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"The wonderful thing almost CRC professors is that they consider themselves to non only be teachers, only likewise mentors, confidants, and partners." Jacqueline Padilla Perez Alum / Compages / Cosumnes River higher
Cosumnes River College architecture alumna Jacqueline Padilla Perez proudly recalls her experience at the higher and the impact of her professors.
"What I loved most about CRC is that they offer an astonishing architecture program based on the Cal Poly curriculum," she said. "The professors are top notch, the design fundamentals that one gains from them are phenomenal. I know of many students who have come up out of CRC'southward compages plan that have gone on to go hugely successful in the profession in varied niches."
Perez said the encouragement she received from her professors kept her motivated. "In my experience the wonderful thing about CRC professors is that they consider themselves to not just be teachers, only besides mentors, confidants, and partners," she said.
Perez didn't always know that she wanted to be in the architecture field, she was working for Ikea as a coordinator in the sofas and media department and had interviewed for a new position that required her to take additional courses in lodge to be qualified. Those courses led her to the architecture programme at CRC. With support and motivation driven from her family, she worked her way through the classes. Afterwards completing the program, she transferred to Sacramento State, where in 2014 she would earn her caste in interior compages.
"While drawing the program for my dream domicile, I literally stopped and exclaimed, 'This is it, this is what I want to do with my life!' I volition never forget that moment. Architecture and design proved to be the perfect marriage of my creative and mechanical abilities," Perez said.
The former CRC student has been successful in her pursuit to become an interior designer. With her passion and dedication, she is was recently appointed Creative Director at Miles Treaster & Assembly, an interior design and furniture dealership in Sacramento. In explaining her new function she said, "Every bit Creative Director I piece of work with our Sales and Design teams to establish the creative vision for high profile projects. Nosotros are currently working on the pattern of the offices and lounge spaces at the new Gilt 1 Center. Information technology has been an incredibly amazing and exciting projection to piece of work on! My role is ever changing."
Perez is currently working towards her master's caste in historic preservation with dreams of spending her golden years restoring an 18th century colonial domicile. Subsequently living in information technology, she would like to donate information technology every bit a house museum for others to visit and acquire about history and architecture after she'southward long gone.
"I'g fix to tell everyone customs higher is where I realized my dream." Evelina Rybin Pupil / Fire Technology and Paramedicine / Cosumnes River College
Evelina Rybin is one of the lucky ones. Even in high school, she knew exactly what she wanted to do with her life. Evelina was going to go to American River College (ARC) and go a paramedic. She knew just didn't intendance that college was going to be hard – but what she didn't conceptualize was a predisposition confronting customs colleges coming from (of all people) a high school teacher, and a bias against her career choice harbored by her family unit and friends.
Yet, Evelina persevered. She enrolled at ARC later on finishing loftier schoolhouse and went to piece of work on her prerequisite courses. Just one of the preconditions for the ARC paramedicine program is a twelvemonth of start-responder field experience as an emergency medical technician. Undeterred, Evelina found an EMT internship form that sent her to a few Cosumnes Fire Department stations. At the burn stations, Evelyn learned all about a fire internship offered at Los Rios' Cosumnes River Higher. She took a fire applied science course and was hooked!
Evelina is planning to graduate with an associate caste in paramedicine, one in fire technology, and another ane in foreign language studies. She hopes to get hired at a local burn down section, and she wants to pursue a bachelor's caste in burn science; maybe even a primary's. While fighting fires, Evelina envisions teaching burn down tech for the Los Rios Community Higher Commune, a place where she plant shared passion, friendship, and a identify to belong.
The doubters in Evelina's life who disapproved of her choices accept come up effectually to accept Evelina's determination to follow her passion, and are even proud of her accomplishments. And to the high schoolhouse teacher who snubbed community higher? Tell your students there are options for everyone at Los Rios, and then they should enroll in classes, find an interest, and follow their hearts – Just like Evelina did.
"We empower students to pursue their passions and to share their stories." Oscar Mendoza Plascencia Staff / Student Life Supervisor / Cosumnes River Higher
What's your favorite attribute of working Pupil Success & Support Program at CRC?
The fact that we take the possibility to positively impact in the academic/personal journey of our students, it's humbling and an award.
What is unique about our student programs?
