Category: College-Going Culture
-
Catalysts of Community Engaged Learning: The 2022 Celebrating Partnerships Event
Every other year, CommUniverCity holds a huge event called “Celebrating Partnerships,” where core partners of the organization come together to take a grand look at active projects that CommUniverCity has been maintaining or is involved in. This past Thursday on May 5th, in which some of you know as Cinco de Mayo, CommUniverCity their biennial […]
-
Creative Showcase: SJSU Students Design Ad Campaign
Authors: Salvador Gurrola Jr., Advertising Campaign Leader & SJSU Advertising Student; Nicole Guzman, CommUniverCity Project Coordinator; Katherine Cushing, CommUniverCity Executive Director; Marisela Castro, CommUniverCity Communications Specialist This spring semester, Professor John Delacruz from the Department of Journalism & Mass Communications at San Jose State University is teaching ADV 129, SJSU’s Advertising Campaign Planning and Management, […]
-
Space Spartans: Reaching New Heights
Author: Paula Perez, CommUniverCity Project Coordinator Space Spartan team members Kyle McEachern and Elizabeth Castro came to Mr. Wright’s Robotics class at San Jose High School to present their NASA project. Mr. Wright’s class is offered as an elective course and ranges from freshmen to seniors who are all interested in learning more about engineering. […]
-
College Day: Overcoming Barriers to Walk through Doors of Opportunity
Author: Elizabeth Figueroa, Special Programs Manager Some of us are born into families who are trying to make their way up from a home with dirt floors. Some of us are born into families where our immediate post-high school financial contribution is valued more than a shot at college. And some of us are born […]
-
Engineering in Action Students Inspire Future Generations
Author: Danny Ludovina, Project Coordinator for Engineering in Action What can someone do with an education in the fields of STEM, or Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math? Why does learning how to log proper notes, choosing numerical formulas, or shaping structures matter to an elementary school child? We at CommUniverCity had these questions in mind […]
-
Destination: College
Author: Elizabeth Figueroa True or False: College Day isn’t very useful for children seven years or younger. If you aren’t entirely sure how to answer that, take into consideration the general knowledge of several studies showing that simply speaking to children as often as possible will help them do well academically. […]
-
Creating a College-going Culture: Five Qs with Dana Bunnett
On October 10th, many of the schools in Santa Clara County will participate in College Day, a day meant inspire a college-going culture, so that all elementary, middle, and high school students can see themselves going to college. Director of Kids In Common (a program of Planned Parenthood Mar Monte), Dana Bunnett, answers five questions for […]
-
The Joven Noble Team Asks: What is Palabra?
Authors: The Joven Noble Team PALABRA. Word. Credible Word. What is a man? But more importantly, who is teaching you how to be a man? If you were ever given the opportunity to sit in a session of Joven Noble Sacred Circles, a program supported by CommUniverCity, these would be some of the first questions […]
-
After a Semester of Being Pen Pals, Writing Partners Finally Meet
Author: Elizabeth Figueroa, Project Coordinator, CommUniverCity San José “When do I get to meet my pen pal? Who is my pen pal? Do you know who my pen pal is?” These are all questions asked in rapid succession by multiple students just about every time I visited Anne Darling Elementary’s campus over the past four months. Since […]
-
College Day: There is Always a Way to Pay
How will you pay for college? We hope to inspire and share with you resources and knowledge on how to save and prepare for college. On Friday, October 11, 2013, we will be joining schools in Santa Clara County for the 3rd Annual College Day – a county-wide college-going effort – where students in elementary, middle, […]