A new program on campus focusing on college success will help all student participants get a leg-up to transfer or to receive a degree certificate starting for the 2006-2007 academic year.
The Board of Trustees unanimously approved the Student Success Program at the Feb. 24 meeting and the program proposal was sent to the chancellor’s office the next day for review and approval.
Last year, the Board of Governors reinstated the requirement that each community college in California must submit a student equity plan: a program that would help close the educational gap between the majority and underrepresented student populations and that target underrepresented and/or at-risk students.
Jack Friedlander, vice president of educational programs, formed the Student Equity Plan Work Group to identify a number of strategies to increase success of all the college students and to help performance on course degree and transfer rates.
“The work group recommended a program called the College Success Program that incorporated components of the many successful student success programs already on campus,” Friedlander said.
The existing programs have proven to be effective.
Some of the programs integrated into the plan include Gateway to Success, Transfer Achievement Program, Multi-Cultural English Transfer Program and the College Achievement Program.
The program incorporates the best part of each program proven to be successful for students.
The Student Equity Plan Work Group’s goal is to have the College Success Program approved and completed by the end of the Spring 2005 semester, and to have the program implemented during the 2006-2007 Academic Year.
Peter Haslund, president of Academic Senate,