MSJC Foundation Awards Scholarships to 70 Students

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The Mt. San Jacinto College Foundation awarded nearly $58,000 to 70 students during its annual State of the College Luncheon & Fall Scholarships on Nov. 13.

The event was held at the Menifee Valley Campus. Scholarship presenters included Foundation board members Sherri Domenigoni and Dr. Richard Giese, MSJC Trustee Gwendolyn Schlange and faculty members Nick Reeves and Christina Yamanaka.

Dr. Roger Schultz, MSJC’s superintendent/president, gave the State of the College address. He told the guests that the state budget crises was subsiding, resulting in more revenues. The college will be able to offer a more robust summer session in 2014, hire more faculty and staff and the college will open a second site in Temecula in 2014. The college has leased the second floor of the former Temecula City Hall building for $1 a year.

In the above photo, MSJC student Ivelisse Porroa-Garcia, far right, receives an Honors Enrichment Scholarship from instructor Nick Reeves. Foundation Scholarship Committee Chair Sherri Domenigoni, far left, looks on.