CSUN partners with 2-year schools to support student

KAREN RUIZ Reporter @karenyRuiz11

A 3 million dollar grant was awarded to Juana Mora the director of the project “Abriendo Caminos” at CSUN by the U.S. Department of Education.

“Abriendo Caminos” or “Creating Pathways” is a project in where Los Angeles Pierce College (LAPC), College of the Canyons and California State University, Northridge (CSUN) have come together to help Latino and low income students reach their goals.

design. We hope that we can get Latino students involved in those majors and complete their entire education in four years if possible. That is our goal,” said Mora.

“Who is eligible for this grant is not only Latinos although it is primarily Hispanics, low income students and first generation students,” said Jose Luis Fernandez program coordinator of Abriendo Caminos.

Students who qualify for this program and attend LAPC or College of the Canyons may have a guaranteed transfer to CSUN as well as other priorities.

students and to make textbooks available for them. By providing this kind of support to a small number of students the goal is to help them finish their career in a period of four years,” said Fernandez.

While this five year grant begun to take effect since October 2016 it is still a work in progress.

“I feel like a completely new journalist,” Rodriguez said. “All of these seminars and workshops is information that you’re not going to get from your professors—they have their own lesson plan, and people who are working in this specific field know what it takes to make it; they’re living the jobs we want.”

Editor-in-Chief of the Bull Magazine Tanya Castaneda said she learned about what it's like to be a woman in the sports industry and how she could take advantage of it as a journalist.

“[JACC] was a good experience,”

“Most of the seminar leaders that I talked to repeated that it’s not about your degree, it’s not about you finishing your education; it’s about you being qualified and having the skillset to actually do the job,” Rodriguez said.

“If you have the opportunity, I recommend any young journalist to attend this conference,” Rodriguez said. “Don’t focus so much on competing, invest more in yourself, in your knowledge; that’s really what’s going to take you there.” sambravo.roundupnews@gmail.com