AN ALTERNATIVE BILINGUAL ACCELERATED COLLEGE

Tentative Title For This Project- “An alternative bilingual accelerated college for 1,000 students deprived of alternatives for life”

Project purpose:

Create an alternative college publicly owned and managed independently, from most of the controls imposed by the state traditional bureaucracies, managed by their own board of trustees, and are accountable to the states coordinating agency (Chancellor of Education), and local, federal and states rulings on applicable matters.

Why is this project needed?

IVC cannot satisfy the community demand for higher education, due to a supply budget model systematically reduced producing budget limitations & reduction of sate funds.  Imperial Valley is the poorest area in California, with the highest unemployment rate and no alternatives, for the families that what to educate their sons and daughters.

Why is it needed now or in the near future?

Because of the financial and California’s fiscal crisis, has affected IVC potential students, more than in other regions. Most of those potential students come from families without higher education tradition, poor Hispanics & Latinos workers, and on the present conditions they will require many more generations to fulfill their American dream.

It is urgent if we do not want to loss this and further generations, and give them opportunities on the green industries (alternative energy) and related business that we expect to have in the next 5 years. 

  

What are the benefits to your department?

This Alternative College will save money, and will retain instructors offering part time employment opportunities, because they can work for IVC and the Alternative College.

What are the benefits to the people we serve?

            Opportunities to study

            A more practical, flexible, shorter and community oriented alternative of study programs and transfer studies programs.

            A better future for the community

What are the benefits to our community and service area?

More educated community

Reduction of unemployment

Community development

Crime reduction

Do you believe this project to be unique or are aware of similar projects elsewhere?

This will be a novice idea for California.  In Massachusetts they have been a success.  There is one exception in California at California State University, Los Angeles, where their College of Education was granted a –charter- condition by the CSU Chancellor.

What is your best guesstimate as to the length of funding which may be needed?

2 million dollars, the first year, and  $300,000 the following 2 years.

Do you have any foundations, corporations, and or government agencies in mind to which we might submit proposals? NO

What is a typical, true, inspirational story we might tell concerning a client who will benefit from this project?

We have dozens of those in many Hispanics that their passport for success came from IVC.