Category: Collegiate

Campus, Collegiate, Education

Obama renews push for free community college

Samantha Douty

President Barack Obama, along with Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden, renewed his push for free community college during a speech at Macomb Community College in Michigan on Sept. 9. In July, Del Mar College President Mark Escamilla and Board of Regents Chairman Trey McCampbell met with other community college officials in Washington, D.C., to strategize launching the College Promise plan. The plan has been stalled in the Republican Congress, but the Obama administration has started “Heads Up America” to rally public support. “Education is the secret sauce to success in our country,” Obama said. “Across the country…

Campus, Collegiate, Community

Speaker tells students of Wemberley flood recovery efforts

Samantha Douty

Students in the GIS technology program heard firsthand on Aug. 27 the importance of their work as Devon Humphrey, geospatial intelligence officer, visited Del Mar College to share lessons learned during the search for several Corpus Christi residents after severe flooding in May in Wimberley. Humphrey, an instructor with the National Spill Control School at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, helped to create the search maps used after the disaster. “The majority of my job is to focus on training people to use GIS maps for the case of an emergency,” Humphrey said. “We try and focus on practicing as much…

Collegiate

True Life: You’re about to graduate

Meagan Falcon

Alexis Montalbo Reporter Stacy Hrna, the business principles teacher at Collegiate High School, created a project to help the graduating seniors know what to look forward to in adult life. “I wanted them to be more innovative while learning, and not just give them information and have them be done with the project and not learn from it,” Hrna said. Last year, the Coastal Credit Union held a Reality Fair for Collegiate High School students in the Retama Room of the Harvin Center. The fair itself was efficient with great starting information. However, it still didn’t feel real enough for…

Collegiate

Corpus Christi native returns home to teach

Meagan Falcon

  Alexis Montalbo Reporter Adolescence as a whole can be difficult without adding 10 different public schools from K-12. For Krystal Watson, an English teacher at Collegiate High School, this was her life as an “Army brat.” It laid the foundation of what she would come to choose for herself and her future. “I always feel a pang of jealousy when people recall their favorite elementary and middle school teachers who are amorphous shadows in my memory,” Watson said of her school days. “I was completely and utterly disengaged as a high school student.” The basis of her disengagement came…