In ensuring a competitive five-year, $ 2,600,000 in grants, College of the canyons-Latino-serving institution entitled-have the opportunity to improve the educational experience of serving an increasingly diverse student population.
Latino students now represent the largest demographic of students on the Committee, which consists of 43 percent of the students. In total, the student population is non-white in the Committee of contributors has tripled since 2000 and now sits at more than 60 percent.
Dr Barry Gribbons, an Assistant Superintendent and Vice President of the College's institutional development, technologies and services online tells that when he was still a student at the COC precisely in 1980 ago, the students who come from students latino only amounted to 10%
"So obviously, significant changes occurred. It is great to see that we have students from many different backgrounds, both of the Committee really focuses on all segments of society. "
According to the grant proposal that at the high school, there are many challenges facing Latino students at COC. Seventy percent of Latino students who work part-time, with a further 25 percent committed to work on a full-time basis.
Simply put, to provide a resource that grants the title in the COC will make it easier to solve this problem with the new procedures and more specific goals.
As stated in the plan for full development of the College, the grant will directly be allocated for improvements, which include online educational plans, expanded online tutoring programs, the increased use of open educational resources, online counseling and training for cultural congruent pedagogical faculty increased.
According to Dr. James Temple, An Associate vice president of information technology and project director of the grant, the students should be given a lot of knowledge and also to be provided what their needs so that they can be successful. According to him, the use of technology will be very helpful for channeling knowledge to the students.
Although these initiatives are implemented as a result of title V funding, all of the COC students will reap the benefits.
Dr Gribbons explained if the title V projects is something that is very useful, it will help a lot of students in COC.
See how to better plan their college experience since passing a comprehensive plan for education." "This is also a good method structure of the schedule of classes help the administrator exclusive data returned to us so we have ideas.
By September. 30, 2016 College aspires to are fully accessible online counseling and educational planning, with the level of participation of at least 50 percent. Looking ahead to 2018, the title V funding is expected to increase this participation rate of at least 70 percent.
By 2019 the last year in grants for funding, the COC is expected to have trained an additional 250 full-time and lecturer in cultural importance education.
"Grant money develop for ready service very honored 29 University one US National University funded applications that have ' and Teresa Zuzevich, University grant money directed development. " we are interested with the good impact for our students".
EmoticonEmoticon