One-Stop Student Services Vision Committee

Transforming institutional processes in order to integrate services so that the “students first” philosophy continues to be implemented.  Through the Vision Committee’s work, barriers to the “student first” philosophy will be discovered and staff will develop a holistic approach to problem solving.

WOW! Women on Writing Conference

The Women Writer’s Conference on March 8, 2003 will bring faculty, staff, students, and community members together with culturally diverse writers who will present their work and discuss their creative process.  The program will include a major, nationally-known female author as the keynote speaker, a writers panel featuring respected and well-known women authors, a keynote panel that will include a group of professional screenwriters, four writing workshops, and a playwrights panel featuring scenes from new plays. The conference will close with an authors’ reception and a women’s art exhibition. WOW! will raise awareness of Skyline course offerings, services and programs for women.

Sports Information Internship

This internship will create an interdisciplinary collaboration between the Athletic Department and the Marketing, Communications and Public Relations Office to promote Athletic Programs.  The Sports Information intern will serve as an internal agent to create publicity as well as develop a website, Booster Club, sports programs, and brochures to assist coaches in their function to matriculate graduating sophomores and recruit new student athletes.

Permanent Collection of Skyline Student Artwork

Start-up financial support to create a collection of student artwork for installation of the works in sites around campus.  The artwork would be pre-selected through the jurying/curatorial process that occurs during the annual student exhibitions in the Gallery Theatre.

Learning Communities:  Learning communities are powerful ways to deliver instruction that have been shown to significantly raise student success by helping students integrate their knowledge, making success in one cluster of classes more likely to lead to success in others.

  • Honors Transfer Program Learning Communities

Offer one learning community cluster each semester of academic year 2002/03 that pairs a history and an English class.  Instructors will learn new pedagogical techniques and collaboratively produce new class materials to support each learning community.

  • “Struggle and Affirmation” Learning Community Project

Combining History 101 Honors and English 100 Honors into teaching a Learning Community entitled “Struggle and Affirmation.”  “The Legacy Project” will be brought to Skyline College and features the work of portrait photographer Evvy Eisen, who has photographed Holocaust survivors and collected narratives of their personal struggles.

  • ASTEP Learning Community

Provide seed funding to develop funding sources for the new design of the ASTEP Learning Community.  This learning community is designed as a five-semester program with the unifying theme of the African American Experience in the 21st Century, so that students and faculty may build connections between subject matter, disciplines, and ideas.

  • Puente Project

The Puente Project is a partnership between the University of California and the California Community Colleges that focuses on preparing Latino students who are educationally underserved for transfer.  This successful learning community at Skyline suffers from the lack of adequate funding.

  • Biology Honors Colloquium/MESA Partnership

Seed funding to offer a unique set of experiences to students as they study marine mammals, the topic of the Fall 2002 biology colloquium.  The activities of the biology colloquium will also be attended by MESA (Math, Engineering, Science Achievement) students.

WOW! Women on Writing Conference 2004

Building on the success of WOW! 2003 and again celebrating International Women’s Day, Saturday March 6, 2004, this one-day conference will bring together faculty, staff, students and community members with culturally diverse writers and artists who will introduce new ideas and pedagogies associated with women’s studies curriculum in colleges and universities. The program will include a major author as the keynote speaker, morning workshops for both writers and readers, a reading by Skyline students, and afternoon workshops, including film.  A reception in the Gallery Theatre will feature an exhibit of women’s art and will honor both writers and artists.  WOW! will raise awareness of Skyline course offerings, services and programs for women while highlighting the talents of Skyline students and faculty in literature and art.

Permanent Collection of Skyline Student Artwork

Through the purchase and display of Skyline student artwork selected from the annual juried student exhibition, the visual experience of the entire campus community will be enriched.  The artwork selections would be both 2-dimensional works (painting, drawing, photography and printmaking) and 3-dimensional works (sculpture and ceramics).  The displayed works will raise the level of awareness of the college community in regard to the fine work produced by Skyline students.

Sports Information Director Internships

Two internships for men and women’s programs will continue the collaboration between the Athletic Department and the Public Information Office to promote Athletic Programs as well as move the college towards compliance with Title IX.  The Sports Information interns will serve as internal agents to create publicity as well as create the 2003/04 Media Guide focusing on promoting Skyline’s women’s sports programs, pocket schedules for each sport, a reinstated Athletics Hall of Fame, and materials to assist coaches in their function to matriculate graduating sophomores and recruit new student athletes.

