Category: Education

Campus, Community, Education

Enrollment figure highest in 8 years

Erin Garza-Granados

12,222 students the most since 2010, college officials say After more than a year since Harvey, Del Mar has finally stopped seeing the repercussion the disaster caused on enrollment numbers in fall 2017. At a Board of Regents meeting on Oct. 16, Rito Silva, chief academic adviser, explained to the regents that enrollment numbers incline at a steady pace within the past five years with hindrance in one area. “You see the small dip in 2017? Were calling that the Harvey effect,” Silva said. This year the enrollment number became the second highest that Del Mar has seen since 2010.…

Campus, Community, Education, Texas

Putting the ‘I’ in America

Catherine Herndon

First-time voters become part of the power force in upcoming elections Turning 18 comes with a lot of milestones, but voting is especially important this year because it’s the midterm election after the controversial election of President Donald Trump. Collegiate High School senior Sam Muilenburg grew up hearing about the day of her birth because it fell on the unusual election of George W. Bush and Al Gore in 2000. The vote in Florida was too close to call, which left the nation without knowing which candidate would become president. The United States Supreme Court eventually ruled to stop the…

Campus, Education

Academic success concern brought to regents attention

Erin Garza-Granados

It’s the semester of cleaning up, says Del Mar officials The Board of Regents raised concern in a recent meeting after Beth Lewis, chief academic officer, discussed more topics pertaining to the audit situation that was discussed in the last meeting. “It’s a clean-up semester,” McDonald said. Many of the policies that were changed for the purpose of the audit had other policies that coincided with it. “The commission is constantly approving and reapproving/refining standards on a regular basis,” President Mark Escamilla said. “It’s a matter of staying in sync with them,” Escamilla said. Board Chairman Trey McCampbell made sure…

Campus, Education, Technology

DMC hosts social media conference

Alexa Matthews

DMC hosts social media conference  As businesses and marketing strategies continue to change, people are beginning to realize the power of social media. Del Mar College partnered with SCORE Corpus Christi to host a “social media bootcamp” in the Center for Economic Development on Sept. 11. Ashley Arevalo and Roque DeLeon from Midnight Island Consulting Agency talked about how to create profitable Facebook ads, use chatbots to drive sales and find social media time savers in their main topic presentation, “The Secrets to Targeting the Perfect Audience.” Lauren Perkins Underwood from Inspiring Social told those in attendance how to save…

Campus, Education

Writing lab treats students

Michelle Mirelez

The Stone Writing Center held a Rally for Cookies to recruit more students and introduce some the center’s resources and benefits on Sept. 18. “We offer help with anything that has to do with writing a paper for various subjects,” said Dani Tamas with the center, located on the fourth floor of the White Library. “We offer food periodically as well as coffee every day, and we have charging lockers for laptops and phones. Danielle Gatchel was encouraged to visit the center by fellow dual credit student Josh Wigley. “There’s a variety of different people here to help,” Wigley said.…