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(July 23, 2010) -- South Piedmont Community College’s Ready for College program
put on an eight-week bridge program for at-risk students that concluded
Tuesday, July 20, with a breakfast and presentation of certificates in
the Charlotte Pipe and Foundry Company Conference Center on the Old
Charlotte Highway Campus. Of the 27 students who started the Summer
Learning Community program, 23 finished and earned a certificate
signifying that they are “Ready for College.”
The students who took
part in the program were recent GED graduates and members of IMPACT,
SPCC’s minority male mentoring program. Funded by part of a $95,672
grant from the federal Office of Vocational Adult Education, the pilot
program introduced the students to college through two college classes
(Southern Culture and Introduction to Computers), core skills classes on
things such as goal setting, note taking, financial aid, interviewing
skills, test taking, leadership and others; and time working in the
computer lab. The program began May 24 and ran for eight weeks, Monday
through Thursday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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Participants in South Piedmont Community College’s 2010 Summer
Learning Community program who received Ready for College certificates
at the program’s conclusion July 20 were, first row, Leslie Wyckoff,
Tammy Brazzill, Hannah Faulk, Ebony Chambers, Jamal Rhodes, Karline
Munoz, Doreen Threatt-Miller, Joshua Barrett; second row, Stefany Ward,
Isabel Andon, Shawna Hansen, Antavis Barrino, Mark Conrad, Bryan
Jackson, Artis Radford and Jonathan Barrino. Also attending but not
pictured were Dontri Bulls, James Williams, Matthew Rushing and Michael
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