Learning Communities: Learning communities are powerful ways to deliver instruction that have been shown to significantly raise student success by helping students integrate their knowledge, making success in one cluster of classes more likely to lead to success in others.  A variety of approaches are used to build these learning communities, with intention to restructure the student’s learning experiences to build community among students, between students and their teachers, and among faculty members and disciplines.

  • Common Ground:  Bridging Community and Ideas

The mission of Common Ground: Bridging Community and Ideas is to offer the community the opportunity to come together, inform, discuss and educate each other not only about local issues, but also about national and global concerns.  Every community that has meaning to its members provides some common ground where they can meet to express their shared values and resolve some of their differences.

Objectives in establishing Common Ground:

  • It will be a place where pertinent and controversial issues of the day can be discussed in a safe environment

  • It will give ‘life’ to the goals of the Mission Statement of SMCCCD.

  • It will expose students and the community to the many challenges and triumphs that our evolving global community is experiencing

  • It will lead to an enlightened and engaged citizenry

  • It can act as a “clearinghouse” for campus groups, such as Museum of Tolerance Alumni (MOT) and Cultural Events Committee, to coordinate activities.

  • Stone Carving: Teaching/Learning Videos

Development and creation of a complete library of videotapes that will teach students the art of stone carving which compliments the existing video library of stone carving in Italy.  The tapes will document basic elements of working in stone, using local artists and artisans.  Students will be able to see what the community around them is doing, that they can visit them in person, and that the tools and processes used, as well as the stones themselves, are readily available to them.  The tape library will be used in Anthropology, Geology and Art History classes as well as in Sculpture classes.  In Art History the use of the tapes will give students a better understanding of carving and the artistic process; in Anthropology the tapes will expose students into the labor involved with the original making of artifacts which are “modified things that people have done” as well as the purposes to which materials can be used; and in Geology, a basic geology lecture will be taped, bringing students into the sciences through the arts.

  • Kababayan Program – Mentorship and Community Support

Kababayan is a new transfer and support program with the goal of increasing proficiency in English skills in college, work and life.  Kababayan focuses on the Filipino/Filipino-American student experience.  With English 846, Reading and Writing Connections, as the instructional anchor in Fall 2003, a section of English 100 will also be set-aside in Spring 2004.  The English classes will provide instruction that is culturally relevant by focusing on fiction and nonfiction readings to the Filipino/Filipino American community thus increasing the likelihood of student success by generating lively and timely discussions about the students themselves and the community around them.  The development of a mentoring component will provide student participants with information about what is needed to enter and succeed in a variety of careers; it will also introduce students to established business and professional networks.

  • Improving Student Success through Technology for Students with Disabilities

This project will establish a Kurzweil 3000 Loan Program to serve the educational needs of students with disabilities by increasing their access to and use of assistive technology within their home setting.  The loan program will enable students with a verified print disability to access and use an assistive technology tool for completing their reading assignments, which will increase student success including improved grade point averages, successful completion of courses involving intensive reading assignments and degree completion.  Tutorials will be developed for the installation and configuration of the loaned software on their home computer systems.

  • Fifty years of Brown v. Board of Education

Part of Skyline’s celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that officially ended segregation in the public schools, a class, SOSC 680, Fifty Years of Brown v. Board of Education, will be offered in Spring 2004.  Discussions will focus on the historical, social, economic, psychological, and artistic climate both before and after the decision

WOW! Women on Writing Conference 2005

Building on the success of WOW! 2003 & 2004 and again celebrating International Women’s Day, Saturday March 5, 2005, this one-day conference will bring together faculty, staff, students and community members with culturally diverse writers and artists who will introduce new ideas and pedagogies associated with women’s studies curriculum in colleges and universities. The program will include ZZ Packer as the keynote speaker, morning workshops for both writers and readers, a reading by Skyline Talisman Magazine student authors, and afternoon workshops.  A reception in the Gallery Theatre will feature an exhibit of Skyline College Faculty members.  WOW! will raise awareness of Skyline course offerings, services and programs for women while highlighting the talents of Skyline students and faculty in literature and art.  This is the third and final year of support from the President’s Innovation Fund.

