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Beyond the status update

November 30, 2017

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New certificate in Social Media trains students in the art of engaging customers online in a rapidly evolving landscape. SAN MARCOS — In the spring of 2013, Palomar Business Professor Mary Cassoni took a sabbatical to learn more about social media and the ways that it was already beginning to disrupt a variety of information-centric…
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New Career Education programs under way at Palomar

November 29, 2017

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From social media to manufacturing to drone technology, Palomar College is offering up a variety of innovative programs to get students ready for careers. SAN MARCOS — In classrooms and workshops across campus, students at Palomar College are gaining a variety of work-ready skills and taking their first steps down career paths that lead directly…
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Machining and fabrication in a computerized world

November 29, 2017

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With a shop full of advanced machines and curriculum to train students in AutoCAD, SolidWORKS and MasterCAM, Palomar College aims to produce graduates who combine two powerful skill sets: design and machining. SAN MARCOS — Inside a tidy, well-lit lab on the northern edge of campus, Dennis Lutz presides over a collection of equipment that would…
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On eve of Veterans Day, Palomar College honors its own

November 11, 2017

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With the largest veteran population of any community college or university in California, Palomar furthers a tradition of serving the military that goes back to the college’s founding in 1946. SAN MARCOS — On a picture-perfect afternoon, students gathered on balconies and on the edges of the quad as the bell in the clock tower…
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Palomar hosts ‘Exploring Darwin’ lectures

November 10, 2017

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As series founder and coordinator Phil de Barros prepares to retire in December, hundreds of students attend talks on landmark theory. SAN MARCOS — On Tuesday afternoon, as a fellow professor discussed population growth on stage inside the Howard Brubeck Theatre, Phil de Barros sat nearby, listening intently and asking questions. It was de Barros’…
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Inside the Palomar College food pantry

November 7, 2017

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The Student Affairs team at Palomar tackles food insecurity and plans 2018 expansion of Anita and Stan Maag Food & Nutrition Center. SAN MARCOS — By noon on Thursday, Nov. 2, at least a hundred students had filed through a room filled with free food, picking up produce, pastries and bags of bagels on their…
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Lecture series explores wide range of current events

October 27, 2017

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Political Economy Days draws hundreds of students for lectures ranging from climate change to labor movements to white privilege. SAN MARCOS — In a darkened theater at Palomar College on Wednesday afternoon, 200 people gathered for a one-man show about an influential labor organizer in mid-20th-century San Francisco. The following day in a packed lecture…
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Palomar professor’s work featured in photography show

October 24, 2017

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Amy Caterina went all the way to Iceland to bring home a pair of Polaroids on display Oct. 27-29 in Medium Festival of Photography’s “Size Matters” exhibition. SAN MARCOS — When the photographic elite of San Diego descend on Bankers Hill for the Medium Festival of Photography on Oct. 28, two of the images on…
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