Sure that I’m closing in on making a one-armed to-do list after two solid weekends at home with a debilitating case of tennis elbow that has left me mostly on the couch, I decided I could clean out a bedside drawer with one hand. This is where I found a bunch of—more than 100—buttons.
Pink You Can Feel
Pink certainly isn’t feeling blue and doesn’t come close to turning green with envy. Pink is a far cry from being “in the red”, but even without carrying a debt load, there is a special place in my emotion bank for pink.
SAN DIEGO – San Diego Community College District, Continuing Education in cooperation with San Diego Unified School District, operates the Community-Based English Tutoring Program (CBET). The state-funded program provides free adult English language instruction to parents and community members. Day and evening classes are offered, and free babysitting is available during class.
Citizenship Instructor Inspires Democracy
When Continuing Education Instructor Mechelle Perrot gave a writing assignment to her citizenship class, student Sandra Catano wrote a letter to Mayor Jerry Sanders. Neither imagined the request in Sandra’s letter to become a reality.
SAN DIEGO—On Wednesday, October 19, SDCE host a breakfast to engage the community to help young adults who have dropped out of school or are not working in San Diego.
Adult Education Completers Represent Perseverance and Commitment to Education
SAN DIEGO – Spreckels Organ Pavilion in Balboa Park houses the joint commencement ceremony for San Diego Continuing Education (SDCE) and San Diego Unified School District’s Adult High School Diploma Program. SDCE is awarding 3,802 vocational certificates and 151 high school diplomas. Approximately 300 students are expected to participate in the traditional ceremony on Friday, May 29 at 5 p.m.
Stop The Hate Week
A group of 30—including students, faculty, administrators, and staff—attended a three-day intense training to help fight bias and hate crimes on Continuing Education campuses. Armed with the new knowledge, the group of 30 trained 100 additional faculty, staff, administrators, and students throughout six CE campuses during the last week of March, which was designated as Stop the Hate Week in CE.
Continuing Education’s new facility located at Mesa College consolidates programs and classes that have been offered in temporary classrooms, rented facilities, and several neighborhood locations.
Sorry but I’m sticking to work = paid employment and accountability to a boss. When you are the boss, you are accountable for the work.
Why did the Lemon Cross the Road?
“Help yourself to the lemons whenever you want them,” she told my husband once.
SAN DIEGO—Faculty and administrators at San Diego Continuing Education (SDCE) are responding to local economic needs by expanding free classes and certificates in Healthcare Careers.
SAN DIEGO—Star Rivera-Lacey, Ph.D., will serve as the first Vice President of Student Services at San Diego Continuing Education (SDCE), pending approval by the San Diego Community College District Board of Trustees.
Cisco’s annual national partner convention in North America, Cisco Live, was recently held in San Diego and drew over 20,000 participants. IT professionals agree the event is a perfect venue for training on new technologies, as well as for having access to the engineers behind the products.
“How do you feed seven children every night?” Thank goodness I know She’s in love with her husband so my mind almost answers the question.
The Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins With One Step --lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher
Kim and Ada (Vietnamese and Chinese, respectively) began the academic endeavor in a Continuing Education ESL Class at Mid-City Campus, where the young women met.
There is an area in Sudan where there are no streets, no working phones, limited drinking water, and limited food, yet the area is populated with thousands of people, including Abbo Abakar’s mother.
When flu season arrives in San Diego the last thing you want to hear is that someone is contagious, but if you meet SDCE student Michael Calimee, you’ll want to be as close as possible to his enthusiasm, and with any luck, you’ll also catch his positive attitude and infectious smile.
“It’s like putting on makeup. You need precision when you line your eyes, and I use the same concentration when I’m trying to keep my bead in a straight line.”
At age 46, Pamela Hasley talks the talk about welding. She grew up in a family with welders, and worked in a shipyard as a fire watch, a job that didn’t give her the paycheck she needed. After comparing wages with welders, she set her mind to learn the skills they knew, and earn the money they earned.
Abel Gutierrez has been employed in the food industry for ten years, but it was more than his experience that led him to his current job.
Figuring out what drives someone’s generosity isn’t easy. Motivation can come from an emotional connection with an individual, or a personal experience of hardship. For Edith Dabbs, it’s not the what that’s important, it’s the why.