Permanent Collection of Skyline Student Artwork

Through the purchase and display of Skyline student artwork selected from the annual juried student exhibition, the visual experience of the entire campus community will be enriched.  Construction of new buildings on campus will begin next fall, and particularly the new Community Conference Center will be a site for display of the permanent collection.  The permanent art collection is a legacy for the art department, the social science/creative arts division, the entire Skyline family and the surrounding community.  This is the third and final year of support from the President’s Innovation Fund.

Skyline Stars

Develop a Transfer Student Hall of Fame, which will contain photos, brief bios and words of wisdom from successful transfer students and provide inspiration to current and prospective Skyline College students.  The “Hall of Fame” will highlight the success of Skyline College students, many who have overcome significant life challenges, are from economically and educationally disadvantaged backgrounds and are the first in their families to go to college.  The “Hall of Fame” will first be put on the college website, and will be a powerful public relations tool for the college.

Founder's Learning Grove of Trees

Establish a permanent community of mature trees that would serve as a demonstration laboratory for the college’s students.  The Grove will be designed using native plants so that maintenance will be minimal after the initial planting process.  The site will be located on a portion of the campus that will not undergo construction, yet is close enough for a lab class to easily walk to.  Planning will occur in summer/fall 2004 and planting will occur the following winter.  Dedication will be held in spring in conjunction with the colleges 35th year anniversary activities.

Thirty-fifth Anniversary of Skyline College

The College Council was awarded “seed money” to create an appropriate educational or learning opportunity for the college family and the community at large in commemoration of the college’s 35th anniversary.

Learning Communities:  Learning communities are powerful ways to deliver instruction that have been shown to significantly raise student success by helping students integrate their knowledge, making success in one cluster of classes more likely to lead to success in others.  A variety of approaches are used to build these learning communities, with intention to restructure the student’s learning experiences to build community among students, between students and their teachers, and among faculty members and disciplines.

Common Ground:  Bridging Community and Ideas

The mission of Common Ground: Bridging Community and Ideas is to offer the community the opportunity to come together, inform, discuss and educate each other not only about local issues, but also about national and global concerns.  Every community that has meaning to its members provides some common ground where they can meet to express their shared values and resolve some of their differences.

  • Fall 2004 – An Evening with Hank Plante – An Insider’s View. Hank Plante, a political analyst with KPIX-5, will address the issues in the upcoming November election.  An interactive exhibition in the Gallery Theatres will introduce an unbiased view of the issues of the election.

  • Spring 2005 – An Evening with Michael Krasny, Forum, NPR radio.  Post-election analysis.

Kababayan Program – Mentorship and Community Support

Kababayan is a new transfer and support program with the goal of increasing proficiency in English skills in college, work and life.  Kababayan focuses on the Filipino/Filipino-American student experience.

  • Establish a mentoring component linked to English classes

  • Establish community support for the program.

  • Link mentoring and community support to the instructional components

  • Explore the feasibility of adding classes to the program.

  • Enable program participants to travel to neighboring colleges.

“Brothers”

Brothers” will be a 56 minute documentary supplementing the Interpersonal Communication (Speech 120) course.  Brothers will explore the interpersonal dynamics of brothers and how they influence society.  Four sets of brothers at different stages of life will be interviewed.  Tentative subjects include:  a set of brothers over 60 years of age, a set of brothers where marriage is in the equation, pre-marriage, and early teens or children.

Instrumental goals of the project:

  • Produce a quality documentary to complement Speech 120 curriculum as well as other disciplines

  • Utilize technology to enhance student classroom experience

  • Through the use of narrative, invite students to participate in a learning environment that is broader than a conventional college textbook.

  • Serve as a pilot project to encourage faculty to launch similar efforts in the utilization of technology to supplement their curriculum.

Film Festival presented by the Museum of Tolerance (MOT) Alumni Group

The one-day film festival will present two films (Daughter from Danang and Discovering Dominga) and feature the filmmaker/cinematographer Vicente Franco, who will provide insight and a personal perspective about the films.  The date for the event is Wednesday, February 9, 2005.  The festival will consist of an afternoon showing of 2 films, followed by a question/answer with the filmmaker.  Refreshments will be available.

The selected films reflect the mission of the MOT:

Individually, MOT Alumni at Skyline College aim to foster tolerance by demonstrating model qualities, celebrating diversity, and speaking out when hearing or seeing examples of intolerance.

Collectively, MOT Alumni aim to foster tolerance by endorsing activities that celebrate diversity, and by cultivating other related educational endeavors.

