November 19 News Briefs

City College receives grant to improve tech education

On Nov. 14 Jackie Speier, House Representative for the San Francisco-San Mateo district, announced a $3 million Advanced Technological Education grant from the National Science Foundation. The grant would, over four years, establish the Mid-Pacific Information and Communication Technologies (MPICT) Regional Center at City College. MPICT’s goal is to improve and promote information and communication technology education at two-year colleges in northern California as well as in Hawaii, Nevada and Oregon. City College will be the MPICT headquarters