HomeAbout UsOur PartnershipsNewsPublicationsResourcesContact UsFor GranteesIn March 2008, the following eight secondary/postsecondary partnerships were selected as grantees of the Concurrent Courses initiative.
Arthur A. Benjamin Health Professions High School is a “multiple pathways” school that integrates healthcare career standards with a rigorous academic high school curriculum. Students from this high school, 80 percent of whom come from underrepresented groups, will take courses in allied health at the college, with supports from student mentors and through summer induction activities. It is expected that the majority of students will take two college courses before high school graduation.
City College of San Francisco has a long-running dual enrollment program with multiple high school partners in several career fields. City College aims to include more underrepresented students in their programs through targeted outreach efforts involving teen peer groups and parent liaisons, as well as to provide special support for those students once enrolled.
The ACE Academy at Jordan High School, where 70 percent of students are low-income, is a new program focused on architecture, construction, and engineering (or ACE). The high school will work with its two college partners to develop a curriculum that integrates academic and technical education. It will also develop dual enrollment opportunities for ACE students that will take place at the two colleges, as well as summer camps and other academic and support activities.
LA City College offers popular multimedia and web development certificate programs that will soon be available to 120 low-income and underrepresented students in multimedia academies at the three partnering high schools. Students will be able to take a sequence of college courses at their high schools and on the college campus, and potentially earn certificates (18 college credits). Career exploration workshops will also be made available.
The North Orange County Regional Occupational Program has a well-established pathway in education for students interested in teaching and related careers. More than three-quarters of students in the education pathway are English Language Learners. Transferable college courses taught by college instructors will be offered to students after school. Free tutoring to support students’ success in the courses and field trips to the colleges will also be made available.
Santa Barbara City College currently has a large existing dual enrollment program, offering over one hundred college courses to over one thousand high school students, many of whom are in career academies. The college will develop bilingual program materials to encourage underrepresented students to participate, and provide tutors and peer advisors to help such students make a successful transition to college after high school graduation.
These partners have a strong history of working together on career and technical education and articulated coursework, and they will put that experience to work implementing dual enrollment in the renewable energy field. Activities include developing program sequences in renewable energy, organizing an annual renewable energy fair, providing transportation for students to take courses on the college campus, and tutoring to support students’ academic progress.
This partnership will provide college courses on the College of the Sequoias campus for high school students who are in allied health programs throughout the district, 75 percent of whom are low-income. Existing articulated programs will be reformed so that students will receive free, transcripted college credit that is transferable and meets industry certification requirements.
