City clerk’s office validates candidate Costa...

City clerk’s office validates candidate

Costa Mesa resident Allan Mansoor officially became a City Council

candidate Monday morning as his application signatures were verified

by the Orange County registrar’s office.

Mansoor, who is a member of the city’s Human Relations Committee,

had all the necessary paperwork completed and filed as of Friday’s 5

p.m. deadline but was still awaiting signature confirmation by the

registrar’s office.

The confirmation was completed over the weekend and was

acknowledged by a representative from the Costa Mesa city clerk’s

office Monday.

OCC’s enrollment increases about 4%

With two weeks left before the start of the fall semester, Orange

Coast College finds its student enrollment has increased 4.3% over

last year.

The fall semester, which will begin Aug. 26, still has numerous

courses available for students needing to enroll, said Dean of

Admissions and Records Nancy L. Kidder. “Enrollment has been heavy

this fall, but we still have many open classes.”

OCC has 18,630 students enrolled and expects to enroll more than

28,000 before the end of the fall semester, which also includes a

variety of four-week and eight-week classes that the college offers.

Applications for the fall semester are still being accepted. The

admissions and records office is open from 8 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Monday

through Thursday, and 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Friday. Information: (714)

432-5072.

Foundation gives UCI $87,000 for seminar

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has given $87,000 to UC

Irvine’s Distance Learning Center for the seminar “Sorting Through

and Sorting Out: The State of Learning Content Sharing in the

E-learning Industry.”

The seminar, which will be held at the university in the fall,

will include national leaders in online learning projects involved

with the sharing of content. The participants will come from

large-scale repositories, university distance-learning efforts,

suppliers to the online education industry and publishers.

The objective is to produce a report to describe the current state

of content sharing and to propose ideas for increasing online sharing

The Hewlett Foundation’s purpose is to promote the well-being of

mankind by supporting selected activities of a charitable nature, as

well as organizations or institutions engaged in such activities. In

this pursuit, the foundation has devoted a significant amount of

resources to develop freely available courseware at no cost.

“Our grants to MIT, Carnegie Mellon University and UC Berkeley for

the development of freely available content and courses reflect our

desire to make knowledge open and accessible,” said Marshall Smith,

Hewlett Foundation’s program director for education.

-- Todd Karella