Sobriety leads to success for SMC Student
Valeria Galbert is an anomaly. She’s many things which studies say should’ve stacked higher educational odds against her: a daughter ...
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Santa Monica student parlays community service into scholarship
Community service and social activism were major components of Brendan Terry’s high school career. He trawled the ocean for plastic ...
Yale-bound Samohi salutatorian is first in family to attend college
It’s not that Christopher Alba wasn’t grateful to be named Santa Monica High School’s salutatorian this year. He certainly was. ...
SMC forum explores barriers to higher education
More than 1,000 Santa Monica College students successfully transferred to University of California campuses in 2014-15, according to college data, ...
STEM education branches out at Santa Monica College
Santa Monica College alum Jonah Okike spent the summer at a UCLA research lab building a robotic arm that ...
SMC Foundation grants to college faculty top $90,000
The Santa Monica College Foundation has announced that it has awarded a total of more than$90,000 in two "President's Circle ...
Undocumented student wins SMC transfer scholarship
Santa Monica College has awarded its third annual Chui L. Tsang Transfer Scholarship to SMC student Cinthia Magaña. The new ...
Santa Monica High valedictorian heading to Caltech
When David Lin found out that he had been accepted at the California Institute of Technology, he wasn't particularly excited. ...
For SMMUSD grads, an exercise in educational geography
One of Santa Monica High School's two outgoing valedictorians, Nicholas Charchut, is scheduled to start classes soon at the Massachusetts ...
Making community college tuition-free
It is estimated that by 2020, two thirds of all jobs will require some form of higher education; however, with ...
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