Recent Accomplishments

Celebrating Excellence & Distinction

• President John Nixon received the "Harry Buttimer Distinguished Administrator Award" by the Association of California Community College Administrators. This is ACCA's oldest and most prestigious award, given to Dr. Nixon for his 30-plus years of service in public education and for his contributions to colleagues and the profession as well as to Mt. SAC and the community.
• Xavier Padilla was selected to the 2011 Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) All-California Academic First Team and Lisa Bastio was named to the state Academic Third Team. Xavier is a former student trustee and currently serves as the Associated Students president. PTK is the international community college honor society.
• The Mt. SAC football and men's soccer teams won state and national championship titles for the second consecutive year.
• Mt. SAC journalism students won 25 awards at the Journalism Association of Community Colleges state convention and 20 awards at the CCMA competition.
• Four Mt. SAC music students were selected to perform with the distinguished National Collegiate Honor Band. The band performed in Seattle as part of the College Band Directors' National Association Conference.
• Mt. SAC's health careers students won medals at the Health Occupations Students of America State Leadership Conference in Sacramento. The team won three gold, four silver and three bronze medals in the Creative Problem Solving category.
• Architecture students Keiry Perez and Alyssa Jeong placed in the top six at the 19th Annual 1:2 Student Competition of the American Institute of Architects, Los Angeles Chapter. The students won $1,000 cash scholarships.
• The Mt. SAC Forensics Team captured the national title at the Phi Rho Pi Speech Tournament and won first place Individual Events Sweepstakes, first place Overall Sweepstakes as well as the Sylvia Mariner Perpetual Sweepstakes Award for earning accumulative points-an honor Mt. SAC last won 12 years ago. In all, the Mt. SAC team won 27 individual medals.
• The Mt. SAC Chamber Singers and Singcopation swept first-place honors in every category they entered at International Choral Competition in Reno.
• The Marketing, Communication and Public Affairs team won nine excellence awards for print, online and media communication by the California Community College Public Relations Organization.
• Communications Professor John Vitullo won the prestigious Distinguished Service Award at this year's Phi Rho National Forensics Tournament, which is the highest honor awarded to a college speech coach.
• Financial Aid Director Susan Jones received the "Lifetime Achievement Award" by the California Community College Student Financial Aid Administrators Association.
• Softball Head Coach Kelly Ford was named Coach of the Year for the South Coast Conference.
  
• Choral Activities Director and Professor Bruce Rogers was awarded the "Outstanding Educator Spotlight Award" by the Upland Community Foundation.