Monday, August 16, 2010

DSC acquires funds to help needy students

DSC acquires funds to help needy students

DSC acquires funds to help needy students

Posted: 15 Aug 2010 09:40 PM PDT

Daytona State College has received additional federal funding to help continue and enhance a program that helps low-income students with tutoring and other services.

The college received $324,749 from the U.S. Department of Education to continue the Student Support Services program that provides tutoring, workshops and other services for low-income, first generation and disabled college students to help promote recruitment and retention.

The program has been in place locally for about 30 years, but the new funding, which begins in September, is an increase of about $20,000 from last year, Daytona State College officials said.

Isalene Montgomery, director of the program at Daytona State College, said the additional funds help to expand the program, including adding a summer bridge program next year for 25 to 30 students to work on life skills, budgeting and other services.

The overall program throughout the year provides one-on-one tutoring and counseling services to about 160 students. The goal is to give them the desire to stay in school and get their degree and continue on for a bachelor's degree, Montgomery said. "Counselors will be like a big sister or big brother," Montgomery said.

DIGGING IN

Stetson University's Gillespie Museum of Minerals invites the public on Aug. 21 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. to join students for "Dig It, Dig In: Work Day in the Gillespie Native Plant Landscape and Hatter Harvest Community Garden." The museum is located at 234 E. Michigan Ave., DeLand, at the corner of Amelia and Michigan avenues. The event is an opportunity to prepare the museum grounds and the Hatter Harvest garden for Stetson's new school year. Water and a light lunch will be provided for volunteers. Gillespie Museum reopened for the academic year on Aug. 10, with regular hours of 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday. Admission is $2 for adults; $1 for children older than 5 and seniors. Home to one of the largest gem and mineral collections in the Southeast, the Gillespie Museum is an earth science museum. The Hatter Harvest Community Garden is an organic garden on the grounds of the Rinker Environmental Learning Center, adjacent to the Gillespie Museum. For more information, contact the museum at 386-822-7330 or gillespiemuseum@stetson.edu.

NURSING PROGRAM REACCREDITED

Bethune-Cookman University's School of Nursing has been granted reaccredidation by the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission. The baccalaureate nursing program's next evaluation visit will be in the spring of 2018. President Trudie Kibbe Reed said in a press release that the Daytona Beach university "takes great pride in maintaining high standards of academic excellence in training students to become nursing professionals."

Highlights of the school of nursing include classroom experience; clinical learning in area hospitals, long-term facilities, home-health care, and many other community-based settings. The university also points to "state-of-the-art teaching" with the latest in technology and cutting-edge simulation labs.

APPOINTMENTS

Stetson University has named Christopher Kandus as its new dean of students. Kandus comes to Stetson from Babson College in Massachusetts, where he has been assistant dean in the office of campus life. Kandus will start in his new position in early September. He has served as an assistant dean at Babson College since 2007. He succeeds Rina Tovar, who was promoted to vice president for campus life on July 1.

He will serve as one of the primary advocates for students and their families. Prior to Babson, he worked in various campus life roles at The University of Akron in Ohio.

At Bethune-Cookman University, Gov. Charlie Crist has named a Deltona nurse to the Florida Cancer Control and Research Advisory Council. Zenesha Barkley, 34, a registered nurse with Bethune-Cookman, succeeds Cynthia Brown. She was appointed for a term that runs from Aug. 10 through Dec. 1, 2012.

-- Compiled by Education Writer Deborah Circelli

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