Education – CHRISTOPHER SCOTT MCNEILL

City College continues serving students with disabilities from afar

October 9, 2020

(This article also appeared at The Express) Before serving as a counselor for Disability Services and Programs for Students (DSPS), Toni Newman worked for seven years as a special education teacher. For the last three years, Newman has served as

Truth, integrity and justice

June 16, 2020

I decided to pursue journalism after spending 18 months working toward a position with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In 2018, when investigations targeting Russian interference in the 2016 election had led to heightened animosity toward federal law enforcement agencies

Whole and complete yet broken

April 21, 2020

My work is a 15-minute walk from the steps of the Capitol in Sacramento, California, and when I went to work as an essential employee April 20, I didn’t expect for the Reopen California protests happening that day to make

The Writing Center continues helping students—from a distance

April 15, 2020

(This article first appeared at the Express) After City College transitioned to a completely online learning experience March 16, many of the on-campus tools students have depended on to ensure their personal and academic successes have shifted online as well.

How the nation’s farm-to-fork capital is pushing the envelope on coffee

April 14, 2020

Sacramento didn’t become the face of the farm-to-fork movement by standing in opposition to something else. Instead, the city took the way it had been interacting with its surrounding 1.5 million acres of farmland for generations and put a name

Making better coffee: chapter 2

April 9, 2020

After procuring quality coffee, there is a bit of work involved in getting a great cup time and time again. There are a few variables at play that can make your life either easier or harder, and until maybe five

Parking relief on the horizon for City College

March 4, 2020

(This article first appeared at the Express) Captain John McPeek of the Los Rios Police Department has a front-row seat for the congestion that happens outside of the parking structure every day. The department building is sandwiched between the first-floor parking

Making better coffee: chapter 1

January 31, 2020

If you make coffee at home, then there’s a pretty significant chance that you, dear friend, make bad coffee. But that, in and of itself, is not necessarily a bad thing—bad coffee is better than no coffee, much in the

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