Student Services Program Review-Spring 2010 - Shasta College

2. Contact with Other K-12 SchoolsOur office hosts an extensive pair of 8 th Grade Career Days, with over 500 hundredyoung students in attendance. For this event, we collaborate extensively withCollege Options, GEARUP, local schools and school districts, EWD and ShastaTwenty-first Century Career Connections.Throughout the year, we are contacted by school groups and by our own facultyand staff who seek to arrange campus visits and tours to our campuses. As well,we field requests from schools who seek to receive visits from our own faculty andstaff. In support of the student senate, our office also helps with the annual HuckFinn Day.We are also the point of contact/facilitator for Migrant Education’s SummerLeadership Program, and a point of contact for the Lions Annual Football Event.3. Contact with Community Colleges and Four Year Universities and CollegesContact with other community colleges has taken place recently for the gatheringof information with regard to best practices, in the revision of policies andprocedures.Participation on the California Community College Student Services Associationlistserv is frequent. Through the student senate’s participation in GeneralAssemblies, our college has additional contact with other community colleges.It is hoped that there will be additional contact with other community colleges in thedevelopment of Shasta College’s study abroad programs.There is also significant contact with other colleges and universities through theRegional Educational Alliance for Achieving HigherEd (REACH). This alliancetakes as its mission a regional increase in the rates of transfer to four year collegesand universities. Members of the alliance include Butte College, CSU Chico, UCDavis, Feather River College, Humboldt University, Lake Tahoe College, LassenCollege, Mendocino College, College of the Redwoods, University of Nevada-Reno, College of the Siskiyous, Southern Oregon University and the CountyOffices of education in the following counties: Butte, Del Norte, El Dorado, Glenn,Humboldt, Lassen, Mendocino, Modoc, Plumas, Shasta, Siskiyou, Tehama andTrinity. On March 5, 2010, our office served as one of the principal planners andhosts of a REACH conference/workshop at the McConnell Foundation, focusing onbasic skills.Our office has also been in dialog with two universities in Vietnam, regardingpossibilities of study abroad and international student recruitment.4. Articulation with High Schools, Universities and CollegesN/A- 105 -