The Puente Project: Creating Leaders for Californias Future

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The Puente Project Creating Leaders for
Californias Future

• Mary Beth Barrios
• Puente Project Coordinator
• San Bernardino Valley College

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The Project

• Puente History
• Founded at Chabot College in 1981 by Felix
  Galaviz and Patricia McGrath
• Program components
• English
• Counseling
• Mentoring
• Extra Curricular Activities
• Where we are now

Counseling
English
Mentoring
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Variations to the program

• Adding a critical thinking English class to
  include Phase III students
• Adding courses from other disciplines

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What does it take?

• Funding
• Basic Skills
• Diversity Equity
• Collaborative efforts
• Reassigned time
• Meeting with students, Sitting in classrooms
• Coordinating activities, mentor program,
  advising club, teaching Counseling courses,
  recruitment, meeting with other program faculty
• Space/Location
• Administrative support