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Duck, Cover and Hold

San Diego Continuing Education campuses, classrooms, and students will participate in “The Great California ShakeOut” on Thursday, October 18 at (10:18am) to increase awareness of earthquake preparation and response. Students, faculty, and staff will receive handouts detailing what to do if an earthquake happens while at work or at home. Campus Office Managers will also be

10/17/2012
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Local Automotive Job Training Program at San Diego Continuing Education Makes Short List of Top Training Programs in the Nation

San Diego Continuing Education (SDCE) has been selected as one of the Top 25 finalists for “Tomorrow’s Technician 2012 School of the Year”, sponsored by O’Reilly Auto Parts and WIX Filters. A total of 340 entrants from high schools, technical schools, and colleges across the nation entered the contest. Making the short list of finalists for exceptional programs confirms SDCE

10/01/2012
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Continuing Education Campuses Promote Stop the Hate Week

San Diego Continuing Education is training faculty, staff, and students in association with Stop the Hate, a national coalition and resource for educational institutions.SAN DIEGO – A group of 30—including students, instructors, counselors, deans, administrators, and staff—from San Diego Continuing Education attended a three-day intense training to help fight bias and hate

05/24/2012
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Walk for Thought

Students and instructors from Continuing Education’s ABI (Acquired Brain Injury) program raised $15,000 for the Brain Injury Association of California (BIACAL). Continuing Education’s ABI team set a high goal this year when they pledged to raise $15,000 for the 5th annual “Walk for Thought” sponsored by BIACAL. The goal was a $3,000 increase over last year’s contribution. As a

05/10/2012
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CE Team Participates in Spelling Bee

Continuing Education participated in a Spelling Bee sponsored by the San Diego Council on Literacy. The CE team included Cat Prindle, Neill Kovrig, and Jamila DeCarli. The team made it to the fifth round and conquered words like soliloquy, plateau, and allegro.

03/27/2012
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Black History Month

This year's event, The African American Experience: Dreams in Action was held at the Educational Cultural Complex. Continuing Education faculty, staff, students, and community members were enlightened by the poetic renditions and biographical sketch of keynote speaker Dr. Dorothy Smith who grew up in the segregated South of the 40s and 50s. Dr. Smith has had a distinguished

03/12/2012
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Stop the Hate

A group of 30—including ASB student representatives, instructors, counselors, deans, administrators, and members of the Diversity Committee—attended a three-day intense training to help fight bias and hate crimes on Continuing Education campuses. The Stop the Hate training facilitators led the group through discussion, activity, statistics, and group presentations over an

03/12/2012
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Students Win Grand Sweepstakes

Continuing Education received top honors at the MLK Parade on Sunday and our students could not be more proud! The Grand Sweepstakes Award is the grand-daddy of all awards in the Dr. Martin Luther King Day Parade. The professional judges, many who come from other parts of the state, had more than 100 parade entries to judge. Fortunately, in the end, our handmade student CE

01/18/2012
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Chef to Chef

L to R Former Continuing Education student and professional chef Ricardo Muñoz Zurita with Martha Stewart and Instructor Marilyn Biggica. When Ricardo Muñoz Zurita, a former Continuing Education student and professional chef, invited his former instructor Marilyn Biggica to meet well-known TV personality and chef Martha Stewart, Biggica did not imagine she would possibly begin

01/04/2012
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Topping Off

A ‘topping off” marks the point when a structure’s highest element is hoisted into place, a practice that started in Scandinavia over 1,000 years ago. Upon reaching the highest point, workers traditionally put into place a small evergreen tree as a symbol of good faith and good luck. Builders, administrators, faculty, and staff celebrated the “topping off” of the new

12/12/2011