Coastline Community College

Early College High School appears set to have a home this fall as the Newport-Mesa Unified School District and Coastline Community College ended a week of anxiety by reaching an agreement on a permanent facility. Last week, Newport-Mesa put a halt on student recruitment at Early College due to uncertainty over where the campus, which opened last August in temporary classrooms, would reside next year. Supt. Jeffrey Hubbard announced at Tuesday's school board meeting, however, that Coastline had agreed to house the school at its site in Costa Mesa.

Coastline Community College announced this week a partnership and new scholarship with the Asian & Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund (APIASF). "I think the scholarship is doing amazing things for the community and addressing specific things within the community," APIASF spokeswoman Katie Tran-Lam said Friday. About 50% of Asian and Pacific Islander students go to community colleges, she said. This is the first year that APIASF has partnered with Coastline Community College.

Navy veteran Sean Roberson is a Southern California native and student at Coastline Community College, but his graduation Saturday will be the first time he steps foot on the school's campus. In September 2011, he started taking classes at the Orange County college while was stationed about 2,000 miles away in Gulfport, Miss. On duty, he'd train to handle or transport hazardous materials as part of his work in ammunition logistics. Off duty, he'd take online tests or attend chat room lectures as part of his studies in criminal justice.

Coastline Community College will lay off up to 32 employees this summer after it did not receive grant funding to run an Irvine career center it has operated for years. Coast Community College District's board of trustees voted to issue the layoff notices Wednesday night due to the lack of funds. "This is not a happy vote for any of us," board President Lorraine Prinsky said. Coastline's two Orange County One-Stop Centers, which provide job training and searching resources, are funded through federal grants.

Coastline Community College has been honored as the country’s top institution that supplies quality educational programs to the armed services. The award is given each year by the Council of College and Military Educators; this year, the event was held Jan. 29 in Honolulu. Ed McKenney, dean of Coastline’s military programs; Shawn Mann, manager of military program outreach and recruitment; and Joycelyn Groot, director of contract education, were all present to accept the award.

Coastline Community College is offering up to $50,000 in scholarships to students for the current school year. Students with good grades and who have outstanding community service experience and leadership skills or financial need can be awarded between $150 and $2,000. Students can apply and qualify in multiple categories. Scholarships awarded have outnumbered students who applied, said Mariam Khosravani, the Coastline Foundation’s director. Applications are available at www.coastline.

Costa Mesa's Coast Community College District has a new student representative to serve on the board of trustees, the district announced this week. Tanner Kelly, an Orange Coast College student and Santa Ana resident, will begin his term on the dais at the May 15 board meeting. The Bakersfield native replaces student trustee Kolby Keo, also an OCC student. Kelly was elected to the student senate shortly after he started at OCC in fall 2011, according to a news release from the district.

Students will start classes at Coastline Community College's newly opened Newport Beach campus in a few days. For years, pupils at Early College High School in Costa Mesa also anticipated moving to the gleaming new site with ocean views. While it was under construction, Kristina Dresher's son asked her to drive by so he could sneak a look. When his grandmother visited from South Carolina, he even made sure she saw it, Dresher said. "I was excited because he was excited," said the mother said of the Early College freshman.

Coastline Community College plans to build a 60,000-square-foot learning center on the southwestern edge of Newport Beach that will feature everything from foreign-language programs to an art gallery. “It will be an aesthetic improvement in the community and bring a higher-education learning center to the city that will be a real asset,” said Kevin McElroy, vice president for administrative services at Coastline Community College. Coastline, which also has learning centers in Costa Mesa, Garden Grove, Fountain Valley and Westminster, paid $12.79 million for the 3.5 acres at 15th Street and Monrovia Avenue in Newport Beach.

In a fiery last hurrah, some abandoned buildings off 15th Street and Monrovia Avenue were used for SWAT team training this week. They will be demolished to make way for a new Coastline Community College campus in 2012. Some residents in Newport Beach and Costa Mesa likely heard thuds, shouts and bangs coming from the campus to-be Wednesday afternoon as Newport Beach SWAT team officers joined others from the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, and Tustin and Irvine police departments.

