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The College Community Career’s Success with Students
Wednesday, April 24, 2024 @ 11:15 am - 1:00 pm
PROGRAM
How the College Community Career Builds Four-Year Success
The College Community Career (CCC) fosters a college-going culture in low-income, first-generation high school students and their families. Its goal is to create and build equity in education. CCC not only prepares students for admission to college, it guides students toward graduation from a four-year university. The heart of the program is based on four pillars: College Success, Leadership Development, Civic Engagement, and Career Discovery. Working with students, CCC helps develop a diverse workforce by breaking down traditional barriers that keep students from achieving a college education. CCC strives to help all students reach their potential. When CCC opened in August 2012, one high school had only 22 sophomores in an afterschool program who had the dream of going to college. Today CCC has expanded to serve more than 400 students a year in 12 Houston area high schools.
SPEAKER
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Kathy Rose is the Executive Director of College Community Career. She has a Bachelor of Science in math and Spanish education from Texas A&M University, a master’s degree in business administration from the University of St. Thomas, and a post-baccalaureate certificate in college counseling from UCLA Extension. Kathy began her career as a mathematics teacher at Spring Branch High School and went on to become a computer programmer and later a trainer with Chevron. Next, she served as a development officer with the University of Houston Sugar Land, she then became a major gifts officer with UH. Kathy was the founding Houston director of College Forward and successfully launched that program in four high schools in east Harris County. Kathy founded College Community Career in 2012 to focus on low-income, first-generation students on the west side Houston. She envisioned the organization expanding to reach the burgeoning underserved populations in public high schools. She is a former board member of the Fort Bend Education Foundation, board of trustees member for the International School of Aberdeen (Scotland), and board of directors member of the American International School in Lagos, Nigeria, and St. Agnes Academy in Houston. Kathy is a proud recipient of a Jefferson Award. |
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