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Growing up as the child of an immigrant from Belarus and a Vietnamese refugee, Gabby Le said she never felt like she totally fit in with either group. When she came to Palomar College, she found a community that supported her and allowed her to blossom and thrive. Le will be the valedictorian at Palomar…

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SAN MARCOS – A new partnership between Palomar College and the Escondido Union School District offers free college courses for instructional aides – and a chance for them to work toward a degree that leads to a career as a teacher. The Paraeducator Partnership Program, called P3, was created to remove the roadblocks that sometimes…

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SAN MARCOS — When Dr. Nora Kenney determined that a tenure-track teaching position was not the path she thought she should take, the justice impacted population in San Diego County benefited.  Dr. Nora, as her students refer to her, began teaching at the Vista Detention Center, and has become a steadfast resource for students seeking a…

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SAN MARCOS — As an apprentice at the San Diego Natural History Museum’s Library Department, Alex Tomeo has seen hundreds of rare and historic photos of San Diego and the region. Now in her last semester at Palomar College, Tomeo recently co-authored a research paper entitled “Please Don’t Break: A Study of Glass Plate Photography.”…

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SAN MARCOS — In a small building near the entrance to Palomar College’s main campus in San Marcos, a team of designers and builders—all teaching or studying at Palomar—have transformed a space that formerly housed a variety of functions into a permanent home for Rising Scholars. The Rising Scholars program helps previously incarcerated and system-impacted…

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SAN MARCOS — Eight times in the first half of a game against Southwestern College on Friday, February 3, 2023, Camille Sroufe toed up to the 3-point line, shot, and scored. The college record—set by Julie Saelee in early 2020—was nine 3-pointers in a single game, and Sroufe knew she only had two more to…

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