What is unique about the educatee programs at CRC, is the staff/kinesthesia'southward passion and dedication for the work we do. We sympathize we are working with amazing students, who teach us how to all-time serve them every twenty-four hour period. We empower students to practice things and to share their stories.
What would you like to share with current and future CRC students?
I would like every time to come CRC student to know that, here at CRC, they will be supported, respected and connected. We are hither for the students and we can't wait to see you on our campus!
"CRC was a guiding path and a stepping stone in my accomplishments." Sarah Aboueljoud Alum
Cosumnes River College and Sacramento State graduate (cum laude) Sarah Aboueljoud will tell you something surprising. The Dominican Academy of California bound, future physician assistant says she cut class in loftier schoolhouse, graduated without the know-how to written report effectively, and walked abroad with the false assumption that she was bad at math.
Sarah remembers vividly the twenty-four hour period she discovered the math lab at CRC. She says that was the twenty-four hour period she learned college is not so much about getting the correct answer every bit information technology is learning how to solve problems. Past the end of her first year, and with the assistance of caring professors who taught her how to exist a good student through positive academic habits, Sarah actually was a good student.
At CRC, Sarah says classes felt more intimate because teachers knew her past name. She plant them welcoming, all-around, and willing to listen. They understood that life gets in the style sometimes, Sarah remembers, only the teachers had a passion for learning and giving their students the tools to thrive.
A tool to thrive that Sarah relied on was the campus itself. She loved spending time at the fountain and listening to the sounds of the flowing water, and her favorite building at CRC is the Winn Center. To relax, Sarah would walk the hallways, soak in the rays from the big windows and adore the art and photography on the walls. Otherwise, Sarah spent her days hanging effectually her newfound home away from dwelling house, the anatomy lab in the science building. She credits the campus for supplying the learning environs she needed.
Sarah was amazed how easy Los Rios Community College District made it to go an A.S or A.A degree and open a earth of career possibilities. With every class she took, she says she learned something well-nigh herself and new skills to apply to her personal life.
Sarah readily admits that going to CRC eased her transition to a four-year higher and immune her fourth dimension to mature and figure out what she truly wanted. She is convinced that community college helped guide her by mapping out a career path toward the profession she loves.
Sarah is the first in her family to study for an advanced degree, and is proud to set a new standard for college education within her family. What she'll accept to grad school is what she acquired at Cosumnes River College: the means to be successful.
"The honors program is a great way to meet mentors who can help as y'all motion through higher and beyond. " Sarah (Hutter) Wilterson Alumna / Psychology/Neuroscience / Princeton University
CRC's Honors program's alumna and Sacramento native, Sarah (Hutter) Wilterson is a graduate student at Princeton Academy, where she is a Ph.D. candidate in psychology and neuroscience scheduled to defend her dissertation in 2021, embodying the spirit of inquiry she acquired while at CRC.
As Wilterson explains, "For me, CRC was so many things. I started taking my commencement classes on campus when I was near xiv — homeschooled growing upwardly, I was able to start enriching my education through courses like math past the time I was in loftier school. After this initial introduction to community higher, I graduated [loftier school] and enrolled every bit a fulltime pupil at CRC studying in equine scientific discipline, believe it or not. I originally intended to spend my life working with horses."
Wilterson marvels at her transformation from a teenager pursuing supplemental advanced full general education, to pursuing an associate's caste in equine science, to her current passionate work every bit a psychology doctoral candidate at Princeton. This evolution, she says, was made possible largely by the flexibility and support she enjoyed as a student at CRC. When asked why she initially elected to explore Psychology, she answers:
"No great philosophical reason — I merely wanted to take one of the courses. I ended up talking to a lot of people. My fourth dimension in the honors program offered a group of dedicated mentors. Finding people who volition support yous is of import. Really of import. The Honors Program is a keen way to run into mentors who tin can help every bit you lot motion through college and beyond." Looking back on her CRC feel as a whole, Wilterson adds, "Being involved in such a diverse range of programs over the class of and then many stages of my academic and professional career, I truly feel I got the 'full feel' at CRC."
Reflecting on some of the differences between life at Princeton and while at CRC, Wilterson notes that the CRC Honors Plan's, " Small classes, and textile that professors are genuinely excited about, are great for exploring topics in the fashion that the experts wish y'all could." In comparison her fourth dimension at Princeton and CRC, she says "The experience is a bit similar the difference between swimming laps and a h2o park: sure you bask pond, but the water park is special."
