Recent News
Below is a list of articles related to California community colleges providing support to their students and community during the COVID-19 pandemic. We've collected these stories to share information and ideas about what colleges are doing in response to the current crisis. To add an article to this list email League staff at [email protected].
Inside California Education: Community Colleges: Learning and Helping During the Pandemic
Emergency Response Funds and Other Programs
- Gavilan College creates Student Emergency Fund
- Bakersfield College launching five-week Back to College program to help displaced workers
- Supporting Our Students (Folsom Lake College)
- Shasta College Foundation accepts $18,000 to help students
- Students in health care help in any way they can in fight against coronavirus (Moreno Valley College)
- Citrus College Foundation Launches Campaign to Support Students
- CCC Wellness Program offers free therapy to students
- Butte College announces emergency funding sources for students
- Crafton Hills College continues to train paramedics amid pandemic
- Bakersfield College expands Back to College program with no-cost noncredit courses
- SBCC Nursing Students: Smart, Prepared, and Thankful
- Oxnard College reopens firefighter and EMT program
- Southwestern College Awarded Grants to Help Students During COVID-19 Pandemic
- SWC Faculty Won’t Leave Donovan Students Behind
- Santa Monica College to Distribute $6.1 Million in Direct Aid to Students
- The San Diego CCD: Heroes Are Made Here
- Ohlone College Awarded $150K For Student Emergency Funding
- Chabot College raises nearly $200,000 to help students affected by COVID-19
- Meet seven college students risking their health to keep California’s economy running
- Friends Of Chabot College Raises $190K For Students In Need
- Mendocino College provides students with extra support as fall semester kicks off
- SRJC PEERS Coalition hosts Well-Being Wednesday
Ventilators and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
- NOCE Career Technical Education Program donates PPE to local hospital
- College Of The Desert Lends Helping Hand During Coronavirus Crisis
- Orange Coast College loans ventilators to local hospital
- COC Nursing Program Donates Essential Equipment to Henry Mayo
- Cabrillo College Makerspace Begins Production of 3-D Printed PPE Masks and Face Shields for Santa Cruz County Medical Providers
- Monterey Peninsula College using 3-D printers to make prototype medical masks
- College of the Redwoods Uses 3D Printer to Produce Face Shields & Donates Personal Protective Equipment and Supplies to Local Health Care Facilities
- MiraCosta college to 3D-print medical supplies for COVID-19 fight
- Napa Valley College Donates Ventilators
- SMC, ELAC & Orange Coast Donate Ventilators
- Merced College is making safety gear to help protect health workers against coronavirus
- SB Community College District 3D printers producing face shields for local hospitals
- Hartnell College donates ventilators, supplies, help from nursing students to hospital
- Citrus College Delivers N95 Respirator Masks to Local Hospitals
- ARC Respiratory Care Program donates equipment to community amid ventilator shortage
- Mendocino College Career Education Programs provide Adventist Health with 3D printed face shields and PPE masks
- OCC Makerspace gets to work making masks, touchless keys for campus
- Community colleges join race to produce face shields and masks during pandemic
- MSJC partners with OnTrac to ship face shields to regional hospitals
- San Bernardino Valley College Donates 400 3D Printed Face Shields to Arrowhead Regional Medical Center
- Riverside County gives away 60,000 masks at Menifee Valley Campus (Mt. San Jacinto College)
Basic Needs
- Santa Monica College Food Giveaway Helps Some Students Survive NBC Channel 4
- Orange Coast College Food Service program donates unused food to families in need
- Allan Hancock College begins emergency food distribution
- Woodland College’s food pantry popular among students
- Mission College to offer free grab-and-go lunches to its students
- Glendale Community College’s mobile food pantry meets a rising wave of need during pandemic
- Cerritos College hosts drive-thru food drive
- MSJC Foundation continues to support students through coronavirus pandemic
- Fresno City College students stepping up at a time of need
- Cerritos College Set to Officially Open California’s First-Ever Community College Housing to Tackle Student Homelessness on June 11
- Community colleges struggle with students’ food needs as pandemic increases demand
- Laney College Fresh Produce Giveaway
- Food Pantry For Diablo Valley College Students
- Grossmont College offering free meals to students
- Santa Monica to Provide Thanksgiving Groceries to 1,430+ Food-Insecure Students and Families
- WHC Lemoore helps students with $70,000 in food vouchers for Thanksgiving
- SJRC to host final food giveaway of the semester Friday
- 90,000 Meals Headed to San Diego College Students Via Pack the Pantry Drive
- Skyline College Grocery Distribution Extended
- Free food available every month at Las Positas College
Remote Instruction and Tools for Online Learning
- Cypress College launches “drive-up Wi-Fi” for student Internet access
- Mendocino College instructors and staff using innovative ways to support students amid shelter in place orders
- Palomar College gives away computers to students for remote learning
- Chaffey College lending 5,000 laptops to students
- LA Community College District To Give Out 3,000 Laptops
- Reedley College provides laptops, hotspots to help students take studies online
- Mt. San Jacinto College Provides Students Laptops, Donates Needed Items to Area Hospitals as Instruction Goes Online
- San Jose-Evergreen CCD is working hard to serve community
Testing Sites and Administer Vaccine
- State’s coronavirus testing site headed to Fresno City College
- Lake Tahoe Community College one of two new free COVID-19 testing sites in county
- COVID-19 testing comes to Santa Monica College
- Clinic Open At Long Beach City College; COVID-19 Test Center Opens Tuesday
- Ralphs and Food 4 less to offer free COVID-19 testing at LASC
- Hartnell nursing students administer COVID-19 vaccine to first responders
- Santa Maria COVID-19 vaccination site opens for health care workers
- Madera Community College nursing students assisting with COVID-19 vaccination process
- Merced College hosts its first-ever vaccine clinic, will vaccinate roughly 3,000 this week
- OC opens COVID-19 vaccination site at Santa Ana College to target hard-hit areas
- Pierce College Vaccination Site Opens Tuesday, But Doses Extremely Limited
- Merced College ‘part of history.’ Nursing students in pivotal role during COVID pandemic
- Petaluma SRJC campus becomes one of three new vaccination sites
- Palomar College To Host Vaccination Clinic At Escondido Center