Board members approved $5,000 for Bauer to speak about her experience surviving concentration camps and current antisemitism, $1,001 for a Nowruz celebration of the Persian New Year and $5,920 for Alpha Gamma Sigma’s spring convention.

The Cayton Center on the main campus of Santa Monica College (SMC) will be updated this semester with a $12,000 budget with the hopes of providing a better on campus experience for students.

SMC's Student Trustee Brooke Harrington is looking to SMC students first for ideas on possible new Cayton Center updates and uses, asking students for their suggestions on how the popular student lounge should be updated. Harrington has asked students to write down their needs on post-it sticky notes and hang them on a poster in the Cayton Center designated for this activity.