Speaking of the connection between her academic past and present, Wilterson says:
"We've but started our autumn semester [at Princeton] and every new group of students makes me call up of [CRC Honors Program faculty member Dr. Rick Schubert] as I strive to pass on the gift that [he] gave me. I teach a Research Methods Lab, and my favorite phrase this year is, 'Simply why — who cares?' The students seem to respond well to the challenge of that question."
Yet connecting on a regular ground with the academic orientation she developed while at CRC, Wilterson reaches back to concepts from her fourth dimension at CRC to connect to her students at Princeton today—carrying forward the spirit of critical inquiry she internalized equally a student in CRC'southward Honors Program.
Schubert explains that there is a question he asked of Wilterson and her beau students on a weekly basis in the Honors seminar she took with him while at CRC and still asks of his Honors students today. Later requesting a summary of the reading and receiving a ready answer from his seminar students, he ever follows up with "Only why — who cares?"
His question is an invitation to Honors Program students to go beyond a surface agreement of the reading to a critical engagement with the material that leads students to do their own original work aslope the author of the material. The Honors Program at CRC invites students to think beyond the surface what to the why , transforming students from passive consumers of academic information to actively productive scholars in their own right.
Schubert explains how excited he is to encounter the bear on this approach has on the bookish progress and growth of students like Wilterson :
"I'chiliad securely gratified to know that Sarah is still carrying frontward, and sharing with her own
students at Princeton, the spirit of critical inquiry that she acquired equally a student in CRC'south Honors Program. That spirit is central to what our Honors Plan is all about."
He emphasizes that all interested CRC students are invited to apply to the Honors Program, which offers not only enhanced IGETC-satisfying General Teaching courses, simply an array of co-curricular opportunities and support services. Honors students have the chance to attend and even to present at academic conferences and symposia, to participate in special field trips and social events, and to receive support from the programme'south counseling and bookish advising services.
Explaining how CRC acted every bit a vehicle for change for her and what she continues to gain as a CRC Honors alum, Wilterson says:
"CRC is a continued source of support and guidance. I but ever took one actual Psych class, during my time at Cosumnes, but I got the full experience. I got to talk to a lot of people I might not have met otherwise. I asked questions. Professors took the time to explain to me what each career path could look like. That made the biggest impact--to have people sit down and actually talk with me and together we outlined what I want my career path to look like."
Wilterson is proud to count herself a member of the CRC family unit who continues to actively benefit from her robust educational feel at CRC and who continues to grow professionally with the back up of her mentors at CRC.
"The MESA Educatee Leadership Retreat provided us a platform to expand our network beyond just our own community." Jun Li Student / Mechanical Engineering / MESA / Cosumnes River Higher
At Cosumnes River College, the MESA program provides math, applied science, and science academic development to underrepresented community higher students. The goal is to help them excel academically and transfer to four-twelvemonth institutions as science, engineering, and math majors. This back up is crucial in helping students from depression-performing high schools attain their academic potential and become technical professionals.
Cheers to generous donors, the MESA Program received a mini-grant from the Los Rios Colleges Foundation to aid them nourish the Student Leadership Retreat (SLR). The SLR is take chances for community higher students to interact, network, and build leadership skills with other MESA students. This leadership and skill-building conference features hands-on Stalk sessions, including chemical science study, engineering pattern, and coding.
CRC student Jun Li says, "The MESA Pupil Leadership Retreat provided us a platform to expand our network beyond just our own community. I befriended students all over California. We collaborated to solve problems and learned most interesting subjects that we would otherwise not be able to learn. Just most chiefly, my fellow MESA members shared stories that resonated with my experience and motivated me to be a better leader."
"I'm ready to grow my ain business and accomplish new heights as an builder." Julia Wong Alum / Building Trades & Construction / Cosumnes River Higher
Julia Wong fabricated a strategic and financially-smart decision. Instead of going straight to a five-twelvemonth accredited college and incurring all those expenses, she decided to enroll in an affordable plan shut to home and get a great foundation for a hereafter career.
