If you drive out to the Carrizo Plain today, the landscape looks almost untouched. Green grasses and wildflowers stretch across hillsides that burned less than a year ago, framed by the surrounding mountains....
When Ryder Gangemi walks into the Cougar Pantry, she is not just looking for a quick snack between classes. Sometimes she is looking for the start of dinner.
If she finds tortillas, she can buy meat...
What are the students of Cuesta College's purposes and overall goals? The majority of Cuesta College students, at the time of registration, express that they are here to transfer to a four-year college...
Cuesta looks nothing like most students think, and the data proves it.
Across all 10,473 students enrolled in Spring 2026, the Cuesta student body is far more diverse than the all-campus view suggests....
What does Cuesta’s population look like? As a community college, Cuesta pulls students from all walks of life, ages, backgrounds, and goals.
6,503 of students, the majority, attend classes part-time,...
Covered in blood, applying chest compressions to a friend she knew wouldn’t make it, Emily Torlano recognized this moment for what it was: her final undoing.
The sights and sounds of three decades...
With the rise of artificial intelligence in a society facing continuous technological developments, financial aid fraud at community colleges has become more prevalent than ever within the last decade...
The presence of mortarboards and the sounds of “Pomp and Circumstance” declared that another academic year at Cuesta College has come to a close. Cuesta College announced that 2,222 Students graduated...
From the development of irrigation in ancient Mesopotamia to the establishment of high-powered data centers in Silicon Valley, humanity’s tendency toward innovation has led to the creation of technologies...
In a world where the political environment feels more polarized than ever, how do those who feel caught in the middle fare? When a box you check on the ballot becomes a large factor in the lens through...
A family full of wrestlers is what got Cuesta College women’s wrestler Aubree Kooren to become one. It took her up until her junior year of high school to decide that she wanted to wrestle. Her journey...
In the evening hours outside of the Art Gallery, students, faculty, friends and families gathered to listen and read along with the Tellus winners as they read out their works on Thursday evening, May...
