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In December, Â鶹´«Ã½â€™s Mock Trial Club competed in the 3rd Annual  American Mock Trial Association (AMTA) Community College Clash, a national virtual  tournament designed to strengthen and showcase mock trial programs at the  community college level. Â鶹´«Ã½ entered two, four-person teams to compete. 

Â鶹´«Ã½ secured two of the top four spots in the tournament, earning first place for outstanding overall team and fourth-place national ranking.

A recent summa cum laude graduate of Â鶹´«Ã½ (Â鶹´«Ã½), Avary Johnson’s foray into the field of education began at a young age.

While still in high school she completed Â鶹´«Ã½â€™s 12-unit Early Childhood Teacher Assistant Pathway and earned a Certificate of Proficiency. 

Thanks to her Advanced Placement, dual, and concurrent enrollment credits, Avary entered Â鶹´«Ã½ as a second-year college student immediately after graduating high school. 

Recent Â鶹´«Ã½ (Â鶹´«Ã½) honors graduate Kristine Chai is already making a mark in the rapidly advancing field of biotechnology.

Following high school graduation, Kristine was certain she wanted to study science, so  Â鶹´«Ã½â€™s well regarded biotechnology program was a natural choice. Now, she has graduated with top honors and been accepted to her three first choice schools – UC Los  Angeles, UC Berkeley and UC Irvine (UCI) – and is leaning towards UCI. 

Â鶹´«Ã½â€™s (Â鶹´«Ã½) award-winning Model United Nations (MUN) team achieved national recognition at the National Model United Nations Conference in Washington, D.C., held November 5–9. Competing among top universities and colleges from around the world, Â鶹´«Ã½ students earned an impressive collection of honors — including two Outstanding Delegation Awards, two Position Paper Awards, and the rare distinction of chairing three committees.

Caitlyn DeJesus’s love of numbers and logic ultimately laid the groundwork for her career path.  

Â鶹´«Ã½ (Â鶹´«Ã½) has been selected as one of four higher education institutions in Orange County to receive $3 million dollars from the Samueli Foundation to strengthen pathways for community college students pursuing degrees and careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). 

Â鶹´«Ã½ (Â鶹´«Ã½) capped off its yearlong 40th anniversary celebration today with the premiere of Little College in the Orange Groves: 40 Years in the Making, a commemorative documentary capturing the people, milestones, and moments that have defined the college’s four decades of excellence.

On October 18, Â鶹´«Ã½â€™s award-winning Model United Nations (MUN) team attended the PACMUN conference at Riverside City College—and made history. The 35-member delegation earned seven awards, more than any other college and surpassing the team’s previous best. Awards included three Outstanding Delegate awards (first-place), two Distinguished Delegate awards (2nd place), two Honorable Mention awards (3rd place), and the Best Delegate award (peer-award).

Today, the Aspen Institute named Â鶹´«Ã½ (Â鶹´«Ã½) as one of the 200 institutions eligible to compete for the $1 million Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence, the nation’s premier recognition of high achievement and performance among two-year colleges. Started in 2010, this is the ninth cycle of the Aspen Prize.