Her encouraging family agreed. They've always had Julia's future top-of-mind, so when they discovered the Los Rios Community College District was offering high school students classes at no cost, they encouraged Julia to commencement taking some so she could become a head start on her dream career – architecture.
And she did. By the time loftier school graduation rolled around, Julia had already caused units at Cosumnes River Higher, the only customs college architecture program in the region that is recognized by several professional schools as being i offer classes that provides transferrable credits. For a promising architecture student like Julia who anytime wanted to own her own compages and pattern house, Cosumnes River College was the perfect place to launch her ambition.
Julia loved her classes. Books were hands accessible and although sometimes she faced a waitlist situation at registration time, she says she somewhen would be admitted as plans changed for some enrolled students, making room for Julia.
What Julia didn't conceptualize was her new exposure to a diverse college community where students found common ground through their studies. And, she says, there were ever community events happening on campus which fabricated it easy to encounter people with like interests.
Julia continues to walk her own path, and her dream of becoming an entrepreneur who owns an architectural business firm came true. Be open to opportunities that come your way, she advises, and customs college is ane, big slap-up opportunity.
"If you lot do the work and challenge yourself and enquire for help...you tin do anything yous set your heed to." Chris Adams Alum / 2019 / Folklore / Cosumnes River College
CRC and Honors Plan alumnus, Chris Adams, is a true community leader. He runs an educational not-profit. He is a civil rights activist, serving every bit Sacramento Chapter Leader for the People's Brotherhood for Justice. He provided community support surrounding the Stephon Clark example. He helped get AB392 (The California Act to Save Lives) signed and was nowadays at the bill's signing.
Having graduated from CRC in Bound 2019, Adams, at present living in West LA, is pursuing his Bachelor'due south degree in sociology at UCLA, where he continues his devotion to political activism and community service. Adams is likewise extremely passionate about football. He began college after finding out that the career in collegiate football he envisioned for himself at the fourth dimension would crave a foundation in his ain college education. As he explains, "I came into wanting to football autobus and only needed my BA for that. Earning my degree in sociology is actually going to help with any of my future goals."
One affair Adams has learned from his work in advocacy is how to work with a variety of people. Given his experience with many diverse customs groups in Northern California during his time at CRC and at present with the people in his growing community in LA, Adams says he'south been able to effigy out how unlike groups of people work with each other. He describes his recent instruction in and outside of the classroom in terms of "Learning a lot about how to collaborate with people. Getting a degree will aid me if I want to get into police force school, getting a BA will help me practise the things I want to practice with education and employment beyond where I am today."
Growing up, Adams claims he was never good at school, "I said I couldn't do it," Adams explains, commenting on his cocky-doubts. "I never thought that I would be an honors educatee. Just so, I did really well for 2 semesters and got invited to join honors – I remember y'all get a note that you're eligible. And so information technology was ironic, because but equally I was proverb I couldn't do it [...] I got the notice. So, when I was finally invited to honors, I was scared initially. I was scared to claiming myself – I thought if I took honors, my GPA would drop and I wouldn't get into the universities." But Adams' successful transfer to UCLA underscores how the CRC Honors Plan opened doors for him and increased his self-confidence.
Reflecting on his experience in Honors, Adams notes "The CRC Honors plan is actually similar a shut community – everybody kind of knows each other, you'll finish up sharing a lot of the same classes. Honors is not a requirement – [program participation is elective], and then everyone has called to be in that location – they want to claiming themselves. Equally Adams explains, "Virtually of these people wanted to go to university and many of them finish upwardly going to those universities. The honors community equally a whole [has] bigger goals outside of their immediate experience. It's a like-minded grouping – they all empathise there is a lot of work, only we all try to help each other. We are to share openly with i another without fear of judgment and to help one another. We know it'southward going to be difficult, so we're all sharing this experience and desire to be at that place for one some other. If we saw someone struggling nosotros had others in that location to make sure we [are] okay, to check in on each other." Reflecting more than broadly on the program, Adams notes the level of educational back up Honors provides: "They are able to ready y'all for any university."
While Adams currently getting himself established in LA, Adams notes,"Keeping active in Sacramento is still important to me." His focus is on continuing to abound his network of strong mentors. "I've been coming together a lot of professionals who've studied police force and are able to give me a lot more than data. Making a bigger touch on on the community as a whole is my immediate plan for the time to come."
