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Geographic Information System technology was once associated mainly with mapmaking, but today it serves industries ranging from traffic management and disease tracking to urban planning and environmental science. And that's why Chaffey College Professor of Geography Lisa Pitts is leading the charge to turn it into a certificate program, and eventually a degree at Chaffey.

About 450 higher education leaders, students and community members gathered for Chaffey College's Black and Brown Minds & Mattering Conference on Oct. 23 for a day of lifting up students and communities of color.

The creepy and kooky Addams Family will come to the Chaffey College Theatre in November for a musical that embraces wackiness, love and family.

The Campaign for College Opportunity has named Chaffey College the No. 1 California community college for year-over-year growth in associate degrees for transfer (ADTs) and for awarding transfer degrees to Latino students.

Chaffey College Student Government members and the campus community gathered Oct. 7 to celebrate the retirement of Superintendent/President Henry D. Shannon.

About 600 junior high and high school students attended Manufacturing Day at the Chaffey College Industrial Technical Learning Center to get a glimpse of jobs in welding, industrial electrical maintenance, machining and robotics.

Claudia and Marcelo Sirri came to the United States from Argentina in 1996 with their four children to find better opportunities. Today, the Sirri children are in rewarding careers and living comfortably throughout Southern California thanks, in part, to their time at Chaffey College.

Chaffey College journalism students in the California Institution for Men will soon publish their own newspaper called "Rising Voices," with a podcast and potential expansion into the California Institution for Women also on the horizon. Journalists at Chaffey's Rancho Cucamonga campus also have big plans for the academic year after receiving a $7,500 grant from the Solutions Journalism Network to focus on issues facing justice-impacted students such as mental health and financial barriers.

Superintendent/President Henry D. Shannon leaves behind a legacy of transformation -- with tens of thousands of educators and students touched by his leadership in a career that has spanned more than five decades.

Retired corrections and parole officer Alfredo Zendejas Zendejas is one of many students who have benefitted from this year's expansion of the Chaffey College Credit for Prior Learning program, which provides students with college credit for workforce experience.