Student Media Team at Palo Alto College

PAC-CAST: PAC Student Media has a podcast! Our PAC-CAST explores topics across campus with exclusive interviews with the movers and the shakers at Palo Alto College.
AFTER HOURS: The newest edition to the PAC-Cast Lineup is the show, AFTER HOURS. Students share their thoughts, struggles, triumphs and burning questions with life that happens outside the classroom.

The PAC-Cast helped me learn about Hope Gen and the services offered to first generation students on our campus. What a great listen!
— Sam
After hours went there. I loved tuning in.
— Robert
By Iris Ybarra Pulse Staff Reporter The food and drinks you eat now will affect your body in the future. Most students who eat junk enjoy the instantaneous pleasure they get from it. “Enjoy your [junk] foods, just in lesser amounts,” said Linda Ibarra-Gonzales, a Nutrition professor at Palo Alto College. Many students and staff Read more
By David Rojas Pulse Staff Reporter The Palo Alto College campus is more than just a place of learning. It is also a place to hang out and enjoy being by yourself, with someone special or with friends. Here are five Insta-worthy places to chill between classes and take pictures. Ozuna Library “It’s cozy and Read more
By Jocelyn Gutierrez Pulse Staff Reporter To help students prepare for future success in work and life, the Office of Academic Assessment at Palo Alto college developed six institutional learning outcomes. Communication, critical thinking, empirical and quantitative skills, personal responsibility, social responsibility and teamwork are the six institutional outcomes Palo Alto developed to prepare students Read more
By Oziel Trevino Pulse staff reporter Over the past five years, Dr. Ruben Michael “Mike” Flores has succeeded in increasing the college’s graduation rate and also in bringing in new programs, like Cosmetology and Early College High Schools, while gaining recognition for Palo Alto College at both the state and national levels. “Dr. Flores has Read more
By Daniella Aldaco Pulse Staff Reporter Palo Alto College hosted its first alternative Spring Break trip this year. Nine students and a campus adviser traveled to New Orleans by van from March 13 to March 17. It was not a typical Spring Break party trip. Instead, students helped a community that is still recovering after Read more
By R. M. Ozuniga Pulse staff reporter Project Access offers students with documented intellectual disabilities access to post-secondary education. Dr. Rose Zambrano, SDEV 0370 and EDUC 1300 professor, said Palo Alto’s new program is “a way to empower individuals who ordinarily haven’t been given those opportunities.” SDEV 0370 is a first-year course designed to support the Read more