CMC President’s Board of Trustees recap and news for June 2025
June 17, 2025
Hi folks. It’s Daren Otten, Superintendent/President here at Copper Mountain College, with your follow up report from the last Thursday, June 12th, regular board meeting. We kicked that board meeting off with a closed session that there was no action taken by the Board of Trustees. And moving right into the regular meeting, we got… Read more »
CMC President’s Board of Trustees recap and news for May 2025
May 20, 2025
Hi folks, Daren Otten, Superintendent and President here at Copper Mountain College for your board meeting summary from Thursday, May 8th, 2025. The board did kick off the meeting with several recognitions as we kind of wrap up the end of the year. First of all, presenting a certificate to Student Trustee Mariam Hussain, who… Read more »
CMC President’s Board of Trustees recap and news for April 2025
April 17, 2025
Hi folks, Daren Otten, Superintendent-President here at Copper Mountain College with your update from last week’s board meeting. The board meeting did start with a closed session where the trustees went through several items around labor negotiations, some pending litigation against the district and ultimately some public employee discipline dismissal release. And coming out of… Read more »
CMC Vice President’s Board of Trustee’s recap and news for March 2025
March 21, 2025
Hello, this is Jane Kwon, Vice President of Student Services, giving a report on the regular board meeting from March 13th. We had two public comments. One on a proposal to change the college name to Joshua Tree Community College and another on concerns about the current effects of the federal government orders on education… Read more »
CMC President’s Board of Trustee’s recap and news for February 2025
February 21, 2025
Hi folks, this is Daren Otten, Superintendent/President at Copper Mountain College, and your report from the February 13, 2025, regular board meeting. Coming out of closed session last week, the Board of Trustees did act to non-renew a singular management contract and then ultimately moved into our regular session with several new employee introductions, including… Read more »
CMC President’s Board of Trustees recap and news for December 2024
December 17, 2024
Hi folks, Daren Otten, Superintendent/President at Copper Mountain College. And this is the report that stems from last Thursday, December 12th’s Board meeting. The Board meeting did start with a closed session, as they normally do with a couple of items. The only thing that did come as an action item that was out of… Read more »
CMC President’s Board of Trustee’s recap and news for November 2024
November 19, 2024
Hi folks, this is Daren Otten, Superintendent/President here, Copper Mountain College. This is your Board of Trustees regular meeting follow-up report from Thursday, November 14th, 2024 Overarching, it was a very lightly attended meeting from the standpoint of many participants because many of our general presenters, such as Jenn Anderson, Nicole Virtue, many of our… Read more »
CMC President’s Board of Trustees recap and news for October 2024
October 16, 2024
Hi folks, Darren Otten, Superintendent/President here at Copper Mountain College. This is the follow-up from the board meeting from last week that included both a special joint meeting between our Board of Trustees and the Morongo Unified Board of Education as well as our general meeting. We started at one last week with the joint… Read more »
CMC President’s Board of Trustee’s recap and news for September 2024
September 11, 2024
Hi folks. Daren Otten here. This is an update associated with your board meetings from last week. We had two of them, two special meetings. As a reminder, the second one did take place in lieu of the one that was canceled for this week. So again, there is no board meeting this week. Both… Read more »
Copper Mountain College Hosts Mojave Month, September 14 through October 13, 2024
September 05, 2024
Copper Mountain College is hosting Mojave Month, from Saturday, September 14, through Sunday, October 13, 2024. Mojave Month is a month-long celebration of the desert ecology, history, culture, music, film, literature – and more – of our Mojave Desert home. All events are open to the public, most are free to attend. Mojave Month begins… Read more »