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Go2Knowledge and Foothill Find a Far-Reaching Solution
Finding a solution to providing successful college trainings and professional development needs is not an easy task. You can spend hours planning and implementing required trainings and professional development workshops and no one comes! Foothill College was experiencing frustration and a lack of success in participation in on-campus programs and sought another...
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Enrollment Priority Changes: Expanding Access and Success
The author examines a recent system initiative to establish enrollment priorities designed to ensure classes are available for students seeking job training, degree attainment or transfer to a four-year college or university and to incentivize students to make progress towards their educational goals. The new enrollment priority regulations and their...
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Three Technology Partners Advance the Mission of Community Colleges
Taking the next step to actually partnering with third party technology service providers can be a positive investment for the college and students. Finding start-ups interested in supporting education and developing programs and services that assist students to reach their educational goals is a very constructive alternative to losing services due to budget cuts....
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The Student Success Act of 2012
Matriculation has been around for quite awhile- just ask any seasoned Student Services professional. As far back as the 1980’s, community college staff responded to the call for innovative New Student Orientation programs and enrollment procedures to ensure that entering students would be successful. Since then, the job market, our student bodies, and the...
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Enhancing Student Services: EOPS Small Group Counseling Session
With declining state budgets and increased pressure to serve more students with limited resources, the author outlines how counselors in Extended Opportunity Programs and Services (EOPS) at City College of San Francisco continue to serve as innovative and creative student services leaders with the recent development and implementation of small group counseling sessions. With EOPS being at...
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Baker's Corner: The Writing Project at Citrus College
Always concerned about student success, the writer, who sits in Baker's Corner, provides insights on his thoughts on this special project. At the various colleges I have worked, I have invited people in the college to participate in a writing project. He details how the project evolves and the most recent version at Citrus College. The writing project...
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Student Centered Counseling: An Appoach To Student Success
Today’s nontraditional community college students are in dire need of a new brand of counseling that will seek to focus on the individual needs of each student. First generation college students, particularly in the community colleges, who do not have the academic and personal support of parents, other relatives, or friends,...
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My Path “From a Misguided Youth to Counseling Faculty Member”
In this essay, counseling faculty member Natalie M. Paredes discusses the origin of her experiences as a misguided/misinformed high school student, the person who changed her outlook on her academic and professional future, experiences which led her to seek a career in the helping professions, and motivation for assisting people reach their personal and educational...
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EOP&S Probation Program “Getting Back on Track”
The EOP&S (Extended Opportunity Programs and Services) Department at Citrus Community College provides academic counseling intervention for students identified as being on academic probation due to substandard grades. The EOPS Probation Program consist of three components: Understanding Academic Probation, a Follow-up counseling appointment, and the...
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Theme for 33rd Edition: Will These New Mandates on Enrollment Priorities and Student Success Redefine Our Mission and Transform Community Colleges?
The editor provides the theme for the next issue of the iJournal, which will be released in mid summer. The theme will focus on the impact of new regulations impacting student access and student success. The deadline for submission of articles will be June 15, 2013.
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