I am pleased to announce that Diane Hardy will be joining the College on March 2nd as Director of Project Management. As such, she will be helping the President and me coordinate our various facility addition and improvement efforts including the campus master plan update process.

Diane comes to the College with engineering and management degrees (including a Saint Mary's MBA!) and a PMP certificate. She has over 15 years of project management experience, most recently at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Inequality in societies arising from wide variations in access to resources has been linked with many social problems such as physical and mental illness, incarceration, fragmented families and communities, teenage pregnancies and a significant loss of potential talent in the workplace.

Sixteen student Writing Advisers have been invited to present their research at the Northern California Writing Centers Association Conference, in Fresno March 7.