The California Community Colleges Board of Governors approved the proposed transfer of territory from Redwoods Community College District to the Mendocino-Lake Community College District (MLCCD) at their meeting on Monday, July 18th.  As a result of this action, the coastal communities of Fort Bragg and the town of Mendocino along with the surrounding areas will be incorporated into the Mendocino-Lake Community College District on July 1, 2017.
 

The Mendocino College Men’s Soccer team is off to a strong start, after just two years of offering the program the team can say they’ve sustained their winning record.  Thirteen sophomores played their final season for the Mendocino Eagles in the Fall of 2015, after being part of the inaugural Men’s Team, and now four of them can say they are moving on and continuing to pursue their dream.

The Mendocino College Theatre Arts Department will present the Thirteenth Annual Festival of New Plays on Friday and Saturday, May 20 and 21 at 8 PM in the College’s Little Theatre, Room 710, on the Ukiah campus.

Dan Jenkins, a tenured professor at Mendocino College, recently accepted the H. Sanford Gum Service Award for his tremendous efforts in the field of Cooperative Work Experience Education (CWEE).  Completing his twenty-first year of instructing at Mendocino College, this prestigious award came as no surprise to the College Administration or Jenkin’s colleagues.  

The 28th Annual Latino Student Retreat, sponsored by the Mendocino College Foundation, will take place on Friday, May 6, 2016 from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. beginning at the Center for Visual and Performing Arts.  

For the past fifteen years, the Mendocino College Dance Department has acknowledged National Dance Week with its own celebration of dance, the Spring Dance Festival, and this year is no exception! Ballet, contemporary, jazz, Middle Eastern, hip hop, and tap dance are just a handful of dance forms that will delight those who attend this event on Friday and Saturday, April 29 & 30 at 7:30 PM and Sunday, May 1 at 2:00 PM in the Mendocino College Center Theatre in Ukiah. “This event is one of Mendocino College’s most popular yearly events.

The Mendocino College Art Gallery cordially invites the public to view various art forms presented by our very own Mendocino College students.  Paintings, ceramics, photography, and sculptures will proudly be on display. Don’t miss out on our largest and most popular show of the year as well as a wonderful opportunity to support your local artists!

Friends of the Mendocino College Library, an affiliate of the Mendocino College Foundation, are hosting mystery author Waights Taylor Jr. for its third reading in the spring reading series. He will be reading from his new novel, Touch of Redemption, on Thursday, April 21st at 7 PM in Room 4210, upstairs in the new college library. The college is located at 1000 Hensley Creek Rd. in Ukiah. Admission to the event is free.

Mendocino College will offer its first Construction Fundamentals Class (SST 180) at the Lake Center beginning on February 27th, 2016.  The class, an introduction to construction skills and methods, covers a range of topics from safe tool use and construction practices to fundamental building skills and an overview of construction topics.  All members of the community are welcome to register for the class, which starts on February 27th.  This course will be held at the Mendocino College Lake Center in Lakeport, all members of the community are welcome to enroll.

The Friends of the Mendocino College Library and the Friends of the Mendocino College Theatre are pleased to announce that theatre director and playwright Carey Perloff will be visiting Mendocino College on Sunday February 21 at 3 PM.  The event is part of the college library reading series which brings notable writers to the campus each semester.  Perloff, who helms San Francisco’s flagship theatre company, The American Conservatory Theatre (A.C.T.) will speak about her new book Beautiful Chaos which chronicles her past 20 years as A.C.T.’s Artistic Director.