A band saw, a drill press and $2.3 million. College celebrates largest donation ever as ‘transformative’

In an era when the mega-rich have given flashy, enormous donations to higher education like Michael Bloomberg’s $1.8 billion to Johns Hopkins University, Cerritos College is beaming with pride over the largest donation ever gifted to the community college: $2.3 million, a band saw and a drill press. All for the school’s woodworking program. “Two million dollars to Caltech is just another number in a very large endowment,” the college president said. “Two million dollars for us is transformative.”