Adams already runs a non-profit called Game Changer. "Information technology'southward supposed to be able to train people with life skills including how to interview, etiquette, report habits, means to network. Eventually, I'd similar to turn information technology into a general teaching preparation schoolhouse that offers counseling and other resources. In that location's a grant coming up I am applying for to run across what footling steps I can start to take to brand information technology bigger than it already is." When asked how his time in the CRC Honors program has contributed to his success, he replied "I just really got a great feel. I got to understand that if yous do the work and challenge yourself and ask for help...asking for assistance is the principal matter. Just put in the work – you tin practice anything you set your heed to."
"I wanted more in life than just sitting in a prison cell. Then, I decided to turn my life around." Jeffrey Aparicio Alum / Applied science / Cosumnes River College
"Key motivators for me would have to be my family. I want to be swell and "secure the bag" and make my family unit proud. " Drew Buggs Alum / 2019 / Sociology / Cosumnes River College
Did you always desire your major or did y'all change your course?
I attended CRC to continue my basketball and bookish careers. When I commencement got to higher, I wanted to be a sports trainer and then I got into Kinesiology. I ended up switching to sociology because of the many paths I can take with that degree. Recently, I was able to transfer with a full ride scholarship to play basketball game for Xavier Academy of Louisiana, where I program on pursuing sociology and minor in pedagogy.
What is your main motivation?
Key motivators for me would have to be my family unit. I want to exist great and "secure the pocketbook" and make my family proud.
I used to never take schooling serious before college—now, I see the growth. My future goals are to 1 solar day play (basketball) overseas or I would similar to work with education and finding greater educational opportunities, environments, and funding for low income areas in the country.
What is your advice to electric current and future students?
I have definitely had struggles throughout my academic career, but the staff is amazing at CRC.
The instructors and staff are the best part about the college. Everyone is then helpful. Ane of my professors who motivated me was also my advisor. Non only was she an first-class instructor, just she was available in office hours to just talk. She pushed me to desire to exist great especially every bit a young black homo. And as an athlete, I can say from experience that the CRC basketball programme is tiptop notch. Some of the best coaching in JUCO.
My communication is to find something yous honey, then make it into a dream.
Chase it. Grab it. Make it into your reality.
"There's always a purse to hunt."
Never be satisfied—there's e'er more to give.
"It is never too late to modify your career path. I went dorsum to school and started my new career in my mid-thirties." Tyler Wierzbicki Alum / Data Systems Balls / Cosumnes River Higher
What has been the key motivating factor or factors in your life to pursue your goal(s)?
I wanted financial independence and to accept a career that volition last me the residuum of my life. I also wanted a career that was challenging and that I would be making a departure in the globe. Wierzbicki says he'southward inspired by, "All of the anonymous people who button through adversities because they don't allow whatever obstacles to write their life stories."
How practise you think CRC prepared you for your future?
My major was Information Systems Assurance. I was attracted to the cybersecurity aspect of computer scientific discipline considering of political events happening all around the earth centered effectually information warfare and cyber-crime. The various courses offered immune me to test the waters of what interested me. I was able to pinpoint which direction I wanted to take in my new career.
Cosumnes River College classes were affordable. The staff seemed to enjoy their jobs and take their students seriously. I always felt rubber on campus.
What communication do y'all have for students and time to come students?
I graduated from University of San Francisco in 2005 with a BA in Media Studies. Afterward graduating, I worked in commercial real manor and insurance for ten years. I decided to go dorsum to school to explore my passion of computer science and applied science.
It is never too late to change your career path. I went back to school and started my new career in my mid-thirties.
"My formula for success: get involved and Los Rios community colleges volition come to y'all." Navjot Randhawa Alum / Early on Childhood Education / Cosumnes River College
Going to community college correct after high school tin can exist overwhelming if money is tight and scheduling classes around a work schedule feels like threading a needle. Fortunately, community college students are discovering that assist is at that place for the asking, and customs college can be an option for anybody.
Simply enquire Navjot Randhawa. The aspiring early babyhood teacher who worked ii jobs and maintained a iii.6 course indicate boilerplate at Cosumnes River College knows all about beingness overwhelmed. She dropped out of community higher shortly later high schoolhouse out of exasperation and went to work. But the yearning to teach was powerful as were a couple of family role models. Her brother is a sixth grade teacher and her mother, a retired teacher who taught elementary school in India, encouraged Navjot to get back into the college arena. This time – Navjot promised herself – she was going to approach instruction differently.
