Districtwide student housing at College of San Mateo is inching closer to becoming a reality after the community college district’s Board of Trustees approved a $61.85 million contract with developers who intend to break ground in the spring.
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Dec 15 2025
Dec 15 2025
The College of San Mateo Bulldogs made their return to the state championship stage twice as nice. Playing for their third California Community College Athletic Association (3C2A) state football championship in four years, the Bulldogs averted disaster, holding off a late comeback surge by Golden West College-Huntington Beach for a 28-27 victory Saturday afternoon at Lebard Stadium on the campus of Orange Coast College.
Dec 12 2025
December opened with eight current Bulldogs finalizing their transfers to NCAA Division I programs during the early signing period Dec. 3-5. CSM closed out that week with something of an annual tradition, claiming the program’s fourth straight California Community College Athletic Association (3C2A) Northern California football championship last Saturday with 38-7 victory over Modesto Junior College.
Dec 11 2025
Following the success of the San Mateo County Community College District’s Free College pilot, a bill making the initiative a permanent program will be introduced to the California Legislature in the new year.
Dec 8 2025
For over a year, the College of San Mateo’s coastside campus has increased access to higher education by bringing the county’s community college district courses to a previously underserved farmworking community burdened by geography.
Dec 8 2025
It will be a fourth straight trip to the 3C2A state football championship game for defending state (and mythical national) champion College of San Mateo after a convincing 38-7 Northern California Football Conference title victory over visiting rival Modesto JC on Saturday afternoon at College Heights Stadium. That ended a NorCal National Division 7-game win streak for the Valley League champion Pirates (9-3) – that had started after a September non-league loss to CSM.
Nov 24 2025
Professor of physics and astronomy Darryl Stanford uses the planetarium at the College of San Mateo to show what can be seen in the skies and to teach about the beauty of the heavens.
Nov 21 2025
College of San Mateo (CSM) has earned Initial Accreditation from the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) for its Associate Degree Nursing program—making CSM one of only three ACEN-accredited associate nursing programs in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Nov 11 2025
No. 3 state-ranked College of San Mateo secured a share of the National Bay 6 League championship with a commanding 52-20 victory over Laney College in its regular-season finale at home on Saturday. It marked the Bulldogs’ fourth straight Bay 6 League title and eighth over the past nine seasons under head coach Tim Tulloch.
Nov 11 2025
Thanks to Diablo Valley College finishing off the regular season with a 34-21 victory over City College of San Francisco, the College of San Mateo Bulldogs are co-Bay 6 Conference football champions.
