in July after being hired in 2016.
Houston is coming from Northern California, where he leads five campuses, including Yuba Community College and Woodland Community College.
Before that, he was the superintendent/president of Lassen College and served in various administrative positions at Butte College and Barstow College, according to his biography.
As he leaves Fresno, the next CSU chancellor has big plans for California students [The Fresno Bee]
Dec. 24 Joseph I. Castro has spent the last few weeks preparing to move from Fresno to Long Beach, where he will take the helm of the 23-campus California State University in early January.
With him, he hopes to take knowledge of how to remove barriers for underprivileged students, like he once was, growing up in a beauty salon with his mother and sister in Hanford.
What he’s accomplished as the president of Fresno State for the past seven years will help him, he said.
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CSU campuses with most COVID-19 cases have one thing in common they like to party [The Fresno Bee]
Dec. 21 The California State University campuses with the most reported cases of COVID-19 have something else in common they also regularly top the lists of best party schools in the state.
San Diego State, Cal Poly, and Chico State are suffering some of the worst coronavirus outbreaks among the 23 CSU schools.
Around the U.S., college towns have been some of the hardest hit as students in other states returned to campus, only to be sent home weeks later after an outbreak. Parties and gatherings are bearing most of the blame.
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