“La Sierra University has been serving our community for over 100 years and expanded the possibilities for a huge number of students,” Rep. Mark Takano, D-Riverside, said in a university news ...

Prosecutors say that 34-year-old Matthew Johnson secretly recorded students that used the boys restroom across the hallway from his office at La Sierra Academy by using a pen-shaped recording ...

In January 2021, attorneys for three of Johnson’s victims, ages 8 to 13, filed a civil lawsuit against him, La Sierra Academy, and the Southeastern California Conference of Seventh-day ...

La Sierra Academy is a K-12 accredited Seventh-day Adventist Christian school. Johnson was fired from the school upon his arrest in March 2020.

The academy, which provides education and services for special needs students, chose an Alice in Wonderland-inspired event for its annual prom, this year themed, “A Mad Tea Prom.” ...

Matthew Daniel Johnson, 34, was a school counselor at La Sierra Academy, a Seventh-day Adventist private school in Riverside, from 2016 to 2020.

Jacquelyn Figueroa, a graduate of San Gorgonio High School in San Bernardino, won a Gates Scholarship that will cover her studies at La Sierra University in Riverside. She is the first student ...