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“This is the second Weger Family Perpetual Scholarship to be created by the family” announced Jerry Chaney, scholarship committee chair.
The Mendocino College Foundation has been stewarding the Alfred and Hulda Weger Scholarship for the past 10 years.
George Weger is the son of Alfred and Hulda and he too believes in helping people succeed by having the opportunity to attend college.
Weger was born in Ukiah at the old General Hospital in 1942. He attended Yokayo Elementary School and Pomolita Middle School. He graduated from Ukiah High School in 1960.
Growing up he lived at the family home in Ukiah during the school year and once school was out for the summer, the family moved out to the family’s resort known as Orr Hot Springs Resort. He helped at the resort and at his father’s sheep ranch.
He graduated from Lassen College in 1963 and began his career working for Cal Fire. He later moved on to a 38-year career working in the engineering department of Marin Municipal Water District in Corte Madera. He retired as a construction inspector, but continued to work part-time on a survey team.
When asked why he established the scholarship, Weger said, “I like helping kids succeed, whether it be in sports or in the show arena.”
He coached and managed little league teams and was a 4H leader for many years, raised six children along the way and was influenced tremendously by his school teacher mother, Hulda Weger.
Weger continues in his father’s footsteps as a sheep rancher, but on a much smaller scale these days.
He understands the importance of obtaining a college degree and felt that creating this scholarship was one more contribution that he could make to support student success.
For more information about the scholarship program at Mendocino College, please contact Eliza Fields at 707-467-1018.
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NORTHERN CALIFORNIA – On Tuesday Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-05) announced that Kai Rush and Benji Ryuijin have been selected as the 2019 App Challenge winners for the Fifth Congressional District for their app Space Trace.
Rush and Ryuijin are seniors at Benicia High School and competed against more than a dozen other app designers in this year’s challenge. They were selected by a group of local technology experts.
“Each year I am thrilled to see so many great ideas and innovative designs from our local student app designers and I am excited to congratulate Kai and Benji as this year’s winning team for their app called Space Trace,” said Thompson. “Their innovative design will be on display throughout the upcoming year in the U.S. Capitol and featured on the House website, proudly representing our district to the nation. Congratulations to Kai and Benji and all the incredible and innovative students who competed in this year’s challenge!”
Thompson is proud to represent California’s Fifth Congressional District, which includes all or part of Contra Costa, Lake, Napa, Solano and Sonoma counties.
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Mendocino College is currently accredited by the ACCJC and was last evaluated and reaffirmed in June 2014.
This upcoming review coincides with the normal accreditation visit cycle of every six years.
“The accreditation process has been put in place so that we can take a close look at what we do very well for our students and communities and to find areas where we can improve. We want the accrediting team to see the quality work we do and learn how we are meeting the education and training needs of our district,” said Mendocino College interim Superintendent/President Eileen Cichocki.
The ACCJC works with its member institutions to advance educational quality and student learning and achievement.
This collaboration fosters institutional excellence and continuous improvement through innovation, self-analysis, peer review, and application of standards.
It is recognized by the U.S. Department of Education as a reliable authority regarding the quality of education offered by the institutions it accredits.
As part of the accreditation reaffirmation process, the public is invited to submit comments about Mendocino College to the accrediting body by completing a third party comment form on the ACCJC website, https://accjc.org/forms/third-party-comments/.
“Accreditation is an incredible process with so many faculty and staff contributing to the effort. We encourage the public to participate by submitting comments prior to the accreditation team’s visit in February,” says Debra Polak, vice president of academic affairs and accreditation liaison officer.
A copy of the Mendocino College 2019 Institutional Self-Evaluation Report will be available in December 2019 through the college website, https://www.mendocino.edu/college/accreditation.
If a member of the community has questions regarding the Mendocino College accreditation process, please contact Debra Polak, accreditation liaison officer, at 707-468-3068.
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The Dream Center’s schools — including Argosy University, the Art Institutes, and South University — closed in 2018, just 18 months after being acquired by the Dream Center, and after extensive fraud and mismanagement came to light. Under federal law, student loan borrowers have a right to a full discharge of their federal student loans under the federal “closed school discharge” rule if they are unable to complete their program because their school closed.
The letter asks Secretary DeVos to exercise her discretion to extend the period of student eligibility for closed school discharge and to take immediate action to automatically discharge the federal student loans of these student borrowers.
Affected students should not be obligated to repay federal student loans taken out for programs of study they could not complete through no fault of their own.
“The Dream Center schools created a nightmare for these students seeking a higher education,” said Attorney General Becerra. “Secretary DeVos must act quickly to review and approve relief for these students and to extend the withdrawal period to include all of the students misled by these predatory sham schools.”
Federal law provides a right to closed school discharge for students who were attending the school when it closed, or who withdrew up to 120 days before school’s closure, and who did not complete their programs of study.
It also allows the secretary of education to extend the period of eligibility to more than 120 days before closure, where appropriate.
In the letter, the attorneys general urge Secretary DeVos to exercise her authority to extend the 120-day period, given the fraud and mismanagement that occurred at these schools.
The states urge Secretary DeVos to extend the closed school discharge time frame to include any Argosy University, Art Institute or South University student borrower who withdrew from one of the closed schools after Oct. 17, 2017, or the day that the Dream Center took over management of the schools.
The letter discusses the myriad ways in which the Dream Center violated federal and state law and grossly mismanaged the schools, which led to the schools’ rapid closure less than 18 months after the Dream Center acquired them.
Tens of thousands of student borrowers were unable to complete their programs of study because the Dream Center’s mismanagement led the schools to close.
Exceptional circumstances exist which would provide for the discharge of federal student loans and the extension of the 120-day period, including adverse action by an accreditor, the institution’s discontinuation of a substantial amount of academic programming, action by states to revoke a school’s license to operate or award academic credentials, and findings by state and federal agencies that the school violated state or federal law.
Attorney General Becerra joined with the attorneys general of Minnesota, Oregon, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin in filing the letter.