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The California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office and the Foundation for California Community Colleges announced the launch of the California Student Success Center, which will act as a hub of support for projects around the state that improve college completion rates and promote student success.
The Student Success Center’s launch is funded through a two-year, $500,000 grant provided by The Kresge Foundation, a private foundation that works to create opportunities for low-income individuals and improve communities nationwide, and in partnership with Jobs for the Future (JFF), a nonprofit group that seeks to help Americans succeed in today’s economy.
The California Community Colleges (CCC) are in the midst of a major reform effort aimed at significantly increasing the number of students successfully completing their educational and career goals.
The center will be a key part of this Student Success Initiative, which was launched in 2012 by the Board of Governors and state Chancellor’s Office, and is based on a set of 22 recommendations which now serve as a guiding policy for the system.
“We are implementing an ambitious plan to improve the way our colleges serve students from initial orientation and assessment, through education planning, to basic skills instruction, and all the way through completion,” says Chancellor Brice W. Harris. “This transformation is being accomplished through numerous program and policy changes – all coordinated under the Student Success Initiative. The launch of a California Student Success Center is a natural next step to continue this momentum.”
Housed at the Foundation for California Community Colleges, the center will function as a hub, strengthening, coordinating, and amplifying the work already being done system-wide.
The center will play a pivotal role in promoting a common thread through the student success activities being carried out statewide.
“Our ability to continue advancing the Student Success Initiative in California hinges on our ability to lead a decentralized 112-college system toward a collective vision of improved student success and completion,” said Keetha Mills, foundation president and chief executive officer. “We are proud to launch the Student Success Center, and are committed to ensuring that it grows into a genuine and well-organized hub for coordinating student success efforts throughout California.”
The center activities will be spearheaded by a collaboration of statewide Community College organizations.
In addition to the Chancellor’s Office and the Foundation, Center partners include the Community College League of California, the Academic Senate of the California Community Colleges,
and the Research and Planning Group.
The center also is supported by dedicated group of core programmatic partners, Community College leaders, and a broad-base of additional stakeholders.
By providing a common venue for student success efforts, the center will help to coordinate across these entities and create a collective vision of student success.
California’s Student Success Center joins a nationwide network of Student Success Centers funded by The Kresge Foundation in recent years, with locations in Arkansas, Michigan, Ohio and Texas.
California was one of three new states selected nationally this year through a highly competitive proposal process. Also selected were Connecticut and New Jersey.
“Each demonstrated a clear vision of a statewide policy agenda to increase community college persistence and completion, as well as the capacity for meaningful data analysis and strong commitment from a broad group of stakeholders,” said Gretchen Schmidt, JFF’s program director for postsecondary state policy.
“These centers build a cohesive approach to engagement, learning and policy advocacy across each state’s two-year institutions,” said Caroline Altman Smith, senior program officer in Kresge’s Education Program. “The institutions then can spend their resources more effectively and create reforms that help the most students possible earn postsecondary credentials.”
In its recent publication Joining Forces ( http://www.jff.org/publications/joining-forces-how-students-success-centers-are-accelerating-statewide-community ), JFF documents Student Success Center goals and structure, their most important roles, and what they have accomplished so far.
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CLEARLAKE OAKS, Calif. – East Lake School is honoring its fourth through eighth grade students who achieved academic excellence in the second trimester.
They were recognized for their commitment to academics and hard work at the school's monthly citizenship assembly.
They each received a certificate and a necklace and tag depicting that they are on the honor roll.
Principal’s Honor Roll, 4.5-5.0 GPA
Ashley Aubuchon, Cody Meltzer, Emily Naja, Salatney Pannyasy, Diya Patel, Saloni Patel and Vann Wilkins.
It is noteworthy that five of these students achieved a perfect 5.0 in all subjects. They are Ashley Aubuchon, Emily Naja, Salatney Pannyasy, Diya Patel and Saloni Patel.
Honor Roll, 4.0-4.49 GPA
Taylor Gerhard, Sammie Reed and Seth Smalley.
Academic Achievement, 3.5-3.99 GPA
Rosie Eyerly, Raven Fowler, Harmony Glover, Alexander Johnson, Nicole Klemish, Joahan Morales Camacho, Katelyn Schofield and XiaoWen Zhang.
Principal Debi Malley offered the students on the honor roll congratulations for their accomplishment, and noted that the school is proud of these students for their commitment to excellence.
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CLEARLAKE, Calif. – The Children's Museum of Art and Science (CMAS) will hold its next meeting at 11 a.m. Friday, March 14, in Clearlake.
At the meeting, they will continue planning the art and science day camp that's open to students in grades fourth through sixth to be held on May 3.
They also will discuss the ongoing Lego robot program in the elementary schools.
Any interested volunteers are welcome to attend the meeting.
For meeting address or to volunteer to help at the day camp, please call Carolynn Jarrett at 707-994-2878.
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Hello readers, and welcome to the Carlé Chronicle, your primary source for all things Carlé.
As of this week, we have started our fifth grading period and are two-thirds of the way through the school year.
Our students strive to maintain a hard-working attitude and a willingness to pursue their goals to their full extent.
Seniors are now finishing up their portfolios and are on the fast track to graduate.
Sustainability awards are being given out to students who go above and beyond and consistently manage to receive silver and gold level across multiple grade periods.
To achieve gold level, a student must make a total of at least 15 credits per grade period, with an attendance rate of 90 percent or above.
Gold level students receive a wide variety of benefits, from gold-level trips to open-campus privileges during lunch. Students are encouraged to achieve gold level whenever possible.
This week’s student of the week was senior William Brown, an intellectual individual with a wide variety of literary talents.
The Lower Lake Academy, headed by science teacher Robin Giese, has commissioned the Carlé crew to help them design and make 83 special plaques for their higher achieving senior students.
We take the time to give special thanks to our hard working students Roy “Buggy” Kirk and Carlé graduate Lance Thurston for their efforts in both helping create the plaques and for their general assistance around the school.
We also would like to thank Dr. Barry Munitz, who has generously donated $1,000 to help fund our own school’s senior plaques and their materials.
Carlé's student government is planning a very entertaining Hollywood-themed prom, which will take place on May 9.
The students will be selling custom-made keychains created by graduating senior Sabrina Farnan for $7 apiece to help raise funds for the prom, and currently have approximately 100 keychains in stock ready to sell.
If you would like to buy a key chain to support prom please come by or call us at 707-994-1033.
Students and theater enthusiasts DeAndre Morris and Paul Yanez have pooled their creative talents and have been working on a play they will unveil at Carlé's upcoming open house. While details are scarce, the duo’s one-act play is based on Roman and Greek mythology, and will feature many promising actors in a mix of both comedy and tragedy.
In closing, we would also like to take the time to thank our secretary Barbara Dye, who not only manages to keep things at Carlé running smoothly and efficiently around the school, she takes the time to assist students whenever possible with a smile on her face. Her efforts make the school just a little brighter every day.
Charles Warren is a student at Carlé Continuation High School in Lower Lake, Calif.