Improving Access to Skyline College for ESL Students
In response to the goals for the Skyline College Equity Plan, the project will conduct a study to measure accessibility, retention and success of the ESL population and identify barriers facing this student population. Strategies will be developed to increase ESL student enrollment. An interdisciplinary discussion on how to begin moving towards a Hispanic Serving Institution may occur if large numbers of Spanish-speaking students are identified as having issues of accessibility, retention and success.

Disability Awareness Month Celebration: October 2005
Skyline College DSP&S and the Museum of Tolerance (MOT) Alumni Group will co-sponsor bringing a well-known Bay Area leader (to be announced upon confirmation) to Skyline College to address their personal experiences with learning disabilities and their path to success. The project goals are:

  • To foster appreciation and respect for those who learn differently among the greater college community
  • To promote the concept that persons who learn differently are intelligent and capable
  • To model the role of an effective self-advocate that students with learning "disabilities"/differences can respect and follow

Presentation of "Kick" a one-person play from the National Coalition Center for Justice: October 2005
The Skyline College MOT Alumni Group continues to create a climate where tolerance and diversity topics are examined and discussed. "Kick" is the story of one high school student’s decision to confront the issue of stereotyping. The two-day event features facilitated discussions both prior to and at the conclusion of the performance. Four performances are planned, with one offered to high school students.

WOW! Speaker Series: October 6, 13, 10, 27, 2005
Three respected local authors will read and speak about their writing in conjunction with the Lit 166 Women on Writing course (.5 units CR/NC) scheduled for four Thursday evenings in October. The guest faculty will be two Bay Area authors who were featured at the past WOW! Conferences and one author who will present her work for the first time at WOW! 2006. The speaker series is open to the public with a modest registration fee of $15 per evening or $45 for the series.

Film Festival presented by the Museum of Tolerance (MOT) Alumni Group: February 2006
The film festival will present two films, Talking Roots and Mixed Feelings, on Feb 6 and 9, 2006 and feature the filmmakers who will be on hand to provide insight and a personal perspective about their films. This film festival focuses on issues of bi-cultural awareness, identity, and coming to terms with one’s heritage through a journey of self-discovery. The selected films reflect the mission of the MOT: Individually, MOT Alumni at Skyline College aim to foster tolerance by demonstrating model qualities, celebrating diversity, and speaking out when hearing or seeing examples of intolerance. Collectively, MOT Alumni aim to foster tolerance by endorsing activities that celebrate diversity, and by cultivating other related educational endeavors.

"Access to Higher Education Forum: Making the Connection" February 2006
The Minority Student Alliance, a new coalition of student organizations including the Pre-Med Club, the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, the Latino America Student Organization, the Filipino Student Union, and the Black Student Union, will present a one-day conference for high-school students and their parents who are from communities that have been historically underrepresented in higher education. The sessions will be designed to educate, inform, and motivate potential Skyline students to enroll in college. In many instances, language is a barrier for parents therefore simultaneous bi-lingual sessions will be held.

National Library Week Celebration: April 2-8, 2006
The Skyline College Library will invite a prominent Bay Area writer (TBD) to speak during the observance of National Library Week to celebrate the magic of reading and the significance of free access to knowledge.

1906 Centennial Project: April 18, 2006
Involve Skyline College in an extensive regional commemoration of the great earthquake on the nearby San Andreas Fault and related fires in San Francisco with the development and installation of a permanent informational plaque for the campus. A guest speaker will provide a special presentation for the 1906 Earthquake Centennial Commemoration.

Skyline Stars
Transfer Student Hall of Fame contains photos, brief bios and words of wisdom from successful transfer students and provides inspiration to current and prospective Skyline College students. The "Hall of Fame" highlights the success of Skyline College students, many who have overcome significant life challenges, are from economically and educationally disadvantaged backgrounds and are the first in their families to go to college.

Learning Communities: Learning communities are powerful ways to deliver instruction that have been shown to significantly raise student success by helping students integrate their knowledge, making success in one cluster of classes more likely to lead to success in others. A variety of approaches are used to build these learning communities, with intention to restructure the student’s learning experiences to build community among students, between students and their teachers, and among faculty members and disciplines.

Adewole Project
Adewole means "The crown (head) is welcome into the house" in the Yoruba culture of West Africa. The Adewole Project will sponsor a series of for-credit lecture/media presentations featuring independent filmmakers, directors and authors who are connected to communities of color and offer perspectives on the impact of oppression and the resilient spirit that continues to overcome.

