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Wisner talks the rise of social media
Azrael Montoya amontoya@foghornnews.com After attending a lecture on social media in the Student Success Center, education major Jade Mitchell realized she was going about it wrong. “I’m going to change the audience I focus on,” Mitchell said. Mitchell and several other students attended the Oct. 26 lecture on social media given by Liza Wisner, learning and organizational development manager for the city of Corpus Christi. A Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi graduate, Wisner believes her role in the social media journey is to “connect people and technology together.” She talked extensively about the journalist’s initial role in communication and how to…
Regents approve new tax rate
Mark Young myoung@foghornnews.com Regents passed one of the highest combined tax rates in nearly five years at their Sept. 12 board meeting, and also censured Regent Guy Watts for a fourth time. The new tax rate will see a maintenance and operations tax rate of $0.205700 per $100 valuation and a rate of $0.053463 per $100 valuation for the college’s debt service budget, to cover the new building projects. This tax increase comes shortly after a 9 percent increase in the overall budget, accounting for salary raises, new projects on campus and extra costs associated from increased enrollment. Overall the…
Seniors at Collegiate turn focus to college
Omar Mickelson omickelson@foghornnews.com “Collegiate High School Getting their Students College-Ready” Del Mar College’s institution for high school students, known as Collegiate, begins working to prepare students for college from the moment they begin their education there. That hard work has paid off with a 100 percent college acceptance rate. Almost as soon as CCISD schools finally reopened their doors to the returning students after Hurricane Harvey, on Sept. 5, the majority of the teachers, administrators and faculty members at Collegiate High School immediately began to emphasize to the seniors the necessity of preparing for college. Ultimately, it seems that not…