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Planning and Resource Development

FUNDED PROGRAMS AWARDED 94/95

Application Abstracts

Project Title: Basic Skills Consortium
Project Director: D. I. Dinneen
Organization: Victor Valley College
Phone: (760)245-4271,ext.2384

The Basic Skills Program Victor Valley College will enter a consortium with: the Basic Adult Education Program, Rancho Santiago Community College; and the OASIS Program, Learning Assistance Center, Pasadena City College.

The overriding goal and primary consortia study will be to determine the most effective integration of technical resources with teacher or paraprofessional intervention or support. Victor Valley College seeks 15 percent greater retention and an average grade equivelent improvement of 3.00 on the TABE.

A final goal will be to design, install, and use a single program or methodolgy which will provide centeralized data collection for individual student information: pre and post test results, curriculum sequence(s), time spent on lessons and/or human intervention, and course completion.

Activities include: using a recordkeeping method to determine the level, frequency, and timing of human intervention in basic skills open lab delivery; composing and compiling a student survey on the same issue; and making program changes to reflect results of those studies. The consortia will also gather program material/media lists, and a survey of fifty students' goals, goal realization and program satisfaction.

 

 

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.

 

 

Project Title: Summer Science Academy
Project Director: Tom Dana (Dr. Phronsene Chimiklis)
Organization: Victor Valley College
Phone: (760)245-4271, ext.2357

Victor Valley College proposes to develop a Summer Science Academy for the eleventh and twelfth grade disabled and minority students of the High Desert area. There is a vital need to improve upon the minimal numbers of underrepresented high school students who select careers in the science fields. The science enrichment program will address enrollment and retention issues for students with special needs by afording them an opportunity to experience a practical orientation to a science curriculum with specific identifiable career paths. Student participants will be offered counseling, assistance, student mentors, and be extended an orientation to specific college programs and services. Victor Valley College professional staff will work collaboratively with representatives from the local high schools in the area to identify targeted students for the Summer Science Academy. The multidiscipline approach will convey the idea the field of science is not only challenging and rewarding, but can be enjoied with vast opportunties.

The Summer enrichment program will be four weeks in duration providing skills in research and experimentation. Students will also have the opportunity to observe how science impacts industry and their own enviornment. Field trips to science industry locations as well as interacting with employees and technicians in this field will be included. Those students who are successful in completing the four week course will receive a certificate of completion, a portfolio containing vocational and academic resources and priority registration for full or part time enrollment in Victor Valley College for the ensuing fall semester. It is anticipated that the Summer Science Academy will linkage to feeder high school in the High Desert, will enhance future college enrollment of underrepresented student by providing innovative curriculum and a viable counseling component that will both foster and nurture underrepresented students interested in pursuing a career in science technology.