Navjot re-enrolled and discovered the Early Childhood Education Program at CRC had a Pathways to Success Program at CRC'south Child Development Heart. The Center was a lifeline for Navjot. The plan there promotes a student-centered approach to foster the spirit and diligence to be a successful student and lifelong learner, exactly the skills Navjot needed to pursue her goals.
At the Center, Navjot institute a community of professors and students who, like her family unit, shared her passion for teaching, and the resources, textbooks, and computers to use for studying. Navjot received an AA caste in Early Childhood Education, an Associate Teacher Certificate and an Early Babyhood Education Master Teacher Certificate, and plans to transfer and obtain her master'due south in kid development.
Navjot who likes to hike and volunteers at the Montessori Country Academy, squeezes in some fun with friends at their own entertainment space, a converted garage. She tells anyone who will mind her formula for success: go involved and Los Rios Community Colleges volition come up to you.
"I've never close the door to education, because there is still so much that I do non know. If yous're not learning, you're non growing." Cory Lantay Alum / 2014 / Figurer Data Systems Security / Cosumnes River College
1. How did you choose CRC?
I graduated from CRC with my Assembly of Scientific discipline in May 2014.
I began attending CRC in spring of 2011 knowing that there was a lot I wanted to achieve. Professionally, I didn't take very much going for me, and I needed to change that.
I always had a honey for computers, particularly information security, so I began by taking some general requirement classes equally well as some CIS classes to get myself back into education.
My major was Computer Information Systems Security, in which I attained my Associates of Scientific discipline. Information technology was always something I had a huge passion for, and with the growing field of Data Security/Cybersecurity being needed by nearly any organization conducting business over the cyberspace, it was also a lucrative caste in which to invest my time.
ii. In what means are teacher(s) at CRC different?
When I was taking my CISS 310 class, I chose to get with the hybrid course, which was more of an online class than on-grounds. I was surprised past the abundance of date the professor of this course, Lance Parks, had with the students (including myself). He was always there to reply questions about topics or concepts, and always made certain to follow-up with me and then that I understood them.
There were times where I would see with him during office hours to discuss things that didn't make sense to me, and every time I would walk away having a much better understanding. Even later on I completed CISS 310, I would keep to take my other required CIS classes with him. Over the years, he has become my mentor while navigating my educational and professional career.
Since then, we have become good friends and communicate frequently. It is this level of commitment professors of CRC and the Los Rios Community College District possess regarding the success of their students.
iii. Were there whatever surprises/struggles along the way, and what did y'all acquire from them?
At 1 point, I began getting frustrated with the educational path I was on to the bespeak that I made the decision to stop attending higher and focus on gaining professional experience.
This is something that I still struggle with, but I accept learned that standing your education leads to pathways previously unknown. In that location take been topics and areas of study that take fascinated me and led me to pursue more cognition about them. I've never shut the door to education, because there is still so much that I do non know. If yous're non learning, yous're non growing. That has been my take-away with regard to college education.
"My hunger to be someone and exist remembered for something swell has no boundaries. During my time at CRC, I constitute a sense of purpose that is now pushing me towards my destiny." DeWayne Ewing Alum / 2017 / Sociology & Marketing / Cosumnes River College
After growing upward in a tough neighborhood in Oakland – where at that place was more temptation than opportunity – DeWayne discovered Cosumnes River Higher (CRC) spoke to him. He connected to CRC'due south campus because of its repose and positive temper. He found he could think and reflect more easily without the added pressures of inner-city life.
CRC is where DeWayne discovered the joy of learning. And it is at the Oak Park Customs Centre where DeWayne shares his learning discovery with youth and teens who can benefit from existent-life inspiration. He is in that location as a mentor, Youth Evolution trainer, and outreach & development coordinator; he has even advocated for them as an ambassador at metropolis quango meetings.
I matter DeWayne wants to do is make people feel the way his instructors at CRC fabricated him experience – aware and inspired. DeWayne transferred from CRC to Sac State to study sociology and marketing and began establishing his own brand and non-profit equally an artist named Consci8us. "My work, my music, and my coursework all work together. I feel similar I'm manifesting everything I've worked for."
