Help College Students Succeed - Part One
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From: Your Name <you@example.com>
To: ccc@calcomui.org
Subject: Help College Students Succeed - Part One
Jack Scott, Chancellor
California Community Colleges
1102 Q Street, 4th Floor
Sacramento, CA 95811
Dear Chancellor Scott:
I am writing to urge that you, and the members of the Board of Governors, approve Recommendation 1.1 of the California Community Colleges Task Force on Student Success.
This recommendation urges California's Community Colleges to collaborate with the various government agencies that manage California's K-12 education system. The purpose of this collaboration would be to ensure that the K-12 system adequately prepares students for college and career readiness.
Here is why this recommendation is so important. California's Community Colleges provide two year courses of education that:
1. Make students career ready for a wide variety of occupations or
2. Prepare them for transfer to a four year college or university to get a bachelors degree or
3. Enable workers to gain the knowledge needed for career advancement.
If students are fully college ready when they graduate from highschool, they can immediately begin taking the college classes that would lead to one or more of those outcomes.
Sadly, at present, many high school graduates in California are not ready for college level classes. In fact, as many as 70% of incoming Community College students must take remedial courses in math, reading, and or other pre-college classes before they are fully ready for college level work.
This wastes students time. It means they must take more time in Community Colleges to achieve their educational goals. And for the students, time is money. The more time it takes them, and the more classes they must take, the more it costs them in class fees, text book costs, and other costs.
Many students who attend Community Colleges do so because Community Colleges cost less than other colleges and universities. Often they have very limited income. In many cases they drop out of Community Colleges because it has taken too long, resulting in costs they could not afford.
On the other hand, this situation also prevents Community Colleges from enrolling as many students as need their services. Last year, as many as 131,000 students either could not get in to Community Colleges or, once in, could not get in to the classes they needed. If the students that preceded them had complete their course work more quickly, that would have helped more new students to enroll and to take the courses they needed.
For all these reasons, I urge you to adopt the recommendation to collaborate with the K-12 schools.
Sincerely,
Your Name
Your Organization
123 Your St.
Yousville, YO 12345
Phone: (123)456-7890
Fax: (123)456-7890x123
p.s.
Your Personal Statement
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To: ccc@calcomui.org
Subject: Help College Students Succeed - Part One
Jack Scott, Chancellor
California Community Colleges
1102 Q Street, 4th Floor
Sacramento, CA 95811
Dear Chancellor Scott:
I am writing to urge that you, and the members of the Board of Governors, approve Recommendation 1.1 of the California Community Colleges Task Force on Student Success.
This recommendation urges California's Community Colleges to collaborate with the various government agencies that manage California's K-12 education system. The purpose of this collaboration would be to ensure that the K-12 system adequately prepares students for college and career readiness.
Here is why this recommendation is so important. California's Community Colleges provide two year courses of education that:
1. Make students career ready for a wide variety of occupations or
2. Prepare them for transfer to a four year college or university to get a bachelors degree or
3. Enable workers to gain the knowledge needed for career advancement.
If students are fully college ready when they graduate from highschool, they can immediately begin taking the college classes that would lead to one or more of those outcomes.
Sadly, at present, many high school graduates in California are not ready for college level classes. In fact, as many as 70% of incoming Community College students must take remedial courses in math, reading, and or other pre-college classes before they are fully ready for college level work.
This wastes students time. It means they must take more time in Community Colleges to achieve their educational goals. And for the students, time is money. The more time it takes them, and the more classes they must take, the more it costs them in class fees, text book costs, and other costs.
Many students who attend Community Colleges do so because Community Colleges cost less than other colleges and universities. Often they have very limited income. In many cases they drop out of Community Colleges because it has taken too long, resulting in costs they could not afford.
On the other hand, this situation also prevents Community Colleges from enrolling as many students as need their services. Last year, as many as 131,000 students either could not get in to Community Colleges or, once in, could not get in to the classes they needed. If the students that preceded them had complete their course work more quickly, that would have helped more new students to enroll and to take the courses they needed.
For all these reasons, I urge you to adopt the recommendation to collaborate with the K-12 schools.
Sincerely,
Your Name
Your Organization
123 Your St.
Yousville, YO 12345
Phone: (123)456-7890
Fax: (123)456-7890x123
p.s.
Your Personal Statement
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Campaign (<em>2655</em>): <em>Help College Students Succeed - Part One</em>
Learn more about this campaign here: <em>http://www.citizenspeak.org/campaign/calcomui/help-college-students-succeed-part-one-0</em>
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