Written by PFA President Mark James Miller AI (artificial intelligence) is the phenomena of our time. When OpenAI released ChatGPT on Nov. 30, 2022, it became the fastest growing consumer application in history: One million people were using it within five days. This figure increased to 100 million in two months. As of now 12.5 […]

Written by PFA President Mark James Miller Auschwitz. The site of man’s greatest inhumanity to man. This is where somewhere between one and one-half million people were murdered. This is where Dr. Josef Mengele did his unspeakable experiments on human beings. This is where slave laborers toiled until they were too exhausted to work another […]

Written by PFA President Mark James Miller A group of people are gathered around a mud puddle on the path that leads to the shore of Soda Lake. What could be so interesting? A moment later the answer reveals itself. This mud puddle is teeming with life. Within are hundreds of tiny creatures, so small […]

Written by PFA President Mark James Miller Read by PFA Executive Board Member Monique Segura “The Part-Time Faculty Association of Allan Hancock College is looking forward to the new semester, Spring 2025, which is already off to a good start.  We are pleased to share that PFA President Mark James Miller’s presentation “Preventing the Holocaust” […]

Featuring speakers and presenters from as far away as Berkeley and as close as Santa Maria, and presenting workshops on subjects as diverse as the Nazi Holocaust and Grading for Equity, Allan Hancock College’s DEIA (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility) Summit on Feb. 7 provided its 200–plus attendees with the widest variety of issues and […]