Hanging on the Garland of Dreams

NICK MARTINEZ Reporter @NickEsai

Pierce College Interim President Larry Buckley launched a campaign to further student engagement at the Transfer Fair. The I AM initiative has already made its presence known through banners along the mall, but what is its purpose?

The goal of the campaign is to have the students set goals, that way they are outlined and there for attainable.

President Buckley reflected on where the idea to start the I AM had come from.

“A couple of things that I've done in other schools and it was about trying to rally students towards them identifying why they were at Pierce, what they expected,” said Buckley. “To make some kind of a conscious effort to go well what am I doing here, what is my goal?”

Public Relations Manager Doreen Clay explains how the I AM initiative came into fruition.

“President Buckley said that he wanted to do a campaign, something like I can, or I am, and his purpose was to get students involved, excited, and engaged about what they could become after they go to Pierce,” Clay said. “He asked me to put something together where they could write their dreams down, and that's how we came up with this whole idea to do these ribbons, we are calling it the Garland of Dreams.”

The Garland of Dreams was a student engaging activity that had students write down their hopes and dreams for not only school, but life as well, on a ribbon and they were hung on clothes lines to share with the Pierce community.