Tuesday, February 3, 2009

The College Success Institute: Summer Bridge to Success

Here are files pertaining to CSI Cohort II for Summer 2009 and an analysis of the FTES generated by Cohort I.

The first iteration of the our summer bridge program, called The College Success Institute, was run at the Vallejo Center in June and July 2008. Counselor/Instructor Brenda Tucker, Counselor/Instructor Jocelyn Mouton, and English Instructor Patrick Vogelpohl made this a tremendous success. CSI started with 25 students, and it finished with 24. 19 of those 24 went on to enroll at an institution of higher education, 17 of them at Solano College--adding up to a total of 16+ FTES. What makes these numbers truly remarkable is that the students selected for CSI are those who had very little if any belief in or the opportunity to attend college.

Here is Pat's introduction to the program:


Here is a link to essays which the students wrote.

Below are video interviews with the participants. I think you will find their stories inspring, giving a look into the transformative power of summer bridge and higher education:










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