The San Diego Community College District (SDCCD) is holding its first-ever “Giving Day” to raise money for the tuition-free San Diego Promise program that is benefitting more than 3,100 first-time, full-time students this academic year.
\nDubbed “Keeping the Promise,” the Oct. 22 Giving Day is an opportunity for donors and community members to make a difference in the life of a San Diego Promise student.
\n“All gifts made during the Keeping the Promise giving day will support San Diego Promise students enrolled at San Diego City, Mesa, and Miramar colleges,” said SDCCD Chancellor Constance M. Carroll. “Our own faculty, administrators, and staff, and the entire San Diego community can help these students achieve their personal, professional, and educational goals with 100 percent of the proceeds going directly to support our students.”
\nTo donate to the San Diego Promise, visit the Keeping the Promise at\u00a0SDCCD.edu\/givingday.
\nThe event will benefit students such as Yolanda Granados, who just a couple years ago was struggling to get by on a minimum wage job but was able to attend and graduate from San Diego Mesa College thanks to the San Diego Promise. This fall she transferred to Cal State Long Beach where she is pursuing her dream of a career in art therapy.
\n“This was an opportunity I never had before in my life,” Granados said of the Promise. “I didn\u2019t have to worry about books or tuition. You get one counselor assigned to you who is keeping track of you and your progress, and you get your school paid for. Yes, I\u2019d say the Promise is pretty cool.”
\nThe San Diego Promise began as a pilot program supported by private funds in 2016 with an initial cohort of 186 students whose freshman year came tuition-free. Successful fundraising allowed the SDCCD to raise that\u00a0number to 661 participants the following year. After a new state law, Assembly Bill 19, provided funding for California Community Colleges to cover a student\u2019s first year of college, the San Diego Promise expanded to 2,100 participants in 2018-19 and included the first two years of tuition and fees for\u00a0all\u00a0first-time, full-time students.
\nBesides covering tuition, the San Diego Promise also provides book grants, counseling, and hands-on support to help students develop an educational pathway leading to their career goals.\u00a0
\nMore than 230 individuals, corporations, and nonprofit organizations have made gifts to the San Diego Promise, with contributions ranging from a $1-per-month employee payroll deduction to a matching gift of $200,000 from San Diego Padres co-owner and Executive Chairman Ron Fowler.
\nComo uno de los 73 distritos de colegios comunitarios m\u00e1s grandes de California, el Distrito de Colegios Comunitarios de San Diego atiende a aproximadamente 100,000 estudiantes anualmente a trav\u00e9s de tres colegios de dos a\u00f1os y la Educaci\u00f3n Continua de San Diego. Las tres universidades, San Diego City College, San Diego Mesa College y San Diego Miramar College, ofrecen t\u00edtulos de asociado y certificados en programas ocupacionales que preparan a los estudiantes para la transferencia a universidades de cuatro a\u00f1os y trabajos de nivel inicial. Mesa College tambi\u00e9n ofrece una licenciatura en Gesti\u00f3n de informaci\u00f3n de salud. Educaci\u00f3n Continua ofrece educaci\u00f3n para adultos sin cr\u00e9dito en siete campus a lo largo de San Diego.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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