"I'grand very attracted to the thought that, by teaching here, I am helping students who are a lot like I was proceeds an ability they can utilise to make their lives ameliorate in the same manner that I was able to." Jacob Velasquez Alum / Philosophy / Cosumnes River College
CRC Honors Program alum, Dr. Jacob Velasquez, offers a unique perspective on the value of Honors as a new fellow member of the faculty at his alma mater. Originally from Sacramento, Velasquez feels fortunate to be back and close to family unit after his adventures between beingness an honors student and teaching at CRC. Throughout his academic journey, Velasquez kept in touch with his former Honors instructor, Rick Schubert, who appreciates the scope of his colleague's human relationship with CRC. Schubert notes, "Jacob is at the starting time of his career as an academic professional, the culmination of a considerable transformation. He came to CRC equally a Marine Corps combat veteran, already married, a parent, the first in his family to attend college, unsure exactly what direction the residue of his work life would take, and unsure of the value of his ain ideas. Just he left CRC with a clear sense of where he wanted to go in his professional person life and how to go there. He left a confident scholar, knowing that his ideas have value, his interests are of import, and that pursuing them makes a positive difference in the world. He's a testament to the transformative ability of our Honors Program."
Honors helped Velasquez to set his goals and achieve them providing him, Velasquez says, with the skills vital for bookish success. And Velasquez has certainly been successful, transferring to UC Berkeley for his B.A., earning a Ph.D. at UC Davis, and landing a faculty position at CRC. Paramount among all of the benefits he acquired through Honors, Velasquez explains, "was the confidence I gained that led me on my path toward condign a professor, and that helped me overcome the many obstacles I encountered along the manner."
When asked about his feel equally a CRC educatee before and after joining the programme, Velasquez notes that Honors provides the opportunity to approach Full general Education from the standpoint of a topical focus. Recalling his own feel in Philosophy of the Martial Arts (HONOR 364), he observes that students in the seminar don't simply study philosophy in full general, but instead study philosophy equally it relates to martial arts. The do good, he points out, is the opportunity for students to connect the subject matter to something specific in their lives and to see it as a part of a larger conversation.
Reflecting on his Honors experience, Velasquez says two of the nigh important lessons he learned were that he was capable of contributing to a customs of scholars who accept interests similar his own, and that pursuing his own research is very fulfilling. Turning to the present, he says "I'1000 very attracted to the idea that, by teaching here, I am helping students who are a lot like I was gain an ability they tin use to make their lives better in the same mode that I was able to."
"I'm set to make my way in America." Gurvinder Sidhu Alum / Diagnostic Medical Sonography / Cosumnes River Higher
Gurvinder Sidhu is the first to admit that acquiring his diagnostic medical sonography degree at Consumes River College (CRC) was rigorous. However, he did have insight while acquiring it that many community college students don't. Gurvinder knew firsthand the benefits of a college education. He and his married woman had already earned degrees in their native country Bharat before moving to the Us.
As a practicing doc in his homeland, Gurvinder assumed that he could carry on his dedication to healing in his newly adopted land. Only rules and regulations got in the way, and Gurvinder found himself starting over at CRC, a prospect he at offset found a scrap depressing.
Gurvinder didn't realize he had a very American problem. He had to notice a way to work and support his family and be a partner in raising ii immature children while maintaining a full schedule of college-level courses. Luckily, his married woman and family unit were supportive, and then were the faculty and staff at CRC. Gurvinder says they understood his unique state of affairs and helped. Their back up and willingness to extend a hand is a kindness Gurvinder won't forget.
He also won't forget how prepared he was to enter the workforce once he had his degree in mitt. The experienced faculty and staff were extremely knowledgeable, and he considers CRC's ultrasound/sonographer program excellent. He found the practicing clinical hospital sites to be the all-time, and was impressed with the infrastructure, labs, classes, library, and sports complex at CRC.
Gurvinder says the job offers poured in afterward graduation, and he was hired immediately. He is happy with his good salary and his wife and children are very proud. He can affirm now that everything worked out. At CRC, he fabricated lasting friends, and past practicing in a medical field, he is living his life the way he says he was born to do.
Source: https://crc.losrios.edu/
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