At its annual organizational meeting on Dec. 13, the Mt. San Antonio College Board of Trustees elected Dr. Manuel Baca as president, Robert Hidalgo as vice president, and Jay Chen as clerk. They will serve one-year terms, effective immediately.

Interior design students Tsz Yan Leung and Ellen To have recently been awarded scholarships after competing in the 2017 International Interior Design Association of Southern California’s Charette held Nov. 4 at The Bloc in downtown Los Angeles.

A Statement from the Chief of Police and Campus Safety on Establishing a Full-Service Police Department Mt. San Antonio College is in the process of establishing its own full-service police department as directed by the Board of Trustees.

The electronic marquee at the corner of Grand and Temple avenues will be getting a much needed upgrade this December.

The Mt. SAC Theater Program will stage its 10th annual production of student shows, “Sights Unseen,” on Thursday through Saturday, Dec. 7-9, at 8 p.m., with a special Sunday matinee, Dec. 10, at 2 p.m., in Mt. SAC’s Studio Theater.

Campus-wide Town Hall meetings were held Nov. 29 to discuss the ongoing transition from a Public Safety Department to a campus police force.

For only the second time in the college’s history, both the men’s and women’s cross country teams have concurrently captured the California Community College State Championship. The last time this happened was in 1989.

Five Mt. SAC Honors students were invited to present research projects at the Southern California Conference for Undergraduate Research (SCCUR) held Nov. 18 at Cal Poly Pomona.

Mt. SAC Vocational English as a Second Language (VESL) student Luisa Patino recently won the California Association of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (CATESOL) statewide essay writing contest.

The Mt. SAC Student Life Office will host a Community Volunteer Fair for local organizations that would like to recruit student volunteers on Thursday, Nov. 16, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., on campus just north of the library and west of the Student Life Center, building 9C.