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For the first time, Pierce College officials have canceled summer school to save money rather than risk having to cut classes during the regular school year. Because of declining state funding, the Pierce summer school session would have been reduced to 40 classes from the 120 or so usually offered.

For the first time, Pierce College officials have canceled summer school to save money rather than risk having to cut classes during the regular school year. Because of declining state funding, the Pierce summer school session would have been reduced to 40 classes from the 120 or so usually offered.

The definition of success takes a different meaning for the West Los Angeles and Santa Monica College football teams. For West L.A., which was 3-7 in 1991, success would be measured solely by a winning season. At Santa Monica, which enters 1992 after finishing 9-2 last season, success would probably require something akin to an undefeated season and a top 10 state ranking or better. Although both teams' goals will be difficult to achieve, they are considered attainable.

The definition of success takes a different meaning for the West Los Angeles and Santa Monica College football teams. For West L.A., which was 3-7 in 1991, success would be measured solely by a winning season. At Santa Monica, which enters 1992 after finishing 9-2 last season, success would probably require something akin to an undefeated season and a top 10 state ranking or better. Although both teams' goals will be difficult to achieve, they are considered attainable.

Strapped for space, the Los Angeles Board of Education has approved a lease agreement with the Los Angeles community colleges that will help relieve the elementary and secondary school district's growing classroom shortage, particularly severe in the Southeast region.

I would like to set the record straight regarding the statement, quoted in a recent news story, by the director of L.A. Mission College's newly created interior design department that, "Mission has the only complete interior design program in the Los Angeles Community College District." Los Angeles Valley College has offered an interior design certificate program for the past 20 years. The Family and Consumer Studies Department at Valley College has issued more interior design certificates that any other accredited educational institution in the San Fernando Valley.

Two photography exhibitions open Monday at Cypress College and continue through Dec. 20. A display titled "Portraits: Past and Present" will be shown in the college's photography and library galleries. The exhibition is the work of photographer Nancy Webber, an art professor at Harbor Community College in Los Angeles, who was featured in an article in Life magazine in July. The other exhibition, titled "Everything but the Kitchen Sink," features work by Cal State Long Beach photography students.

Because of the new state budget, student fees at Glendale Community College and Los Angeles City College will increase from $10 per unit to $13 per unit, with no cap, effective immediately. The enrollment fee of $50 per unit for students holding bachelor's degrees will not change. According to the state chancellor's office, the original increase proposed was to $15 per unit, with a maximum of $150.

Two college administrators from Texas were among the finalists interviewed Wednesday for the top job in the troubled Los Angeles Community College District, the largest in the nation. Trustees of the nine-campus, 98,000-student district spent hours behind closed doors interviewing at least three, and possibly more, finalists for the post of chancellor.

A Los Angeles County fireman who trained hundreds of firefighters in emergency medicine has been arrested on charges that he forged his paramedic certificate, Ventura County authorities announced Wednesday.

Thirteen Oxnard College students are among 50 Southern California high school and community college students selected for a summer health-care education program that is part of a nationwide launch of President Clinton's national service program. The students were chosen from colleges whose enrollment includes a high percentage of minorities underrepresented in the health care profession, including Latinos and African-Americans, said Gwen van Servellen, a professor in the UCLA School of Nursing.