Santa Maria Sun

There are dozens of classes students ages 18 and older may register for, and most are tuition-free.

Residents learn a variety of skills in tuition-free Community Education courses at Hancock - Santa Maria Sun In a lifelong learning class, Nick and Deborah Carpenter crafted pieces of jewelry that can also last a lifetime: their wedding bands. The couple has spent the past two decades exercising their creative muscles in tuition-free arts courses at Allan Hancock College, they told the school. While shapin...

For generations, Native American remains and cultural belongings were stolen and stored in museums, universities, and institutions across the country. The remains of more than 110,000 Native Americans were still in institutional collections more than 30 years after NAGPRA required their return.

Going home: A push to return Native American remains and belongings back to tribes - Santa Maria Sun Editor’s note: This is the first in a two-part series. The second part is scheduled to run July 9. Some of the shelves at UC Berkeley and other institutions are kept from public view, but Kathy Marshall has seen them. “When [I] visit schools and universities, [I’m] just like, I bet none of the...