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Resources to Help Your College-Bound Students
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Are your students worried about paying for
college?
Help them understand the fundamentals of budgeting through a free app they can download right into their phones!
Mint is a free money manager and financial tracker app that securely connects bank accounts, credit cards, bills and investments into one place. Students can get a better picture of where they spend their money without having to enter every purchase.
Mint also features bill pay reminders so users can stay on top of bill payment. Using
Mint will allow students to manage their finances more easily while discerning where they can cut back and save money. If students are going to spend time on their phones, why not make it useful for their futures?
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Adult Basic Skills (ABS)
Adult Basic Skills (ABS) is a program within the
Adult Continuing Education (ACE) Division that offers High School Equivalency preparation classes. Its classes help prepare students to pass the Test Assessing Secondary Completion (TASC), earn their New York State High School Equivalency Diploma and plan their next steps. Always looking for innovative ways to engage students with subject matter, ABS held two Math Numeracy Days in October.
"Math Numeracy Days came about as an extension of a Math Fair that we piloted with our students last summer. Higher level students, paired with teachers, taught lower level students about a variety of math concepts," said Angelo Ditta, an ABS instructor.
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Civil Engineering Technician
What They Do
: Apply principles of civil engineering in planning and designing; oversee construction and maintenance of structures and facilities under the direction of engineering staff or physical scientists
Skills: Critical thinking, active listening; mathematics, deductive reasoning
You may excel at this job if you are: attentive to detail, an effective communicator, perceptive
Education Needed: At least an Associate Degree; can begin as an
Engineering Science
major at LaGuardia
New York Job Outlook: Growing
New York Median Salary: $56,770
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CUNY & SUNY Support Hurricane Maria's Displaced Students
[Photo Courtesy of NY Daily News]
By Olivia Mayer, College Access and Success Manager
Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico and the Caribbean in September, and many residents are still without electricity and clean water. Prior to the Category 4 storm and continuing afterward, there has been a mass exodus of residents leaving Puerto Rico for big cities, such as New York, Chicago and Orlando. Recovery has been slow and difficult, especially for students. Only 200 of 1,113 of Puerto Rico's schools have reopened due to lack of electricity and debris. Puerto Rico's Secretary of Education, Julia Keleher, estimated that students have lost between 35 and 40 instructional days because of Maria. Missing almost 40 days of school can have dramatic ramifications.
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At the College and Career Pathways Institute, we are committed to helping students make a successful transition from the Division of Adult and Continuing Education to our college degree programs.
Transitions
is a bi-monthly staff newsletter that disseminates information about college access and success, and related research, events and activities on campus and nationally. In it you'll find tools for building college-going aspirations among your students; news related to students' matriculation to college, recognition for program success; career and student spotlights; and a general sense of what to keep your eye on in the coming months.
We hope Transitions will help foster a strong college-going community and keep both students and staff informed of what's happening in the field.
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November 8th
Speaker Series: Industry Tech Talks
Time
: 2:30pm-4:00pm
Location: Little Theatre (M-134)
More information
:
http://bit.ly/2gaBxtT
November 13th
Take Control of Your Budget - Take Control of Your Life
Time: 2:15pm-3:15pm
Location: E-242
STEM Career Panel
Time
: 6:30pm-8:00pm
Location: E-242
RSVP to
omayer@lagcc.cuny.edu
November 14th
Nursing Programs Informational Seminar
Time
: 3:30pm-4:30pm
Location: E-322
November 17th
CAT Test date for High School Equivalency Fall deferred, admitted, passed and reactivates
December 1st
First in the World Financial Aid Completion Priority Deadline
December 8th
New York Hall of Science STEM Nights: Health and Medicine
December 15th
First in the World Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR) Priority Deadline
For more information about an event, please contact
Olivia Mayer.
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Student Success:
Cristian H.
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"Putting myself back on track in school was one of the hardest challenges I have faced. I had to change my daily life to find the time to study and be in class," says Cristian H., a
Bridge to College and Career Program
student. And that is just what Cristian did, enrolling in the Bridge to Science class in order to take the first step toward pursuing his education and career. Cristian's road to a high school equivalency diploma was filled with bumps, but he had one major motivating factor. "The main reason I want to earn a college degree is because I want to be a role model for my son and show him the importance of an education," he says.
True to the program's aim, Cristian didn't just stop at the Bridge Program.
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