Education

Four local seniors earned some financial assistance for college because of their dedication to community service. Celina Abushawish, Mariam Mekhael, Kennedy Perry and Diana Sagastume were chosen among 35 applicants to receive scholarships from Soroptimist International of San Jacinto-Hemet Valley, a nonprofit that is a branch of Soroptimist International of the Americas.

Mt. San Jacinto College (MSJC) has partnered with the Perris-based TODEC Legal Center to provide free legal support services to faculty, staff and undocumented students at the college.

More than 150 people attended and participated in Mt. San Jacinto College’s inaugural Juneteenth Celebration on Friday, June 19. MSJC was one of just a few colleges in Southern California that celebrated Juneteenth this year. The 2 ½-hour virtual event hosted its speakers and a DJ in a Zoom chat and then livestreamed on YouTube for attendees.

The Mt. San Jacinto College (MSJC) Outreach Team is hosting weekly video-conference calls with parents and prospective students throughout the summer to help them enroll, discuss student support programs and financial aid

Throughout nearly the entire country, high school graduations were very different this year under the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, San Jacinto High School’s long-standing tradition of the “S”