April Woods, who taught and counseled at Palomar College for 25 years, lost her battle with cancer in 2017. Now there is a travel scholarship in her name, thanks to a $100,000 bequest to the Palomar College Foundation. Pictured above: Melissa Grant holds a photo of...

Natalie Lopez provides tours, teaches classes, and constantly promotes the many services of the Palomar College Library/Learning Resource Center (LRC). About the new building, she says, “I’ve heard nothing but wonderful things from our students.” SAN MARCOS — When she...

Palomar student on the cover of the Spring 2019 Class Schedule will earn his degree in Water Technology this year. He is already on the job with the Rincon del Diablo Municipal Water District in Escondido. ESCONDIDO — Like many students, Josh Lomeli cycled through a...

Palomar College celebrated many significant milestones in 2018, from the opening of new education centers in Rancho Bernardo and Fallbrook to the successful expansion of the Palomar Promise. With the New Year, the college is anticipating a flurry of activity, with...

Dennis Boyer is one of the longest-serving instructors in Palomar’s widely celebrated Fire Academy. On Dec. 30, he’ll work his last shift with the Escondido Fire Department. ESCONDIDO — For 39 and a half years, Capt. Dennis Boyer has spent most of his professional...

SAN MARCOS — When Lakshmi Paranthaman first read the job description for a professor who could teach both Real Estate and Business Law, she thought the posting might as well have her name on it. Highly experienced in both fields, Paranthaman applied for the job at...

Forty-three years after it was originally built, the iconic timepiece is outfitted with new faces, digital recordings and a structural overhaul in a recent renovation. SAN MARCOS — For more than four decades, the clocktower at Palomar College has stood as an icon and...

As a senior at U.C. Berkeley, Tara Roach took Economics from Reich, the former U.S. Labor Secretary. When Palomar College brought him to Escondido last month, she was in the audience with her students. SAN MARCOS — When Robert Reich, the former U.S. Secretary of...

As one of the world’s leading economists and a professor at UC Berkeley, Reich spoke to approximately 1,200 people as part of the Palomar College Student Equity Speaker Series. ESCONDIDO — At a special engagement hosted by Palomar College on Friday, Nov. 16, former...

As the college celebrates Veterans Day, one veteran’s story illustrates the power of higher education. “Once a Marine, always a Marine,” the saying goes—and now, for Matt Baugh, also a college graduate. SAN MARCOS — For Matt Baugh, the road from infantryman to college...