College Readership
USA Today will be provided to Skyline students Monday through Friday during the Fall 2005 semester. Each week, an online quiz on the past week’s news will be provided and prizes awarded for the highest score. The quizzes will be developed by Skyline’s Phi Theta Kappans for their fellow students and offered via the internet at skylinecollege.edu.

Kababayan Program — Mentorship and Community Support
Kababayan is a new transfer and support program with the goal of increasing proficiency in English skills in college, work and life. Kababayan focuses on the Filipino/Filipino-American student experience. This is the third and final year of funding from the President’s Innovation Fund. Program goals are:

  • Establish a mentoring component linked to English classes
  • Establish community support for the program.
  • Link mentoring and community support to the instructional components
  • Explore the feasibility of adding classes to the program.
  • Enable program participants to travel to neighboring colleges.

"Gold, Gods & Glory:" The Global Dynamics of Power

This project will present students, staff members and the Skyline community with the opportunity to attend two seminars: "Immigration Reform" and "Being A Muslim in America" followed by student-led discussion. Four additional seminars will use the Phi Theta Kappa satellite seminar series moderated by Skyline faculty experts.

Making the Connection: "Plug Into College"

This event targets hundreds of high school students and their parents with informational sessions designed to educate, inform and empower potential students. The focus is on students who have been historically underrepresented in higher education. It is sponsored by the Minority Student Alliance, a coalition of Skyline student organizations including the Pre-Med Club, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, Latin American Students Organization, Filipino Student Union and the Black Student Union.

HERMANOS- Building an educational bridge into higher education for Latino males

HERMANOS, which means "brothers" in Spanish, is a pilot program that addresses the academic, psychological and social needs of 30 Latino males at a San Mateo County high school through academic support, mentoring, and resources. It is sponsored by the Latinos Unidos Taskforce, an on-campus group with the mission increasing educational opportunities for Latino students.

Skyline MOT Alumni Film Festival, 2006/2007: "Diverse-Ability: Culture and Community"

The film festival will present two films, Sound and Fury and Big Enough, on Oct. 18, 2006, (coinciding with National Disability Awareness Month) and Feb. 8, 2007. Filmmakers will be on hand to provide insight and personal perspectives about their films. This film festival focuses on issues of self-identity, stereotypes about the world of the physically challenged, and the bonds of community forged by adversity. The selected films reflect the mission of the Museum of Tolerance (MOT) Alumni Group. The group fosters tolerance by demonstrating model qualities, celebrating diversity, and speaking out when hearing or seeing examples of intolerance. It endorses activities that celebrate diversity, and cultivates related educational endeavors.

Adewole Project and Institute for the Study of the Science of Oppression and Transformation

Adewole means "The crown (head) is welcome into the house" in the Yoruba culture of West Africa. The Adewole Project will sponsor a series of for-credit lecture/media presentations featuring independent filmmakers, directors and authors who are connected to communities of color and offer perspectives on the impact of oppression and the resilient spirit that continues to overcome.

ENCOMPASS - One person play and dialog "Horizon Line"

"Horizon Line" is a one-person theater event that explores bias-motivated behaviors. Participants will examine and discuss tolerance and diversity and the issues of cultural awareness. The event is presented by the Museum of Tolerance (MOT) Group - administrators, faculty and classified staff who work to foster tolerance by demonstrating model qualities, celebrating diversity and speaking out when hearing or seeing examples of intolerance.

"Skyline Stars:" A Transfer Student Hall of Fame 2007

Transfer Student Hall of Fame contains photos, brief bios and words of wisdom from successful transfer students and provides inspiration to current and prospective Skyline College students. The "Hall of Fame" highlights the success of Skyline College students, many who have overcome significant life challenges, are from economically and educationally disadvantaged backgrounds and are the first in their families to go to college.

Freshman Year Experience - Part 1, A Program for Student Achievement and Success

Because so many of our students are first-generation college students and second language learners, it is important that Skyline provide them with a freshman year experience to help them learn the skills that they need to be successful. This program includes many aspects, such as career planning, study skills, time management and health and wellness. Research indicates students participating in such programs have higher persistence, retention and success rates, as well as higher grade point averages than those not participating in such a program.

