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Project Title:VATEA-Special Project, Vocational Education/Gender Equality Grant
Project Director: Dr. Fay Freeman
Organization: Victor Valley College
Phone: (760)245-4271,ext.2414

The Victor Valley College Gender Equity Project is designed to encourage and serve greater nontraditional enrollments, and provide awareness
and sensitiity training to faculty and staff to assure that nontraditional students receive the greatest ammount of support to increase their chances
for success in a quality, inclusive, and diverse workplace capable of meeting the challenge of global competition. This project has two major
constituencies: students and faculty/staff.

The project will address these objectives:

1.     To change biased, stereotyped perceptions and attitudes through appriciation of the benefits of gender equity including provision of role
        models for all students and enrichment of campus dialogue.

2.     To develop two brochures published in English and Spanish for recruitment/outreach of males/females in nontraditional programs.

3.     To foster institutional climate climate by providing a learning and work place free of sexual harassment and barriers through awareness
        and sensitivity training for faculty and staff.

Project activities that will accomplish the above objectives are: development of Women's Speaker Bureau, development of Women's Week/
Diversity Week, classroom presentations, orientation, advertisements, development of Spanish/English brochures, career video presentation,
sexual harassment training, workshop on Glass Ceiling Iniative, anddevelopment of training process video.

The project will be evaluated on the basis of achievement of above objectives. We plan to enroll 30 new vocational students and graduate
70 percent. We plan to attract non-traditional students into our vocational programs. We plan to provide sexual harrassment and gender
equity training for 80 faculty/staff.

 

 

Project Title:New Horizons Program
Project Director: Dr. Fay Freeman
Organization: Victor Valley College
Phone: (760)245-4271,ext.2414

The Victor Valley College New Horizons Project is designed to serve the growing number of single parents who are returning to an educational learning environment in order to improve vocational skills and improve their living conditions. The paradigm shift will focus on transition for displaced homemakers from dependancy to economic self-sufficency. The target groups shall be economically disadvantaged and minority women.

The project will address these objectives:

  1) To increase life long learning educational opportunities for 30 single parents/displaced homemakers to transition from dependency to self-sufficiency.  
 
2) To develop an academy program for 30 single parents/displaced homemakers that will provide self-esteem building, cultural diversity, non-traditional career information and academic educational plans. 		 
     
3) To provide job placement information and assistance for single parents/displaced homemakers. 		     

The activities to accomplish these objectives include outreach (advertising and recruitment), orientation, assessment and testing, career/educational counseling, life skill development, pre-employment preparation, linkage with campus supportive services, referrals to other community services (health care, legal aid, etc.) and job placement.

The New Horizons Project will be evaluated on the basis of acheivement of the stated objectives. We plan to enroll 30 single parents/displaced homemakers and graduate 70% percent.