College Connections
DCCCD partners with the DISD Reconnection centers to coordinate visits and activities at each of the seven campuses. Students are involved in a scavenger hunt that divides students into three teams and visit the college's services and programs. This activity targets at risk and non-traditional students. Fifteen Reconnection Centers participate. Student participation varies between 15 to 25 students per campus visit.
Target: Dallas ISD 9th - 12th grade students attending Reconnection Centers
Contact: Belinda Cuéllar, Coordinator of Outreach and Recruitment
bcuellar@dcccd.edu ~ 214-860-2678
or
Contact: Perla Molina, Director of Outreach and Recruitment
pmolina@dcccd.edu ~ 214-860-2691
Major Mania
DISD’s Career Counseling Center collaborates with DORCE to organize a summer event for recent DISD graduates who may not have acted on college plans. All of the DCCCD colleges set up information tables; staff from financial aid, admissions, and Rising Star present to the parents and students on their programs and resources.
Target: Recent DISD graduates and their parents.
Contact: Molly Bewley, District Director of Outreach, Recruitment and Community Engagement
mbewley@dcccd.edu ~ 214-860-2442
Minds in Motion
Minds in Motion is sponsored by the Dallas ISD/DCCCD Majority to Minority Scholarship Program. Students experience a college environment and become aware of a variety of career related options offered by the campuses. Parents are directed on how to access the M-M Scholarship at any of the seven campuses. This event is held in November of each year at one of the seven DCCCD campuses.
Target: Majority to Minority participants in grades 9 through 12 and their parents
Contact: Molly Bewley, District Director of Outreach, Recruitment and Community Engagement
mbewley@dcccd.edu ~ 214-860-2442
or
Contact: Belinda Cuéllar, Coordinator of Outreach and Recruitment
bcuellar@dcccd.edu ~ 214-860-2678
Motivational Speakers Series
Since 1998, the DCCCD Motivational Speakers Series featuring Jimmy Cabrera has presented over 380 programs, reaching more than 130,000 students at no cost to the ISD’s in Dallas County. The series is designed each year to impart a motivational "stay in school" message to intermediate, middle school and high school students throughout Dallas County. In 2007, DORCE successfully sponsored a pilot effort with a local team, Drama Teach, to provide motivational workshops to at-risk males in middle school. Additional workshops will be coordinated for the 2007-2008 academic year.
Target: Intermediate, middle and high school students throughout Dallas County.
Contact: Molly Bewley, District Director of Outreach, Recruitment and Community Engagement
mbewley@dcccd.edu ~ 214-860-2442
Texas Scholars Program
Texas Scholars was brought to the Dallas area in 2000 when forming a partnership between the Greater Dallas Chamber of Commerce and Dallas ISD. It has proven to be an inexpensive and practical program designed to motivate all students to be college ready starting at the 9th grade level. The program is designed to motivate students to stay on the Recommended Plan of course study, as well as pass the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) testing.
Target: Dallas ISD 8th Grade students
Contact: Perla Molina, Director of Outreach and Recruitment
pmolina@dcccd.edu