“The Other 49’ers”

A lecture series that complements One Book One Community: San Mateo County Reads project sponsored by the Peninsula Library System.  The fall semester noontime lecture series will feature several presenters including: Menlo College President Carlos Lopez; author James D. Houston; actor/musician Charlie Chin and author Ruthanne Lum McCunn.

International Spring Festival: “Greetings from around the World”

A festival to be held in spring 2008 to showcase the arts through song and dance and celebrate Skyline College’s and our community’s rich diversity and the talents of students, faculty and community members.

Common Ground: Who Are We? We Are Everyone!

These programs to be presented in the fall semester are designed to encourage understanding and open-mindedness on issues of diversity.  Activities will include: photo collage, video presentation, lecture series, student panel, and lecture presentation by Nina Jablonski, Ph.D. concerning race and culture.

ASTEP (African American Success Through Excellence and Persistence) Math Academy:

The Math Academy will improve student success rates by reducing apprehension and providing support in entry and mid-level math courses that represent obstacles to success for many students.

Multicultural Hip-Hop Conference: Hip-Hop and Education

The week-long conference will educate and empower young students about the importance of higher education through the usage of hip-hop.  The conference will culminate with a showcase of artists, musicians, and students in a night filled with hip-hop, short films, spoken word, and poetry.

Hermanos- Building an educational bridge into higher education for Latino males

Hermanos, which means “brothers” in Spanish, is a program that addresses the academic, psychological and social needs of 30 Latino males at South San Francisco High School through academic support, mentoring, and family support.

The HY-PHE Project (Heightening Your Personal Development through Higher Education)

The HY-PHE Project facilitates the transition and success of basic skills students with outreach activities that creates a fresh appeal to higher education. The urban term “hyphy” is defined as “hype, eccentric, hyperactive, and exciting” and utilizing this term allows us to bridge common language youth can identify with.  Activities will include High School Days (campus tours), PACT (Parents, Advocates, Counselors & Teachers) Night and HY-PHE Games ( day of team building activities and educational scavenger hunt) for local high schools.

Gallery Theatre Upgrade

Upgrades to visually enhance the Gallery Theatre entrance, signage and website to increase the role of  the Gallery Theatre on campus and in the community as a cultural center and Arts Venue.

Rock The School Bells:  Multicultural Hip-Hop Conference

The Multicultural Hip-Hop Conference is a student-led and organized event.  The weeklong conference is a blend of workshops that enhance a student’s critical thinking about current issues, reading and writing about their life experiences, presenting oral and written communication through readings, spoken word, and poetry.  A culminating event will showcase artists, musicians, and students in a night of hip-hop, short films, spoken word and poetry.

ASTEP (African American Success Through Excellence and Persistence) Math Academy

Math is a subject that students approach with apprehension. The Math Academy improves student success rates by direct individualized support in entry and mid-level Math courses that represent obstacles to success for many students. The goal is to build a cohesive program for a cohort of students that moves through a structured program culminating in graduation and transfer to a 4-year institution.

Hermanos - Adding a second high school

Hermanos, which means “brothers” in Spanish, is a pilot program that addresses the academic, psychological and social needs of Latino males through academic support, mentoring, and family support. The goal of Hermanos is to work with male students to address issues of poor motivation, lack of academic skills, college readiness; and to enroll these students in college upon high school graduation.  In 2008-09 South San Francisco High School and Capuchino High School will offer a Hermanos Program.

Skyline Reads: What is the What

Skyline College will participate in the Peninsula Library System (PLS) initiative One Book One Community: San Mateo County Reads. PLS has selected Dave Eggers’ What is the What’ whose principal subject is   the “lost boys” of Sudan.  Skyline College Library will sponsor 3 events to complement PLS interview event with Dave Eggers.  There will be a Book discussion group of What is the What is for the campus and the public, along with the presentation of two documentary films Lost Boys of Sudan and God Grew Tired of Us. A panel discussion will follow each film presentation.

Kababayan Filipino Folk Dance Company

Establish a resident Filipino Dance Company to provide students with an opportunity to learn about and experience Filipino cultural heritage through the art of Philippine folk dancing.

Hermanas – Building an educational bridge into higher education for young Latina students

Hermanas, which means “sisters” in Spanish, is modeled after the successful Hermanos Program at Skyline College. The goal is to increase the college-going rate of young Latina high school students in North San Mateo County. Through the four program components – Culturally sensitive instruction, Family Engagement, Community Engagement and Mentoring, the Hermanas Program will address the holistic development of young Latina students.