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 cclc@ccleague.org.
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