Navy veteran Sean Roberson is a Southern California native and student at Coastline Community College, but his graduation Saturday will be the first time he steps foot on the school's campus. In September 2011, he started taking classes at the Orange County college while was stationed about 2,000 miles away in Gulfport, Miss. On duty, he'd train to handle or transport hazardous materials as part of his work in ammunition logistics. Off duty, he'd take online tests or attend chat room lectures as part of his studies in criminal justice.

Costa Mesa's Coast Community College District has a new student representative to serve on the board of trustees, the district announced this week. Tanner Kelly, an Orange Coast College student and Santa Ana resident, will begin his term on the dais at the May 15 board meeting. The Bakersfield native replaces student trustee Kolby Keo, also an OCC student. Kelly was elected to the student senate shortly after he started at OCC in fall 2011, according to a news release from the district.

Coastline Community College will lay off up to 32 employees this summer after it did not receive grant funding to run an Irvine career center it has operated for years. Coast Community College District's board of trustees voted to issue the layoff notices Wednesday night due to the lack of funds. "This is not a happy vote for any of us," board President Lorraine Prinsky said. Coastline's two Orange County One-Stop Centers, which provide job training and searching resources, are funded through federal grants.

The Coast Community College District this week will consider laying off dozens of full-time employees as it pulls back from running a career center in Irvine. Some of those termination notices will probably be rescinded by May while others remain in force. Thirty-two full-time "classified" staffers from the clerical and related ranks could receive pink slips if the Board of Trustees approves the move Wednesday night. Those targeted for reductions include clerks, administrative assistants and information technology professionals.

High school students can get a glimpse of college life during College Preview Day at Coastline Community College's Newport Beach campus next week. Students from the Huntington Beach Union High, Newport-Mesa and Garden Grove unified school district are invited to the event from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. April 24. Attendees can drop in on a number of classes, including drawing, college algebra, human anatomy, paralegal studies and psychology. Students will get the chance to learn about registration and financial aid as well as get a tour of Coastline's newly built Newport Beach Campus.

Students will start classes at Coastline Community College's newly opened Newport Beach campus in a few days. For years, pupils at Early College High School in Costa Mesa also anticipated moving to the gleaming new site with ocean views. While it was under construction, Kristina Dresher's son asked her to drive by so he could sneak a look. When his grandmother visited from South Carolina, he even made sure she saw it, Dresher said. "I was excited because he was excited," said the mother said of the Early College freshman.

Coast Community College District's board of trustees last week unanimously selected a president for 2013. Huntington Beach resident and former professor Lorraine Prinsky was first elected to the board in 2008 and reelected in November. This is Prinsky's first term as president. She previously served as vice president and clerk for the board, according to a press release. CCCD oversees three community colleges in Orange County: Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, Coastline Community College in Fountain Valley and Golden West College in Huntington Beach.

Coastline Community College will host a holiday boutique and sale Monday, according to a news release. Jewelry, knitted items, art, home decor and more from local vendors will be on sale from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the lobby of the college's main office in Fountain Valley, 11460 Warner Ave. Many of the items will be handmade. The event is a fundraiser for the Classified Senate program. Portions of the vendor fees will go toward scholarships for Coast Community College District employees pursuing further education.

Coastline Community College celebrated the opening of its $48-million Newport Beach campus this week, but some of its neighbors aren't happy. The Newport Beach Learning Center's windows, which give panoramic ocean views from many of the classrooms, are catching ire in addition to sunlight. Some neighbors say the two-stories' worth of glass set at an angle of 7 degrees reflects the light into their homes. "These panels happen to face at precisely a point so as to collect the maximum effect of the rays of the sun and then are magnified about three times that and beamed directly into all the homes along Newport Crest's north perimeter, including mine," neighbor Lenard Davis wrote in a Sept.

Coastline Community College will continue providing services to veterans at the Joint Forces Training Base in Los Alamitos. The Coast Community College District Board of Trustees on Sept. 5 approved an agreement with the base to continue the Orange County One-Stop Center, which provides veterans and their families with career and transition services. "By providing these services, on-base in an environment they are familiar with, and offering assistance to them through a network of their peers, we hope that more veterans will take advantage of these career resources," board President Jim Moreno said in a prepared statement.