Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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CORA-a short film written and directed by SMC student Kevin Maxwell-won Best Short Film at the 2016 Prague Independent Film Festival (PIFF). The winners of the first edition of the four-day festival-which took place in Prague, the Czech Republic-were announced on August 18. The film festival accepted 291 submissions from professional filmmakers from all over the world, and only 33 were selected by an international jury. While most of the films were Czech Republic premieres, films from USA, the U...
Welcome to Agrabah! The Santa Monica College Theatre Arts Department presents Disney's "Aladdin Jr. " July 15-24 at the Theatre Arts Studio Stage on the SMC main campus, 1900 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica. Audiences of all ages will enjoy this entertaining Academy Award-winning adventure of the street rat who became a prince. The performance – based on the Disney animated film – is sure to send you soaring on a flying carpet ride filled with wild adventure and colorful romance! Based on the screenpla...
The Santa Monica College Fashion Program proudly presents its annual student fashion show – LA MODE 2016 – at 7 p.m. on Thursday, June 16 in Barnum Hall at Santa Monica High School (600 Olympic Blvd., Santa Monica; see www.barnumhall.org for parking information). Pre-judging and an Industry VIP/Student Mixer will be held from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. The show's eclectic mix of casual, cocktail, club, and creative styles will feature 13 collections, each reflecting the designers' future asp...
Santa Monica College (SMC) has awarded its fourth annual Chui L. Tsang Transfer Scholarship to SMC student Angel Josue Najera. The new Tsang Scholar – the first in his family to go to college – will transfer this fall to UC Berkeley as a computer engineering major, with a 4.0 GPA. Named for retired SMC President Dr. Chui L. Tsang, the scholarship will provide $15,000 a year for two years toward the completion of Najera's baccalaureate degree. SMC Superintendent/President Dr. Kathryn E. Jef...
Santa Monica College (SMC) announced that four SMC students have been awarded the California Colleges for International Education (CCIE) Scholarship for South Korea. Marc Cuison, Alexis Erskine, Evelyn Ramos, and Tonisha Parham received the scholarships-awarded by Soonchunhyang University in South Korea-for the fall 2016 semester. A total of ten study abroad scholarships were awarded by the University through CCIE. "This is an exceptional opportunity for our students," said Kelley Brayton, SMC...
Santa Monica College (SMC) student Sharon Nat has been awarded a U.S. Department of State Critical Language (CLS) Scholarship to study Punjabi this summer in Chandigarh, India. She is one of 560 students selected from more than 200 colleges and universities across the nation for the all-expenses-paid linguistic and cultural immersion program, a U.S. government effort to expand dramatically the number of Americans mastering critical foreign languages. CLS recipients like Nat will spend eight to...
President Obama awarded a 2013-14 Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor- the highest national award for valor presented to a public safety officer- to Captain Raymond Bottenfield of the Santa Monica College Police Department (SMCPD) at a ceremony held Monday, May 16 in the White House in Washington, D.C. Officers Jason Salas and Robert Sparks of the Santa Monica Police Department also received Medals of Honor for their response-along with Bottenfield-to a 2013 shooting rampage which ended on the...
Santa Monica College (SMC) is pleased to announce that CORA-a short film written and directed by SMC student Kevin Maxwell-has been accepted into The 19th American Pavilion Emerging Filmmaker Showcase at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. SMC is one of only 4 U.S. film schools in competition in the "Student Short Films" category along with NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Chapman University and The School of Visual Arts. 23 short films and documentaries by emerging filmmakers from around the world...
Santa Monica College will present "Even in Hell, There is Hope," a free talk by Holocaust victim Dr. Henry Oster, who survived the Łódź Ghetto, the Auschwitz-Birkenau Death Camp, and Buchenwald. The talk will be held at 11:15 a.m. Tuesday, April 5, in Humanities and Social Sciences Lecture Hall 165 on SMC's main campus, 1900 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica. Seating is on a first-arrival basis. Dr. Oster will talk about some of his experiences and the importance of holding out hope under the direst of...
The Santa Monica College (SMC) student newspaper The Corsair won 12 awards – including five first-place awards – in two student journalism competitions recognizing the best of student journalism from 2015. Corsair Editor-in-Chief Nik Lucaj and Corsair News Editor Adam Thomas are finalists in the Regional 11 Mark of Excellence awards sponsored by the Society of Professional Journalists in the multimedia storytelling category. Final results will be announced at the Region 11 spring conference at...
Jenny Resnick, who teaches accounting and personal finance courses at Santa Monica College (SMC), was shocked to hear her daughter – a recent college graduate – say that her contemporaries consider themselves "the generation of despair; the American dream is not alive [for them]." SMC Associate Professor of Accounting Ming Lu hears students bemoan the costs of their education but notices that they're wearing expensive clothes and carrying the latest gadgets. Eleni Hioureas, vice-chair of SMC...
